1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

"Where did all these awesome and unique Finnish games come from?" uhhhhh material conditions

Playing Bird Rules

Here's the thing though, farmers aren't cash poor. The median SMALL FAMILY FARM is clearing over $100K in annual income. AFTER farm debts & expenses. "But $100K isn't that mu-" They're farmers, Steve, they don't live in Manhattan

Debt is good. Savings are bad.

Republican men are some of the most pathetic creatures on the planet.

“AI”

me, after coming up with a revolutionary idea and then immediately forgetting it for ever

I unapologetically love this art. I'd bring back this BT aesthetic in a heartbeat. All art should look like it's from the side of an arcade machine.

Wind turbines are such an eyesore.

It makes sense. Fundies have this thing called "bleeding the beast" where they try to drain the government of resources for others by abusing welfare and other systems, this feels like the same thing being applied to a political party. Deprive honest candidates of funds via dishonest campaigns.

Have you read about how he rigs the primaries in Vermont? "He also said that he’ll pull the same maneuver that he did in his 2006 and 2012 Senate races: Running as a Democrat, declining the nomination when he wins and then running as an independent." www.politico.com/story/2018/0...

I don't agree with this, especially from someone who has monopolized his seat for decades and has nothing to show but multiple million-dollar homes and overpriced books. Making back the purity test in a time when the GOP has a bigger war chest is dangerous thinking.

Justice Democrats AOC, Tlaib and Omar managed to flip their solid blue districts red in 2024 by demonizing the "establishment dems" who are simply the liberals, who ARE the actual democratic party, using the most hostile slogans of divisive language and complete fabrications.

They SAY they want a $15 min wage then vote against it, say they want health care and vote against it,same with infrastructure, then YELL that its dems' fault because the bills dont "go far enough". Their anti America, antisemitism pushed people to the right, which is what they want

He had help from TYTs Cnek Ugyur (Hasan Pikers uncle) and Kyle Kulinski who formed the DSA backed "Justice Democrats" in order to infiltrate the democratic party with leftists who would then proceed to do and say anti America and antisemitic shit, scream housing and health care" then block it all

Pete Hegseth falsely testified to Congress last week that troops were deployed to polling locations in 15 states under Joe Biden. All 11 states that responded to inquiry reported that zero troops were sent to voting places in 2024.

An extraordinary hologram-effect gold and rock crystal ring found in the noblewoman's tomb is thought to depict her son. It does look unnervingly like a person staring out from the depths of another, darker world... #ancientbluesky #Roman #archaeology (📷 @the_archaeologist_official, Instagram)

Not just mutual — fully enforced. That means doubling SCOTUS, growing the House (and by extension, Electoral College) by 100+ members, and mandating multi-member districts drawn by independent commissions barred from considering party affiliation. Fix democracy first.

Gerrymandering can be difficult to understand, but this graphic helps illustrate how it can be used to pervert the intentions of voters. Say Team Blue wins 60%. Depending on who’s drawing the map, that could mean winning all 5 seats or winning only 2 of 5.

The Generals forced the liberals to sign the surrender to bail them out and then spent all of Weimar shivving them in the back while claiming they were tricked into surrender by the liberals instead of sticking someone else with their bad bill

Your daily reminder that the treaties Germany inflicted on France in 1871 and on Russia in 1917 were harsher than Versailles, and the reason why Germany turned to nazism is because Prussians are whiny little piss babies.

and a lot of you would be better prepared and far less confused by the right's playbook if you acknowledged this

In totally unsurprising news, Richard Dawkins is developing AI psychosis. Paywall bypass: archive.is/6RdK9

schizophrenia and bipolar, too. a lot of people in my support groups are afraid

Here's the Blackadder quadriptych I completed recently, which will be included in my forthcoming solo show at @quirkyfox.bsky.social. The exhibition will be themed around comedians and comic actors. Details to follow. #caricature #art

They fired forest rangers making $50k,

I try never to be one of those "if Obama had done this" people but if Obama had done this, Fox News would have suspended all other programming for a full month. And Maria Bartiromo would've melted down. Not figuratively, but literally liquefied, like the guy in Raiders of the Lost Ark.

“I always knew avoiding plastic would be annoying. I didn’t realize I would also have to become annoying. (Even more so than usual.)” heated.world/p/plastic-de...

2-5 years from everyone, everyone will have voted for Kamala. #IYKYK

What is the point of interviewing these people if you do not ask them what they thought the Democrats were lacking? I'll be frank and answer my own question. There is no point. And they do not want to ask these questions because they are afraid of the answer.

My conclusions were made seconds after I saw a headline but it's good to know the facts.

Tell me again that shit wasn’t staged.

I realize this is obvious to most but allow me to rant: At the core of Trump's base love for him is a simmering resentment over their mediocrity and gratitude for him making it permissible to be arrogant whilst mediocre. Everything in this cult can be traced back to that. (thread)

Let’s take a look at what progressives gave away: voting rights, civil rights, women’s right’s, abortion rights, disability protections, etc. Progressives didn’t move us forward. They set us back more than 1/2 a century. I guess they never learned fighting for those rights was brutal.

Many progressives wouldn’t vote because Bernie didn’t get the nomination. Then, many progressives refused to vote in 2024 because their demands and purity tests weren’t met. Their solution is always sit on your ass and do nothing. THEY HAVE MANAGED TO LOSE EVERY RIGHT “Neoliberal Dems” fought for.

I’m gonna keep it a thou-wow: I despaired over the VRA and all this damage the Supreme Court is doing back in 2016 when they let that mofo beat Hillary. We knew what was at stake them, but folks played around and let Trump appointed THREE justices. I’m done catastrophizing.

The irony is people being mad that Kamala and Hillary weren't offering "tangibles" resulted in the VRA being repealed. Head asses.

SCOTUS: "iT' nOT aBoUt raCe." Louisiana Republicans: "It is now illegal for Black people to hold elected office."

An “era of extreme gerrymandering” just began out of nowhere.

President Trump's Iran war is causing gas prices to hit record highs. But don't worry, he is laser-focused on the issues that matter most to him: Firing comedians over jokes at his expense, prosecuting enemies over bullshit, and building a 250-foot arch and ballroom. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I said to my students that the Civil Rights movement was ended by a slew of assassinations&they looked shocked.This is something people know but do not interpolate.The mythology that nonviolent strategy equals peaceful politics has been so deliberately&well made that folks are genuinely confused.

The Cracker Corollary to Murc's Law: white voters believe only non-white voters have agency even though everything we're suffering through right now is bc of white voter choices.

Having a Nazi tattoo, using slurs, and blaming women for being sexually assaulted should all be disqualifying for running for the US Senate. But alas. The angry white men contingent feels like they need to be heard, or whatever. 🙄

Every time Republicans draw a map to make your vote count less, Democrats defend your vote in court. Every time they close a polling place, we fight to reopen it. Every time they add a barrier, we work to tear it down. Democrats are for Democracy. Republicans are for Kings.