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RFK Jr. looks like those bits on REN & STIMPY when they'd suddenly cut to an extreme close-up animated in a hyper-detailed and repulsive way, just mismatched features and odor lines and jagged edges where things should be round; his visage is arresting and shocking in the classic senses

submitted 1 day ago • 12 comments

Hakeem Jeffries reacts to every new crisis like he’s just opened the door on a surprise party held in his honor. Pleasantly befuddled, repeating the same platitudes, wondering what all these people are looking for him to say and praying they stop staring at him, like IMMEDIATELY.

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

This fascist piece of shit thinks kids with starving bellies - whether Gaza or right here after she eviscerates SNAP - is hilarious. Fuck her.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Ms Rachel said actually no I will not shut up

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

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submitted 9 days ago • 13 comments

Conservatism will always tend towards an extreme and anti-democratic hierarchy - monarchy, autocracy, etc. By it's very nature, the values underpinning what it means to be "conservative" are anathema to freedom, liberty, and and open society.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

A martial art that looks like a dance, moves to music, and hides combat in graceful spins – this is capoeira. Created by enslaved Africans in Brazil, it was a form of resistance, disguised as performance to avoid detection. 🧵⬇️ (1/3)

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Royce da 5’9” has one of the most lethal pens in the rap game. That man is very intelligent. His pen is no joke.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

I hope something good happens to you today.

submitted 14 days ago • 12 comments

This sounds goofy but maintaining interest in popular music helps an aging person to sustain curiosity about, empathy for, & understanding of young ppl—not just as cultural prime movers but as political subjects &, uh, humans. Sneaky strategy for staving off spiritual fossilization: listen to rap.

submitted 16 days ago • 7 comments

Great. And also, being from a dumb fuck rural portion of America I have to say - these people's sense of aesthetic and design are ALL THE SAME. Cheap steel buildings. New clinic for town? Steel building. Library? You betcha. Heee-yuck.

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

What the dentist doesn't tell you is that the temporary crown they give you while the permanent gets artisanally hand crafted (by lasers) sucks major shit.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Ah yes, the 'left' in the US. Key power broker and maker-breaker of all elections. This is why Dems lose - blame everything on this vague notion of "the left" instead of the vertically integrated fascism machine of the right. Don't even get me started on actual policy...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Me: *deep sigh of disappointment* Coworker: Is everything ok? Me: Yeah, no it's fine - just accidentally scrolling the 'Discover' tab on Bluesky and keep seeing anti-Trump AI generated memes from ppl who think the Dems are doing awesome work.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Or, maybe even the longest poem, as it lasts a lifetime. Perhaps longer. N8er -

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

It's likely much more than nine people. #AbolishICE

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Housing, healthcare and food are fundamental human rights.

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Went to Boston for the first time ever two years back and happened upon this randomly, shortly after this had happened. What a sheer delight.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

We need to tear it up and start from scratch. Literally no other country has the institutional and political structure we do. Because, as Kevin says, it's fatally flawed.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Spoken with the confidence of someone completely ignorant of how our electoral rules and institutions will never produce this outcome.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

No one trusts us anymore not because of Trump but because of our polity. How can you have normal relations with a country whose underlying society is fundamentally fucked?

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments