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Democratic Socialist, semi-retired, Floridian: love the Spanish moss, horrified by our politicians.🦩💙
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Anyone else find it strange that a man with a 14-year heroin addiction is railing against Narcan—the lifesaving drug that helped drive a sharp drop in overdose deaths after a federal distribution program? No one said Narcan cures addiction. It prevents funerals. That’s the point. The facts 👇🏾

How come “shrinking government” always involves taking away school lunches and building 3,000 more prisons.

Last October, ProPublica and @documented.net published secret recordings of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term. "We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected," he said.

Trump said he “restored free speech.” In 100 days, he deported grad students for op-eds, banned media access over maps, and stripped funds from schools over pronouns and protests. He didn’t free speech. He put it on trial and made fear the jury. #AreWeGreatYet #FreeSpeechCrackdown

The speed with which Congress not having the power of the purse, law and the Constitution be damned, has been normalized by the press is the most terrifying thing to me.

Fuck You 🖕

Repeat after me: ‘Confinement under the guise of care.’ 👍 Private prisons 👍 Expanded involuntary commitment (Gov. Kathy Hochul) 👍 Wellness farms (MAHA Initiative) 👍 “Tracking studies” It’s all confinement under the guise of care.

The bird photos will continue until morale improves

There was a flurry of news about tariffs. It passed. The real consequences will hit US consumers around Memorial Day. Important then to remind everyone of cause and effect.

Forgive the earnest post here, but one year ago this week, Global Tetrahedron took over The Onion. We've since brought back the paper and ONN, dramatically increased revenue, and hired more writers and artists. But most importantly, as other places debased themselves, we refused to bend the knee.

Let’s re-up this argument: Seeking asylum is not illegal. You are allowed to enter the U.S. anywhere with or without documentation, and at a port of entry or not, and request asylum. Furthermore, asylum-seekers MUST be within our physical land borders to do so. Embassies and consulates don’t count.

If you wonder why men *obsessed* with the United States having more children are kidnapping children and sending them to other countries, those children were the incorrect color.

Military service members don’t deserve to be told they can’t serve in certain roles because they are “Black or gay or a woman” by “a washed-up Fox TV commentator.” - Gov Pritzker 🔥🔥

Elbows up, Canada! 🇨🇦 Get out there and vote. Don’t let what is happening to us, happen to you.

that single sentence is going to drive me insane

the poor foster dog is terrified of the coffee grinder. i feel the need to explain. “these are the beans you have to drink when you are a person,” i say. “sometimes things are very very bad. but then the beans happen and it is good.” i can tell she understands

I would also recommend a full investigation into the funding for this criminal activity. Demand Congress immediately STOP funding for CECOT and launch an independent investigation into the megaprison. sign.moveon.org/petitions/no...

He laughed at Zelensky’s wardrobe a few weeks ago, then showed up to the Vatican looking like he was about to offer you a “great deal” on a 2003 Chevy Malibu with only three previous owners and “just a little flood damage.” open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom...

Project 2025 thinks we’ll break. They drown us in cruelty and chaos to crush our hope. But we rise furious. We rise hurting. We rise anyway. We fight because we love. We fight because we must. We are the storm they fear. #MomSky

If you kidnap and disappear a 4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars. If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.

Here are some nice mushrooms

Everyone’s gonna be wide awake at his funeral. If only because they’ll play Kool & The Gang’s “Celebration” at full volume.

If I was a person involved in exiling a two year old child with cancer to another country I would simply walk into the ocean and never return

Thank you to everyone who showed up, good news, the judge has been released!

This — the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s arrest today of a sitting judge — against the backdrop that the President of the United States is, at this same moment, defying an April 10 Order of the Supreme Court of the United States

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Had my first bike commute this week since congestion pricing went into effect and the improvement is *insane*. Totally transformative.

"No republic has ever survived this level of inequality for long and remained a republic." - Pete Buttigieg

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081