Kids don't always want to be on screens, they just need spaces and places to live, grow and play independently.

Perhaps the saddest irony, to me, is that the folks campaigning on a 'make America great again' promise are also the ones responsible for its decline; their only trick is to get actually suffering people angry at someone else based on lies. It's the oligarchs that suppressed your wages, folks

Watching as new disclosures from Epstein's Op paint a broader picture: our elites are bullies blackmailing each other over shameful things they enable and cover up. The problem isn't bad apples, it's that wealthy terrible people face no accountability

Trump said he’d be “honored” to release SNAP funds with guidance from the courts. Today, he got that guidance from Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, FOR THE SECOND TIME. And he immediately appealed.

If you're a centrist because you believe the path to civility is to be found in compromise between that of the left and the right, consider that compromising on matters of human rights isn't a neutral position majorities want, and nobody but corporate interests want unrestrained corporate power

Imagine if the trash took itself out

The tiniest but of saffron sprouting

Do you like Reddit for the content but not like that the ownership are shitty? lemmy.world is one of many federated lemmy instances that function like reddit but aren't beholden to venture capital or enshittifying themselves in service of AI

To the people making arguments that SNAP should only cover meat, vegetables and un-extravagant food because it's 'not fair' to people that are working and can't afford fancy food:

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

The US is building slave labour camps. Dachau and Auschwitz are being rebuilt on American soil. The US is committing genocide. All methods of self or community defense against genocide are justified and valid. All actions against the people committing genocide are self defense.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

When watching the debates, a tip: The candidate who knows his program won't appeal to majorities will invariably attempt to convince majorities that they need to sacrifice yet more deeply in order to compensate for the failures caused by his unpopular program, like serving the rich at your expense

It should go without saying that funding government operations with private capital during a shutdown to avoid having to negotiate terms to end the shutdown wildly exceeds executive authority, folks

Let this be your periodic reminder that every day is No Kings Day

The “you can’t trust the government or the media” crowd voted to give full control of the federal government to an administration that lies shamelessly to them nonstop through media outlets and platforms slavishly beholden to the party, and the “you can’t trust…” crowd appears to be loving it.

#NoKings Miami!

Getting lots of 'what do I have to say to convince you to give me money?' messaging from establishment Dems right now. Show me, don't tell me, that you have actual beliefs you're willing to stand by that aren't 'we need money to win'. Stop funding Israel, stand up for marginal groups, tax the rich

What movie do you consider perfect?

Dear gestapo trash:

What they call their 'heritage' and are desperate to defend is the propaganda that painted their movements as valorous or justified What scares them to shitting themselves is any revelation of truth that shows it wasn't

what I'm learning from the fact that every one of these decisions has a "huge merger waiting to be approved" factor is that we should no longer allow mergers sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society only antitrust breakups allowed

"If you want to win elections, you must rid yourself of your few remaining redeeming virtues. We are very smart."

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Let this be your periodic reminder that arguments like <we should condemn political violence> offered to stoke outrage at violence against one side but not the other are 100% offered in bad faith. Don't let your agreement that civility ought to matter trick you to accept uncivil double-standards

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Slightly diminish a book Minor Skirmish and Peace

We the people are the job creators who keep showing up and making America great right now!

This is a *really* bad take. You don't become trans because it's celebrated, you become trans because it's who you are. Musk is a fragile idiot that doesn't understand he's being criticized for being an asshole and also doesn't see that rhetoric like his contributes to violence against trans folk

Y'know, just once I'd like to live in a timeline where banking is a boring utility that doesn't vacuum wealth out of everyone and everything and the economy revolves around meeting human needs in general instead of the desires of those with money to spend

With these people the notion that democracy makes them the stewards of those offices (along with oaths to defend the system by which they came to power) is completely betrayed. These people don't have the authority to pull the ladder up behind themselves; they swore oaths not to but here we are.

Eldest child is off to college Feeling all the feels I'm excited for him I miss him so much The house feels so different now His younger sister is okay with all of this This is okay I guess

The next time some rando MAGA chirps that the Nazis were socialist because they had 'socialism' in their name, maybe remember that they were on the opposite side of the class war of their time from the socialists and jews- both of which opposed imperialism and capital www.tiktok.com/@aptkr_/vide...

Let this be your periodic reminder that white collar crime, particularly wage theft, greatly outweighs the kinds of crime we're told to think of as common and dangerous

This is your periodic reminder that it would cost us less to give homeless people apartments and social worker time than it costs us today to have them out on the street. Study after study shows this.

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

Knowing that the "Source?" guy will never tire of holding this position is so exhausting

A thought on the nature of resistance Signing petitions and holding signs are nice and all, but we're to the point that non-compliance or malicious compliance are becoming necessary. We're past the point where appealing to failing institutions to do their job is in order; it's time to build anew

Understanding and accommodation isn't just a favor you do for the autistic people in your life; it's a way to avoid the experiences that arise when neurotypical folks get the feeling that autistic folk are "off"- that response is unpleasant for everyone involved in ways that can't be understated

Really feeling the squeeze of being the 'sandwich' generation- parents both have high medical support needs, son is entering college in the fall. Our dollars don't buy what they used to and social security hasn't kept pace- this is making things needlessly hard

Trying to work remotely while helping care for my dad (who has Alzheimer's) is a lot harder than I expected it to be. Work has been stressful anyways lately, but doing that on top of being sad and sleep-deprived has me firing on not-quite-all mental cylinders.

Corporations aren’t people, money isn’t free speech, and we need to End Citizens United. Repost if you agree.

LOL Fox news is mad about Gunn's new Superman over its insistence that Supe have some human decency and be a model immigrant Wait 'til they see the source material