Mini Marine

About to sit down and watch it.

I've been enjoying the season so far

Hold on, going on Shark Tank to get financing for this.

Gonna go with $100 per 4 pack of blades, because the pink tax is a must have.

It wasn't exactly what I was expecting from the trailers, but it was a great movie

Switched to barefoot shoes and my feet have felt much better since!

I watched the first season of The Expanse, really liked it, found out it was based on a book series, and decided to just read the books and wait until the series was over and then binge all of it...it just took me a couple years after it ended to get around to doing that.

The books are great too!

I really liked Agatha All Along.

I still need to get around to watching Penguin, but right now I'm working my way through The Expanse. Just finished season 4

US Naval Academy removed books about the Holocaust, antisemitism and Jewish Americans ahead of Hegseth visit

Per the @nytimes.com‬ Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

The US secretary of defense Pete Hegseth just purged books condemning the Holocaust and white supremacy from the Naval academy.

But left in Mein Kampf

folks again unless you have no other choice do not get in a helicopter for any goddamn reason

anyways. 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.

context & guidance in the thread below. it’s not hard; you can do it while you’re still angry about other things.

9 days left, as of this post!

Eh, it's still OK when you're in groups with a bunch of other chronically online shitposters

I keep forgetting that IG is even a thing

Oh yeah, I basically don't see anyone I'm following unless I specifically go to their page or set up notifications for them.

Even Facebook is better than what twitter has become. At least there when it tries to start feeding me AI slop I can tell it to see less and it goes away for a few weeks

It's all content farm slop and far right garbage.

And it somehow keeps getting worse.

It's obviously impressive how bad they've managed to make it

I'm not saying the Dems aren't better. But the improvements they make are minimal and people still suffer.

They let the child tax credit expire without a fight. They gave Trump control of the NLRB because they couldn't be bothered to get Harris in to break a tie.

They just keep failing

It was on the website!

Oh yes, because that's how people get their information, but going to the Whitehouse website to find out the latest achievements of the administration!

Yes, yes, it's never the fault of the Democrats, it's the voters that failed them!

Not the fact that they pushed a campaign that was unpopular with the voters

Them not publicizing their successes is a separate issue entirely.

The main problem is that on the big things, they give up the moment there's any resistance. The things they do manage to get passed are nibbling around the edges rather than substantive changes to help people's lives.

They literally aren't trying to please every constituent.

They're keep trying to appeal to Republicans, and when they do it fails.

Obama ran as a progressive...he didn't govern that way, but he at least ran that way, and it lead to a big win

Oh, that's some great advice to people suffering because the Dems are spineless.

Hey, just motivate yourself, don't demand more of them, just vote harder and hope that next time they won't throw you under the bus!

Yeah, really great it's in place now...glad the Democrats went ahead and didn't make use of it when it was the one bit of leverage they had

Ah yes, that policy they move forward, like raising the minimum wage...oh wait, parliamentarian said no, so guess we're gonna give up that fight.

Get rid of the filibuster to pass anything? No! We need it for when Republicans are in charge...then we won't use it

Yes, we only have 2 parties, so voting 3rd party isn't a viable option.

But it's hard to blame people for not getting out to the polls when the Democrats prove time and time again that they won't actually do jack shit.

There's only a few members who actually have any fight in them

When they are in power, they just shrug their soldiers when Republicans pull legislative bullshit to prevent progress, when Republicans are in power they roll over and let them do whatever they want instead of playing hardball in return

Here's the problem, Dems are doing everything they can to prove that they aren't actually a viable alternative since they refuse to actually do anything.

How do you motivate people to go to the polls to vote for them when they refuse to actually fight?

He answers not to the voters, but to wall street, and they were scared that a shutdown would be bad for the markets, and well, we can't let Wall Street get upset, so if more power has to be thrown to Trump, so be it

Fuck Schumer and the other 9 of the #CapitulationCaucus

This was nothing but a cowardly betrayal with his explanation being a rather pathetic excuse, because he had been all for it until the last minute.

Did he not know how shutdowns work until the day before the vote? No, it's obvious he got a call and was told to vote for it, so he complied.

Even a bunch of centrist Dems are upset about this.

This isn't just something that leftists and progressives are upset about, the vast majority of Dems are upset.

He claimed it was to protect federal workers, but their union was saying to vote against it and he ignored them too.

No, it's not the path of least harm.

This CR basically gives legal cover for the crap Trump and DOGE have been doing. The CR allows them to basically reallocate funds as they see fit, taking the power away from congress.

There's a reason all the House Dems are pissed

This was an entirely Republican bill, of course the Republicans were going to vote for it.

But they had no way to pass it without Democratic defectors. And just enough flipped to allow the bill to pass.

The Democrats actually had an opportunity to exert their influence and threw it away, willingly

The problem is the Democrats have done nothing but make mistakes since Trump took office, and even before that.

We need to hold them accountable for trying to be Republican-Lite to appeal to corporate donors and abandoning the working class

And 10 out of 47 is over 20%

It's 21.28% if you want to be really precise