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Y'know, it may be the full wine I had, but we've too easily given up fancy language. Saying "I Have To"? Boring. One dimensional. Dismayingly clear. "Must needs"? Intriguing. Compact. Refreshingly opaque.

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Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

submitted 6 days ago • 2763 comments

Every day in this country the poorest, least powerful, most vulnerable people make hard choices and sacrifices for the sake of their integrity and values, while everyone else, from wealthy elected officials to journalists, make this face 🥺 when asked to make any kind of stand for public good

submitted 7 days ago • 5 comments

We only know this man is in Gitmo because Noem tweeted a propaganda photo that included him and his sister saw it. He has no criminal record. He entered the US in January and immediately made an appointment with CBP to claim asylum. They sent him to a concentration camp bc of his basketball tattoo.

submitted 10 days ago • 740 comments

sorry i've been so testy lately. it's just because of every single thing in the entire world

submitted 15 days ago • 70 comments

just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

submitted 16 days ago • 110 comments

Just got this tip from an airline pilot

submitted 23 days ago • 347 comments

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

submitted 41 days ago • 398 comments

[werner herzog voice] the looney tunes are an abomination. the little bald man shoots the duck in the face but he lives. the coyote is crushed by many anvils, and yet he continues. these unnatural beings cannot die - and without death, what is the value of life itself?

submitted 41 days ago • 233 comments

These 1,000 men and women are heroes.

submitted 41 days ago • 195 comments

NEW: A study by Yale University and other institutions has found that the Gaza war death toll is likely 41% HIGHER than Palestinian health officials reported. It also found that over 59% of those killed were women, children and people over the age of 65. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

submitted 43 days ago • 26 comments

Wikipedia editors need to up their opsec. There's a full on war against any independent sources of authority and the oligarch project of taking down Wikipedia is part of it. Donate to Wikipedia if you can. forward.com/news/686797/...

submitted 45 days ago • 69 comments

I (a white) just tried to call my friend (a white) a honkey in the venmo memo and it wouldn't let me 🤣

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“A bull does not become king just by entering the palace. But the palace becomes a barn.” Circassian proverb

submitted 47 days ago • 8 comments

The strange fruits of white supremacy in action.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

The Missouri GOP is proposing SB 72, which includes a "certified bounty hunter program" to pay private citizens to track down undocumented immigrants. It also mandates involuntary DNA collection and the creation of anonymous tiplines with paid rewards per arrest. www.senate.mo.gov/25info/pdf-b...

submitted 46 days ago • 60 comments

This is a photo of Trump and his supporters in Waco with their hands over their hearts while a pro-January 6 insurrection anthem plays. The screen is playing footage of MAGA insurrectionists attacking the Capitol. This is not normal. No matter who is in the White House.

submitted 46 days ago • 607 comments

Hey @microsoft.com, maybe before you push an update to billions you should run tests for "will I still be able to use headphones" (no) and "will my gaming laptop still be able to play games" (also no). But hey, there is a helpful notification saying to "uninstall zoom," no reason given.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

2024 video now live!

submitted 53 days ago • 15 comments

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a child cancer research center with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

submitted 64 days ago • 2671 comments

Well this is grim

submitted 230 days ago • 387 comments

spent my morning experiencing the greatest joy a man nearing middle-age can feel: i stumbled around hungover in my best long coat doing errands and drinking coffee on a gray overcast day. in other words, cosplaying clive owen from children of men

submitted 76 days ago • 56 comments

When you spent billions and destroyed your brand to recreate 1930's Germany and got 1780's France instead.

submitted 79 days ago • 1978 comments

Measles vaccines have saved around 94 million lives in the last 50 years. Of those, 92 million were children. Measles vaccines rank highest in total lives saved by different childhood vaccines.

submitted 82 days ago • 4 comments

We don't need more remakes of old movies. We need more MUPPETS remakes of old movies.

submitted 82 days ago • 784 comments

I want to come out again I have a better sense of stage presence and presentation now

submitted 87 days ago • 6 comments