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Where are the Democrats but also Where are the churches Where are the celebrities Where are the NGOs Where are the Universities Where are professional groups like AMA Where are the athletes Where are the unions What people/groups do and don’t do for next month determines our collective future

submitted 3 hours ago • 74 comments

So I had this idea yesterday, and I'm not stoned anymore and still think it might be a good idea. What if Dem governor/legislatures provided a one-time emergency payment to federally laid off employees? Maybe a grand as an emergency let's-get-your-rent-paid-so-you-have-some-breathing-room thing.

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Phone calls with my mother always begin "Hello, Mother." "Hello, Child." with this tone, but this is so much better.

submitted 9 hours ago • 1 comment

Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

submitted 9 hours ago • 25 comments

It's gonna take a while to release - there are thousands of men who need to be shaken down with either "we can remove your name from the list for $50M" or "we can add your name to the list unless we get $50M." The only question is how much Bondi gets to keep vs how much she has to kick to the Boss.

submitted 9 hours ago • 0 comments

Helping Ukraine has been simultaneously the morally correct thing to do AND in our objective national interest AND something we can do (and have done) effectively. An exceedingly rare trifecta and it has completely broken the brains of cynical people who assume there simply must be a catch or angle

submitted 9 hours ago • 2 comments

I was just thinking this morning that The Kunts need to record an American version of their classic song "Boris Johnson is a Fucking Oh No, We Don't Say That Word In America," but it seems they already have. www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7qF...

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Programming note/food for Thought- I’m going to start adding a RANT tag to posts where I’m spinning about the current political situation. Even if it’s just a sarcastic comment. I’m doing this as a small way to help clear the skyline for people who are overloaded with politics. 1/

submitted 10 hours ago • 2 comments

Pay attention to this. Replacing JAGs with loyalists enables whatever orders Trump and Hegseth issue to be interpreted as lawful.

submitted 1 day ago • 428 comments

I accepted a while ago that the Democrats are not my friends, but I'd hoped that as the enemy of my enemy, they would be less feckless

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Very much like the Iraq War, somehow "I thought Elon Musk was a genius until a couple years ago" is now considered the more respectable and serious opinion than "I knew he was a fraud for a decade and was never fooled by him."

submitted 1 day ago • 180 comments

Thinking about getting an "11th Province" cap printed up.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I have chosen not to engage with the stupid fuckweasel and am filling my water glass instead.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

it’s comforting to imagine that nothing could’ve been done to prevent our current disaster, or at least that nobody could’ve known. but the truth is, since jan 7th, 2021, many people have been loudly yelling that we could end up right where we are now if the people in power didn’t change course

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

Everything is turning to shit, my country is turning Nazi, I'm peri-menopausal, my knees hurt and of all the ways my brain could have turned all that into a stress dream, we ended up with ... having to write a paper whose premise wasn't supported by the source documents. Well, fuck.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

He can expect more of the same in #Oakland tomorrow. www.reddit.com/r/oakland/co...

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

After two weeks of Democratic leadership telling us there's nothing they can do, a Democratic Senator is ... doing something. Keep those calls coming.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I am saying this with one hundred percent sincerity: "Dolly Parton is upset with you" is a strong enough mark of shame to completely kneecap this entire movement and if the dems actually had a finger on the pulse of the country they'd be booking this beautiful person for speaking tours

submitted 2 days ago • 21 comments

pleas please please stop dodging our filters by calling him Tr*mp, Elno or some other nonsense there’s no algo here to downvote or shadow ban whatever you say just people who are FUCKING TIRED of news about these fuckers please

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Cutting Dolly Parton’s program that helps kids learn how to read <<<<<<< www.14news.com/2025/02/19/t...

submitted 3 days ago • 184 comments

Steven Spielberg has spent his entire career warning us about the dangers of dinosaurs and Nazis and I personally think we should have brought back the dinosaurs instead

submitted 3 days ago • 26 comments

I didn't expect elected Democrats to save us, but I thought more of them would be on our side.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

That feeling you’re feeling that you can’t quite identify? It’s grief. You’re feeling grief. Grief for everything happening around you. Grief for the future you thought you’d have. Grief for not being able to do more to help your community. It’s grief, and it’s real, and it’s ok to acknowledge.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

I try to be optimistic and think most things can be fixed but I don't know how you fix never being able to trust us again

submitted 4 days ago • 13 comments

"When you ride TESLA, you ride with Hitler. Join Public Transportation Today!" Reworked WW2 poster spotted in Oakland

submitted 4 days ago • 45 comments

"What naysayers don’t seem to realize is that people respond better to a confident liar shouting out answers than a polite expert. Women can back me up on this." 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

exhausting as liberal democracy is, I feel it is vital for us queer and trans people to fight for its survival because it is also the system of government that tends to be least interested in killing us by a very wide margin

submitted 4 days ago • 30 comments

today's free social media advice for sitting legislators: you gotta stop logging on to say "this is unacceptable" unless you are prepared with a CALL TO ACTION or to tell us what YOU are CURRENTLY doing about it. saying "this is bad" but louder helps nobody.

submitted 4 days ago • 27 comments

@weratedogs.com remains the undisputed leader in alt text.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Looking forward to all the people who said "don't call them Nazis" pivoting to "don't call us collaborators."

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

This tends to always become the conventional wisdom. It's never the fault of highly-paid democratic operatives who dont' do their job, it is the fault of some sophomores at Oberlin who made us put our pronouns in our bios!

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

hey for anyone who might want to actually own their kindle books instead of renting them, or who might be thinking of switching to kobo etc and will want to convert them to epubs, you now only have one week before amazon kills your ability to download its ebooks www.theverge.com/news/612898/...

submitted 6 days ago • 406 comments