Welcome home!! 🌕🎉🎉🎉 That was incredible to watch live, wow. 👏

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YEP. also, the entire U.S. foreign aid budget was like a third of this cost. 😒

Probably a good time to double-check to make sure your autoplay video is off.

Tariff invoice for Rakkasan Tea Company showing a bill of $150.20 for an order which cost $1,502

President Trump: "The tariffs, paid for by foreign countries . . . ."

Tariff paid by my small business in the United States:

yep. 100% making that up. and shame on AP for going with it.

Hey everyone,

We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history.

Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread

This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated.

According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.

jfc, this man child...

Guy really gives away the game here that this isn't about "children" when he straight up says that trans adults aren't real.

Just like Brandon, every import we bring in now has a bill like this attached. Most of ours run $1.3k-$4.5k, so imagine how much of a chunk these duties are taking out of your fave importers' margins. Ouch.

It's stark these days how much you stick it to the man by choosing indie over big evil corp.

🤬🤬🤬 Jfc, I thought tea was exempted now!?! Or at least from countries we have a "new trade deal" with?

Yes, definitely more susceptible. Covid causes multi-system changes that linger and are very slow to resolve. So, folks are just prone to getting sick more often now. Covid also mutates constantly. Unfortunately, prior infection offers very little, if any, meaningful immunity, I'm sorry.

Also speaking as a (human) teacher, YES to this. PLEASE.

“If I lost everything I would just work harder and take any job to earn it all back”.

Cool story. Try doing that if you’re disabled and bedbound.

You know what often causes people to “lose everything”. Sudden catastrophic health issues.

You can’t “pull yourself up by your bootstraps” when sick.

Welp. Same as they "ended" the pandemic (re: too inconvenienced by all the sick pay), looks like the airlines apparently will end the government shutdown, too. 😒

What in the hell was all this for, then? Because it certainly wasn't for the starving people losing their healthcare.

How to find food — or help neighbors in need — while SNAP is paused: blockclubchi.co/4nI7m93

Somebody wake up Dick Cheney and tell him the good news!

The people yearn for (democratic) socialism (this one will make you cry)

As a self-employed artist, buying stickers from me has a much larger impact than you might think. Most days it's the difference between earning something and my usual daily income of nothing.

I feel this should be obvious but we do understand the reason for the focus on gender affirming care for incarcerated people, right? The goal is to get people to admit that they think gender affirming care is *not medically necessary*.

We Have to Move "There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."

Pre-ACA, my partner (who has Crohn's Disease) was once denied coverage on my insurance for a whole year — because my employer filed paperwork for the company's new plan late, and there was a ONE DAY GAP of coverage.

Oh, and I had no healthcare until I was 18 and got a FT job instead of college. 😒

PSA for everyone going to protests

good lord! 😮

locally-owned tearooms or tea spaces. no joke, people who genuinely love tea (not just trendy beverages, but actual tea culture) are some of the most welcoming, generous, and soft folks.

a fake NYT headline that says "Zohran Mamdani Tripped on the Sidewalk and Thought Nobody Saw It. But We Did"

ok lmao which one of you did this mamdanitimes.com

New York Democratic Mayoral Primary > Candidate Zohran Mamdani 43.8% Andrew M. Cuomo 35.7% Brad Lander 11.7% Adrienne Adams 4.1% Other candidates 4.7% 81% of votes in Sources: AP and N.Y.C. Board of Elections. Ranked-choice tallies expected next Tuesday.

New York City is reminding Americans that you don't have to vote for the accused sexual abuser just because he runs for office again.