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i wish more of the American "elite" would look at how trump is crumpling like a used paper bag on tariffs and recognize that he would back down if more people with institutional power refused to comply in advance

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

“And by ‘screwing in tiny screws’ we mean ‘the mines.’”

submitted 12 hours ago • 21 comments

it’s a lot harder to treat trans people like a thought experiment when you see “trans people” is a collective abstraction for many individual trans persons—women, enbies, men—each singular, with interiority & interests. one of us fences. one swims. one throws & fires beautiful clay pots.

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

Really excellent thread on the cultural belief (lie) that being healthy is something you can control and therefore a sign of being a good person.

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

I’m guessing that the reason we are all suddenly talking about the scourge of pronatalism is nothing good.

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

There are MANY things wrong about the claim that healthy people can't die from infectious disease (they totally can) but a glaring issue everyone is ignoring: every person who has had COVID (even once) has a weaker immune system now & will have a harder time fighting off a cold, let alone measles.

submitted 19 hours ago • 9 comments

there is something just really difficult to describe about how exhausting it is to be in a situation where they are doing the most evil they can imagine but always in the most bizarrely incompetent ways that do confusing bonus evil no one even knows how to cope with

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Missed the Dear Hank and John live stream because I didn’t notice they got the time wrong. I was just sitting going through emails with a timer on so I wouldn’t miss it. Oh well, I’ll just pretend it’s live now, I was going to be doing stuff and mostly ignoring the chat today anyway.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Echoing points made by others today, in a country where getting an abortion or gender affirming care or protesting a genocide can be felonies, I am going to need everyone to stop talking about "the rule of law" and "innocent people" and "criminal records."

submitted 2 days ago • 23 comments

I don’t know who else needs this reminder that peanut butter toast is a thing. And just when I’m needing to rotate out my emergency frozen loaf of sliced bread.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Another public comment to make. This one also ends at 23:59 on April 11th

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Looks like this is open until 23:59 on April 11th. So there still is time if you haven’t commented yet.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

yeah man, please make my 85 year old great aunt prove her citizenship to vote in rural georgia, this definitely isn’t reminiscent of anything in the american past

submitted 2 days ago • 839 comments

This is right. The fact that they’re doing this to “innocent people” is not irrelevant, but it’s ultimately not the point. People convicted of crimes have rights too. And you can be damn sure that if they want to convict them - or me, or you - of something, they will.

submitted 3 days ago • 21 comments

don’t ask me for an explanation but this tv guide cover from 1999 is very bluesky coded

submitted 2 days ago • 43 comments

I don't think people realize that in important respects tariffs are now higher & more inflationary than what was announced on last Wednesday. Since then we've gone from 54% to 125% on China, our 3rd largest trading partner. That outweighs delaying the increases on 70+ others.

submitted 3 days ago • 100 comments

Is it Thursday, April 10th when you are reading this? Do this right now if you haven’t already.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

hi, cis folks! the comment period for the proposed rule to remove trans care from the ACA as an essential health benefit is open til april 11. it also strips care from DACA recipients. context & guidance in the thread. none of these people can afford to pay OOP for meds now. only 2 days left!

submitted 3 days ago • 16 comments

I see it is one of those “every single post a new horror I hadn’t heard of yet” kind of day. How can there be so many?

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I would rather stop a germ from getting in my body in the first place than HOPE the vax is enough. Especially when it's proven that the COVID vax does NOT guarantee you won't have severe or lasting symptoms. And when there are SEVERAL airborne pathogens picking up speed.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~The Great Gatsby

submitted 5 days ago • 193 comments

Love you guys and I KNOW I’ve done it too but if I read any more Pronouncements about what is and isn’t effective resistance I’m gonna walk into a lake

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

they called it GamerGate because it opened a portal to a hell. Anita Sarkeessian did nothing wrong.

submitted 5 days ago • 101 comments

i'm seeing all the SCOTUS threads right now, and i regret to inform you, a good portion of the court takes bribes. this isn't made up. it needs to be shouted from the rooftops and has to be discussed before taking any of their opinions seriously. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQI8...

submitted 5 days ago • 5 comments

I saw a version of this on here before but it's worth yelling: these institutions that Musk is illegally dismantling– the weather service, health system, climate & energy research, international aid, maybe the US mail(?)– they don't belong to him, they belong to us. We invested in them. They're ours

submitted 6 days ago • 38 comments