Starting to suspect anyone vowing to abolish ICE and prosecute these fuckers would win in a historic landslide

I am 64 years old and FOR MOST OF MY LIFE two things were true: - fascists were trying to take over the USA - we were beating them Those creeps are beatable. We beat them for decades. In the 30s they tried a form of MAGA and US beat them. The 50s? McCarthy purges. US beat them. Do. Not. Doom.

Science will never succeed until we recognize the humanity of all scientists and break the dehumanization cultures that crush too many people.

Mamdani is going to implement Shannara law. Everything will be extremely derivative of Tolkien and predictable.

Donald Trump’s economy. Where McDonalds is too expensive for 30-year-olds. The Golden Age.

Learning that a lot of people genuinely hate reading in general and not just when it’s assigned or boring was shocking to me when I was younger. This species continues to confound me in the ways it will avoid doing one of our greatest societal accomplishments.

Kill the Indian, Save the Man: The US gov't ripped kids from their homes & brought them to American Indian boarding schools like Carlisle where they cut their hair, forbade them speak their language (beating them or worse if the did) & more. This wasn't just about "assimilation." This was genocide.

Donald Trump and Republicans REFUSE to pay Child Support.

This is how transphobia's right wing fuckery blew open basic respect in the UK, there is absolutely no reason to expect now that being "women critical" is not also a protected belief, if you truly do not believe that women should just be reproductive slaves for cis men. This will be used to abuse.

Self-Portrait with Cod's Head 1940 https://botfrens.com/collections/90/contents/25877

Fascist bully-boys hollering like hit dogs because not everyone cowers at their presence.

This is what’s happened and is still happening in journalism, politics, education, and business. Less than five years after so many revelations and pledges.

“We *really* wanted to believe every and any possible explanation, and give every benefit of the doubt to the racists but they’re leaving us no pretexts to work with.”

Bust of a woman https://botfrens.com/collections/111/contents/31503

the first Resident Evil One comic I did vs the last ✨

I’m not bailing out the only people in the world who can actually afford to lose $13 billion. Go fuck yourselves.

Lots of hard, shitty lessons being learned from this presidency. And one of the many I hope you're learning is, white supremacy is incompatible with reality, and cannot exist without historical revisionism.

Thread. A useful way to think about the Heritage Foundation is as a veil of respectability for modern Nazis.

A lot of ppl aren't monsters bc capitalism says to be, they like capitalism bc it provides an ideological compass to be selfish like they wanted to anyway. Depressingly a lot of philosophy turns out to be the educated high class version of r/ amitheasshole

This is literally impossible though. The only way to read a book is to buy at least two more first.

It should be ours. The fastest way to change the law and make citizenship irrevocable would to pursue a case against Elon Musk who by all appearances entered the US on a student visa, didn't finish college, and instead worked illegally on his student visa then naturalized without being penalized.

All of those shorthands and tests ruin people's media literacy. There is an episode of Seinfeld where all women only bicker about shoes. It passes the Bechdel test, and is quite sexist... as long as you don't consider the meta commentary about men writing women.

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Orange hello. Photo from my collection, no date/info.

I have to assume is not going to end until Andrew Cuomo has lost every election in the state of New York at least twice

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome

[at my second rodeo] listen up you ignorant sack of shit

[interview with a vampire] where do you see yourself in 105 years

By the way: Please CALL AHEAD to your local food banks, ask them what they need most, ask what they have too much of, ask what they can’t take right now, and ask what’s the best time/place/way to give your donations. Food banks lose an IMMENSE amount of time and money to people treating them as…

Marie Antoinette: Let them eat cake. Donald Trump: They have cake?! Pam, get that cake back!

As many have said, labeling rooms is what families of dementia patients have to do around the house to keep grandpa from walking into the wrong room.

The rich have shamed poor people into silence to such an extent that almost no one knows how absolutely crushing it is to be poor in this country.

"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."

LRT: for real, do not let people ignore the context of that. It's Lynch as the character of Agent Cole giving his response to transphobia among agents with regards to the trans woman who is now the FBI chief of staff. It's a great quote! But it's deliberately about not being a transphobic POS.

An actual audit of police overtime, pursued by an honest agency, would end with a staggering number of people in jail

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

100%. not only should SNAP just be money but SSI and SSDI should actually be a fucking useful amount

not enough people point out the reason that white evangelicals are demons from hell is that, especially in the south, they have explicitly racially segregated churches under the same denomination

"[P]rocedurally, had she denied the request, the Justice Department could have gone to another justice. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, by issuing the order herself, she was able to set the limits." 👇

Firmly believe one of the ways to improve trust in journalism among young people is to support them in learning to research, write, and report themselves. Even if they never pursue it as a job, it helps to understand the process, and encourages them to engage with their local journalism outlets.

I need to introduce you to someone. This is my new friend Marcel who has moved in with us. He has one eye and FIV and he is perfect!

So, so many stores could be built like this. Modern convenience doesn't require urban sprawl. We can live better, more integrated lives, with stronger communities, without needing cars for every single place we go. This exists. Right now. We can do better.

279% interest is the kinda thing the A-Team kills you for

The court not having a proper comms office is just absolutely hilarious bc it transforms a situation like this into an absolute bloodbath of public wrath over a technical issue that could have been explained by some PR lackey

ah ok, love that our govt is so evil the courts have to play to make sure people will get fed asap -- except asap is not actually asap bc our evil govt doesn't want it to happen at all

SNAP is incredibly popular with the American people. www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/11...

The other off-ramp - besides the courts - we discussed during the live as an end to the shutdown is for congress to pass funding bills. If you're represented by any Republicans in the House or Senate, call them, every single day, and demand that they stop this.

If you rely on SNAP, I want you to know a few things: There are people interested in doing numbers by claiming without any sort of evidence that somehow the $32B fund is gone. As if Trump knows how to use a computer, never mind steal that money. As if there are no career employees left.