"sanity", one of the tools fascism uses to further marginalize and oppress people is the threat of forced institutionalization. If you doubt me, just look at the history of homosexuality being considered a mental illness.
I have mental illness (C-PTSD with comorbid depression, anxiety, panic disorder and mild OCD). I have family members and friends with mental illness. They still, somehow, manage to work to interrogate their biases and work to be better human beings, and oppose fascism. Fascism is not a loss of
This country has not lost its "sanity". To denigrate people with mental illness who are not bigots, and who work hard daily for equality and justice by casually calling intolerance, fascism and bigotry a loss of "sanity" 1- is ableist AF and 2- leads to conflation of sanity with decency.
Imagine a California where families and workers don't just survive, they flourish. That’s the roadmap.
Better schools, housing that’s affordable, cleaner air, and a health care system that sees you as a human being first.
Let’s make it happen.
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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I'm not disputing those statistics, but for my own purposes would love to know where you obtained them.
This, (from AP) … Listed under “Entertainment” is weird.
But this an indictment against America.
As if 90% of Americans aren’t already the most undereducated, insular, illiterate and dumbed down people on the planet they’re Still banning books FFS!
It’s no wonder you’ve got the dumbest President!
Prince passed away 10 years ago today.
RIP, your music lives on.
Not to sound a bit panicked, though I am, but I've been trying to raise $500 for two weeks now to get food and medical supplies to survive the month, and I have raised NOTHING so far. I need to get a blood pressure monitor yesterday, which is $20. Paypal.me/starbroken
Please help my friend!
Peace Talks Day is off to a great start.
She's a nice looking toad
Today we remember the horrific tragedy of the Columbine shooting. 27 years later, it is a disgrace that gun violence is still the leading cause of death for children in America.
If you purchased an auto in the last year, you paid thousands more for that vehicle in the USA because of tariffs. Even if it was made in the USA. Those auto companies passed those taxes onto you. You paid as much as 10% more. Now they are going to get 10% back in their pockets. WTH! NOT YOU!
If you go back and watch a movie like All the Presidents's Men, it will really hit you how massively our country has changed in my lifetime. It was unthinkable for any of today's headlines to ever even exist back then.
A lot of you think it's always been this bad, but it hasn't. It really hasn't.
On April 6, a 46-year-old Amazon employee collapsed and died in Oregon. The other employees were ordered to return to work.
On April 15, I paid my taxes at a rate of 13%, knowing that Amazon paid only 1.37%
This is Wrong!
VOTE TO OUT ALL REPUBLICANS IN 2026!
www.newsnationnow.com/business/ama...
We can have something better, but too many folks refuse to reject our capitalist-based system of governance.
Voting won’t save us. Boycotting will help, but not enough.
Only permanent, systemic change will put the working class in charge of ourselves.
Y’all, Scamazon workers are homeless, sleeping on their cars in the parking lot. Stuck there 24 hrs a day.
Y’all, this is slavery.
It's the combination of Right wing rhetoric/gender roles, firearms access, and a shit economy. Every time we've had this combination of sociocultural factors, family annihilation spikes.
If this man had murdered eight strangers the story would lead every news outlet. But because they are his children, it's "family violence," "domestic violence" -- undeserving of the same attention. Even though this violence is much more common
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/19/u...
People all “they’re targeting Christians too” haven’t been paying attention to the Zionist occupation of Palestine for the last 78 years.
Last Communion. - Joan Kwon Glass Here I am, kneeling again before a man who tells me I can be holy while insisting that nothing is permanent, not even my precious sins. I am washed in the blood, longing for something sacred, tongue hanging over my bottom lip like a dog. I like to read between the lines of obituaries, try to guess what their family members left out on purpose. You can tell a lot by what isn't there. For example, vague obit of healthy teenager: death by overdose, 50-year-old mom who was a brave warrior: breast cancer, 30-year-old male, donations to NAMI in lieu of flowers: suicide. My sister was an asshole, and now she's dead. Though her life ended at 37, I wrote her eulogy as though she died at age nine, because that was the last time she wasn't an asshole, and I wanted to say something true without pissing everyone off. Here's the thing-if all we have to do to erase our gravest mistakes is take communion or stop breathing one day, what is keeping us from making them all, from relishing each one, knowing in the end, they will not define us? When I die, please tell everyone the truth about me. That I walked around this place believing I was a little better than most. That twice I turned away from true love out of pride, revered books more than men. That I did, in fact, have a favorite child. While you're at it, reveal this truth about us all-that each of us has secrets we take to the grave, things we want to admit, but are certain no one wants to hear. Tell them that the very last time I ever took communion, I closed my lips around the priest's finger, let him feel my hot tongue against his skin. And he let me.
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#nationalpoetrymonth #poem
Joan Kwon Glass absolutely stunning me with her bold writing.🫢
Several people with signs like this at the Boston Marathon today
Twitter won’t let you search for staged assassination attempt
Everywhere: that assassination attempt was almost certainly staged.
Twitter:
May his socks always bunch, his underwear always ride up, stones get between his insole and his shoe, may he sit repeatedly on his scrotum, and develop a hiatal hernia that leaves him with chronic GERD, at minimum
there are few people in the world who deserve every bad thing that happens to them, and alex jones is one of them
may he experience, at minimum, constant displeasure for the rest of his days
