So yesterday I completed a personally significant educational milestone, my younger child learned that she was accepted into her dream college, and i finally saw with my own eyes that my older child’s health has finally turned a truly hopeful corner. Stop acting like it’s all fucking over, ok?

The Democratic Party will either be taken over by leftists with no relationship to corporate donors, a desire to fight fascism, and a relationship with the base or there will be a new party altogether. That’s the situation and the party apparatchik who think otherwise are fooling themselves.

The former makeup artist and skincare profesh in me needs to give all glory and praise to Ricky Martin’s surgeon, esthetician, skincare, and stem cell vitamin IV team. He looks even younger and fresher than he did at the age they’ve reversed him to!

i think people mad about bad bunny’s performance have never been forced to consider that not everything is for you

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Maybe Barbara at some point. But not the rest of them.

Liberation is a collective effort, not an individual one. An individual might stand as a symbol of liberation, but it is still a collective effort. This is the through line of the histories of liberation symbolized in this show: the only way through is together and we will be stronger for it.

100% bad bunny was wearing a bulletproof vest

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

Been reading those “advice to 30 year olds” posts going round this place and I’m going to counter all the “call your mom” notes with the advice that saved my life: it is your mother’s responsibility to love and believe you and if she doesn’t and won’t then walk away. Your one and only life awaits.

I want our young people to know that there is a path forward, that a better world is possible. I don't want them to give up, to become cynical. They deserve to be young and full of optimism. They are owed a world that supports and sustains optimism.

I want those of us who are getting into our middle-aged years and beyond to understand that as cynical and sad as we might feel, we have a responsibility to ensure that those who come after us have the energy to go on, to be creative in their problem-solving, to believe change is possible.

It’s going to break your heart how many people you know, love, and respect will turn out to be cowards. Prepare yourself as best you can. You are not alone, but you are your own center. Be a strong center.

so much of our present misery is just a giant, prolonged backlash to integration

I mean, only every single day! Except I do not like tea (coffee or whiskey will do just fine, thank you ❤️)

I have incarcerated comrades & loved ones who are enduring the daily torture of US prisons. They also continue to make art. They often don't have the proper supplies and yet they make it knowing that it will never make it out to anyone else. But they continue to make art nonetheless. Keep making art

Nothing screams life like a virus that resets your factory immunity settings.

honestly jolene you can fucking have him, good luck girl

poets: …hear me out, though

Adoption is not social welfare. It is what happens because we *reject* social welfare—because we do *not* help those who need it most. Adoption is a *business*: the business of making affluent people into the parents of less fortunate people’s children.

It dawns on our protagonist, at 47 years of age, that the dear, important friendships that vanished overnight after all the time and love invested is less about the fickleness of others than her early insistence on being largely in community with folks with significant attachment wounds…

Can't believe I've been doing this for 12months! For the next 24h, drop any infectious disease and/or vaccine-related questions in response to this post, and I will do my best to answer them. Answers are for information only, NOT medical advice. #AskAnIDDoc February 2026 edition #Anniversary

I mean!

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

Photos capturing walkouts at two Kentucky schools in protest of ICE. The picture of the young boy holding a sign that says "LIAM WAS 5" and "children are being taken away," written in such childlike handwriting, is going to stay with me.

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.

Let me tell you, when you work in a grocery store you get real familiar with the full spectrum of human expression. And let me also tell you that the general public’s manners are only getting worse.

if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good

BREAKING: 4 students at the University of Minnesota are currently chained to Morrill Hall, demanding that their school end all cooperations with ICE and establish itself as a sanctuary campus.

Meanwhile in the Pacific Northwest we have fully abolished winter. Looking forward to a smoldering summer of no drinking water and zero food crops. An additional full-time job as neighborhood fire chief and ditch digger. As the kids say, it’s gonna be lit 🔥.

A colonoscopy is SO much better than colon or rectal cancer, I promise!

That cycle of abuse and wanting to hurt children is at the root of everything from getting rid of vaccine mandates to not stopping mass shootings to ending age of consent laws to the Epstein horrors. You can dress it up however, but that’s what’s playing out in the rise of fascism.

On one hand, the richest people in the world are sociopathically accumulating wealth instead of helping those in need, but on the other hand they're Nazis and pedophiles

🙌🏼

It feels worth saying that the thing that unifies men as disparate as Noam Chomsky, Deepak Chopra and Trump is patriarchy. Patriarchy, hatred of women, and the need to dominate them, persists across race and class status. Left movements refuse a robust analysis of persisting gender violence.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

can’t not hear and see:

'Do not expect too much of the end of the world', she said.

I feel like some of you need therapy, a drink, and the bosom of a big breasted woman.

You spend your first 18 years trying to survive joyfully predatory pastors, fathers and bosses, the next 18 years realizing every man (including your best friend’s husband) dreams of killing you, and the rest of your life knowing it’s predators all the way down.

Chris Bracey, Hands of God, 2013, Found sculpture, neon and carnival bulbs. www.godsownjunkyard.co.uk

Absolutely YES.

The number of people currently in ICE custody is now over 73,000, the most in history.

I can NOT CAN NOT. do the deep dive necessary for this currently but the fact journalism is missing the slavery/ piracy angle is enraging Epstein created a “tropical island” where he flew elites to do horrific libidinal fueled abuse … BASED IN RACE SCIENCE TO ACCUMULATE WEALTH WHAT IS THAT

We have endometrial tissue roaming around our bodies, sometimes ending up in our brains and chest, nobody knows why, and the only solution they have is yanking the whole organ out. But sure, let's fund penis research.

i know portland doesn’t count as real america on the east coast but i saw very little national news coverage of this over the weekend—and the coverage i did see wasn’t prominent. i think a bunch of little kids and nurses and families getting gassed is newsworthy