Four panel cartoon. First panel has female presenting white person with long dark hair, glasses and a green shirt saying “today we are going to learn about insurance!” Second panel has woman talking to the edge of a brown desk, with bubble that reads “hey insurance, I am injured and I need some of that money I give you for in case I get injured.” Third panels is the woman sitting at a desk with a nameplate reading “insurance.” She wears a black top hat and a gold necklace with a dollar sign, and piles of bags with dollar signs on them are behind her. The bubble above her head says “no.” The fourth panel has the woman back to regular dress saying “and that is how insurance works!”

Ouch…

*weary drag of a cigarette* fanfiction dot net ... now there's a name i've not heard in a long time ....

okay this is it this is the one that finally broke me

when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones

Old Soviet joke for today:

A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves.

After a long time of this, the owner says “Can I help you find something?”

“I’m looking for the obituaries.”

“The obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.”

“Not the one I’m looking for.”

Sept. 11 Victims’ Lawsuit Against Saudi Government Can Go to Trial, Judge Rules Information uncovered by plaintiffs has already undermined the FBI’s conclusion that two U.S.-based Saudi officials “unwittingly” helped al-Qaida hijackers after they arrived in America.

NEW: More than two decades after victims and families of the 9/11 attacks began trying to hold the Saudi government responsible for aiding the Qaida terrorists who carried out the plot, a judge has ruled that a lawsuit against the kingdom can go to trial.

she said that “black” with a hard r

love this new york times clip. they recently did a story about how sesame street's set has changed over the years, along with our urban politics.

IG nytimes

My Life in Protest From Vietnam to No Kings I was 17 at my first protest. Now I’m 77 and still taking to the streets.

I appreciate this and it reminded me how how many role models young white men could have if they learned to think of guys like this instead of billionaires and movie stars as the prototype

We’re basically just paying for these people to have vacations and do horrible morally reprehensible things to people who don’t look like them

Public Progress Solutions and Zenith Research polling breakdown between Zohran Mamdani, Curtis Sliwa, Eric Adams, Jim Walden, and Andrew Cuomo

85% of young men support Zohran Mamdani.
79% of young women support Zohran Mamdani.
67% of Jewish people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.
65% of Black people aged 18-44 support Zohran Mamdani.

Would you have guessed *any* of that with how the media has covered all this?

US states to get $608 million from FEMA to build migrant detention centers The Federal Emergency Management Agency is preparing to send $608 million to states to construct immigrant detention centers as part of the Trump administration's push to expand capacity to hold migrants.

gotta put this info on billboards during hurricane season in some key cities, holy shit

we have completely fucking failed as a culture that we let a narcissism-of-small-differences hatred of other progressive young people turn them into a scapegoat for high housing costs rather than racist millionaire homeowners blocking housing construction

STEWART: “I feel like I’m watching something so self-evidently inhumane and horrific and to be told I have to shut up because I risk the Jewish state by speaking out? I would say the opposite — they’re putting the likelihood of a surviving Jewish state much more at risk.”

I can’t stop thinking about how the Access Hollywood tape came out before the election even happened, yet suddenly we have people concerned that the President might have lied about being a sexual predator who were totally fine with it when he told the truth about being a sexual predator

very grim

trump using fake emergencies to destroy the rule of law is especially bitter because...biden and Ds refused to use emergency powers to respond to the coup, which was and remains an actual crisis.

I mean what is a villain if not a woman daring to make herself happy.

Superman is the best comic book movie I’ve seen in ages.

The film honors the original Shuster and Siegel vision of Superman as an anti-fascist hero who believes in the power of humanity.

It also reminds us that justice is a team effort, and we can joint that team anytime. The choice is ours.

grief is an endless tunnel where everyone must find their own way through without a light. if any of us are lucky, we will hopefully find others within that tunnel and somehow we will help each other pass through that abyss. none of us knows where we are headed, but at least we aren’t going alone.

About 3/4 of Jewish Americans voted for Harris in 2024.

Most care more about America than they do about any foreign country.

More of them are anti-Netanyahu than pro-.

It really sucks to use Jewish Americans as political props for things most of them don't even agree with.

Today at the Arlington, VA #TeslaTakedown. (Saturday, July 19)

People like to slag off Coldplay but you have to hand it to them, their shows are environmentally sustainable and now they are taking out CEOs

Just listen to how Stephen Colbert answered this question off the cuff.

holy shit lmao

The headline should really read that the ranking Senate D overseeing the NWS *won’t assign any causes* to what we’re seeing.

What’s the play, pretend the admin won’t notice you’re trying to undo their intentional harm?

thinking about the dems who said we can't abolish ICE as the Department of Education gets wiped off the map

“What is in my power that represents a threat to the global economy?”

UN rapporteur @franceskalbs.bsky.social tells @naomiaklein.bsky.social her thoughts on the backlash she’s faced since publishing her report on companies involved in Israel’s genocide.

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