USA folks: reminder that TurboTax is a scam, at least use FreeTaxUSA www.freetaxusa.com?friend=bDjnzd (RIP IRS Direct File)

I initially read this as “John pulled some strings to get you an appointment“ and was like wow is there anything he can’t do

RIP to all those whose empires crumbled because they took on the Catholic Church but I'm built different. And better. And maybe better than the Catholic Church.

"You rarely see things like this in immigration data, but it could not be more predictable right now: one immigrant dies in custody every six days."

hey I'mma make a sappy thread about this event and why you should join BaF is that cool

lol this is rhetorical you're getting it anyway

"Never be the weirdest person you're willing to be in a coalition with" is rock solid political advice.

I guess Carney has zero standards.
A list of Gladu's greatest hits:
1) opposing cannabis legalization, she read a poem in the House urging MPs to "keep our great country safe from all the weed."
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wow this was my favourite beer for a minute, I just thought it became hard to find not that it was literally discontinued

Britain Still Has Conversion Therapists. Here’s Why. YouTube video by Philosophy Tube

The response to the conversion therapy video has been amazing. I’ve gotten messages from lots of NHS staff appalled to learn about the present-day abuses, who want to hold senior managers to account. As I say in the video, allowing this abuse undermines the entire NHS! 🏥

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We didn't deserve this day.

Imagine devoting your life's work to perfecting the seatbelt and then the first time there's a serious accident every occupant of the car goes flying right through the windshield. This post is about the founding fathers.

the levels of elite impunity we are seeing now and the levels of war crimes we are seeing now are two aspects of the same path of historical development. right now they see war as our problem (and their investment opportunity). it is world historically important that we make war their problem again

It was not that long ago when conservatives had a chokehold on every branch of Wisconsin government, piles of Koch and Uline money, and seemed unstoppable. People worked FUCKING HARD to change that shit and now look at em. Change is always possible and never ever easy.

I have friends who are on a multi-day no-device meditation retreat rn and I definitely envy them but also...kinda not, y'know? but maybe this is gonna be like the 2001 era big brother

spending the last 94 minutes before <waves hands vaguely> fighting github actions, as is surely the most sage way to use my one wild and precious life

I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

Trans people, I have a question, if anyone wants to answer. What's keeping your hope alive, lately? Share anything positive, I'd like to hear.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

happy 17776 day everyone

Reposting this for obvious reasons. I have much more in common with any Iranian than I do with the American and Israeli pieces of shit trying to annihilate them. Any single Iranian life lost is an entire universe gone; more, a tragedy at a level I cannot personally fathom. This is all I can do.

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

Normal Rockwell free speech picture.

All children are innocent and it’s proof of deep and far-reaching moral collapse that their murder is tolerated by so many.

If you’ve never called your congressional reps before, do it right now.

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

This entire thread was really interesting and thought-provoking, and I really appreciated that it shied away from absolutist diagnoses. It’s compiled in one page here too, highly recommend skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

In my opinion, this is exactly how we should understand MAGA. It's not a single ideology, it's a coalition of stacks. Populist grievance, conspiratorial epistemics, and authoritarian power structures operating together, each reinforcing the others.

This disproves a lot of right wing ideas about the causes of the decline in marriage rates

oh my god I hope you’re (physically) okay!!! absolute nightmare, I’m sorry