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Forced “treatment” is incarceration of people who have not been convicted of a crime for the benefit of private recovery businesses making money from government contracts. Like other private detainment situations, the people are the commodity from which they make money. It is not effective or care.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments

Illustrator Lili Chin became fascinated with dog behavior in 2008 after her Boston terrier, Boogie, bit their landlord

submitted 44 days ago • 7 comments

not for nothing, but this is also a pretty direct admission that musk is the actual doge administrator, and that has legal consequences. would like to see someone other than CNN (who mangled it by soft pedaling it) pick the story up, because the implications are massive.

submitted 80 days ago • 3 comments

Ready for a #TeslaTakedown? There are over 50 planned for TODAY---Saturday, March 8. Tell Elon to stop stealing from cancer patients and the rest of us. actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

submitted 83 days ago • 6 comments

THE TARIFFS WERE NEVER ACTIALLY ABOUT FENTANYL. THIS IS WMDS ALL OVER AGAIN, BUT CANADA IS THE TARGET.

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

So could… uh… the City of Regina just say "All these designs are approved for construction. If you want to build them, go go go." #yqrcc

submitted 83 days ago • 1 comment

I post one gym pic with an arm flex. Post about men’s confused and harmful reactions to visibility muscular / athletic women. Now my mentions are in meltdown about trans women in sports. Deflecting from the actual issue - men’s insecurities and urge to control what women should be or look like.

submitted 83 days ago • 117 comments

All the pundits spending time on Dems’ message on trans sports could maybe use a little of their power and platform to talk about how vile this is.

submitted 83 days ago • 386 comments

Breaking News: Adrienne Adams, the New York City Council speaker who has clashed with Mayor Eric Adams, is now running against him.

submitted 85 days ago • 34 comments

but boy howdy are they gonna make us watch 'em try

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📌"Because Zelenskyy has tasted gun powder and breathed the odious smell of death on the battlefield, he wasn't about to be pushed around by some morbidly obese, 78-yr-old yacht club bully and his toady, who think swinging a sand wedge to free a golf ball from some bunker is dangerous business." 1/3

submitted 85 days ago • 321 comments

I once commented shitlibs would throw glitter at guards putting us on box cars & think they did somethin "brave" Someone replied "no glitter might get in th guards eyes, they'll just spraypaint 'you're valid' on th boxcar." And i was reminded how much of th Berlin Wall still exists as "Modern Art"

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

It's been happening for years, but it looks like the Europeans will finally acknowledge that they are under attack. "Europe is on high alert after a series of outages to cables and pipelines. This visual guide explains what happened and what’s being done" www.theguardian.com/world/ng-int...

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

trump just shut down all weapons shipments to ukraine overnight so for all the people who spent all year feigning confusion about what biden could possibly have done to slow down the massacres in gaza, it would have looked like that

submitted 85 days ago • 13 comments

i know some cis folks on here are at least kinda aware it’s bad right now for trans people in america, but sometimes it’s worth calling y’all back to 2016 when a single “transsexuals have to use the wrong bathrooms” bill cost north carolina the nba all-star game & $400 million. this is normal now.

submitted 85 days ago • 18 comments

Remember @michaelhobbes.bsky.social ‘s Rule: once you scratch the surface of these stories they completely fall apart.

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

It has been a month since i posted this. Yeah.

submitted 85 days ago • 5 comments

Left-wing censorship was a fantasy, but the right-wing censorship is real, unconstitutional, and murderous. There was no majority anti-conservative social media bias or casual forced use of words like “birthing person.” But stripping protest rights and official language is actual deadly censorship

submitted 86 days ago • 34 comments

That Jack Daniels parent company has pulled out of @hrc.org's annual Corporate Equality Index is a reason every #LGBTQ Bar, Pride, festival, event should boycott Jack Daniels/Brown Forman Corp products

submitted 85 days ago • 643 comments

Starting a new line of 90's Paper Dolls covers for DC! ☺️💖 I'm so glad my editor was on board with this concept ☺️ This is for Birds of Prey #21! It's an open order cover so please let your LCS know you want this! ☺️💖 More soon! 12" x 17" in gouache and watercolors email [email protected] for OA💖

submitted 95 days ago • 9 comments

The petition to strip Musk of Canadian citizenship stands at 200,267 signatures right now. I'd love to see 250K+ on this thing: www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en... #CdnPoli

submitted 94 days ago • 4 comments

www.wvtm13.com/article/cull...

submitted 99 days ago • 8 comments

Everyone, please share this, let's try to put up numbers at these protests.

submitted 100 days ago • 3 comments

Phew, this thread. Please just read it: “So imagine it with me. Reorganizing a whole country just to make sure everyone in it is tired and compliant. Imagine real hard. It might not be very tough to imagine.”

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

they should make a country that doesn’t hate you and want you to die

submitted 103 days ago • 14 comments

Urgent CDC data and analyses on influenza and bird flu go missing as outbreaks escalate www.cnn.com/2025/02/14/h... 🧪

submitted 103 days ago • 8 comments

When people see the maple leaf, they see possibility. They see freedom. They see a helping hand. They see Canada, and the best of our values. Happy 60th to our flag. 🇨🇦

submitted 103 days ago • 1110 comments

Washington Post got their hands on internal documents from DOGE showing the entire plan to implement resegregation. They're going to purge minorities from government by calling them DEI. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

submitted 103 days ago • 118 comments

a thought experiment of switching 'Gazans' with 'Israelis' might also have helped kill this article before publication

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my take is that your willingness to accept this gulf of america nonsense is an indicator of your willingness to accept much worse things coming from this administrator

submitted 104 days ago • 1138 comments

Compare this--from The Economist! A center-right publication!--to the mealy-mouthed NYT coverage of the constitutional crisis thus far:

submitted 114 days ago • 6 comments

You know what would be great is if these weird assholes could get to know exactly one trans person and see that they're just people trying to get by like everyone else

submitted 114 days ago • 70 comments

Chrystia Freeland is running. #cdnpoli www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

submitted 136 days ago • 1 comment

#CdnPoli

submitted 136 days ago • 1 comment

ha ha of course

submitted 136 days ago • 13 comments

One of the greatest comic covers ever drawn. Jaime Hernandez. Love and Rockets Vol.1 #24, 1987.

submitted 138 days ago • 2 comments

About 30 minutes before the town hall started, a senior Trump aide got text messages from a Fox News employee. “Holy s–t, the team thought. They were images of all the questions Trump would be asked and the planned follow-ups, down to the exact wording. Jackpot.” www.cnn.com/2025/01/08/m...

submitted 141 days ago • 1 comment

To all my friends in L.A., I know you guys are on top of this: Angelenos don't fuck around when it comes to the Santa Anas & wildfires. But I lived there for 13 years & never saw reports like this of urban evacuations & wildfires spiraling this fast. Please evacuate ASAP if you get the call.

submitted 142 days ago • 4 comments

Another GenX fave. Also, no, parents often did not, and they weren't particularly worried. If something bad happened, the cops would show up and tell them. For the record, I was usually in the arcade room of the local pizza place, playing Tempest and listening to "Tom Sawyer." youtu.be/niBhO3qGeGE

submitted 142 days ago • 110 comments

Begging yall to pay attention to where things are headed. Civil liberties are under attack, and we are all in danger

submitted 142 days ago • 4 comments

When we were on vacation, an American man who’d learned my wife and mother were Canadian remarked how we would love being a state and how great it would be for us. Since Trump’s bullshit has already infected MAGA dipshits, maybe don’t normalize/joke about it?

submitted 142 days ago • 2 comments

I wrote a lot about Jan 6 right after it happened, but given the history is being rewritten as we speak I will share the post I wrote about those who decided to help do the rewriting www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 143 days ago • 12 comments