Free healthcare to all residents of the US regardless of immigration status would rule, actually. Universal benefits for universal problems (having a body that can get sick or hurt)

I miss blogging, y’all. I was bad at it, and since I was and I refused ads, I didn’t make money on it. But I think that’s what I’d do if I could do it and survive. Maybe less beer, though. More blather.

i would love if universal basic income was a thing here because i think disabled people having to go through a horrible humiliation ritual + then get denied anyway + have to go to court is such a twisted, fucked up way to go about things

Everybody thinks they're a photography expert now. I put my camera down for a minute and this mantis has to go and change my settings on me. At @casabentbill.bsky.social #CostaRica #invertebrates #mantids #insects

if you’re a visual learner i made you some maps of where the people quoted in this article as supporting portland being occupied by troops live

Proposing a new system by which all us socially anxious folks can have half of our imposter syndrome and self-criticism surgically removed and donated to those who so obviously need it.

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

No one really seems to care about this anymore but I think ICE detention centers turning away members of Congress is a good scandal to evaluate where we are right now. It is as clear as statutory language gets that members have the right to make unannounced visits; completely unequivocal 1/

This is deeply fucked up.

I’ve got Covid for the first time, which is super great. I’m about 4 days in on having symptoms. It super blows & I have no sense that I am getting better. Also, my cats are going extra insane because they don’t understand my lack of playing with them.

RFK Jr just prevented my 9mo from getting her first Covid shot, curse that man for all time.

Ask yourself what a complicit Democrat Party would be doing differently from the one we have now

Nothing more embarrassing to be than an ICE agent. "Oh, you've got a big day at work? Do you have to stand around an elementary school awkwardly waiting to separate a family? And that's your job? You get paid to do that? And I'm sure you show your face. Oh, you don't? Why not? Is this shameful?"

It’s kind of wild to see the same pitying expression from coworkers of “aw you poor thing, so scared of nothing” over refusing to use ai as from refusing to remove my covid precautions. This poor thing would like a liveable future, and peer pressure is a pretty pitiful reason not to fight for one.

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

They made my existence into an "issue" then complained I'd become a single issue voter

It's garbage behavior by our governor It's all in service of her desire to be president, and that's not gonna happen, but especially not as long as she keeps swinging fash-ward

Trump is ordering pregnant women and young children to stop taking pain and fever reliever. It’s a cruel, needless strategy to inflict pain, suffering, illness, anxiety, and social stigmatization. It’s also already given conservatives a new way to blame women for societal problems.

headline in my inbox: "The War on Tylenol". Except that it isn't? It's a eugenicist war on pregnant people, blaming them and their medical caregivers for autism, which the eugenicists regard as a fate worse than death. Focusing on Tylenol hides that fact.

Camden had zero homicides this summer. City and county leaders credit the 2013 disbandment of its police department. Violent crime is at a 50-year low. This is amazing. www.inquirer.com/news/camden-...

bit by bit, the administration is laying the groundwork and actually carrying out a system of repressing democratic life in america. redefining opposition as terrorism, targeting critics, investigating civic funders. we're so far beyond normal and, again, only eight months in.

Most people who disagree with me aren't Nazis. They're just people who don't share my opinions or fundamental convictions. But some people have fascist politics. I will call those people Nazis, because fascist politics should be named, stigmatized, and shamed.

Book banning groups show up and make public comments at almost every school board meeting here in my very blue district in MD. They have a system of signing up as soon as speaking slots open so they take time and attention away from other issues and voices. It's everywhere, and people need to know.

Kid prevents a school shooting, gets punished for it. Absolute madness. He could not have reacted in a more ideal way to this situation.

It's one thing to fight for decades and win your freedom. It's another to watch it instantly torn away a decade or two later, and then be asked "just do it over again, c'mon don't be a doomer, it worked once so"

In Doña Ana County, New Mexico, residents have long struggled to access clean water. Now, developers plan to spend $165 billion on a massive data center complex.

Vaccines save lives. And no, they do not cause autism.

Discworld QOTD, from Guards! Guards!

I encourage everyone to read the actual US Constitution, which is available for free, with commentary, on the Library of Congress website It’s an important historical, political, and legal document in US and world history constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Black women are telling you not to register to attend a protest because we have parents and family and friends and church folks who survived the Civil Rights movement and in some cases didn’t And also because we read and in some cases do historical work But hey if you wanna listen to random dude

Hopefully everyone is LEARNING that these dudes talking this shit *are too biased to be good at predicting* and *no one should listen to them*

Imagine in 2025, after all the times Black women warned literally everyone about everything that’s happening right now, announcing that Black women commentators are just very paranoid When we have been right???????? This whole time????? About pretty much everything????????????!

Let's all to take a deep breath & understand that we have reached the phase in fascism where if they want to declare you a criminal, you are a criminal. You can not magically avoid it, or do exactly the right thing to stay off the list. Fascism must always have enemies, and one day you will be one.

uhhh what in the Chinese Exclusion Act

Oh, I forgot shredded lettuce. But yes, lime juice is always a nice guest on the palate

I like hot beans, minimal cheese, pico de gallo, and maybe a little lime juice for razzle dazzle

I have a lot of feelings about how transitioning jobs almost always means a stressful "I can't afford to fall down the stairs right now" month on top of everything else

Oh, I hate this! A couple days ago I nearly said it to my boss as I was walking away, because I was thinking of my spouse. I would have died on the spot. My poor spouse would have been left with a paper-thin husk of me, as everything else sublimated into death.

People of color have said this for years and I’m interested in watching a whole bunch of people who will never respond to a Black person suddenly understand but just before they acknowledge how they were silent before

My folks were kind enough to drop off some of the fixin’s for Frito pie the other day. Made me wonder what other folks like on theirs. So, what do you like on *your* Frito pie?

the word “sloppycat” just popped into my head for people who try to ape actual specific human work using slop generators please feel free to use it

If you don't share material circumstances the gentleness will manifest in the form of pity that you deludely consider yourself equal in humanity. He's an etremely hands on homicidal example, but what he is not is unique.

Not exclusively in the US, but that he came back here tracks. Racism and anti-Blackness are so layered people will grin and touch you on the shoulder as they gently explain why you're not quite as human or civilized as they are, especially if you share material conditions.

That confession was one nauseating sentence after another but reading this one again? He's baffled because he's trying to understand a victim he has dehumanized to the point of not even considering them mammalian. It's disturbing but common if you're racialized in US life to be an irrational beast.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Like antivaxers forgot how deadly childhood diseases are because vaccines worked, governments and capitalists seem to have forgotten how deadly popular unrest is because labor laws and a free internet worked.

Patience is a practice, not a feeling.

"If I had to guess what kind of shot we would make sure schoolchildren got, I would have guessed wrong. I am always guessing wrong. I am always guessing that we want children to live." @petridishes.bsky.social doesn't miss. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...