Based on the screenshot, i am guessing that's a vinyl sticker cutout and not paint. If you have or know someone with a vinyl cutter or are good with a hobby knife, you could easily make something very close to the screen used one!
love when democrats talk about kitchen table issues as if trans people and immigrants don’t have kitchen tables 🙃
Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.
Alt text: a graph showing a massive spike in anti-trans articles per 30 days.
The x axis starts in 2012, most of the spike is just in the last decade
The spike really starts to kick in around 2017 or so, corresponding almost *perfectly* with powerful sexual predators feeling threatened by MeToo.
Who is asking for magical thinking? ICE is killing and detaining thousands without trial. They should be shut down.
Yes, that's unrealistic in current congress, but why start negotiations as voters from a compromised position. I'm not going to ask for "just a few less killings please."
I guess we should just say, "well we can't get rid of ALL the assaults, concentration camps, extrajudicial state sponsored killings, etc. So we should just try for small achievable budget cuts instead."
Everyone disenchanted with politics are going to run to the polls if we just compromise more!
Again, lawmakers need to compromise, especially in the minority. That doesn't mean as voters we should compromise in our demands. Express what we really want, but understand that the result might be incomplete.
Why are so many on the left so eager to attack people for not compromising their values?
I'd argue that position is why Democrats are seen as ineffective. They start every negotiation from an already compromised position to make it more palatable to the opposition.
As lawmakers this has some validity, but as constituents we should be advocating for what we really want.
Eliminate ICE.
The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."
There are real products, but they are mostly trash and impractical (imagine just the smallest puncture or snag!)
That image is fake, however.
Water/beer is really heavy, and that photo contains gallons of it - it would be pulling down with a lot of force and stretching the coat a lot more.
I think about this a lot.
Another amazing advancement in cancer care, this time in early detection! Peer reviewed and published in Nature too! Will be excited to watch where this goes
yandere-angela i think it's important to acknowledge that the reason why mastercard/visa has such a stranglehold on american society is because cash is not the main form of payment in the usa. the predominance of card has effectively privatized currency in japan, one of the reasons why dlsite and other similar websites are able to just remove visa as a payment option instead of changing any of their merchandise (aside from the fact that visa doesn't have a monopoly here) is because cash payments for online transactions remain an option. even if you don't have a jcb credit card or paypay or whatever, you can still pay for your online purchases using cash by taking your barcode to a convenience store, and you can do this for essentially every online vendor, meaning credit card companies can't just impose their moral judgments on your purchases with much repercussion butch-snorlax How does that barcode system work? I've never heard of something like that. yandere-angela 1. you add whatever porn games or movies or books you want to your cart and go to checkout 2. you select cash payment at conbini as your payment method 3. youre emailed a barcode that you take to the conbini 4. you show it to the cashier, they scan it, and you pay what you owe. note that the cashier does not see what youre buying and the transaction is complete
Japan is in no way perfect, it has many flaws, but this sort of thing is fucking phenomenal and I so desperately wish we had an approximate of it becuase fuck man it sucks that so much of our lives get dictated by corporate morality
This is an incredibly promising development in cancer treatment! So excited to see where this goes
Absolutely. Government should be run by people with a future in the country who will live with the policies and decisions they worked for.
Photo set in an open grassy campground with trees around. In the foreground is a paper plate of chicken gumbo with 2 charred whole shrimp on top. In the middle distance is a small cooking campfire, and behind that is a white camper van with the door open and a bicycle resting behind it.
My latest campfire dinner while out in my van - rehydrated chicken gumbo (from a small company out in Louisianna), added chicken andouille sausage and bell peppers, with some shrimp i grilled over the fire.
Food always tastes better when camping, but this would have been a good meal anywhere!
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
Last night was the 250th anniversary of Paul Revere's midnight ride to warn the Minutemen of approaching British troops.
I want to take a moment to share an excerpt from the Declaration of Independence's grievances against King George III.
Remind you of anyone?
Anyway abolish ice means one thing. Abolish ice. All of it.
And I don’t believe in borders. They are arbitrary lines enforced by violence.
I don’t believe anyone doesn’t belong anywhere & I don’t believe accidents of birth should grant anyone special status anywhere.
What if Elon is the first autistic person RFK has ever actually met and that’s why he assumes we don’t pay taxes or go on dates
When everything gets overwhelming, I make a point to seek out the natural world.
The trees and mountains stand witness to the fact that every despot and petty tyrant is nothing to the grandness of it all.
It truly is healing to me.
Blue Mountain - Missoula, Montana
Dear Democratic Members of Congress,
Stop telling me about what he's doing. We can all see it.
Start telling me about what you're doing to stop it!
Signed,
Americans
I get sports now. It's about reducing a man to numbers and then making those numbers do imaginary fights in your head.
You weren't elected to point out what's wrong. You were elected to fix it.
You might not be able to directly counter this, but you have so many levers you and the rest of the Dem leadership just aren't using at all.
Do something or hand over the leadership to someone who will.
There are basically 5 ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Don’t believe the self-made myth.
DOGE recommended firing workers at:
-FDA, which oversees Neuralink
-FAA, which oversees SpaceX
-USAID, which probed Starlink
-CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X.
"Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.
It's weirdly difficult to remember that Trump's popular vote margin was /less/ than Hillary's in 2016. Biden got more votes in 2020 than Trump got in 2024 and Trump surrogates all under-performed in congressional races.
This is not a mandate, I don't get why it is being portrayed that way.
