Was not expecting this blatant xenophobia on my tv first thing in the morning...

just watched a video where a zookeeper examines a beluga whale to make sure they're healthy and realized I get less healthcare than a zoo animal AND less free fish

wild that this happened within 24 hours of bolsanaro going to prison. will be a timeless textbook example of what works to save a democracy and what doesn’t

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

The time for the US to have had it in it to put a former president in jail for having a coup was before he got on the ballot for the next election! We are not Brazil, there's a lot upholding Trump, including the opposition party to him.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

FBI: Do u know Karl Marx Mahmood Mamdani: Haven’t met him FBI: No, he's dead Mamdani: Wow, what happened? FBI: No, no, he died long ago Mamdani: Why are you asking me? FBI: He wrote that poor people should not be poor Mamdani: Sounds wonderful readingfanon.blogspot.com/2013/07/in-c...

With Black Friday approaching, there will inevitably be well-intentioned talk that these deals are only possible because workers are denied a livable wage. Don't buy into this. It's not low prices vs. fair pay. It's the demand for ever-higher profits and shareholder returns that forces deprivation.

Just a reminder that we could be living in an America in which Trump and his fellow conspirators are spending the rest of their lives in prison if we had serious politicians and a system that wasn’t hellbent on and designed toward self-destruction. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/w...

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

One explanation for economic populism in the US is the recurring cycle of bubbles and bailouts that happens without any democratic input

I just feel we need to keep saying, over and over, that the problem with DOGE was not its failure to cut spending. the problem with DOGE is that it CUT GLOBAL AID LEADING TO THE DEATHS OF 600K PEOPLE AND COUNTING. 1

there is something extremely funny to me about the democrats retaking control of the house by forfeit

Columbo in his first episode looks like a dog that's just come back from the groomer

The Dem leadership need to start beating this drum now: The time to come forward is now, because the people who have broken the law will be held accountable.

when the edible and adderall kick in at the same time

help

Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

I reckon you can learn a lot about the atmosphere in various Oxford colleges by looking at what they choose to name their cats (courtesy of @oxfordclarion.bsky.social ). We should all aspire to the energy of a Teabag, Isambard Kitten Brunel, or an Admiral Flapjack oxfordclarion.uk/college-cats...

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost.com. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Another victory for the arcane maneuver of giving money to people that need it

it’s also not coincidental that nurses tend to unionize, while doctors often can’t because they are management within their hospital systems so of course the regime is attacking the side of the medical profession that organizes collectively, not just for fair pay but for patients’ rights too

Trump calls to hang Democrats who oppose him US Coast guard no longer considers swastika a hate symbol 97.4% of (mostly) Latinos ICE arrested have 0 criminal record This is what systemic white supremacy looks like. Trump is building a Nationalist Christian (Nat-C) state to violently stifle dissent.

Anyone who thinks our beef with Venezuela is about drugs is in for a crude awakening

Checking in on MechaHitler

I didn’t have to go to school to learn how to behave like a toddler, I’m self tot

Reconciliation without reparation is one of supremacy's greatest sabotages of the act of repair. Whenever abuse is exposed, it offers free exoneration to the abuser at the expense of the abused, and calls it redemption. It's the traditional and popular response to abuse in our supremacist society.

Fish have committed credit card fraud

This is pretty amazing. This guy just won a solid victory in Bucks County, PA, one of the most important swing counties in the country, by *explicitly and deliberately* making his race *all about* nationalizing ICE raids. Confirms the point about this now being a winning issue for Dems.

why won’t anyone just be like “sir, what the fuck is wrong with you?”

It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

Repeat after me: *the purpose of a system is what it does* If you wanted a justice system whose purpose was to ensure public safety you would need to make a different system that *does that* The current carceral system's purpose is racialized oppression. That's what it does.

do you know WHY actors and athletes are so well compensated today that it’s hard to look at them as “labor” because they organized and negotiated for it

The Pope said it about movie theaters, but it's more broadly true. Well said, Pope!

Can anyone recommend a good book or two about Native Americans in the Southeastern U.S. in the 50 or so years leading up to the Trail of Tears (i.e. ~1780-1830)?

Silicon Valley, 1990s: Free and open access to all the world’s knowledge will usher a new utopian age of information! Silicon Valley, 2025:

I’ll stop posting this when it stops happening

a “Space Force”, if you will

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A lot of the quote-posters on this seem to be interpreting "woke" roughly as broadly as the Trump admin does, i.e. "literally any opinion that's left of center" Anyway, mine is just reparations. This country needs substantial reparations to be paid to every Black and Indigenous person here.

I hate that AI has made me approach cute animal videos with an air of suspicion. I resent having to harden my heart to the possibility of an unlikely friendship between a very large dog and a very small one

You don't say.

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.