The ACA is actually garbage and does need to go away but it needs to be replaced by full universal healthcare and the eradication of health insurance companies not whatever death spiral is actually happening.

I keep saying MAGA and Christian Nationalists do not care if their leaders are pedophiles and abusers. They will excuse it and justify it to preserve their power. It's not about hypocrisy, it's about control.

I have spent a significant amount of time in heavy international tourist locations over the last couple of months and any European that tells someone from the US we're bad tourists should be punched directly in the mouth.

There is no reforming the Democratic Party. We must do better. People's lives literally depend on it. Abandon the Dems like they've abandoned the people.

Getting rid of Chuck Schumer won't make the Dems better. Schumer reflects the primary value of the DNC, capital. So even if he's gone the party will continue to be corporate and self interest driven.

Apropos of theonion.com/democrats-si...

What is happening in the Senate tonight is a travesty and betrayal for every person who depends on ACA subsidies.

The problem with the Democrats isn't about a handful of bad apples. It's about a corrupt, corporate party. They are rotten to the core. Remove one and another one will pop back into line to take their conservative place. Throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If Dems cave on saving the ACA supplements then even the bluest liberal cannot pretend they're lesser of any evil

I'm at a theme park in Florida and when I asked about accessibility accommodations the guest services people were so incredibly shitty. People have invisible (although you can see mine if you know what to look for) disabilities you shithead.

That video of the man having a seizure while holding a baby and being assaulted by a federal ghoul has absolutely wrecked me. It's horrifying and vile what is happening and makes me think about how debilitating and deadly this regime is for disabled people especially disabled immigrants.

I think they'll use Erika Kirk to make JD Vance more likeable and as a tool to convince us he's fully heterosexual so the MAGA base won't immediately turn on him when takes the presidency. Except Peter Thiel, people really hate that guy.

Do we think Trump moved all the emergency SNAP money to his bank account when no one was looking?

If you want everyone to talk to you constantly, go to a restaurant and try to read a book and eat alone at the bar. Nonstop conversation!

My dear fellow millennials, even those of you in your early 30s, we gotta stop saying we look younger than our ages. We do not We look like we're in our 30s and 40s and that's okay.

The reason why Mamdani rallied so many people, especially young people and Leftists, is because of his policies. That's it. Yes he is charming. Yes he has great PR. Yes he's a dude. But folks want leftist policies and your garbage Dems don't have them. It's quite simple.

Oh shit! It's fountain pen day and I didn't even know! Yesterday I converted a youth to the glory that is fountain pens so I've done my penance I suppose.

Sometimes I get a little feely when I see young WNBA and college players being unapologetically queer. 🥺 Mixed emotions of thrilled for them and mourning for those who couldn't.

I'm up here menstruating in this hotel room and needed a pad. I grabbed those Honeypot ones and holy sweet baby Jesus why is my vagina being set on fire??? What in the hell is this demonry?

Couples are dropping like flies this off-season #wnba

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Stop defending capitalism already.

Great to see the Democrats have learned nothing

Now this is the appropriate use of that leopards eating my face thing y'all love not a poor Southerner from a red state not having access to food

Thinking a lot about Fred Hampton and the work he and others, mostly in the Black Panther Party, did in Chicago that was so incredibly powerful and revolutionary that they had to murder him to maintain our horrific capitalism hellscape. Be like Fred.

Well I now have to check if hotels are pet friendly or not bc staying in a pet okay hotel is not possible for my allergic ass anymore 😭

States like Mississippi and Alabama have been fully abandoned by the DNC so this was folks on the ground doing the work. If y'all would stop shitting on the South maybe your little blue party could have a solid base there.

Way to go New York!

It's a real shame an absolute monster like Dick Cheney got to live a long and full life when he took the lives of so many

My uncle joined this group. It's for far right people who want to have set up a Republic run only by the farthest right people. Needless to say I shant be going home for the holidays.

I downloaded brain fm to see if it would help with work concentration but it's all EDM style music and it grits on my nerves. I'd rather listen to classical or opera. Is this because my brain is broken?

It's very annoying that all the early US colonizers were so uncreative and boring that they named many cities here after places in the UK. It always takes me a second to realize it's a Brit posting not someone from Alabama.

Ugh. Awake at 6am. Damn this time change.

The Tyee: 'This Physicist Says We Don’t Take COVID Seriously Enough' 'Bar-Yam..has much on his mind..from repeated COVID infections poses a growing “existential threat” to human health..he is deeply worried about new evidence on how children are affected by long COVID' thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

I bought some drug store moisturizer in a very small bottle and it was $31! I gasped at the checkout. Nothing drug store should ever be over $15. Ever. I hate it here.

Capitalism is always bad and is always failing and must rely on corporate social support, but this seems particularly bad? I wish I knew more about the made up logistics of capitalism to know what to do in anticipation of what horrors are coming.

Do you think the young guy who has been more successful than any other candidate since first term Obama at exciting voters and supporting their political needs is the future of Democrats? No. It's definitely the old incompetent corporate trolls who nobody wants to vote for.

Is Ghost of Yotei one of my most favorite (maybe the most favorite) games ever? Yes. Am I devastated at both the ending and it being over? Also, yes.

I've been eyeing a handmade pendant from Turkey and I was about to get it to celebrate something but the tariffs on it are over $100 not including the expensive shipping. Everything is so much worse and I just don't understand how people can continue to support both this regime and capitalism.

I hate how the Christians killed Trick or Treating with their dumb trunk or treats

One of the things I hate the most about short form video social media is that people just straight up lying has become normalized as a "skit." That is not what a skit is 😭

I've always given out both candy and food items like fruit, snacks, chips, goldfish, ramen, and mac and cheese for Halloween bc we live not far from multiple extremely poor areas and the food was always taken as fast or faster than the candy. If you're able, you should do it this year too ❤️ 🎃

Yes. This is the way.

But in good news, in my rural Appalachian hometown they're doing free meat processing of hunted deer if folks agree to give most of it away to hungry families.

My super Jesus family members are incredibly happy that people are losing healthcare and food supplementation. If you haven't already, it's time to cut ties with your biologically related ghouls. They won't change and they don't deserve your time and affection.

Tragic news. Not only has my cat allergy become severe, but I am now very allergic to dogs. As a lesbian, this feels like a self inflicted hate crime.

not directed at any of my moots, just something i'm noticing ~generally~ on bluesky: with the SNAP cuts on the immediate horizon a lot of liberals seem to find it *really* important to emphasize that many SNAP beneficiaries *are* employed but make such awful wages that they need SNAP. and like.....

Please bully and then block accounts that post AI slop like this especially when they hyper sexualize fake women

The minor elites are (very slowly) turning on the upper elites. But make no mistake, they're doing this to maintain their wealth and power. They've realized they'll never be billionaires and see the growing mass anger. We can use them for our purpose, but never forget they are not our friends.

Do you want your serfs smiling or frowning? Your servants able to crack a joke? You need the plebes to live to toil for your shares!