We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
29.07.2025 04:09 β π 13341 π 4476 π¬ 75 π 122@beanstalkish.bsky.social
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We need to teach people the difference between being uncomfortable and being unsafe. Because the discomfort of the safest people is endangering the most vulnerable, all day every day.
29.07.2025 04:09 β π 13341 π 4476 π¬ 75 π 122when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
24.07.2025 19:51 β π 19666 π 4359 π¬ 667 π 606OJ Verdict.
12.07.2025 02:04 β π 2089 π 56 π¬ 450 π 27New York Times editors are always like, "I've noticed everyone is mad. I'd like to explain why this was not a mistake and I'm right."
05.07.2025 05:11 β π 391 π 32 π¬ 7 π 1These last few months have been the Trump administration getting their pieces into position. All of this has been the prologue
It is about to not be the prologue anymore
man itβs gonna be a police state but of people who were too stupid to be police
03.07.2025 19:09 β π 9223 π 1552 π¬ 20 π 100The establishment is never unbeatable; only unchallenged.
Take 'em on. @runforsomething.net will help. runforwhat.net
you can't draw a lot of conclusions from a single race. there are external factors, flawed candidates, the right political climate. but one conclusion you can absolutely draw is that all of the people who tell you that there's only one way things can be are fucking wrong
25.06.2025 02:57 β π 1938 π 249 π¬ 8 π 4Last week, a court ordered the Trump administration to allow all trans people to update their passports with the gender marker that's right for them.
Learn more about how and when to apply.
I'm starting to think we're not taking Greenland
21.06.2025 03:04 β π 248 π 13 π¬ 29 π 2no one came to a grown man's GI Joe themed birthday party and that's somehow funny to you??
14.06.2025 23:06 β π 3603 π 556 π¬ 153 π 42Saw that CNN has a new show called Eva Longoria: Searching for Spain and I really hope itβs just her pointing to places on a map and someone saying no
09.06.2025 12:55 β π 2300 π 405 π¬ 56 π 19nobody wants to seem gullible and itβs turned into this pathological inability to simply enjoy a good old fashioned passion play of dipshits
05.06.2025 20:47 β π 2783 π 283 π¬ 13 π 2"We can do less" the centrists bravely chanted
05.06.2025 04:03 β π 272 π 38 π¬ 11 π 2if your grand approach to politics is bloodless poll-testing so that you're always aligned with wherever public opinion happens to be, you've already lost
25.05.2025 14:59 β π 19289 π 2480 π¬ 253 π 192Fascism is really exhausting.
22.05.2025 18:17 β π 3448 π 424 π¬ 90 π 32You make sure there are consequences for lying and everyone else will fall into line immediately
20.05.2025 23:06 β π 1446 π 223 π¬ 26 π 6The Defense Department will begin screening troops for gender dysphoria during routine and periodic medical check-ups as it looks to remove transgender people from serving, according to a new memo:
media.defense.gov/2025/May/15/...
- I want things to be different - *smashes everything* - oh no
I think about this comic at least once a week
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I will never understand this obsession.
The Pope says it's pop, not soda
08.05.2025 18:06 β π 268 π 36 π¬ 17 π 14BREAKING: The Supreme Court will allow the Trump administration's transgender military ban to take effect.
06.05.2025 18:05 β π 279 π 153 π¬ 80 π 57This this this this 1000xπ
Nothing will change until actual physical consequences are implemented.
THIS.
"Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation are men who want crops without plowing up the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters."
-Frederick Douglass, 1857
One thing I wish people understood about authoritarianism is life often looks more or less the same. Troops arenβt marching down the street every day; people go to restaurants, have their office jobs. But everyone knows that stepping out of line, even slightly, can derail your life with no recourse
14.04.2025 18:07 β π 10179 π 3418 π¬ 115 π 154I will say this - EVERYONE with power seems to be desperately hoping that unpopularity does the work that consequences need to do
14.04.2025 21:50 β π 15424 π 3632 π¬ 203 π 165No one told me about the awkward waiting part of fascism where you're just trying to gauge how bad things are going to get
13.04.2025 05:50 β π 353 π 50 π¬ 21 π 4"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you." - President Lyndon B. Johnson
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