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This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

If he ruins the Lucille Bluth banana joke I will never forgive him

financial advice in a weird time:

-- develop a plan
-- find friends who support you
-- preferably 10 of them
-- steal $160 million from the Bellagio, the Mirage, and the MGM Grand
-- yes those are Terry Benedict's casinos
-- get your wife back
-- one of the friends should be Don Cheadle btw

simple

The reason DEI exists is so that competent, qualified people don't get passed over in favor of mediocre incompetent white men who had a well-connected buddy.

Or so that utter morons who share war plans on the group chat don't hire their brother and get away with it bc they're white dudes.

If any of these are your representatives, urge them to divest from Tesla: Josh Gottheimer (D-N.J.), Vicente Gonzalez (D-Texas), Gil Cisneros (D-Calif.), Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), Pat Ryan (D-N.Y.), Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), Adam Smith (D-Wash.), and Dwight Evans (D-Pa.).

It’s very discouraging to watch our country slowly re-learn the lessons that led to the end of segregation, among them that people who think they’re racially superior are nearly universally incompetent fools unable to face up to their own deficiencies and putting them in charge is suicide

Coalition building is not the same as pandering to people's worst bigotries in the hopes they'll like you.

Oh, we’re at “The Jungle” stage of recreating The Gilded Age. Cool.

The fact that I had to double check this was satire because it seems so plausible 🤦🏼‍♀️

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

It's not complicated. They're just trying to stop women from being able to vote.

Gulf of Mexico - Wikipedia

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Jalen Hurts got everyone in bed at a decent time on a school night because he cares about the teachers

SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS!
THIS ONE’S FOR YOU PHILLY!

a good part of me thinks that in addition to everything else, the reason they are scrubbing these stories is they do not want disadvantaged kids to believe they can aspire to anything other than their designated “black” or “hispanic” or “woman” job

It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break.

🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

I wonder why democrat politicians who will continue to get rich through insider trading no matter what don't feel the same sense of urgency as the rest of us

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive):

1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment*

2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything

3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can

4. Citizens march en mass

I did my taxes in 27 minutes last weekend and my refund is already here. For folks worried about the Treasury chicanery…

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

i think people who complain about the language police are, by and large, just cowards. say whatever you want! no one is going to stop you. but people may judge you or even, if you say the wrong thing in front of the wrong person, pop you in the mouth. but that’s life!

Trump Administration Defends Federal Grants Freeze as Medicaid Portal Goes Down: Live Updates (Gift Article)

So premature babies less than 1.200 g can’t get their Medicaid approved? Like what in the event loving fuck is the fallout here? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

The Day of Our Divorce Hearing you treated me to lunch, a spaghetti place. We had never been so kind to each other. When you said I'm still a slob we laughed. After lunch we stood in the parking lot. You said, You have the last word but I said, No, I'm tired of being the one who sums things up. You get the last word. But you couldn't think of one. So off you went to our silver car, I to our red one. It's three years later. And even that's just a story now. Lately I don't feel as if I lived with you. But I remember our kindness that day, when it no longer mattered.

This poem made me stop in my tracks.

It truly didn't matter how much I was warned and how much people older than me were talking about it. I simply could not have been prepared for how much I started to care about fiber in my 40s.

TRUE STORY: Every morning I get up, and I do all my stupid NYT games (except Letter Boxed because I don’t like it) plus Immaculate Grid. And once I’ve won every game, I quietly say to myself “yayyy I’m the greatest person who ever lived”