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"i hate people individually, but i love mankind." —larry david
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(i also think we as a people need to interrogate the current and pervasive hubris of thinking/believing you can personally save the entire world so much so that not being able to do it makes you so overwhelmed you do…nothing. 😭)

"Trump decided to reopen Alcatraz right after watching Escape from Alcatraz" is far too ridiculous not to be exactly what happened

This is so, so bleak. (Source: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/42...)

Since Israel broke the ceasefire, it has declared most of Gaza as no-go or displacement zones.

ICE Arrests Farm Workers Involved in Landmark Labor Rights Case theintercept.com/2025/05/05/i...

"Black women didn't just 'fall behind' last month – we were pushed." ~Patrice W. Lindo (check her out on LinkedIn 😎) Mmmm hmmm. Yes indeedee.

Pretty amazing that Tesla's value, which @niedermeyer.online points out is larger than the rest of the auto industry combined, is almost singularly predicated on Musk's ability to innovate new product lines—something he has failed at consistently for the last decade.

American voters discover how supply chains actually work part 534,709 and counting.

ain't no way.

people driving alongside me when there's no traffic.

i have to watch my mouth, but you have got to be fucking kidding me. nothing surprises me with this buffoon and is cadre of clowns, but BFFR.

Also, despite national attention and debate about Kent State at the time, ten days later, city and state police in Mississippi killed two and injured 12 when they opened fires on Jackson State University students that were protesting the Vietnam War and racial injustice.

I will never forget listing to meet the grahams because I turned it on and immediately felt like it was something I should not be a witness to. Like there was no lead up? It was instantly the most disrespectful thing I had ever heard.

May 3, 2024 might have been the greatest day in hip hop beef history. 6:16 in LA Family Matters Meet the Grahams

NEW: The Trump administration is subverting the traditional priorities of the Education Department’s decimated civil rights office by making discrimination investigations practically impossible — instead enforcing its own anti-diversity campaign.

For people that don’t have allergies, what’s it like? Do you feel free? 😭

Anti-Palestinian sentiment is not welcomed here.

We have seen this over and over again. If you push back on the regime, they will relent. Push back harder.

the "ReTruths" is taking me tf down. 💀he's such an unserious clown. it'd be hilarious if wasn't destroying everything he touched.

A grown ass man just said “you can do Scientific research on YouTube.” And yall wonder why the kids act like they do.

Stating, "There should be no politics in a classroom," will NOT remove politics from the equation. This statement, a call to censor political discussion at universities, is itself a political stance that at this conjuncture sides with authoritarianism.

i would love to repost that, but the takes are usually so terrible, i can't subject folks to that person. 😂

Put him on the no fly list ASAP

And the “splurging” is really dopamine addiction from all the media we consume. Which is also pushed by corporations. Surviving this culture needs to include better tactics than “stop buying coffee”, we need a detox from consumerism.

my sinners-inspired stack. can't wait to get into these!

They literally did the Onion article. Agents posted up outside her hospital room.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’ One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

In Reagan's 1980s, America had just 35 undocumented immigrants behind bars. Today, nearly 48,000 sit in squalid detention, many thrown there by a mask-wearing U.S. secret police that smashes homes, cars and violates human rights It's time to abolish ICE. My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

Apparently John Fetterman had a heated argument with his wife Gisele about the situation in Gaza. “They are bombing refugee camps. How can you support this?” the staffer recalled her saying with tears in her eyes. “That’s all propaganda,” Fetterman replied.

In between the stories of horrific human rights abuses and trade war insanity I remember that they have also destroyed all our research and data infrastructure and effectively ended any environmental, health, or labor regulation.

NOW: NPR and PBS are done. Big Bird call your lawyer.

Your regular reminder that NSF grants built the internet and helped the U.S. dominate tech.

Holy shit. I knew this @nytimes.com editorial would be bad, but it's so much worse than I could have imagined. I mean, it is indistinguishable from a parody of reactionary centrism. This is every center-left pathology, laid out for your examination.

Erika Alexander & Kim Coles are launching a “Living Single” rewatch podcast:

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Abolish ICE It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...