Huge news: Jordan Acker, who infamously pushed state to prosecute UM student protestors, loses bid for re-election to UM Regents. The winner: Amir Makled, who provided pro bono legal support to those same UM students. Enormous victory for the Palestine/student solidarity movement.
Oliver, an orange and white cat, is lying on the bed on his back with his soft fuzzy belly exposed
You better believe I put my entire face in there
there only 2 types of tv shows.
something is either columbo or the muppet show
12-foot skeleton with an anti-war shirt.
12-foot skeleton with an anti-war shirt.
This is Catherine Zeta-Bones. She lives in my neighborhood and has a great sense of style.
Other skeletons envy her T-shirt collection.
(Andersonville, Chicago)
Me, trying to explain sapphic flirting dynamics to a non-sapphic writer: "Now if she says something like 'you're the most beautiful woman I've ever seen, please marry me,' she's not interested, possibly straight. But if she says 'I like your hair,' she's down BAD."
I'm in the market for a beautiful Italian sandwich that will fix my life
France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.
Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars
The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.
Why aren't we doing this?
RIP Sid Krofft--an unforgettable pillar of puppetry
It turns out that the DoorDash deliverer earlier at the White House was a Republican staged event. Sharon Simmons of Arkansas was used last year by the GOP to promote their “One Big Beautiful Bill.”
Tldr in John's comatose pop culture referencing mind there are Coyote and Roadrunner style interpretations of the plot done in traditional animation in one ep yeah
Long version with nonsensical spoilers lol: farscape.fandom.com/wiki/Revengi...
Australian sci fi: Muppets in fetish gear and also that one time it was Looney Tunes
This pattern holds a crucial lesson for America’s current moment. As democratic norms erode and elections become increasingly tilted, anti-corruption movements offer what partisan politics cannot: the moral authority to unite society against a rigged system. When traditional opposition fails, these movements succeed because they transcend party lines, mobilizing citizens around a cause larger than any candidate: the fundamental fairness of the system itself. Research shows that in polarized societies, the most effective opposition doesn’t fight on the traditional left-right battlefield where positions are entrenched. Instead, it creates an entirely new axis of conflict.1 Framing the stakes as clean versus corrupt shifts debate from rigid ideological divisions to a universally resonant moral question: are you on the side of the people or a corrupt elite?
Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics.
A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.
The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.
Warning: this soft-focus press release disguised as a profile feature will make you want to a) barf and b) start pricing guillotines.
Maybe we don’t need next day delivery. Maybe ignoring or stepping over dead bodies to make Amazon warehouse deadlines is in fact, bad.
I don't know that I've ever met a CPTSD survivor who didn't struggle with chronic exhaustion. Dealing with trauma w/ inadequate support for years is its own trauma-- & also makes EVERY cognitive & emotional task on our plate 1,473,993 times more effortful than it should be.
even the replies to this are full of people that didn't know (no shade). money can't buy you everything but it can buy you a lot. this is how far the media has been captured by the hyper rich that don't want ANY of this shit talked about
It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.
when i am elected President, i promise to start screaming, one-sided fights with the Pope much more often, but for very different reasons
with chicago pope it's italian beefing
I'm old-fashioned. I want your business to have a website. Don't gimme an Instagram page and a phone number. I wanna see what services you offer and then make an appointment on a regular degular website!
hella nerd babies getting named artemis early next year
Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006
Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉
one of many reasons i will never accept abandoning my trans siblings or the broader queer community for the purposes of "a bigger tent"
They were getting whimsical with it in the 1730s. Big Union of Silly Billys: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odd_Fel...
TFW your mom went to the moon, but she came back