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This administration is going to negatively polarize me into being pro gerontocracy

So… Abrego Garcia… still down there huh?

Just what we need: MORE quantbrain research to support doing what polls well right now. Instead of taking action and leading to rally the public behind us. The quantbrain poll-addiction is going to kill us

Replace the word "Israel" here with "Russia" and then ask yourself how conspiratorial you'd be about this. I know that I'd be very conspiratorial

Surveillance is a reproductive justice issue 📢📢📢 ALPR technology is being used to find people who seek reproductive care. This isn't the first time, and it won't be the last unless we organize against it now‼️ www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Palantir: Peter Thiel's Data-Mining Firm Helps DOGE Build Master Database to Surveil, Track Immigrants

BREAKING: Federal judge orders that hormone therapy and social accommodations be maintained for transgender people in federal prisons, blocking Trump admin policies. Judge Royce Lamberth, a Reagan appointee, granted class certification and prelim. injunction in a lawsuit challenging the policies.

My “no people will not ‘literally die’ with the One Big Beautiful Bill” shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt

Narrator: People will literally die. Lots of people. This is bill is a murdered by bureaucracy bill.

Transparency and accountability don’t have to require increased technological surveillance which could easily be turned back on us. We can critique the institutions, the officers, and the practices without further eroding the sanctity of an un-monitored existence.

There are far too many things to get pissed off about. It’s becoming impossible to choose or compartmentalize. I have no joke or insight here. Just ire.

It’s weird that RFK types will invent hundreds of conspiracy theories but rarely are like “Americans would be healthier if we didn’t have to drive everywhere and could walk”. That’s the wild thinking you can’t divulge, walking, not that Bigfoot is behind it all.

A huge part of my Real Job requires census data. This is Not Good™

Is there a single shred of evidence that concrete barriers make anyone “less safe?” Philadelphia is doing the right thing to make our most popular bike routes safer, and the homeowners want courts to declare street parking a priority over human life. www.friendsofpineandspruce.org/post/fops-fi...

Happy #WorldBikeDay everyone! You want to see the best Formula One driver of all time, Ayrton Senna, on a bike.

@johnfetterman.com if you need help drafting the resignation letter, we can certainly help. Read more: www.pahomepage.com/hill-politic...

Until we have brought about a world where people like Curtis Yarvin don’t have access to immense resources and outsized influence we don’t have the luxury of ignoring them.

if you care about trans people, do not watch the new jk rowling show. don’t even hate watch it or you will be funding this new intentionally transphobic organization. we cannot allow hateful people take away more of our rights

Remember when podcast ads weren’t blatant ploys to fast-track you to bankruptcy?

I don’t like rapid flashing beacons to cross busy streets. I feel like they give an illusion of safety without ensuring any drivers will actually slow down or stop.

I gotta be real honest when I say I miss the times when politicians had just the tiniest bit of shame and the press would be the people to point out just how shameful and evil this is

Happy Pride Month, y’all! As many are aware, I posted about queer Palestinians every day last Pride Month in the spirit of queer liberation. It’s devastating this is becoming an annual tradition. Y’all means all and that includes Palestinians Queer Liberation includes Palestinian Liberation 🏳️‍🌈🇵🇸🌈🍉

zionists are evil

This is the kind of energy we need to bring until the GOP bill passes or fails

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

unspeakable evil through vicious bureaucracy

We should all have three day weekends. One day for Escapism One day to Fix Everything One day for coming to terms with the harsh reality

Been replaying the #Uncharted series, and I just realized something. Libertalia was just Fyre Festival

You see, it is in being a craven blowhard that dear leader shows his true strength!

Just to be clear, takes like this suck as much as the people they’re complaining about