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The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

submitted 7 days ago • 410 comments

elon musk is like if a president wasn't protected by the secret service

submitted 9 days ago • 57 comments

Total triumph of the scammers imo. You're a sucker if you're not tricking people out of their money full time. Why am I working a job instead of pretending I invented intelligent robots or pretending I'm auditing the government

submitted 10 days ago • 31 comments

"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.

submitted 11 days ago • 166 comments

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 20 days ago • 745 comments

Imagine talking about the gilded age and thinking it's aspirational. The clue is in the name, motherfuckers!

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What would Dems do if Trump issued an executive order legalizing the kidnapping and enslavement of Black people? Would they file a lawsuit? Hold a press conference? Ask me for five dollars?

submitted 23 days ago • 10 comments

Stealing this from someone (might be rev) but every Republican who supported Harris had a stated reason of "Ronald Reagan told me to save democracy in a dream last night" and every Dem who supported Trump had a stated reason of "After my imprisonment for stealing money from the children's hospital..

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Look all those J6 guys did was murder and maim some cops, it's not like they did anything really bad, like suggest the cops might not need so many tanks in the annual budget

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Terrible week to give a shit

submitted 29 days ago • 50 comments

Today I am thinking a lot about this poem written by a fifth grader in Hawaii, especially the last line.

submitted 34 days ago • 11 comments

"The Chinese government will have your information." Oh no, what are they gonna do? Spy on me without a warrant? Use my location data to charge me for paying for an abortion? Bring racketeering charges against me for protesting a facility where cops train to shoot civilians? Sounds scary.

submitted 39 days ago • 23 comments

A cartoon collab with Rachel Deutsch (@weirdmomart on IG)

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“You take the Blue Line, the trip ends. You wake up in Logan Square and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the Red Line, you stay near the lakefront, and I show you how far south the city goes.”

submitted 58 days ago • 1 comment

my mom said someone in church said that jesus “will return through a black hole” and “might have an exoskeleton”. thinking about becoming religious again

submitted 426 days ago • 63 comments

The reverse Orpheus

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

1995. The more things change

submitted 104 days ago • 15 comments

“The Long Secret” (Harriet the Spy book 2) by Louise Fitzhugh, 1965: -Web of lies -Religious hysteria -Old Money vs no money -What It Friendship Gets Too Intense -a mystery but sort of not -title has the word “secret” in it -weird guy named Bunny “The Secret History” by Donna Tartt, 1992:

submitted 104 days ago • 16 comments

"'Impossible' to create nutrient-dense foods like 'Soylent Green' without farmed human flesh, Soylent Corporation says. "Without our ability to steal humans and turn them into meat for other humans, how will we get hopelessly and endlessly rich?"

submitted 412 days ago • 25 comments

It appears that millennials have once again proven impervious to America’s rightward drift.

submitted 107 days ago • 22 comments

the fucking. leopards eating people's faces complex. that all these rich donors have. "oh it won't be my kid that gets salmonella and beefs it at age 6" yes it will jeffrey is the tax cut worth it

submitted 107 days ago • 3 comments

a male pundit just said “i guess men don’t like and are tired of being talked down to and dismissed” and i thought “that’s strange bc women have always loved it” 🔪

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NYT tomorrow: did Kamala win the debate by TOO much?

submitted 165 days ago • 64 comments

new cartoon at @theprospect.bsky.social : the continuing adventures prospect.org/power/2024-0...

submitted 173 days ago • 7 comments

puddle

submitted 172 days ago • 1 comment

Kim Deal lays it out: via womenofnoise on tumblr

submitted 175 days ago • 11 comments

in 11th grade american lit i wrote a paper on the differences between the jamestown & massachusetts bay colonies that i invented out of whole cloth, incl footnoted quotes i made up from books that didn’t exist, and that’s why i should be deemed the rightful owner of the chatgpt patents your honor

submitted 540 days ago • 8 comments

Scientists believe we could be just years away from discovering the opposite of "anti-fascist".

submitted 202 days ago • 73 comments

The thing is, once somebody proposes restricting the freedom of women to travel from one state to another, we actually don’t have to care about their ideas about marginal tax brackets or international trade or whatever

submitted 192 days ago • 21 comments

it's incredibly silly but I heard someone say "Trump always looks like he's playing an invisible accordion" and I can't unsee it

submitted 202 days ago • 21 comments

Man these scoldy types getting mad bc we are finally speaking about these deeply unserious, goofy right wing politicians as they should be spoken about like — get it together bros lol. If bullying them helps the wider public understand what creeps they are, just call me Regina George.

submitted 208 days ago • 3 comments

This is why you should love and fear and respect PFLAG parents: they keep queer kids alive by force of will and if you told them they’d keep more alive if they chewed steel wool for an hour a day, there would be a shortage and under a month.

submitted 214 days ago • 1 comment

What a sentence. www.theguardian.com/us-news/arti...

submitted 218 days ago • 58 comments

Some terms that are generally not used in politics but Kamala should use toward Trump and co., if she wants to win: -Weirdos -Fucking weird (F-word must be used sparingly, but should still be used) -Weird creeps -Loser shit -Gross, lying pig-men -Truly odd and dumb -What the fuck

submitted 215 days ago • 1 comment

the delicate balance of power (2024)

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