Dr. Tessa Fisher

Remarkable how fast Democratic voters have transformed over two decades.

Median Dem in Dubya term 1 is a pro-war "moderate".

Median Dem today identifies as a progressive, 31% as a Democratic Socialist, 90% anti-war.

We can end the wars. We can end the empire. We can remake America. If we win.

Insane.

The anti-trans movement wants an absolute right of parents to control their children, from the kids' religion to their gender. The state must obey the parents.

Except when the parents want to affirm their children as transgender. Then the state can do whatever the fuck it wants.

Eventually, as wealth becomes increasingly consolidated in fewer hands, you wind back up at some flavor of feudalism

Any gen AI “product” that appears to exist for people to use or buy is nothing more than a pitch to attract more capital

Making goods and services that regular people want and will exchange money for is a completely outdated economic concept

"A plausible emerging order…neo-royalism…centers on ruling cliques, networks of political, capital, & military elites devoted to indiv sovereigns, seeking…extraction of financial & cultural tributes…
Trump 's position at the top of unparalleled power resources…allows him to act as a "world orderer"

Congressman Brandon Gill @RepBrandonGill How many Americans have to get Allahu Akbar’ed before we realize Islam is a problem?

The way sitting politicians can say this stuff about Muslims while facing zero consequences is an indication of just how entrenched Islamophobia still is in our institutions and culture.

people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"

It's before my time, but I'm always taken back by just how grim the 1970s really were. Everything from spiking violent crime to rapid environmental collapse to a genuine threat of thermonuclear war to the oil crisis to the collapse of industrial relations. The era's mood seems genuinely apocalyptic

Never forget that the senate confirmed this dumbass *unanimously*.

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Genuinely incredible that the U.S. will celebrate the 250th without an Archivist of the United States.

The one time since WWII where we were genuinely greeted as liberators

That one meme image with the futuristic utopia

the world if our governments spent as much money on helping people as they do on killing people

I'll definitely check them out!

*rapidly looking back and forth at the picture and the voodoo doll I spilled holy water on*

Simmons then completely undid most of the pay-offs in Endymion, because he read a book about alife and wanted us all to know it.

#LunarEclipse FAQ:

Q: Is it safe to look at?
A: Absolutely! Unlike a solar eclipse, there's no UNsafe time to look at a lunar eclipse.

Q: Do I need a telescope?
A: Nope! Best view is with naked eye. Just look up!

Q: Does the eclipse portend terror & doom?
A: Not at all! The news has that covered.

I’m not disputing the brutality or crimes of the regime in Tehran, what I’m saying is that when people, including this administration, trot out talking points of the amount of american blood Iran has on its hands, they are starting the clock at an awfully convenient spot

YouTube video by Frankie Simone Frankie Simone - War Paint (Official Music Video)

For burlesque purposes, I'm currently looking for lesbian/sapphic songs that are angry in a "I'm going to overthrow the government" kind of way. Something with similar vibes to Frankie Simone's song War Paint

I cannot state it more clearly: I fully intend all the implied contempt for his voters. My contempt for them is boundless.

Cartoonists: new visual aid about tangents and separating your planes just dropped

SCOTUS has denied cert. in Thaler v. Perlmutter. That means that outputs generated by AI will continue to be ineligible for copyright protection under US law.

This is welcome news for musicians!

Exactly! Let me know your recommendations!

Ooh, good find! I'll check this out

I have a number of cute tops that I don't wear as anywhere often as I could, because it's a pain to hand wash them (or, worse yet, dry clean them).

Women's clothing manufacturers vastly overestimate my executive function capacity.

I've realized that what I need in my life, sartorially, is a women's summer line of tops/blouses, but from L.L. Bean, and that is not a thing that exists or likely ever will exist.

I saw a comment the said we aren’t “angry enough.” But all we are is angry. Our veins circulate it like acid. It cracks our sternums. It poisons and paralyzes us. We hiss and spit at each other, all impotent, helpless rage.

We don’t need more anger. We need more direction.

Gender critical folks also don't believe us when we tell them "sex-based rights" is an idea they themselves made up in just the last handful of years.

For those in the US, the correct position is to be anti-war and anti-imperialist.

The US does not have the right to conduct regime change to either destroy the country or install a puppet.

If US sanctions / war are constantly on the neck of the Iranian people, how can they ever achieve freedom.

The Iranian people are caught between two structures.

Their internal govt that is responsible for decades of mismanagement, repression, and ideological control.

and

The US govt, who has meddled in the country for decades, sanctioned them, bombed them, and aim to install a puppet government.