I know maps are less popular than clickbait, but pls entertain me
🧵 We are watching two escalating conflicts at the same time:
• Pakistan–Afghanistan cross-border fighting
• Israel–Iran strikes, with spillover across the Gulf
These events may converge into a regional displacement crisis.
Masked thugs on the streets.
Measles outbreaks across the nation.
Blatant government corruption.
Coverup of group of elite sex offenders.
Ruling party trying to rig elections.
Leader building grandiose monuments to himself.
Collapse of remnants of nonpartisan civil service.
Third world America.
An insane, perfect encapsulation of it all:
The same day Trump’s agents kill a Veterans Affairs ICU nurse in broad daylight, the CEOs of Apple and Amazon join Trump to watch a private screening of a film about his wife directed by an alleged sexual abuser who was seen shirtless in the Epstein Files
Fox News' Will Cain: “There's a weird kind of smugness... in the way that some of these liberal white women interact with authority”
Know who profits from ICE's cruelty. www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-bus...
www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
How many women have died with “fucking bitch” ringing in their ears? Don’t let the misogyny get erased here
Faith leader, Michael Woolf, minister at Lake Street Church of Evanston, is detained by Illinois State Police during a protest against immigration actions, outside the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago, Illinois, U.S., November 14, 2025. REUTERS/Jim Vondruska
A masked ICE agent sprays David Black, pastor of First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, directly in the face during protests outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, Illinois. Sept 19 2025 Photo by Ashlee Rezin of the Chicago Sun-Times.
Pastor David Black of the First Presbyterian Church in chicago being hit in the head with a pepper ball Sept 19 at the Broadview ICE facility
An unidentified federal agent fires a chemical weapon into Rev. Jorge Bautista's face during a protest outside of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Thursday Oct. 23, 2025. Credit: David Bacon
ICE vs the clergy
all he’s missing here is a plaque saying “live love let them eat cake”
this is the shit i want to see
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Pope Leo XIV met with one of the most prominent advocates for greater LGBTQ+ inclusion in the Catholic Church. The Rev. James Martin said Leo told him that he intended to continue Pope Francis’ policy of LGBTQ+ acceptance in the church and encouraged him to keep up his advocacy.
I beg of you, please get a library card. Borrow books (both physical or ebooks/audiobooks through Libby & Hoopla), attend their events, use their services, volunteer if you can - they need our support now more than ever and we NEED them now more than ever!! #booksky
Need a little pick me up? Check out this charming super short story written by my friend Laurel.
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Well, I’m gonna insist that you listen to this.
Definition of terms:
“these people” = Latino migrants
“Inner city people” = Black people
“We tried to get them [inner city people] to do it” = slavery & sharecropping
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