a black and white cat is sitting on a couch and looking at the camera . Alt: Angry cat

Everyone deserves a little more side-eye from me.

More higher ed discourse like this please

we’re back to the pets dot com era, baby

fuck em up, professor

ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The illusion of internal dissent is a pretty helpful way of normalizing fascism.

A starfield filled with thousands of stars and shining clouds of dust. The Milky Way\u2019s elegant spiral structure is dominated by just two arms wrapping off the ends of a central bar of stars. Spanning more than 100,000 light-years, Earth is located along one of the galaxy\u2019s spiral arms, about halfway from the center. Credit: NASA

OH. MY. GOD.

THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Opinion: It is time for Mamdani to stand in solidarity with Muslim leaders who eschew antisemitic tropes, such as “genocide” and “occupation,” and are committed to a new and broader regional alignment in the Middle East.

truly beyond parody

Pearl Bailey in 1952. Photo credit: Encyclopædia Britannica.

#ResistanceRoots
#WomensHistoryMonth

Pearl Bailey was born on this day in 1918 in Newport News, Va. Known for her throaty voice and comedic timing, she was one of the most beloved entertainers of the mid-20th century. She was also social justice advocate who used her fame to fight for equality. /1

Header: Dialectical Baiting: How the US tricks its opponents into becoming Reactionaries Body: Have you ever noticed yourself adopting increasingly radical views after spending time in media environments saturated with inflammatory content? Recall how online spaces often pit feminists against anti-feminists, with each side performing outrage at the most extreme statements from the other to farm engagement. This self-reinforcing cycle is what I term a "dialectical spiral" where two tendencies become increasingly polarized. Dialectical spirals are intimately connected to a broader, more intentional strategy I call "Dialectical Baiting," a tactic central to the operation of modern imperialism.

This is such an important analysis. Every anti-imperialist should read it.

Link: lemmygrad.ml/post/11174275

At least there's Halloween Decorations up still.

*walking out of vault 76 with my reclamation day hat on, and a level 12038373 with a jet pack floats down and gives me guns I can't use yet and 100 lbs of food and 83 plans*

"Alright, time to get down to Point Pleasant."

(for Mothman of course)

Checkmate?

Dracula says to Brian "I dropped my phone in McDonald's Sprite and that MF started charging"

The Supreme Court Didn’t End Abortion. It Just Made Pregnancy More Dangerous Anti-choice activists argued that the end of Roe v. Wade would make women safer. The data shows that it did not.

maternal mortality rates? increasing in states that ban abortion

infant mortality rates? increasing in states that ban abortion

pre-term birth rates? increasing in states that ban abortion

food aid rates? increasing in states that ban abortion

Dobbs did this

ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Murdered, but also many more certainly have been detained illegally, brutalized, tortured and it seems there is a problem with children becoming pregnant because, as with all detention facilities in the United States, violent sex crimes are clearly taking place.

Do something.

Witnesses have captured intense US-Israeli attacks on Isfahan, a city in Iran with a population of 2.3 million people, and home to the Badr military airbase. Huge explosions and fires have lit up the night sky.

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

🎵 Life's a piece of shit
When you look at it
Life's a laugh and death's a joke, it's true
You'll see it's all a show
Keep 'em laughin' as you go
Just remember that the last laugh is on you
And...

economist: we practice a hard science!

me: why aren’t food and energy counted inflation?

e: cause it’s haaaaaaaaard and everyone gets sad when we do

All of the No Kings rallies have been lawful, state sanctioned, controlled opposition. Atrocities have escalated since the last batch, so what did these marches accomplish? You had permission from the King himself. That's a very strange strategy to defeat the King.

These courts and lawmakers are committed to perpetuating and legitimizing human suffering. They're hoping to redefine citizenship soon.

This place required exploitation and violence from the time it was settled. It's all lawful.

Ending an authoritarian regime requires law breaking.

What happened between the No Kings rallies when no one was looking? If you haven't noticed things have escalated quickly. What progress was made since the last state sanctioned march? They were all lawful gatherings. You all accepted the King's terms. That's not radical, nor is it resistance.

"When an Iowan encountered a young child about to be sold by her own father, who was also her master, he vowed, "By G-d I'll fight till he'll freezes over and then I'll cut the ice and fight on."" goes so hard, fuck em up, Iowa man

Alice Augusta Ball found the cure for leprosy at 23.

She died in a mysterious lab accident at 24.

Arthur Dean stole her research, stole it and renamed it from "The Ball Method" to "The Dean Method."

It took 90 years before her original research papers were found and she got the credit due to her.

He raised us… our first anti capitalist globalist text was literally animaniacs

Y'know what, I'm still with it

"War don't sex" that's right brother, peace fucks

We can understand his very real impact without criticizing his life. Deconstruct your parasocial tendencies.

If you have to pick apart or correct his messages, he isn't for you. He's effective at engaging a broad audience and the media.

Go create a productive role for yourself like he did.

🤳🫠

No, dude, we know. We see it. Capitalism did that. Billionaires are responsible for the 24/7 live-streamed atrocities.

***WWIII begins for another accelerated period of weath extraction***

Neolib media personality: *Remind the people again that they are poorer than ever*

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