when a poor person uses food stamps for a steak or homeless person spends $5 on a beer, it’s seen as proof that all poor people are so bad with money that they shouldn’t be given any, ever, for any reason. $77 billion out the window, and zuck’s legacy as a safe government contract bet is secure.

Again, people keep saying this as if we haven’t been seeing the same thing play out at Columbia smack dab in Harlem.

Why do so many people just accept this as normal behavior

One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them

Capitalism is one of the most immoral, anti-social, anti-/human/ things ever concocted. No wonder the US worships it like a religion.

Time to call your senators and house reps again and demand they protect healthcare for trans people. ☎️👿

the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.

If it hasn't been said, I'll say it: No woman of color would ever be defended in this "she's just a smol bean" fashion & many Black, Latina, Asian & Indigenous women have had their lives & careers destroyed for nothing, or for far, far less. Same goes for trans women. These are just fucking facts.

its kinda silly how ill have these days where i just feel like total shit about my appearance and be like actively avoiding my reflection and then ill finally accidentally catch a glimpse of myself and be like “…….goddamnit i’m actually cute”

DC Public Library with a friendly reminder 📚

I wouldn't necessarily have predicted that this one story would get to me more than many others, but I feel heartsick. Every married woman who takes her husband's last name has changed their legal name. Legal name changes aren't a matter of opinion - Rachel is her name.

AAP is not changing its recommendations in response to the CDC vaccine panel; they diverged on covid shots as well

Opposing abuse doesn't become easier as you wait for more people to get abused. You have to build opposition to abuse by opposing abuse. If you aren't opposing abuse, you're not preserving resources, you are wasting away as an abomination whose blood is abuse gorges itself corpulent style on people.

Arresting children. Bombing fishermen. Starving families. Stealing our money. Lying to our faces.

I dunno man it just really seems like American universities have lost the plot over the past 30 years or so and while I too love college football and basketball, the people making key decisions at them don't seem to care about their educational mission at all

happy turkey day. colonialism never ended. america is a settler-colonial apartheid state. indigenous people are still fighting against a centuries long genocide. land back now.

In so many ways, I often feel like a very different person (in an extremely good way) since starting HRT last year. Even in the roughest times, my perspective on life feels like it can return to healthier areas of reflection and self-value, which always felt like an impossibility previously.

HRT really is a miracle drug because the change in my partner's mental health these past few months has been astounding. So much less self-hatred, she's happier, she makes her bed and takes care of her space more, and she just seems more herself in a way I didn't know was possible.

HRT really is magic because before I went on T was miserable and depressed and was noticeably withdrawn and self-isolating from a lot of people and that practically reversed after the first few injections. This just in! Feeling at home in your body is good for your mental health it turns out!

People need food. Market won’t provide it. Government should. It’s literally the whole point.

The Dino-Riders dinosaurs were absolutely amazing in their details. I have no shame at all to say that I kept all of them from childhood. :)

We have all normalized it at this point because it never stops, but it is fucking psychotic that the mayor elect of New York City who has never said an anti-Semitic thing in his life has to answer "what do you say to Jews who feel unsafe" as a condition of doing any interview.

Absolutely necessary.

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao

It’s now clear that information on U.S. government websites can no longer be trusted. It’s both heartbreaking and infuriating to see how quickly this administration has undermined science, public health, and the credibility of our scientific institutions.

On this Trans Day of Remembrance, we remember the bright and courageous trans people whose lives were stolen by hatred. Their absence is felt across our city. We will honor them by building a New York where every trans person can live safely, fully and freely.

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

Treatment for trans kids cannot wait for adulthood. Adolescent changes in the body are permanent and irreversible. The pain of dysmorphia kills. No medical professional treats kids casually, no family seeks treatment casually. Treatment is safe, effective and is a conservative course of action.

If the President can impose his own taxes and use the proceeds to spend on his own projects, all without Congress, we have a dictatorship not a constitutional republic.

I hope people realize that fighting these raids by arguing they "aren't decreasing crime" is a losing battle -- they do not care and will simply change the definition of "crime."

The White House is objectively and demonstrably pro-sex trafficking

I am going to say this only once but fuck these white racists. Fuck them to hell.

a journalist asked a question about a fellow murdered journalist and there is simply no way to read Trump's response as anything other than a threat

It has never been so obvious that capitalism has outlived any supposed usefulness it ever had a claim to

I mean jesus christ, it was not that long ago that "papers please" was damn near universally accepted as a 2-word shorthand for the kind of oppressive society that we beat our chests over being better than

Catholic schools are used as legal conversion therapy because you have to wear a gendered uniform cut your hair a certain way etc etc and you are expelled if you don’t. Do you understand this. do you understand how many kids at each school are there for that reason

Marjorie Taylor Greene is a “get” in the eyes of Dems because it legitimizes their absurd notion that they can pull from the right, which is all Democrats have been concerned with since they decided that Labor was no longer worth pursuing

@democrats.org (and all liberals)

You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.

Everyone has lost their minds www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

The biggest and most violent cartel in Texas is the border patrol.

It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning. The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

“straight up giving the president a bar of gold” is where we’re at now on the “corruption isn’t real” scale good work, John Roberts

the sooner people internalize this about the dems, stop projecting their fantasies on the party, and start demanding more, the better off we’ll all be.

we now have a liberal nonprofit engaging in child sacrifice for "strategic" reasons anyone who tells you that killing children has a greater purpose is engaging in child sacrifice. that's what it is.