for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

If it were just this, sure: Anyone could carelessly quote an inoffensive post from someone who turns out to be vile. But if you do it after a whole controversy about a Nazi tattoo, and then gush about a rabidly antisemitic podcast, either you’ve got a toe in the swamp or HORRENDOUS judgment.

In case you didn't know what event Olúfémi is referencing: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

you cannot believe a word out of their lying mouths www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

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The best part of my day has been texting my sibling this thread bc it sounds very much their thing, and their response is 1) they already play it, and 2) they've told their therapist about it 🤣🤣🤣

Media Matters analyzed a year of NYT coverage of anti-trans bills and found that 66% of the time the paper didn't quote a trans person. Further, it found that the paper often quoted right wing sources without mentioning their histories of anti-trans rhetoric. So "right-wing rag" is pretty accurate.

no sorry we’re not doing this anymore. not for a volunteer army committing atrocities

We hate kids. Like SO MUCH. We vote for the guns. We vote for the bombs. We protect the rapists. We have LEOs physically restraining parents from trying to save their children in Uvalde. We just blew up a school in Iran. We love Jeffrey Epstein and his friends. They run the country.

IT'S ALMOST TIME

Dear union stewards. Don’t you fucking dare. Don’t do it.

BTW-For the last few weeks, ICE has increased their presence in the Maryland suburbs closer to DC. They targeted a school bus stop close to my house, grabbing a parent after the kids had gotten on the bus, and now me and others keep watch when the kids get picked up and dropped off.

the USA was doing violent regime change for the sake of rich people’s bottom line way before the President was implicated in a child sex trafficking ring and that doesn’t make the latter any less important but also let’s be fucking serious please

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

If you are feeling helpless in the face of All Of It (and it's a lot), I am telling you: find a way to plug in locally. Figure out who is doing something-- anything-- meaningful, and see if you can help. The first org you find may not be the one. But you will get there. It will help your heart.

For fuck's SAKE

With alt text. I’ve…never seen a court talk like this before?

I'm already sick of "It's all a distraction from Epstein" replies. This regime is killing innocent people because our leaders are all power-hungry tyrants and war profiteers. When you say it's "just a distraction" you minimize the gravity of what's happening and the lives lost.

I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”

While we’re here, can we stop calling these unprecedented times? I think that plays into the sensationalism and creates an illusion that the solution is up in the air bc we “haven’t been through this” before. There’s absolutely a solution. It just isn’t peaceful like they “want” you to be.

from someone who was in school for the beginning of the "war on terror," please. please please please. talk to teenagers in your life about not joining the us military. about not letting themselves be groomed by recruiters in schools. they're going to want soldiers, and they always start young.

fuck. Fuck.

really, really worried for civilians in Iran and at area US installations.

It’s not lost on me that this is happening during Ramadan and during fasting hrs.

every time a new global conflict starts I get an inappropriate song stuck in my head for reasons I can’t explain anyway this time it’s Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, what’s yours youtu.be/pIgZ7gMze7A?...

Yep. This also happened to me on the night we kidnapped Maduro.

operation blowing up residential buildings because a dozen rich old guys got caught molesting teenagers in the 90s

The US and Israel are bombing Iran. Anyone reporting it as “preventive” is engaging in propaganda, by definition. There is no interpretation of what’s happening as anything else than a crime. You don’t have to like the Iranian regime to understand why this is bad.

"tapering plans" for HRT is a death sentence if you've had gender-affirming surgeries, like I have with my orchi, because your body will just wither away and die without hormones. Unspeakable evil. Demonic shit. You don't hate these motherfuckers enough.

The website for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) is completely scrubbed and gone! They didn't even leave a legacy statement.

Exactly. My rep is wonderful and I want him to keep doing good things. That doesn't mean I can't call out or complain about problems with the party!

what

What's even funnier is that the 2017 event was cancelled due to an octopus pregnancy scandal: www.seattlepi.com/seattlenews/...

There’s a section of the populist left that wants to win internal Democratic Party fights by calling their factional opponents the “Epstein class,” and it just seems really obvious that the populist right is going to hear that as “the Jews” with some very bad results.

It was believed in medieval times that hedgehogs had spikes so they could roll over fruit to carry home to their children, which is not true but is a really cute idea

Outstanding. A triumph for liberty and against unrestrained state power. The government should be ashamed of having to be forced into this position. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

They could build a wall around Vought’s home out of the bones of all the children killed from cutting USAID

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

also i will NEVER forget that when it was Mamdani vs Cuomo, the blue no matter who people didn't say a word about voting for the Democrat no matter what. everyone saw that.

People are asking me who the left would support and my answer is this: the election is two years away, we DO NOT HAVE TO DECIDE NOW.

*stands up* I believe the saying “no one should die in America because they can’t afford healthcare” applies even to people I don’t personally like or share the personal views of and that it’s weird anyone thinks otherwise.

Air Canada I understand we’re approaching Valentine’s Day but I simply don’t think an airline should advertise its sales with “fares worth falling for”

"more training" isn't going to fix anything

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

In good news, a little one was born in Utah🦒 www.sltrib.com/news/2026/01...

this is so funny, god bless louise lucas, Hero of the Commonwealth

A Reddit user identifies the boy who took a Grammy from Bad Bunny in the halftime show as five-year-old model Lincoln Fox and says that he was meant to represent Bad Bunny as a child www.instagram.com/the_lincfox/... www.reddit.com/user/BabySea...

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PBS kids is sending me

omg he taught both teams