People sleeping outside on benches and going to the bathroom on the sidewalk are problems of the social safety net failing and it is so much cheaper and easier to just expand the safety net than to punish people who fell through it.
it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone
@AJEnglish Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett says journalist Amal Khalil received threats from an Israeli WhatsApp number during the last war, warning her to stop reporting or leave Lebanon “if she wanted her head to remain on her shoulders,” before being killed today in an Israeli attack.
Israel has killed more journalists than any other nation in history.
More than the total number of journalists killed during the U.S. Civil War, WWI, WWII, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War combined.
Oh shit love getting a chance to share this
To everyone wondering what's wrong with the Mets, I say this as a Queens native and lifer who lives a 15-minute bike ride from Citi Field:
Nothing is wrong with the Mets. This is who the Mets are. And if you can't Let's Go Mets now, you don't deserve to Gotta Love Da Mets when they're winning.
No one’s rich like Gaston
That’s the pitch for “Gaston”
No one’s complex and tragic yet kitsch like Gaston
He’s a circle that begs to be squared
It’s a tentpole, a four-quadrant hit
Yes his backstory’s moving and layered
And it’s starring a CGI de-aged Brad Pitt
Flyer with Dinkins building in the blue background, dollar icons, and a QR code encircled by a pie chart. Text: Build Your Budget for NYC. No matter how we do it, we have to close the city's budget gap and balance the budget. It's up to the governor who will pay the cost - working families or the richest New Yorkers. Let us know how you'd balance the budget by submitting your results at: Advocate.nyc.gov/BuildABudget
The state budget is 3 weeks late, yet Albany is long overdue to make the wealthiest pay their fair share.
Our Build-A-Budget tool shows why New York must #TaxTheRich to avoid painful cuts to necessary services.
🧮 Can you balance the budget? nyc-budget-simulation.abalancingact.com/build-a-budget
Oh hey excuses to link to yet more posts by @eruditorumpress.com
www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/declare...
It's incredibly depressing how fucking easy this type of messaging should be, how simple it is to slam dunk on the GOP, and yet you can count the national Democrats actually doing so on one hand with fingers left over.
What's it called, Kif?
Somehow everything that happens under this regime is a metaphor for every other thing that's happening under this regime.
[louder, as if that'll improve reception] THE BLUESKY DEVS WOULD BE VERY UPSET BY YOUR JOKES ABOUT VIBE CODING IF THEY COULD LOAD YOUR POSTS
french tumblr post anonymous: "why is bread masculine but Baguette is feminine....... is the baguette transgender?" translatingpostsingrench: "i will let the community decide: baguette, a trans icon?" yes: 94.6% no: 5.4%
I'm still eternally thinking about this
A cool thing to ask someone who tells you that e-bikes are cheating is, "Cheating at what?" They usually don't have an answer.
Reskilling to FUCKING WHAT DAN
Typical anime fan
Nobody is safe as long as this man is in office. Impeach now.
Trump is within sight of an under 30% overall approval rating.
One of the most important causes right now is to establish a media narrative and popular support behind severe punishments and consequences to our present criminals running things.
Consider mark Zuckerberg's perverse love of Roman history, which he has unlimited infinite opportunities to talk about.
He could afford to do nothing but study roman history and talk about it. But he only ever talks about it like someone who never read a single fucking book on it.
It’s critical to note that this clip should be taken as evidence that Trump is (obviously) taking cuts of the funds being used to build his new white house ballroom, the arc, etc
And scattered about it, some in their overturned war-machines, some in the now rigid handling-machines, and a dozen of them stark and silent and laid in a row, were the Americans—dead!—slain by the putrefactive and disease bacteria against which their systems were unprepared.
The stuff here about a "tyranny of virtue" is some of the least good points I've read in a while. It's not tyranny to decide not to give your money to a company run by a murderous billionaire
Occasionally need to repost this Astro Boy panel where Dr. Ochanomizu's butt looks like the Bernie Sanders logo.
Your regular reminder that cops don't actually justify their existence or enormous budgets by solving much crime.
Approximately 11% of all serious crimes result in an arrest, and about 2% end in a conviction.
And then there's this...
Issac Chotiner, Sam Fragoso, Adam Friedland, Micah Lowenger, Christina Greer, Katie Honan
What makes it even sicker is that news coverage and public reaction will almost surely focus on ways to blame the e-biker for their own injury or death
impeach trump
push for repeal of bbb
re-fund every program that trump defunded
subpoena every motherfucker
make it so those assholes can't make a single breath without 20 congressional committees investigating every atom
The one my roommate came up with: The US is currently incapable of building new nuclear weapons. Nobody in the military understands how, and nobody who understands how wants to do it for the military.
At :58, he almost becomes Uncle Ben Collins.