Tank Girl’s not really feeling Halloween this year.

A sitting US President releasing an AI generated video of defecation on American citizens would be surprising if this weren’t the same person who suggested that injecting Clorox into your bloodstream could stop COVID.

The thing about JD Vance calling those racist Young Republicans “kids who made mistakes” isn’t just that some of them are in their mid thirties or that they weren’t mistakes, but that his president once publicly called for the death penalty for five Black innocent kids between the ages of 14-16.

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"

Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social

Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc

The thing about the debate of whether the Bible does or doesn’t condone slavery is that it kinda doesn’t matter.

Ultimately, if you need an invisible deity to tell you that the buying, selling, or ownership of other humans is wrong, you have much bigger fish to fry than the errancy of the Bible.

Okay. Let’s get this out of the way.

1. Black people do not owe white people for the civil war.

Why? Because white people created the slave trade that led to it.

It was fought over who got to own us, not who got to humanize us. Otherwise, we would’ve been given rights immediately after the war.

I too have "a skeptical spherical cartoon face" and I am using it to look verrrry skeptically at whatever all that is. 😅

Trump Canceled 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid. Here’s What Never Arrived. ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the administration’s cut...

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived.

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

The reason white men are so big on “open debate” about non-debatable things is because whiteness makes them believe every space belongs to them.

When privilege insulates you from danger so much to the point that inconvenience can be mistaken for oppression, all that’s left is entitlement.

News › World News › Donald Trump Disappointed Christians say 'God is delaying the Rapture' until Epstein Files are released After the rapture failed to happen on Tuesday, many Christians are blaming it on the fact Donald Trump hasn't released a trove of documents relating to Jeffrey Epstein

Shhh let them cook

The reason so many of us feel like we’re losing our minds right now is because we’re constantly being lied to and expected to absorb it all as if it were the truth, only to be treated like opposition because we won’t pretend a lie is the truth.

This is fascism in real time.

Lynchings were spectator sports in America. White families would picnic & bring their kids, because even our murders were seen as performances.

And now here we are, asked to perform again. Asked to pretend we didn’t see what we saw.

When it’s us, “move on.”

When you’re white, “never forget.”

Also, apropos of nothing in particular, if anyone tries to tell you that the protests in LA are a distraction from the budget bill, kindly remind them that the bill will MASSIVELY expand ICE’s budget, so the two things are very much related.

GOP's response to CBO estimates that Medicaid provisions would increase the number of uninsured people by 7.6 million:
1) no one will lose Medicaid
2) only the undeserving freeloaders will lose Medicaid
3) we're all going to die anyway

This Pride month, don’t forget about the trans and gnc activists who made this happen. People like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P Johnson, whose leadership at Stonewall has now been stricken from all government websites by a Trump administration that wants us erased from history.

What's your Kindness Personality? We're sure you've been asking yourself this question for a while now. We have too! So, let's find out together! Follow the link to take the quiz yourself, and don't forget to share your results and tag us! randomacts.org/kindness-quiz/ #SpreadKindness #KindnessQuiz

I’m interrupting your doom-scrolling to remind you:

-you are still here & that matters
-there is still hope
-there are still things we can do
-there are still ways we can make things better
-the fight is long from over
-take a breath, take a break
-we still have each other
-we can still win

I just really need everybody to understand that everything that’s happening in and to the global economy now (and all the businesses and people in it) is the entirely predictable result of the intentional decisions of one guy who doesn’t understand how the global economy works.

Y’all remember when “qualified” meant possessing the education, the credentials, training, and experience to do a job and wasn’t just a code for “we want a white guy to do it”?

It's getting tiresome to hear anti-Trumpers on the left and on the right reflexively presume that team Trump is just going to ignore the courts and the courts can't do anything about it. Expressing that attitude is contributing to normalization of anti-democratic behavior.

STOP DOING THAT.

Don’t agonize, stay engaged:
-Contact your reps
-Vote (esp locally)
-Attend town halls/council hearings
-Marches, rallies, & protests
-Boycotts
-Run for office
-Volunteer
-Donate
-Sign petitions
-Support advocacy campaigns
-Invest in your community
-Combat misinfo/disinfo
Stay active, it matters.

Remember intersectionality
Remember nuance
Remember the marginalized
Remember the outliers
Remember the disenfranchised
Remember those who will be hurt the most
Remember those who are considered least

In our advocacy, in our work, in our efforts for a better world, we must make sure we remember.

sisko in ds9 saying "im tired of being calm, calm never got me a damn thing"

Star trek had a lot of hard lines over the years, but this remains the fucking hardest

YAY. Thank you!

Okay, a question: the last Star Wars-related thing I watched was {checks notes} Solo, i.e. I've seen all of the theatre-released films, including my fave rave Rogue One. But I haven't watched a second of any of the tv shows. Do I need to know anything about any of them to watch Andor? 🧐

a cartoon says that having fun isn't hard when you 've got a library card ALT: a cartoon says that having fun isn't hard when you 've got a library card

It’s National Library Week & here are a few things libraries have available outside of books:

Wifi, computer, & printer access
Musical instruments
Museum passes
Movies
Clubs & classes
Craft & science kits
Gardening tools & free seeds
Games & toys

Just some reasons to support our libraries.

Trump Said Cuts Wouldn’t Affect Public Safety. Then He Fired Hundreds of Workers Who Help Fight Wildfires. The White House and DOGE have sought to eliminate thousands of jobs from the Forest Service. The wildland firefighting force is one of many targets within the agency.

NEW: Trump said government cuts wouldn’t affect public safety. But staffing changes at the Forest Service have weakened an already strained firefighting force by hitting support staff who play crucial roles in preventing and battling blazes.

Fear has a way of being contagious.

But courage is also contagious.