Black people show up. In a million myriad ways, we show up even when we don’t get a whole lot out of it.
The Dems aren’t great or good. They aren’t enough. They never have been. WE KNOW.
We vote as we do because the alternative is unthinkable.
It’s a shame that this perspective doesn’t matter.
Like I said in the follow-up, I think a lot of it is social effects. You see everybody else being polite and kind, don't want to stand out, so you're also polite and kind, even if you think "wait actually that's fucked up".
That gap, right there, is the one sociopaths tend to exploit. IMO.
Happy 80th Birthday to the legendary Tim Curry! 🖤
Trump and Republicans: Sorry, no money for your grandma’s groceries or healthcare and let's drive gas prices through the roof. And: Let’s spend billions of your tax dollars blowing up the Middle East. Trump is lying about everything. They can always find money for war, just never for you.
The forest is the system: Not the individual trees. Most people try to build resilience by making themselves bigger, stronger, more independent. They stockpile resources, they build higher walls, they go it alone. HOWEVER, We The People are stronger together. Unite!
Looking forward to Elon and Ron Paul abolishing the federal reserve and creating a new, government-backed bitcoin currency called the Dunning-Krugerrand
I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I.
I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee
The GOP has only ever paid lip service at election time to any of those things.
Status is absolutely the skeleton key to understanding MAGA.
And this is why there should be a Chief Sociologist of the US, not just a Chief Economic Advisor: economists don't have the analytic tools to study status (tho they won't admit it); sociologists invented the study of status, it's our jam.
California’s $20 an hour fast food minimum wage, instituted in 2024, did not reduce employment. It led to only the most modest of price increases—barely noticeable to a consumer. It significantly improved the lives of hundreds of thousands of workers.
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I live in a rural red farm county. Folks are still driving big stupid trucks and jeeps, but they’re all hybrids now.
Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.
Who's the Biggest Money Behind the Throne?
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even as the corrupt federal government is siphoning billions of their taxes, threatening Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, vigilant Americans in the heartland are protecting themselves against----.0001% of the population that might identify as "trans-" & might now & then use a public restroom.
Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was drag queen storybook hour, so 🤷
I was so proud when this piece first appeared in Bitch Magazine and so honored when @theflytrapmedia.com asked to reprint it. Fuck yeah!
Where we are as a country
Ya got me, I’m your personal punching bag for the shitshow that is my country. It was me, I did it. Not waves of wealth sane washing lunacy for decades. Just me.
Yay, you intellectual powerhouse of a freedom fighter!!
He always talks about America as if we're just another nightclub in Manhattan.
Screenshot of a tweet by Rep. Ted Lieu stating that U.S. military law prohibits war crimes, including strikes on civilian infrastructure that cause disproportionate harm. The tweet warns that service members must disobey illegal orders and could face prosecution by a future administration if they commit war crimes.
Rep. Ted Lieu isn't backing down.
I see a lot of people asking “Why don’t we care about the Iranian people???” and it’s a very good question but the real horror is that we in the west have already proved we don’t care about *each other* 👇🏼
“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump
Article III
The following acts shall be punishable:
(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.
I’m fully aware fallout can have a long reach, having grown up downwind of Nevada in the 60s.
🙄 I’m well aware of history.
Genuinely, one of the best insights anyone has given me on the US is that the rest of the world does not understand it is actually two countries. The first is a Western advanced liberal democracy. The other a theocratic, impoverished, violent and corrupt third world country.
It’s 3000 miles away for a lot of us, 1500 for most of us.
How?
Trump's escalation from we're going to decimate them to we're going to destroy their country to we're going to wipe out their civilization seems to be classic escalatory behavior of an insane psychopath, no?
Witness the elegance of the swimming Feather Star, a crinoid that dates back to the Ordovician era, over 480 million years ago. A true marvel of evolution in our oceans.
