This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

Watch the people that get almost giddy over the war with Iran, and you can see how fragile and empty they are in real time. No amount of hurting others will ever make you feel better long term. They are hollow because they aren't willing to work on themselves without harming someone else.

i wind up tweeting this basically every time there's an article like this, but the fundamental thing to me: ask yourself whether you earnestly believe there's more social pressure to be trans, or more social pressure to be cis. it's actually a super easy one!

As a reminder ... rapture Annihilationism theology is incompatible with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is not careful, caring, or considerate of creation. www.huffpost.com/entry/troops...

We killed 85 schoolgirls. We are not the good guys.

a…journalist spoke to living, breathing trans people…about the policies that affect them. not their distant and estranged families….or someone from APP who’s just presented as a concerned parent…actual transsexuals?

War is massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who do know each other but don't massacre each other.

The Iranian regime is objectively hideous. It murders & incarcerates innocent people, threatens & attacks sovereign neighbours, routinely breaks international law, outlaws dissent & crushes free speech. Can you see the problem with *Donald Trump & Benjamin Netanyahu* leading the attack on them?

Interesting how Pete Hegseth has illegally renamed the Department of Defense because he identifies with the more macho "Department of War" because it is more gender affirming. But he goes berserk when someone who works at the Department of Defense *legally* renames themselves for the same reason.

So Hegseth is attacking Scouting America for treating trans kids with respect, including respecting their chosen names... at the same time he demands you respect the made up name for his department, which he changed illegally without congressional approval.

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States. In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

Now that CNN and WBD are set to become state media in a sale to Paramount/Oracle/TikTok, it is especially important to support independent media. Off the top of my head: www.thehandbasket.co 404media.co www.garbageday.email Add your favorites in the replies. Fuck state-backed media monopolies.

i am not willing to compromise on basic human rights to win over mythical shithead voters it is my job to go out in the world and virtue signal my full throated support of marginalized people under attack. you try to come for trans people, you gotta come through me, motherfucker

This one hits hard.

Counterpoint: Don’t upload your medical records to any LLM. That’s fucking insane.

pretty stunning chart

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

"I never want to see a child run away from our own government ever again"

This is torture. The US is torturing children. Children whose words and whose art contain infinitely more humanity than the people keeping them detained.

What do you call someone whose instinct, confronted by evidence that their policies are contributing to a massive increase in deaths, is to cover it up? And should that person be a Labour Minister? Or in prison?

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

A lot of self described Christians seem to be banking on there not actually being a hell.

The intentions of this cruel, inhumane admin and its cowardly supporters (on both sides, we see the votes and lack of action, Dems), is to traumatize humans to feel isolated and alone. If you feel this way, there are many good therapists in this country that can help. Please reach out.

The primary ethos of Schumer Jeffries, and DC political advisors that care just as little about all Americans than the GOP. We cannot afford to ever again elect people that are more focused on keeping their jobs than protecting the country.

Once again, immigration is not even a problem. Immigrants are not more criminal, they don't cost jobs, they don't harm the economy. There is no reason for any of this. It is hurting ourselves to hurt them.

NEW: Trump is floating a $1.5 trillion war budget. $1.5 trillion could fund Medicaid, the child tax credit, SNAP, the Department of Education, national highway repair, the NIH, school breakfast & lunch, FEMA, the FAA, the EPA, and federal overdose prevention COMBINED. War costs us a better world.

Woke up today with the hope of finding some calm and peace with all the chaos. Hard to be centered and in self energy these days.

So much is overwhelming, cruel, and feels out of control in our country.It's hard to find the balance between self focused wellbeing and helping others. It is okay to take time for yourself, it's necessary. Everyone is stronger together which means taking shifts. They can't stop compassion and care.

It feels defeating that we are facing two separate, devastating forces at once that have no maximum ceiling. Cruelty and Wealth Hoarding. Both are meant to make the person feel better at the expense of others, and yet no amount ever will feel like enough. We need to end both to heal as a country.

Stephen Miller is the worst case scenario of someone with ASD/ADHD- like hyperfocus fixated on Nazism/white supremacy. Also struggles with voice modulation and emotion management anytime someone questions him (why he's always yelling). Sadly, he lacks the self awareness to benefit from therapy.