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Still waiting for the article that’s like “these right wing militia members are in a bubble and it would be healthier if they exposed themselves to left wing ideas”

Give the photographer the Pulitzer Prize

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

Also point this out to anyone you can. These were not planned protests. These were normies getting the supplies for their weekend projects or at a restaurant and saw their servers getting hauled off and were like this is some bullshit.

1 in 12 Americans live in California. 1 in 35 Americans live in LA County. LA is America

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

Anecdotal, but I'm definitely noticing an uptick in advocacy for violence here. About which I'll say only this: Promoting violence on social media is the work of trolls and fools, those eager to bait others into implicating themselves in the age of surveillance or fools rushing to the gulag.

ICE is a criminal organization willfully carrying out illegal orders and the people of California are right to resist this. respect to the fighters and power to the people

the literal mascot of the whole country is the statue who greets immigrants

Feels like a uniquely American brand of stupidity to try and mobilize troops for the battle of Home Depot

The military isn’t being employed to carry out an immigration policy. The immigration policy, and especially the way the administration is choosing to carry it out, is an excuse to call out the military.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Omfg

"The clear message here is that these are two distinct constructs, they mean different things, and they should not be used interchangeably”

everyone deserves human rights. trying to carve out exceptions because 'its complicated' is just trying to subvert the principle. either everyone gets them or no one has them. i accept that life is complicated and there are many difficult situations and nuances. but core ideas are simple

Dandelions Rejoicing Richard Calver 1989

If you want something a bit more heartwarming, read this thread.

Happy Pride Month you handsome and gorgeous lot

Oh I am not shitposting, folks. Stephen Miller, his wife, and Elon are widely rumored to be a throuple. Now Miller's wife is leaving the Trump team to be with Musk & LITERALLY PER THE NEW YORK TIMES Stephen is angrily subtweeting Musk. They actually put it in the paper of record that he was mad

Just call it the Self-Inflicted Wound Era, when we took a bunch of stuff that was working largely fine (vaccines, weather monitoring, friendly relations with like 175 countries, cancer research, renewable energy credits, the FAA, global trade, etc etc) and just broke them for giggles

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Omg, 😍. “This is a site for pictures of owls… in towels.” owlsintowels.org

Timeline cleanse. Pics of Moopsy from last week's visit to the groomer. #GlamourShots #TerrierTuesday

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.

Imagine if burglars openly complained about how asking for permission to enter victims homes would ‘kill’ the burglary business.

excellent thread

depressing how relevant this 2016 Ijeoma Oluo essay continues to be

We were hoping that this letter to @bsky.app could first be shared by a Gazan, but we were too worried that doing so would get their account deleted so we are sharing first. You can sign on to the letter about the unfair treatment of Gazans on Bluesky here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Today I discovered that people have been uploading old stock photo CD-ROMs to the Internet Archive and now I'm obsessed with the mid-'90s business-core aesthetic.

Chris Judge’s “A Daily Cloud” project began in 2020, born from quiet days in the garden during lockdown. With simple lines and a touch of imagination, he turned everyday skies into playful scenes - one cloud at a time. [1/3] Credits: adailycloud [FB] #clouds #creative

Illinois building transformed from deadly bird trap to avian sanctuary! A small fix made a huge impact. #BirdConservation #Illinois #Wildlife #GoodNews

covid threw into high relief how many working class people are absolutely necessary to keeping society functional, and rather than that sparking a renewed commitment to an economy that rewards such workers, we've seen an elite backlash against even modest increases in their market power

The left should be making Russ Vought own this 24/7 in very simple language: Vought is making it easier for scammers to target you and your grandma.

May this be the fate of every plantation used as a wedding venue instead of a museum.

I still think it’s backwards that mass shooters owning assault weapons is considered a right while their victims’ healthcare is considered a privilege.

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

I was reading the comments on a local news article about Medicaid cuts and a Missouri woman called having access to healthcare a “lifestyle” that isn’t meant for folks who can’t afford it. I have never read anything more sad, or American, in my life…

Republicans don’t want more “parents” at home. They want women at home, out of the public sphere, economically dependent on men for their whole lives— permanently relegated to second class citizens. Fixed it for you, NYT.

Legality aside, how pathetic for the American head of state to fly around in the plane he got as a valentine from the Emir of Qatar. A kept little man.

We’ve become so desensitized to corruption that the Attorney General who spent years lobbying on behalf of Qatar approved a private jet gift from Qatar and it’s not even in the top 10 scandals of the week.

Saw this and thought my oomfs' feeds could use this

Every single person is one preventable illness away from being “very sick”

"So the fact that the city of Troy is getting a GIFT, FREE OF CHARGE, of a beautiful giant wooden horse..."

sometimes I truly feel like I am losing my mind that so many people are still so earnestly justifying or downplaying this all as fine

I can’t see how we’ll ever be a grown up country if can’t acknowledge that migration has essential and beneficial impacts. The question is not whether there should be controls but if your starting point is immigration is harmful and integration impossible that will determine the controls you choose

1/Latest in tariff omnishambles. This is not a deal. The US just blinked. The lesson for China: US escalation cannot be maintained. For the US: we will still see inflation and the chance of recession. For the world: the end of US credibility. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/b...