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They/them. Trying to stay on the funny side of smart, the kind side of funny, & the employable side of relevant. Objectively correct about everything (trans rights are human rights, capitalism is a death cult, abolish private motor vehicle ownership)
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Do not split

submitted 5 hours ago • 5 comments

A cop once told me, “if I want to pull you over I can always find something wrong with your car.” I don’t remember the circumstances—some high school Driver’s Ed thing, and I’m pretty sure he thought he was being pro-police. But the “I can do what I want to you” of it was one of my first clues.

submitted 13 hours ago • 0 comments

can't believe my 1920s berlin was 2010s twitter. an absolutely devastating realisation.

submitted 17 hours ago • 2 comments

In 5 years, long covid has surpassed asthma as the most common chronic illness among children in the US. The only way to avoid long covid is to avoid catching covid. Masks lower your instance of illness. These are facts. Cognitive dissonance & denial are kicking people’s ass.

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Sending 2,000 troops to Los Angeles is the same thing as sending a few dozen random people to a gulag in El Salvador, they're doing this because it's a thing they've always wanted to do, not because of any broader goal or coherent plan. Subordination of strategy to tactical planning.

submitted 1 day ago • 42 comments

average ICE agent

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

People tried so hard to follow the law, Byzantine and unjust as it is. They showed up at meetings, filled out the paperwork, went to the courthouse. You responded by kidnapping them in front of their children and dragging them to black sites. This is what’s left. This is all that’s left.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

This is the typical DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender) playbook of abusers. Trump is the King of DARVO, and this era can be defined by man babies with fragile egos following his lead: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

One of the wildest things about reactionary psychology is that they seem *genuinely hurt & dismayed* when people react badly to their violent, stupid behavior.

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In the 42 years since the start of the Reagan revolution, bought-off politicians have so altered our tax code that fully $51 trillion has moved from the homes and savings of working-class Americans into the money bins of the morbidly rich money hoarders. https://trib.al/O1jiyie

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

I’ve said it before but it is embarrassing that so many intellectuals spent years in small factional battles over the propriety of calling this fascism.

submitted 1 day ago • 180 comments

I do think that -- no matter what else happens, even if *nothing* happens or, god forbid, escalates -- a fundamental Rubicon has now been crossed

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

there is no one who thinks trans women should be banned from sports and supports all other trans rights. it’s just a foot in the door for them to get at the wholesale banning of trans people from public life. it’s been ten years of this. no one is buying your shit anymore.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

grooming: a trans woman posting a transition timeline captioned “u can do this too :)” not grooming: white cishet people raising their children to commit hate crimes against marginalized people by age 8

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

is being terminally online bad for you? yes does it make you less happy than your offline friends? absolutely is there anything that matches the high of a poster's ragnarok? there is not, and that's why we can never log off

submitted 3 days ago • 44 comments

ken-watanabe-godzilla.gif press send

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

i'm starting to see some scoldy posts pointing out that we are laughing about a fire on the deck of our sinking ship and i have to be honest once the ship started sinking i decided i would take the laughs where i found them

submitted 3 days ago • 214 comments

This is a level five Goof Situation, all users report to Riff Stations

submitted 3 days ago • 67 comments

being intimidated by bluesky is so funny. yeah i keep getting my ass kicked every time i go to bath and body works

submitted 4 days ago • 132 comments

Backing candidates in gerrymandered red districts: $0 Backing young primary candidates: $0 James Carville: $100,000 Free Tacos for Republicans: $360,000 Backing progressive candidates at all anywhere: $0 someone who is good at electoralism please send me $5 my party is dying

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

And the facts are ALWAYS against the Republicans. They’ll cherry-pick and say the facts are in their favor, but they never ever are.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

they have problems on two levels one, "follow what's popular with the electorate" treats what's popular it as static and unable to be moved, which is not true two, more specifically to this group, is that they've convinced themselves that their own personal biases are what's popular

submitted 4 days ago • 11 comments

Some news! Resistance Summer School has an official home! I will teach Race, Media, and International Affairs 101 at the iconic Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library in Washington D.C., starting in mid-July. Thank you to everyone for their support! karenattiah.substack.com/p/studying-t...

submitted 4 days ago • 41 comments

Deaths Caused By New Covid Variant No More Severe Than Deaths Caused By Earlier Variants Say Scientators

submitted 4 days ago • 15 comments

Once again basking in the absolute wonder that is Noriyoshi Ohrai's Heisei era Godzilla posters

submitted 268 days ago • 7 comments

I got'chu: 1. A lot of these guys refuse to do anything to make themselves appealing to anyone and insist on their right to do so. 2. For the last 40 years pop culture has told stories of nerds getting the prom queen and inculcated a grotesque entitlement in geeks that takes us back to point 1.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Coogler knew what few others in Hollywood were willing to hear: the “MCU brand” had MUCH less to do with Black Panther’s success than his direction, Göransson’s score, & MBJ being sexy. So he gathered his pals, said “we ditch the MCU baggage & this time do TWO Michael B’s” AND HE WAS RIGHT 💰💰💰👏👏👏

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments