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On a scale of not okay to not okay, how would you rate your mental wellness today?

submitted 12 hours ago • 3 comments

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

submitted 16 hours ago • 123 comments

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

submitted 1 day ago • 114 comments

Today a sweet woman tried to talk me down from the cliff by telling me all politicians are corrupt and things would still have been this bad if Kamala had won the election. She’s up for a rude awakening…

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

My mother pronounces Detroit like it has three syllables, so sometimes I like to say it out loud that way just to hear it again and giggle. “De-Troy-It.”

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Replacing the military brass and attorneys with three-star generals you pluck from retirement is exactly what a dictator looking to use an army to do some violence does.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

There’s something happening in this country.

submitted 2 days ago • 756 comments

We call them "the Greatest Generation" for shooting Nazis.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy is booed by protesters as he announces Trump is cutting off funding for high-speed rail between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Instead of dealing with all the planes crashing everywhere, the former “Real World” star is abandoning investments in US infrastructure.

submitted 2 days ago • 217 comments

If Putin gets what he wants, the U.S. economy will collapse. Essential items will become scarce. The price of everything will skyrocket. The U.S. dollar will tank. This is hyperinflation, and Trump is enabling it.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

There are no more quiet parts. “Former Marion County Circuit Judge Vance Day — who once made headlines for refusing to wed gay couples, and for hanging a picture of Hitler in the courthouse — has been hired by the Trump administration.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

In case you want to know what’s going on in America right now, this is an important read on Russian intent from ‘Autocracy, Inc.’ by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

submitted 3 days ago • 2878 comments

I absolutely detest dating apps, but I kinda want to use them just to find a protest buddy.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” says a cybersecurity researcher who tracks cybercriminal groups.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Protests are taking place all over the country tonight against cuts to vital federal services. Here in Washington, people are marching to SpaceX’s offices demanding Musk be ousted from the government.

submitted 3 days ago • 77 comments

On this day in 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066 which rounded up and imprisoned 125,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps. As a Japanese American, it has never felt more urgent to protect and share our history — especially as we risk repeating it. densho.org/catalyst/the...

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

“I wanted to get a better understanding of what is normal and what is abnormal about these past three weeks" maybe I have gone soft but this college senior on why they went to this teach-in stopped me in my tracks

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I’m currently reading Autocracy Inc. and am reminded about everything that happened in Venezuela to drive up prices and deaths. Absolute nightmare scenario that I’m thinking about as the president destroys the U.S. economy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_...

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Update: This book is such essential reading that I ordered a paper copy as I was reading it because I knew I’d want to refer back to it often in the coming months/years. Highly recommend this as a blueprint to help us all resist and overcome.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

"This is literal leftwing terrorism to make sure our country continues to be invaded," Charlie Kirk tweeted. "This is literal terrorism. And Democrats are inciting this. Lock. Them. Up," Nick Sortor tweeted. The Philadelphia Fire Department says it has determined that the fire was accidental.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

I'm flying to Canada next week and I was already frightened before this upside down landing happened.

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

One of the really striking things when you read about Nazis is how they were already doing daily kinds of evil - child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault - before they ever started participating in mass genocide. Access to power amplified the terrible personal tendencies they already had.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Also remember this includes any comics bought from comiXology. Grab that stuff now.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Me: We’re in a Covid surge now. Her: We don’t have Covid up here. I did have a bad cold last week, though. I was too weak to get out of bed and I didn’t even eat for days. Me: Sounds like Covid.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

PMC COVlD Dashboard, Feb 17, 2025 (U.S.) 🔥1 in 72 actively infectious 🔥Sustained high transmission 🔥30 states in high/very high transmission (CDC) 🔥3x the transmission of Feb 2021 🔥668,000 daily infections 🔥Only 1 in 28 cases reported

On a scale of not okay to not okay, how would you rate your mental wellness today?

Jeffries: hey the GOP controls the government, absolutely nothing i can do, gonna work on my personal book tour Sanders: brb i am going to personally barnstorm strategic GOP house districts and try to peel off 2 votes so we can block Trump's cuts to Medicaid www.commondreams.org/news/bernie-...

100% and I need everyone to understand right now that there is only one solution: people need to start getting their asses kicked in public again

Today a sweet woman tried to talk me down from the cliff by telling me all politicians are corrupt and things would still have been this bad if Kamala had won the election. She’s up for a rude awakening…

My mother pronounces Detroit like it has three syllables, so sometimes I like to say it out loud that way just to hear it again and giggle. “De-Troy-It.”

Replacing the military brass and attorneys with three-star generals you pluck from retirement is exactly what a dictator looking to use an army to do some violence does.

There’s something happening in this country.

We call them "the Greatest Generation" for shooting Nazis.

If Putin gets what he wants, the U.S. economy will collapse. Essential items will become scarce. The price of everything will skyrocket. The U.S. dollar will tank. This is hyperinflation, and Trump is enabling it.

There are no more quiet parts. “Former Marion County Circuit Judge Vance Day — who once made headlines for refusing to wed gay couples, and for hanging a picture of Hitler in the courthouse — has been hired by the Trump administration.”

In case you want to know what’s going on in America right now, this is an important read on Russian intent from ‘Autocracy, Inc.’ by @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

I appreciate everyone’s messages of support, I’m trying to get through all my mentions but as you can imagine, it’s been a bit of a busy day :) Remember - peaceful civil disobedience, and no kings, no tyrants. Not ever.

I absolutely detest dating apps, but I kinda want to use them just to find a protest buddy.

“What’s the point of fighting cybercrime if we’re just going to give access for government networks to people with cybercriminal gang affiliations?” says a cybersecurity researcher who tracks cybercriminal groups.

Protests are taking place all over the country tonight against cuts to vital federal services. Here in Washington, people are marching to SpaceX’s offices demanding Musk be ousted from the government.

On this day in 1942, FDR signed Executive Order 9066 which rounded up and imprisoned 125,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps. As a Japanese American, it has never felt more urgent to protect and share our history — especially as we risk repeating it. densho.org/catalyst/the...

“I wanted to get a better understanding of what is normal and what is abnormal about these past three weeks" maybe I have gone soft but this college senior on why they went to this teach-in stopped me in my tracks

I’m currently reading Autocracy Inc. and am reminded about everything that happened in Venezuela to drive up prices and deaths. Absolute nightmare scenario that I’m thinking about as the president destroys the U.S. economy: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crisis_...

Update: This book is such essential reading that I ordered a paper copy as I was reading it because I knew I’d want to refer back to it often in the coming months/years. Highly recommend this as a blueprint to help us all resist and overcome.

"This is literal leftwing terrorism to make sure our country continues to be invaded," Charlie Kirk tweeted. "This is literal terrorism. And Democrats are inciting this. Lock. Them. Up," Nick Sortor tweeted. The Philadelphia Fire Department says it has determined that the fire was accidental.

I'm flying to Canada next week and I was already frightened before this upside down landing happened.

One of the really striking things when you read about Nazis is how they were already doing daily kinds of evil - child abuse, domestic violence, sexual assault - before they ever started participating in mass genocide. Access to power amplified the terrible personal tendencies they already had.

Also remember this includes any comics bought from comiXology. Grab that stuff now.

Me: We’re in a Covid surge now. Her: We don’t have Covid up here. I did have a bad cold last week, though. I was too weak to get out of bed and I didn’t even eat for days. Me: Sounds like Covid.

PMC COVlD Dashboard, Feb 17, 2025 (U.S.) 🔥1 in 72 actively infectious 🔥Sustained high transmission 🔥30 states in high/very high transmission (CDC) 🔥3x the transmission of Feb 2021 🔥668,000 daily infections 🔥Only 1 in 28 cases reported

#NoKingsDay in NoHo tomorrow 2/17

Anyone not speaking out against fascism is aiding and abetting the fascists.