GOP: "We're gonna make everything worse!" *shoots puppy* DNC: "Nothing will fundamentally change!" *makes meme, waves rainbow flag, shoots puppy* "We'll make things better!" says the third party, immediately yelled down with "Why are you stealing votes?!"

If a person is not free to be the gender they are, they won't be free to marry the person they love, to speak what's in their heart, or to worship what's sacred to them. Human rights are not separate - suppression of one drags them all down.

One fascinating and yet expected thing is that none of the big foreign accounts pretending to be American are left of center, or even anti-Trump. Not a single one. Says something about the economics and geopolitics of political grifting

It is a TOP priority of the GOP to get rid of vote by mail because they can’t intimidate and challenge voters based on race with mail in voting. I wish I could believe that Dems will actually fight them on this, but we know Chuck and Hakeem. Whatever the AIPAC position is, is what they will do.

The executive branch needs a severe reigning in back to Constitutional limits. The desire to create a Caesar to handle our crises but it won't be America if we have one.

Some of us have been advocating this going back since chatGPT launched. It also has other benefits: correcting someone else's work is actually a really good way to learn something yourself.

Proposal: All home sales going forward will either be to govt. at current market value or family for no more than $1,000. All persons who don't currently live in an owned/mortgage home get housed for a 10 year mortgage capped at 10% of income. All current first-house mortgages heavily discounted.

More Black women are evicted every year than Black men are incarcerated. For profit prisons are one of the leading funders of lobbying against tenants' rights ordinances and for strict no-fault eviction laws. The reason is simple: eviction feeds the carceral state.

Any talk comparing prices now with prices in the past should be expressed in a percent of income. Freakin' nobody is using inflation calculators, and even when they do, they never express the variability in income purchasing powers.

Final Fantasy VI-2: Rise of Jefka. (denim Kefka)

It rocks that the online voice of the US government is "computer-damaged reactionary virgin."

AOC to @pabloreports.bsky.social : A swastika is one of the clearest symbols of hatred in all of humanity… to remove that designation… indicates a possible collaboration with those very elements, which I think is genuinely frightening to any American.

So MAGA, You see these two? One of them is your dear leader, the other is a Prince in a country where CHRISTIANITY IS BANNED. Where you can be arrested for being a CHRISTIAN, for displaying CHRISTIAN symbols and even, for having a bible. But go ahead, tell me how much fucking MONEY he's investing.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.’ George Orwell, Animal Farm

No one “deserves” to starve or be denied healthcare. The richest country in the world can easily provide for all, and people shouldn’t have to prove they matter to be fed, housed & cared for. It’s past time for a universal basic income, universal healthcare, affordable housing & food.

Over the past year I've really been trying to live my life with this kind of thing in mind - who knew this whole time there was an Iguana of Imperfection speaking this mantra.

Any time you feel imposter syndrome, just remember who we've put in charge of everything.

John C. Woods did nothing wrong.

I want a candidate who knows both how much a banana costs and why it's so cheap in the USA.

I want to reiterate that the volunteers may not be aware what exactly the SA does. Go easy on them... just do not donate... and maybe even say why.

Told y'all that the rounding would cause fights and confusion if we killed the penny. I still say that if we're gonna cut coins for being worth less than production, kill the nickel and just lop a digit off prices.

The law is not what's written. The law is what it does. An unenforced law exists only on paper. Since none of us live on paper, that's worthless. Strategy must address what the law will do, regardless of text. We are in a time of monsters: illiterate and imitating justice to enact cruelty.

Accountability

this is literally never not accurate

America: We love democracy! Also America: but not in electing our president, directly controlling civil matters, our workplaces, our economy, and in many court cases!

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

I proposed to my spouse on V-Day 2009. We knew the law wouldn't let us get married, but we fought for it. We eloped in 2014 to a neighboring state. The day Obergefell legalized our marriage, we celebrated by cramming Five Guys inside us. The fact that this was even up for debate is alarming.

One of the most disappointing parts of "the future" is that smart glasses are so quickly abused. It'd be nothing to make frames that don't spy and don't have AI but still do a HUD for info and web browsing. But instead, you pay 500 for frames that spy on you for tech chuds.

The rich made the poor too poor to participate in the market.

Palantir's CEO saying anti-AI folks "lack religion" admits that his god is Roko's Basilisk. They create the machine overlords and hope to fawn into good graces of the new god-king.

Here's the trap, the McGovern trap, that Mamdani and others running on "good guy" platforms will fall into: good must be perfect or it's just like the bad guys to an ignorant all-or-nothing public. The second Mamdani messes up media will claim he's just another politician, and good policy sucks.

me to every centrist forever.

Sexual assault in patriarchal societies transcends all other barrier.

Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours, if you can count. Look what we got here. You got the transsexuals sitting next to the theymabs. We got the masc boys right by the transbians.. Nobody is discoursin nobody. That is a miracle. And miracles is the way things ought to be. Can you dig it?

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Congrats to NYC

Matt Walsh saying the quiet part out loud: they believe immigrants are inferior and would cause "inferior results" in elections, thus the persecution.

Supreme Court reform idea: every case is decided yea/nay by a jury (guilty/innocent if criminal). The justification for that ruling, should it not be legally clear, is to be designed by the Justices. They do not decide which way it goes, only how the decision is interpreted for precedent.

Doesn't the CIA operate domestically now? Allende:Pinochet::Mamdani:Dermont Shea?

Dems sweep nationwide in light of GOP govt shuttering and toxic Trump brand. Over/under on NYC being under martial law and Mamdani assassinated within the next year?

It’s truly tragic how many of these US war criminals like Cheney never face justice and die in their peacefully in their homes in their 80s and 90s. I want to be happy he is dead but I am not. The million people he killed didnt get the luxury to die how he did.

"I am a twink and I'm posting my hole Posty posty hole. Posty posty hole!"

How is a military draft not human trafficking? And the enlisted/officer divide not just an aristocrat/peon classism?

How many undocumented folks gotta go without food before you'll feed citizens? How many trans kids gotta die before you'll support gendered equality for all?

OK, you don't like SNAP because poor people buy steak sometimes. Fine! But don't forget that SNAP is a USDA program designed to stabilize demand for American agriculture's products. Tariff reprisals screw export. SNAP cuts demand for domestic use. Precisely how do you support farmers?!

The USA hasn't been in a declared war since 1945, but we've scarcely seen a year where our soldiers didn't fight and die somewhere in the world. We have a right to peaceable assembly and see protestors shot in the face with gas guns for assembling. So much manifest wrongdoing, utterly uncorrected

Ancient Summerians

Almost every major news story this week is about how the entire economy is now gambling, scams, bribes and theft.