nearly all of these MAHA influencers are being compensated by tobacco companies, and very few disclose it. in many cases, they are marketing to children. nicotine pouches harm child brain development.
Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.
A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information
they hate us for our freedoms
🥹 men supporting women 🥲
Actually, I’ve explained this MANY TIMES
This generation of Black ppl vote MORE than any generation since we got the right to vote
But after the 1st Black was elected, WHITE PPL began turning out in historic numbers to vote for Trump. As this graph CLEARLY shows…
The “crisis” is white people.
Do not let anyone tell you at the primary stage that you must vote for someone who does not represent your moral values or will not uphold your civil rights because of "electability."
The time for rooting out these scabs and grifters is right now.
And because of those donors, you get Democratic candidates with Nazi tattoos. Democratic candidates who are anti-choice. Democratic candidates who will not defend trans rights. Democratic candidates who will let Musk keep poisoning black neighborhoods.
These people cannot win.
Soulless wealthy donors with absolutely no principles see that Trump's power, and in turn the power of the Republican Party, will evaporate right around midterms. So their goal is to make a new conservative party out of a handful of kept Democrats.
The only way out of this is to build a working class that can move for itself. There’s a reason people like you and me will never, ever sit in those big chairs and wear those nice suits. Only we can get them all out and change the system to one that doesn’t run on the same fuel that powers them all
It's less of a capitalist hustle than the GOP's but it’s still a capitalist hustle
Even if you believe that they care more about actual people than the Republicans, they care less about them than they do about keeping the status quo that keeps them adjacent to power and money instead of out of it
I’m not linking to the Cory Booker clip because I can only look at so much of this bullshit but it all makes sense when you understand that the Democrats are not in the business of winning elections, they are in the business of fundraising
October 1979 issue of people with Nick Nolte on the cover, describing him as "hollywood's sexiest new hunk."
yes folks, there was a time when Nick Nolte was a sex symbol.
The people who stayed home were the ones who desperately needed a message that things that weren't going to be business as usual and got lectured for wanting a pony and seeing y'all pal around with Cheneys.
Again, the overwhelming majority of people who were most critical of Clinton / Harris were people who still voted for them because, yes, Trump was worse.
Establishment Dems: "Okay maybe *this time* lecturing our base about how they're all a bunch of dumb idiots and Trump is all their fault because they didn't just shut up and vote for whatever shit candidate we put up will motivate them."
The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”
He looks like an ear is about to randomly fall off.
He looks like the bad guy from LAST CRUSADE mid-decay.
PETA was created to discredit environmental and wildlife conservation efforts.
Rubinek.
Oh shit. Looks like I have a new assignment.
I know historians aren’t supposed to predict the future, but sometimes the patterns are really clear.
Someday, with luck and hard work, she will have a name too.
it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit
One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.
The graves of multiple children have been defaced.
One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.
The real secret to Blue MAGA is that they're vacuous and have goldfish brain, but if the party starts kicking into high gear and sweeping, then kicks a lot of fascist's asses, they'll immediately switch sides and genuinely believe they already always supported you.
And they have nowhere else to go.
NEVER COMPLY IN ADVANCE
Keep this in mind next time Dreher opines on welfare, the state, and minorities.
It’s high time for a grown-up conversation which acknowledges that the drug laws — by funneling untold riches to violent criminals — are more harmful than the drugs themselves.
Yeah, you’d better be sporting Mjolnir and/or Stormbreaker before you lay “verily” on me.