everyone should have a black cat in their life. it's so great seeing just a vaguely cat-shaped hole in the universe jauntily trot across your living room squeaking for snacks

"Cats are so aloof," they* say, as my cat yells at me to follow her into the kitchen so I can act as her emotional support while she eats. *People who have never owned a cat

Another way of looking at it

Adopt a black cat. Dumb people think they're bad luck. Smart people know they rock.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

one day i realized that not everyone does this and now i’m kinda afraid to talk to people at all

liberals will make up all sorts of lies to avoid squaring with the fact that they’re less popular than racism, not the least of which being a severe exaggeration of racism’s popularity

Universal childcare wouldn't just relieve working families of a massive cost burden. It improves the whole economy. "There are a lot of reasons building a child care system that works for everyone is important to our children, to parents, to employers and to economic growth."

Goebbles or Miller?

Hey, Dem pundits: toning down the rhetoric on my son’s right to exist will NOT make them like us. They never will My son should not have to sacrifice his rights or “take one for the team”. If you were only as brave as my son…

Universal childcare is on the ballot this November — but you don't need to wait to take action. Sign the @ny4childcare.bsky.social petition below calling for full-day care for NYC two-year-olds.

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.

@nature.com I love this article - but WHY are the only share options to X and Facebook when the whole point of the article is that science-based posts get more shares here? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

If you accept the premise that "illegal Migration" is a serious issue, then you are part of the problem. This is a moral panic and every time you affirm it as an issue you play into the signification spiral. Progressives/left must reject the issue itself not just the "solutions" of the right.

if the lesson the only opposition party that exists in this country takes from trumpism is “okay, we just need to pick an appropriate group to sacrifice and then back to normal”, then we need a new opposition party. pretty simple.

folks are passing around an “even if the pod save guys are right & trans issues cost the election, we can’t give up on what’s right even if it’s not popular” post & i’d love if you paused, looked at what that cedes & asked “what does this framing get trans people?” this is a thread of threads.🧵

As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldn’t fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldn’t risk their lives. Parents shouldn’t wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than people—and this is the devastating result.

The scavenger hunt is using NYC mayoral history to paint Mamdani as firmly within the mainstream of that history. On age. On DSA membership. On public transportation policy. It's such a smart way to launch the general election campaign.

Must stop electing people who don't believe in anything beyond their own power and wealth who will say and do anything at any moment if they think it gets them more of either.

People keep saying that other Dem need to mimic Zohran’s marketing but they keep failing to understand that the marketing is great because the policies are great.

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts. But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy. In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states. This is why unions are vital.

Settling for feckless centrists instead of championing for actual progressive policy makers is what we did to get to right now, actually.

HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT A PICK'N'MIX GOODNIGHT

“Can you say that again?” No. I wasn’t listening to me either. Just make up something idc.

A legal permanent resident researching cures for Lyme disease has been detained by immigration officials for over a week. He has reportedly been denied access to an attorney and his family has not been given a reason for his detention. We cannot become immune to this cruelty.

perfect tee shirt

What kind of "war" is it when one side controls the land, sea, and air of the other? It's a war that was already won, where the victors are simply trying to figure out how best to torture the prisoners. #freepalestine #freegaza

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

“So it’s not a mistake and you know it and you keep the warehouse locked…” 🚨 He knows the food is still good and can be used for starving children, yet still plans to incinerate it.

The ICE camps are concentration camps. They should be called concentration camps. It is, of course, important to distinguish between concentration camps and death camps, but also, I am not sure we will know when or if we undergo the transition from concentration camps into death camps.

As someone who lived in New Orleans during the thing you call Katrina, I’m here to say that the time to politicize governmental failure in a tragedy is when anyone is still paying attention.

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy. I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

Protecting his stock portfolio while ripping away health care from 17 million Americans. This is Washington at its worst. We need to ban Congressional stock trading.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Honestly the funny thing is that the centrist Dems are partially right. They DON'T need us leftist voters. Just like they don't need Republicans though they'd never admit that. All they need are the vast plurality of NON-voters who just so happen to turn out for leftist economic policies.

israel has started firing artillery at civilian populations queued for the only food available in the gaza strip

The Supreme Court is letting a President “temporarily” overturn a constitutional amendment until each individual person against which they attempt to enforce this lie pays a bunch of money to file a lawsuit to have a judge say “yeah sorry it’s the constitution, gotta follow it.”

Stop doom scrolling and feed me, dad.

Have Kamala Harris was my only plan people considered doing something relevant to June 2025 at this time

These people aren’t afraid Mamdani would be a bad mayor. We have a ridiculous, corrupt, incompetent mayor right now and the city is hanging in OK. They’re declaring all-out war because they’re afraid Mamdani (or Lander) might be a good mayor.

Please share this like lives hang in the balance because they do.

Can we elevate the phrase "So quiet I could hear a tank squeak"?

New in PN: Judge rules that anti-woke is just racism “'I’ve never seen a record where racial discrimination was so palpable,' Judge Young fumed. 'I’ve sat on this bench now for 40 years. I’ve never seen government racial discrimination like this.' *More of this, please*"

I've received some information from a local about the individual accused of being the SLC shooter (who did not fire, was shot by 'official' security who also hit and killed an unrelated person He'd done armed protesting before. Dressed more radically. Was a little awkward. no more than that

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

@zcat6.bsky.social Thanks for the follow! Per tradition have a cat pic. Her name is Ramona and she is the best (and keeps me sane adjacent in these trying times).