losing my mind at the "she should have followed directions" people
really? really? you're cool with "if you don't follow directions, they get to kill you"? that seems like a good state of affairs to you? that seems like how law enforcement ought to work: instant obeisance or death?
Sending unpaid troops on pointless missions to stand around in cities and pick up trash the sort of stuff a Roman Emperor did when their daily regiment of drinking medicinal mercury started hitting them directly in the brainstem.
If Republicans in Congress want to help make our country safe, I have some ideas for them.
Art
The Trump administration informed hundreds of probationary employees across the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the NWS that they were fired.
The terminations come days before a potential severe weather outbreak in the U.S. and months ahead of the next hurricane season.
Iowa rep. and trans woman Aime Wichtendahl testifies against the repeal of trans Iowans' rights: "If we are the victims of violence as Sam Nordquist was in New York, they are happy to look the other way. As it says in the rotunda: Where law ends, tyranny begins." genderanalysis.net/iowa-rep-aim...
The attack on DEI shows why liberals should stop arguing about "strategic" use of language forever. DEI stands for three uncontroversial virtues that most every American accepts, and the right still turned it into a vile slur. It doesn't matter what you say - they will poison it because YOU said it.
The worst thing about this crop of neo-fascist influencers is that they’re all evil in ways that don’t even register as meaningful to anybody not chronically online; If I tried to explain to my normie, Silent Generation parents why Elon’s “Kekius Maximus” bullshit matters, they’d have me committed.
The Republican healthcare plan
It doesn't just steal from the poor, it steals from the broad American public by raising the debt.
I hate that every single person I see criticizing DOGE has to say "I'm sure there's waste" and "cutting waste is good."
Fuck that. The right never says that about the military. We never say that about CEO salaries. We never say that about corporate bonuses.
Not meaning to dunk on @biblioracle.bsky.social he’s right that we’re basically at the watering-crops-with-Gatorade stage, I just really wish Mike Judge had given us those indelible images of societal meltdown without the eugenics
Anyway turns out you don’t get Idiocracy by not doing eugenics, you get Idiocracy by not taxing billionaires out of existence
It's absolutely insane that Elon Musk and his wrecking crew are saying they're firing entire swaths of our government infrastructure and the press are just like "oh that's sad but what are you gonna do, guess they're fired." It is batshit crazypants, and it's being covered like normal policy choices
Synastry! It's what first piqued my interest in astrology but I kept trying to jump straight to that instead of doing the requisite learning first...so now I'm doing the requisite learning 😂
Some more deeply concerning news
There is no doubt the more extreme right will find itself emboldened by their powerful elite doing Nazi salutes and taking over the US government and much of the opposition elsewhere abiding by Trump's wishes
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...
said this before and i wasn't exaggerating: RFK has the exact personality type of the kind of person that, in a different sort of regime, oversees mass starvation.
After initially encouraging FAA officials to resign, even after the crash, OPM now saying that they are not eligible for the offer.
Gives you a sense of how serious these offers are. TChanged on a whim, whenever Trump discovers that federal employees do real work.
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Staffing was ‘not normal’ at airport tower, according to a preliminary F.A.A. report. Staffing at the air traffic control tower at Ronald Reagan National Airport was “not normal for the time of day and volume of traffic,” according to an internal preliminary Federal Aviation Administration safety report about the collision that was reviewed by The New York Times. The controller who was handling helicopters in the airport’s vicinity Wednesday night was also instructing planes that were landing and departing from its runways. Those jobs typically are assigned to two controllers, rather than one.
Trump, Vance, Hegseth, and Combs all said they were briefed on the collision, so they all knew about this internal FAA report when they went on TV to blame minorities for the crash.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Why does Tulsi Gabbard look like the Russian agent that is actually a double agent in every Jason Statham movie?
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last.
Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
One thing I will say gently is, I think "mutual aid" sounds academic or theoretical to a lot of people because the US education system does not meaningfully teach Black history.
Formal mutual aid societies were an integral part of how freed/escaped enslaved people helped each other survive.
When the camps were liberated, the true extent of what they were was not widely known. People believed the rumors couldn’t be true
If Eisenhower hadn’t ordered the army to film everything they saw, it would be easier for people to argue today it didn’t happen. Too many people still try
It happened
For all of those who have posted my cartoon with my signature cut off, here is the original.
🧵: I am getting texts on what scientists should do in this perilous and scary moment. My advice: your biggest power is to organize through your professional societies. A few ideas -
When a member of the clergy calls for mercy for undocumented immigrants it is “radical ideology.” When Trump pardons violent criminals who beat police officers it is “redemption.” currentpub.com/2025/01/22/w...
Well this is quite an opener
