Love this. UBI: the power to say NO! Loosening the chains.

Trans people are facing a decades-long, escalating, international effort to drive them out of society supported by some of the richest, most powerful people AND governments in the world and you are right that a few of them being snippy with you on social media is, essentially, the same thing.

"Yes... even me."

Following up on this, things you can do to help trans people *right now*: -follow them. Follow a lot of them. Follow them on here and wherever you do your normie-posting—Instagram and Facebook and elsewhere. -once you follow them, start reposting their thoughts and needs. Encourage your networks+

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

lol, as I'm getting older, one thing I've learned is that people are really bad at communication, like, across the board.

OMG everybody in Minneapolis take this survey NOW and don't go easy on them.

Rereading What Happens Next. God, i forgot how good this comic is

Every new AI horror I red about was something one of my colleagues anticipated, predicted in print, warned about and was subsequently ignored. The common theme among them is that they are all women or women of color.

10 more away from there being 100 of these out there in the world and that's WILD.

is it too late to take "facts dont care about your feelings" and start applying it to Trump & co?

Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.

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I'm so sorry for Minnesota.

“We’ve just pushed 4.5 million people further into poverty. Congrats to us”

I'll just note that critical race theory predicts quite a lot about the current racial retrenchment and for being *correct* it was pilloried in the press and by some academics.

For the first time ever in my social media history, I have an equal number of followers to following. No one is allowed to follow or unfollow me ever again.

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

The rules of redistricting are simple: Republicans are free to do whatever they want, and Democrats are also free to do whatever Republicans want.

ok i got a lot of replies to this on tumblr but this is the best one ^^

why do wealthy ppl have an obligation to give away most of their money? because they shouldnt *have* that much money. ur hoarding resources that can literally save lives and using it for frivolities, meanwhile people are struggling to afford necessities. its innately unethical, by any definition

So tired of the rehashed "you didnt vote for Kamala" discourse. Every person I saw vocally discussing not voting for Kamala was from a blue state. Every single one. Amazing how this is (yet again) a chance to berate Palestine supporters and not a call to remove the electoral college.

Btw on this thread. I am a person with lupus. Because of the threat covid is to me, I have to mask 100% of the time in public bc most people don’t mask at all. The pandemic didn’t end, us disabled peeps just have been forced outta society. These masks have kept me from getting covid for 3+ years.

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[putting my ER bill, expensive groceries and $5/gallon gas on a 35% APR credit card] I think we can all agree I'm doing well financially

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

It’s striking that the Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais is in some ways worse than even the "pessimistic" predictions of folks writing about race. Yet, not a single reactionary centrist has admitted that the alleged excesses of "wokeness" weren't excessive. They were realistic.

Watching people write incredibly detailed AI prompts like "oh you are capable of saying exactly what you are looking to obtain and how you want the response formatted. You just would rather do it for a computer than an actual person who needs clarification."

If we had Unconditional, Universal Basic Income, people wouldn't be forced to work for places like Amazon and Walmart to survive.

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Democrats have a lot of problems: poor leadership, corruption, lack of conviction, weakness against Trump, support for Israel, the age of their members, refusal to support extremely popular policies, etc. A problem they do not have is not speaking in plain language. That's just completely made up.

The idea here is that there are some Democrats deep in a bubble that can't stop saying "pregnant persons" or something, but really the bubble is Obama and people who get all their opinions from the NYT opinion page entirely making up a phenomenon that is nonexistent.

It’s not said and done y’all. I misspoke. Pressure your state House reps to get this funding passed.

Hard to see so many basic rights being dismantled and not view the Biden interregnum as a total failure. His presidency was premised on restoring institutions and stability, and so many of the wins achieved have already been undone by Trump (as well as 50+ years of progress).

Comparing people’s living conditions in 1901 to now is already silly & serves no meaningful purpose so let’s talk about numbers that matter to Alive People In 2016 Elon Musk’s wealth was 11 billion dollars. Today it is 800 billion dollars. Federal minimum wage in 2009 was 7.25. Today it is 7.25.

Video: Otter mom Munti hauling a tiny baby in her jaws to a different nestbox. Her adult son Ripple passes her in the opposite direction, ALSO carrying a baby, clearly putting one she's already relocated back in the previous nestbox. [via Cincinnati Zoo]

also this is not me being on a high ground. i blocked him like right before i posted this. this is me saying that this is how we solve discourse with annoying guys. their power is through engagement of any sort, even negative. block and move on.

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I find it interesting, if not abhorrent, that according to Dawkins, Claude is a woman, but a trans woman isn't. #transgender

New Video: those are not intrusive thoughts “My intrusive thoughts won” is a fun little meme about cutting your bangs at midnight, although most "intrusive thoughts winning" could ruin someone's life. youtu.be/9RFtnrTjZwM

ICE hasn't stopped in Minnesota, neither have MN50501's volunteer observers at MSP. Yesterday 27 shackled detainees were loaded onto the ICE Air flight in Minneapolis. We're on track to have our 100th ICE flight of the year by the end of the month.

which way western man

I see people saying that they love her and her performance in the Senate and I genuinely do not understand why

a reminder that a lot of the things people find unpleasant about cities - along with the noise and dirtiness - are largely a product of filling them with cars. get rid of the cars and the pleasantness of the environment improves dramatically

We are actively witnessing the erasure of rights for Black Americans and other communities + the ongoing erasure of Black/journalists of color in newsrooms at a time where we need their reporting and leadership more than ever in these spaces.