Mel

You're not a shitposter just because what you post is absolute shit

I don't even live near NYC, but I want Cuomo to lose by such a HUMILIATING margin that he stays out of the public eye in disgrace.

I mean. That's nice, but he isn't actually DOING anything. The VT Pride center lost all state funding (so its shutting down for now) and he JUST did the thing of making all state employees do RTO despite it being unpopular. Let's see him actually DO something against the fascism and we'll talk.

People keep trying to assure us civilians not to worry, but come on now.

The forces aren't on the side of the civilians and they never were. Military propaganda is a hell of a drug and this isn't at all surprising.

ICE Is 'Making War' On Broadview — And It Must Stop, Suburban Mayor Says Broadview Mayor Katrina Thompson released a public letter Friday to Russell Hott, the local field office director for Homeland Security, criticizing federal agents' use of tear gas and rubber bullets ...

"Federal agents are endangering neighbors, police + firefighters with their “relentless” use of tear gas, pepper spray + rubber bullets....A sniper with rubber bullets at the top of the ICE facility...shot protesters, breaking another building’s window..." blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/26/i...

This is a whole mood. I work in tech-ed, not pure tech, but its the same vibes. Current environment just like "Objective: Survive as and maybe toss some money at other queers as much as you can"

Hi, I served in Afghanistan: this is an obscenity and a perversion against both Christianity and America. Fuck this shit forever. Thanks.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

My wife and I play D&D to calm down and feel some joy. Like... So much D&D. She jokes that every time she gets stressed at politics, she adds another queer person as an NPC. It's a very queer world at this point, lol.

I'm still not convinced that Sierra Mist wasn't just carbonated used dishwater. Starry is just carbonated fresh dishwater with a splash of lemon.

What happened to Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez Immigration agents shot and killed an unarmed 38-year-old father outside Chicago on Friday—and their initial narrative of events was quickly disproven by videos captured by witnesses.

New, w/ @mulchy.bsky.social & @djbyrnes1.bsky.social:

ICE shot & killed an immigrant in the Chicago suburbs yesterday.

Then they immediately gave a misleading account of events.

Chicago erupted in chaos and a father who lived here for decades is dead. This is what really happened:

What an expertly called shot

Oh, hey.

Visa and Mastercard now say you can't pay for WoW. Magic the Gathering. FFXIV. DnD. Lord of the Rings. Because they're all "adult" content against their ToS just for being "fantasy".

Let that sink in.

Spread this like wildfire and have people in those circles call them. No quarter.

hi gay artists in my phone

Weird. When I sit down at my computer, I can't ever find the "art" button. Its always shit like "open new document" or "brush tool" or "layer settings." Then I have to like... Do stuff and make pixels different colors or write words with my own brain.

Maybe I'm doing it wrong?

Hello from Washington DC, where hundreds of people and what seems like an unreasonable amount of police are assembling for the We Are All DC March

This is the first pre-planned, DC-focused protest since the occupation began. Let's see how this goes

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It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

Astonishing nobody, it turns out that the Abundance movement is the brainchild of far-right billionaires, including Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen.

Trump DOJ is looking at ways to ban transgender Americans from owning guns, sources say | CNN Politics Senior Justice Department officials are weighing proposals to limit transgender people’s right to possess firearms, according to two officials familiar with the internal discussions.

Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

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Solidarity among the working class is essential for building collective power and effecting transformative change.

Only through solidarity and collective action can the working class challenge the entrenched structures of capital and build a more just and equitable society for all.

Teach 'em young

Front page of the "mutant watch 2000" website

an article with the headline "HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE HITS FOURTEEN CONSECUTIVE HOME RUNS"

Part of the marketing for the 2000 X-Men movie was a fake campaign site for an bigoted senator full of articles on the mutant threat, including one about how mutants need to be stopped ... because of their unfair advantage in high school sports.

I share this CYOA ending every couple of months, because it comes to my mind every time.

listen, i am no fancy lawyer, but i am somewhat skeptical that “this would make us look really fucking stupid” is an effective legal defense. bold take, i know.

The picture describes the AI slop they're trying to push with white text on a blue background. Picture text: Liberal Abundance Deliver on liberal commitments to building prosperity, growth, and effective government. Goals: • Remove regulations that redistribute wealth upwards or slow building • Reform the government and other liberal institutions that have • become paralyzed and ineffective • Support science and technology with the ability to deliver a better future The third bullet, "become paralyzed and ineffective" is highlighted.

Well they must have, they got the most important goal for many liberals. 😐

Good god, this whole thing is such slop, i hate it.

This is gorgeous, I love the color scheme! Seeing your stuff in my timeline always rules.

Sigh. Here we go. A lot of people who aren't in America want to know why Americans aren't protesting *squints* every single minute of the day. Let's break this down, shall we? Keep in mind, l have a shit ton of work to do, but I'm completely willing to take like five minutes and explain this. REPLYING TO: montrealforreal So why aren't you in the streets every single minute of the day. Oh right, you can't miss your Netflix shows. theeverywhereist o 3h 1/ First and foremost: Americans are protesting. Sorry if you don't see it. Sorry if the news isn't covering it. But people everywhere are rallying, speaking out in town halls, trying to get a hold of politicians who LITERALLY ARE AVOIDING THEM, calling, and doing whatever else they fucking can. Maybe the bigger question is why isn't that getting any coverage? theeverywhereist o 3h 2/ America doesn't have a lot of social services, and Trump is gutting even more. So the ways in which a lot of us are being active and protesting this fucking administration might not be in a way that is visible to you. It's donating to our local foodbanks, LGBTQ+ organizations, local women's shelters, abortion funds, and other groups that we know are being hit hard by cuts to federal funding and support. Sorry that's not sufficient for you but we're in fucking triage mode here.

theeverywhereist o 3h ..• 3/ Our police are militarized. I don't know how to explain this any clearer: our police are armed to the fucking hilt. Riot gear. Armored cars. Arsenals. I live in a blue city in a blue county in a blue state and the Seattle police force sent more officers to the JANUARY SIXTH RIOTS THAN ANY OTHER PD. Our police forces overwhelmingly support Trump. Oh, and his supporters have weapons, too. We're still protesting but it is fraught as hell. And if someone is scared to? I'm gonna respect that. theeverywhereist a 3h 4/ Our health care is tied to employment. This is true for almost everyone I know. And yes, getting sick (even minorly) in this country can bankrupt you. I had major surgery a few years ago, and the adjusted price for it was like $200k if I didn't have insurance. So people cannot take time off of their jobs or they will literally lose their insurance. And people don't have support like daycare or family to help them if they've got kids. Hell, we don't even have mandatory parental leave. 5/12 theeverywhereist @ 3h 5/ Our country is fucking huge. Do you know how long it would take me to get to a protest in DC? More than 5 hours. BY PLANE. If I flew out with a week's notice (unlikely for a protest) | would pay about $700. l'd have to stay at a hotel because I don't fucking live in DC. So we're talking thousands of dollars and days off work to go protest in the capitol. But let's say that someone did do that. There would be a big issue, and that would be ...

6/ The president has fucking militarized DC. Oh, and also, he doesn't give a shit. Protest works when your elected officials are beholden to their constituents. These ones are not. They don't fucking care. 7/12 theeverywhereist @ 3h 7/ The broken system is designed to protect itself. The electoral college is really fucking stupid, but you know what it's great at? Protecting itself. Ditto for gerrymandering. The amazing thing about these systems is that they are excellent at being bulletproof. And they've been in place for hundreds of fucking years. It's not supposed to be reflective of the interests of the people - so why would the interests of the people be able to change it? 8/12 theeverywhereist @ 3h 8/ Lobbying is legal in America. And SuperPACs mean elections can be bought. At the end of the day, elected officials are beholden to the people who pay their bills, not their constituents. Thanks to SuperPACs, if you have money, you can essentially give endless amounts of it to a politicians campaign (see: Elon, who had a SuperPAC that consisted of only him, that donated a quarter of a billion dollars to Trump in the weeks before the election).

9/ The country is really big. I know I said it, but I'm saying it again. It takes me 7 hours to visit family. By plane. If I drive for three hours north, do you know what state I'm in? I AM IN THE SAME STATE I WAS IN. And this is advantageous to Trump, because if people are spread out, it's hard for them to assemble in large groups. So, yeah, it's going to look really fragmented to you. I have no solution for that. Maybe if I drive south for three hours NO I AM STILL IN THE SAME STATE. theeverywhereist o 3h I get that you are fucking angry. I'm livid. This shit is terrifying. Every week my goal is to try to support my community in some small way. I try to have some small form of resistance, even if it's just buying school supplies for the local shelter that is in need. It's small shit but whatever. It's something. And yeah, sometimes I watch fucking TV. Because it helps me stay sane. And if you're sad and exhausted all the time, you're useless in a fight. 11/12 theeverywhereist o 2h P.S. - I want to say something else. None of this is an excuse to do nothing. But it's because I know how hard people are fighting that I feel like I need to explain what's going on. No one is happy about this. And it must be fucking hell to watch from outside because it's hell to watch from the inside. But please don't alienate Americans by thinking we all want this. That's how authoritarianism really takes hold.

this (from the brilliant @everywhereist.bsky.social) puts into words the big black tangle of frustration i have whenever i get the same question

i just think "dont let the perfect be the enemy of the good" is the kind of idiom you trot out when someone is baking cakes, and not when it comes to deciding if one should support a political party actively trying to legislate you out of existence

Yeah, this is the take. The reason we don’t get UBI outside of experiments here or there is BECAUSE they work so well.

If they work well, then people are less poor. If people are less poor, those in power have less leverage to dangle poverty over our heads as a form of social control.

It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices Plans to abolish Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act could have dire consequences for games.

Not shocked at all.

A reminder that everything is political; if you think that politics won't affect you, think again.