I realize this is over Donald Trump's head, but killing foreign tourism will increase the trade deficit.

its a poll tax.

I hate my phone so I got rid of it YouTube video by Eddy Burback

Damn this video is good. I understand the irony of posting about it on social media but it really made me realize "oh right, these norms around phones are invented, and we can change them!"
@eddyburback.bsky.social

I’m:
1. going to bed early so I can easily
2. get to the gym and back, in time for
3. therapy tomorrow

Feels like a self-care hat trick or something

Cory Booker has taken the Senate floor and plans to filibuster as long as he’s physically able to protest the complete disregard for the rule of law by Trump and Musk.

Watch here: www.c-span.org/event/us-sen...

who does this smug tone help, may I ask? Do you actually care about fixing what's fucked about the world or is it more important that everyone phrase everything perfectly in your view?

I'm American, talking about Americans. 😑 But let me know what preferred pronoun works for you when thinking about what values I'd like to rebuild in my country.

"it was valuable that Americans *used* to think that we *should* be a force for good and be willing to reach out and help" ??

aka "when we thought helping was good, that was better"

OMG! What a victory for the creatives that put their heart and soul into this project. But let’s be clear: if studios are allowed to “write-off” a non-release then sell it, they shouldn’t be able to “write it off” in the first place.

Their point is that even if it's annoying exceptionalism, it was better that we identified with it as a shared virtue than nothing. Like at least the veneer over our completely soulless, dollar-above-all bullshit helped sometimes

What if the secret to winning elections is somehow Trump's syntax. We need a guy to say stuff like "But we're going to abolish billionaires and we'll be doing it very soon. They'll be paying very high taxes but it'll be very fair. And frankly they haven't paid taxes in a very long time"

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again.

This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

[2014 style tweet ahead]

Aldi’s knockoff grapefruit La Croix is so good and it brings me a small joy

NO

If you yell “stop!” at me at the beginning of a video I’m scrolling out of spite. And if it’s an ad, I’m gonna remember the product to make sure I never buy it. 😤

This reminds me of the time my roommate came in to ask what was wrong because I was trying to stifle my laughter at TikToks

It’s happening again 😖

Scientists have just cured pancreatic cancer in some patients with personalized mRNA vaccines. Pancreatic cancer. And this Trump administration wants to throw it all away.

They’re throwing away a cure for cancer.

“Champagne businesses in the US”

didn’t die! did get a lil nervy before takeoff and landing!

Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. 👇

I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.

Love an em dash, appropriately used semicolon, and many a specific word. AI doesn’t get to change my writing style 😤

AI probably uses em dashes because of all the books and professional level writing contained therein, so people who aren’t skilled writers are like “j’accuse!” — at the very people whose expertise was stolen in the first place

Flying for the first time since the holidays today. Not a nervous flyer at all but FAA cuts have my anxiety goingggggg. If something terrible happens mail my body to the White House or Elon pls and thx

It’s both an ethical and strategic error to shit on trans people (or any other minority) to “win over moderates” and I don’t know how the Democrats keep misdiagnosing this

“Motherfuckers, that is the broader electorate.”

I was watching an ASMR video during that earthquake so I felt oddly calm about it. Weird combo.

Daylight savings starts in a week!! We’re about to jump to 7pm sunsets I can’t WAIT