all shall be swole and all shall be swole and all manner of thing shall be swole

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

I dunno I think neoliberalism’s grand plan of dismantling the welfare state and the social contract and replacing them, respectively, with nothing and nothing created a pretty fertile breeding ground for fascism and this isn’t even particularly controversial anymore.

sometimes i read a fantasy novel and i can tell the author's primary inspirations are other (often recent) fantasy media

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

Is this something

Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now

That’s fucking insane

Yagami-san, I need you to solve the Case of the Karaoke Pervert

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

No Fightblin! This isn’t you!

Countries that do not use Fritos as currency could be "left behind," says Frito-Lay CEO Ken Biddleman

God, I love being a New Yorker

I always felt like Brienne is the spiritual (and likely literal) descendant of Dunk. Both are not really knights in the literal sense and both embody the ideals of knighthood far more than any of the rapists in fancy armor

oh my god, he's implementing tenant-friendly policies??? oh my god. are the landlords okay? do they need a hug and a glass of milk??

It’s really not that much

Most trillionaires are only one emergency unforeseeable $1 trillion expense away from poverty. Really makes you think

think of it this way: if he gave away one trillion dollars every day, it would be gone in one day

Incredibly powerful

If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...

I was a White House ethics lawyer.

I used to advise people not to even accept a free cup of coffee from someone who had interests before them. And staff followed those rules.

I can’t even find the words to describe the scale of Trump’s corruption here.

xbox live took stronger action against jeffrey epstein than the entire us government

ICE Unloads Immigration officers speak out: “Fuck this.”

I interviewed over half a dozen ICE and Border Patrol agents who describe an agency that sounds like Reno 911!

“I thought federal agents were supposed to be clean cut but some of them pass around a flask as we are watching a suspect,” one told me:
www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-unloads

Apologies for yet another Irish Revolution comparison: the Irish population was very much opposed to the Easter Rising in 1916 because downtown Dublin was destroyed for, seemingly, no purpose. Until the British executed James Connolly as he was dying of gangrene. He was strapped to a chair and shot.

this administration is actual real evil. how can anyone approve of this

Article V was only ever triggered one time and it was to help the US. Trump is literally allergic to saying true things.

Everyone giving goku energy from the spirit bomb

Every time there’s slightly irregular news from the White House.