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OMG THIS RACIST SHIT MAKES ME SO FUCKING ANGRY

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lol what happened here

TRUST DEAR LEADER is not an argument nor a justification for war, but here we are.

Pretty amazing that a former president will sit quietly as one of his successors orders US troops into American cities and ships innocent people off to concentration camps—but feels compelled to speak up when a fellow HR nightmare is at risk of losing to another member of the same party.

I love it when my sweet black floofy kitty attacks the fat asshole tabby. Sweet justice is so satisfying.

Sexual predators always stick together.

It took me far, far too long to oppose the second Iraq War. I have so many regrets about that. So yeah, this rings true.

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

I can’t fucking believe we’re doing this.

AOC: “It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.”

Tariffs. Stock market down. Medicaid slashed Secret police throwing anyone who looks Latino in unmarked vans. National guard and marines deployed in LA. No end to the wars in Gaza or Ukraine Bombing Iran This is the worst first six months of any presidential term in my lifetime.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

If you were too young in 2003 here is what Bush told the American people: 1) The Iraq War won’t cost a lot of money 3) We won’t need a lot of troops 4) We’ll bring peace and freedom to Iraq 5) We’ll find WMDs 6) We’ll be welcomed as liberators 7) It will be easy 8) It won’t take long All lies.

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I know that this doesn’t matter one bit given what else is happening, but it’s still awful and crass and just so symbolic.

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The idea that pro-trans movements led to anti-trans sentiment is egregiously out of touch with reality. Increased LGBTQ representation led to historic shifts in public opinion toward the community. The aggressively bigoted and violent campaigns that lied about trans people are clearly responsible

Some Unspecified Future: And this, kids, is why all government employees with the power to detain any person are required to wear uniforms identifying their department, position, name, and ID number — that’s what the 312th Amendment to the Constitution says.

Which is exactly why the far right are forcing companies to push us out of media. You can't win hearts and minds when your existence is made invisible with humanizing stories.

This chart tells you everything you need to know about the NYC mayoral race. Everyday New Yorkers vs money.

"Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?’ - Judith Butler

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

Opinion | The president and the leading candidate for mayor in the nation's largest cities are both sex harassers. Here's why MeToo went too far.

As someone who lives surrounded by these lands — and even still, our elk and moose populations are declining dramatically — fuck this guy.

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

Younger people will be shocked to hear this, but way back when I grew up, anytime you saw a movie where some government official stopped someone on the street and demanded to see their identification papers, that was supposed to let you know they were the *bad* guys.

ICE agents in tactical gear chase down and tackle a U.S. citizen in L.A. After realizing he’s American, they just slink away. Their only explanation: “Why were you running?” Probably because two masked men with guns were trying to snatch him.

The earth is resting on a turtle. Under that is another turtle. It’s turtles all the way down.

👀 Scoop: Trump and Republicans want USPS to sell off its brand new EVs and chargers. That would mean literally **ripping up post office parking lots** to auction off assets with no private-sector value. It’s buried in the Senate’s “One Big Beautiful Bill.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Remembering this great tweet on the Summer Solstice

BREAKING: A federal court has ordered the release of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia student detained as punishment for his advocacy for Palestinian human rights. Mahmoud spent over 3 months in ICE detention, during which time he missed the birth of his first child and his own graduation.

This is a terribly apt comparison. Fuck this administration, abolish ICE.

Gen Z/Alpha: the 2000s were cool we should bring some of that back Millennials: ok, let us tell you about some of our fav- Z/Alpha: *blasting creed and trying on low waisted jncos* Millennials: no wait The Govt: oh hell yeah! *frantically starts fabricating evidence of WMDs in the Middle East*

When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine. It's the same court and lawyers.

The “ oh they’re just lonely romantics” stories of folks who fall in for Chat GPT while partnered leave out the fact … Those people gravitate to partners who have no agency They want interactions where someone is obviously made uncomfortable to serve them

Shouldn’t the NY Times headline note that this new policy breaks the law?

If nothing else about morality and law and basic human decency gets to them, you'd think at least some ICE agents would grasp they're being ordered to act in a way deliberately calculated to get one of them killed because that's what the administration wants.

the reason to vote against every single person nominated to serve in this administration is that they are disqualified by virtue of agreeing to serve in this administration

A real girlfriend will tell a dude when he’s being an idiot and/or an asshole.

Certainly THE GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT of our nation, given the sheer and overwhelming magnitude of that evil