consumerism and concepts of the body in 19th-20th century corset adverts 🫠

especially since modern understanding of addiction reframes it from chemical dependency to hijacking the brain's reward systems - and some people seem unable to function without that constant reward feedback of accumulating more and more money.

Mamdani is *barely* taxing the rich. He’s making the city about $500 million more per year from this tiny tax (the city is still like $5 billion in debt) and $38,000 is like a five dollar bill to them and they’re still crying like someone murdered their puppy.

Exactly one year ago today:

BREAKING: The House just failed to pass a resolution to end Trump's war with Iran by one vote.

The count was 213-214.

Just one Democrat, Jared Golden, voted to let Trump keep waging the war.

The fact that "being taxed on a wealth that would take most people dozens of generations to gather" is "the scariest thing she's ever seen" means the world isn't scaring millionaires and billionaires nearly enough yet.

this is why no one likes catholic converts

Christian nationalists who support Trump won’t care about him posting a picture of him as Christ. The vast majority of them have always had pastors and leaders who continually positioned themselves as stand ins for Christ as they’ve committed Trump-like abuses.

It’s systemic.

Hope this helps.

America's money goes to Hungary. To Argentina. To fund wars in Iran and invasions of Venezuela.

It goes to kill shipwrecked survivors. To ICE, who shoot US citizens and build concentration camps

Our money seems to fund death and destruction all across the globe

But it never goes to help Americans

i LOVE soda counters! god i miss old diners.

truly i think some people just enjoy being contrarian dickheads to others. hey, as a west coast gentile: egg cream whips.

NYT: US Fertility Rates Drop to Another Record Low The fertility rate has been falling since 2007, in large part because of a plunge among teenagers

There are some clues in the age breakdown: The fertility rate for teenagers dropped by 7 percent from 2024’s figure, setting another record low for the group. Since 2007, the rate for teenagers is down by 72 percent, and since 1991, when teenage fertility rates were at a high, the rate is down by 81 percent.

Why I don't trust anyone a little too obsessed about falling fertility rates

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Automatic draft registration: streamlined, efficient.

Automatic voter registration: creeping deep state tyranny.

Me, an atheist: Your holiness I stand ready to join the crusade against these heretics

Chumbawamba - In Memoriam: Margaret Thatcher YouTube video by Paul Burnett

Happy Eve of the anniversary of the death of Margaret Thatcher to all that celebrate. youtu.be/H3-PjACGcVk?...

This has been a project of the ruling class in both ruling political parties for decades if not since the birth of this stupid nation. We are doing what we can and also not broadcasting intentions on social media bc of aforementioned technocratic police state. But I'm sure you've got a cool plan

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

the crusades

Thou hadst me at "deactivate Tilly Norwood indefinitely"

honestly i think i'd care about the olympics again if i could root for a california or even west coast (CA-OR-WA) team

also just because christians copied your homework (and appropriated jewish tradition and culture) doesnt mean the resulting cultural traditions and interpretations are anywhere NEAR the same. some christian readings are WAY off base.

you were never going to get an anti-war president from a chauvinistic, jingoistic political party full of people who fantasize about being in a holy war. and yet, despite the US Army raising the enlistment age to 42, not a single one of these pro-war podcasters and pundits have signed up to fight.

Photo of a bombed-out facility

US-Israeli bombing destroys the Pasteur Institute

“Established in 1920, the institute is the first and oldest public health center in Iran—where staffers pioneered vaccine development and research on the prevention of infectious diseases.”

www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/w...

They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science, the kind you literally cannot restart once it’s gone. #USForestService

totally agree here