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I have zero patience for “do climate work but just don’t call it that”. I am not talking in code about an existential threat bc a handful of Americans like profiting off oil and gas & have managed to brainwashed another handful of Americans. Don’t capitulate. They’ll take your funding anyway.

One of the nice things about being on the left is that most of the shit you believe, reducing poverty, climate change, not randomly bombing places, also allows “humanity to persist on this Earth” in ways not involving asking women if they’re ovulating

Your assignment this week is to read a book that some “Mom for Liberty” would bring to a school board meeting and cry about.

I was thinking about this Joe and Tracy anecdote from the supply chain crisis on gummy bears. Things are probably going to get really weird in a few weeks in unexpected ways:

Hey RFK I will save you a lot of time: do you know what is actually causing the autism epidemic? Autistic people are incredibly sexy and keep finding each other and keep procreating. Hope that helps! I regret to inform you that there is no “cure” for our rizz.

I’ve never seen a tweet that more effectively communicates how we got to this current situation

It would actually be extremely on brand for the USA if none of the human rights violations got rid of him but insider trading did

How much do you think it costs to make a pair of Nike shoes in Asia? Before you open this thread, take a guess. Settle on a number and then compare it to what you'll learn in this thread. 🧵

ICE aren’t even “real” cops so you can imagine the washouts and perverts that make up the whole agency. Probably legions of wife-beaters and diddlers who get their peckers hard being the literal gestapo. Hope they rot in a hell of their own design.

the next democratic administration must engage in a rigorous de-nazification of the entire federal workforce

Stop promoting incompetent people!!! Sincerely, the competent people who do all the actual work

The Smart People said "Abolish ICE" was too radical. Then ICE kidnapped students, sent innocent people to a mega prison, broke into a car to take a mom from her daughter, and tried questioning elementary kids while lying that they had parents permission. Ask yourself: which part is more "radical"?

This would definitely cure me.

it's wild that today ICE was just like, "we're the thought police" unironically

I don't want to dismiss that Cuomo sexually harassed 13 women, but his policies - his actual policies - killed a shit ton of people and then he covered it up.

Waffle House??? in thisbeconomy, we are skipping right over Waffle Apartment to Waffle Tent Under the Highway Overpass

COMPARE: the results of fighting back to the results of not fighting back

congratulations Campus Free Speechers, your guy made future thought crime a thing

fwiw our last king was mad too

Imagine trying to deport someone for their "expected beliefs"

Autism didn’t make them do it. Mental illness didn’t, either. This personal piece from The Big Picture cuts through the excuses and names the real issue: some people are just hateful, and we need to stop giving them cover.

How is this different than what Republican senators say about Trump

AUTISM IS NOT AN EPIDEMIC, PEOPLE WITH AUTISM ARE NOT BROKEN

Wow. This is the full document submitted by Rubio against Mr. Khalil invoking INA 237(a)(4)(C). The standard in immigration court is extremely deferential; a judge must accept this so long as it is “facially reasonable and bona fide.” But this is so threadbare that it might not even satisfy that.

I wonder what Martha Stewart would say about all the insider trading going on at the White House.

Today marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of “The Great Gatsby” I’m all for celebrating with a jazz-age soirée, but given the current moment, let’s also honor F Scott Fitzgerald’s work by thinking about how unregulated wealth, casual racism & convenient fatalism color the American dream.

🚨 NEWS: The White House confirms the tariff on Chinese imports is now 145%—not 125%. Reminder: tariffs are taxes on imported goods, which means Americans end up paying more.

Who could’ve ever foresaw except all the people who did and got arrested for doing so

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

“Art of the deal!” I say while ordering delivery after intentionally burning dinner.

roberts and his co-conspirators are probably writing an opinion “for the ages” explaining that the article ii vests the president with the inherent power to disappear anyone he pleases

I think it's very important to note that when you want to run human misery like a business--a business based on rounding up people to ship them to a country they aren't from to work in forced labor camps--you're a slaver. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I cannot overstate the importance of reading books, particularly novels by respected authors, for critical thinking skills and reading comprehension. If the big gun novelists don't interest you, start small and work your way up. Or read whatever interests you. Just read. Or listen. It's all books.

Adding #AltText to images is not just for folks who use screenreaders, though that in and of itself is a worthy goal. #AltText also demonstrates care for your entire community. It clearly says to everyone: we are not leaving anyone behind.

Spotted at Columbia

when rfk makes america healthy again, the children afflicted by sickle cell will just be sent to the labor camps…err…work farms where they can recover

We should refer to the El Salvador prison as a concentration camp, because it is. We should refer to the process by which we're disappearing people as kidnapping, because it is.

(man douses himself with lighter fluid) (man shoots off a Roman candle to “fuck up the neighbors” but sets himself on fire) (man tries to pay out flames, spreads fire to his own garage) (man accidentally falls into swimming pool)

The anti-trans movement is welfare for losers.

I'm not entirely clear why all the reporting seems to be treating the tariff thing as over and done when there are still 125% tariffs on a little place we do some occasional business with known as china

It’s been a full week, and not a single penguin has backed down or sold out. Could there be a lesson here for America’s law firms and universities?

*cries in Prof. of American politics* Go home kids. I’ve no idea. Make a TikTok. Good luck.

The horribleness wouldn’t be so horrible if it weren’t so stupid. And the stupidity wouldn’t be so bad if it weren’t so horrible. It’s the marriage of the horrible and the stupidity that’s too much.