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From a European perspective, it’s the weirdest medieval thing to hear a modern nation using God and Christianity as justification for military strikes.

As an American with an interest in medieval European history, I can't say I'm a fan of how it usually ends. It's just as weird on this side.

The Amazon commercial with the treadmill, the college kid and the Collective Soul track:

1 - is a personal attack, minus the treadmill
2 - Dad figure there is about 10 years too old for Collective Soul, imo.

Took an hour cut at work to keep my insurance, but lost the SNAP part because of the shutdown. I work a register, and i expect a bunch of folks to be out of pocket tomorrow. Bitch, i am "those people."
I need a pin that says "College dropout. History major, PoliSci minor. Just don't."

I gotta be real, I did not suspect we would reach "roving mobs of white folks chanting "shame" at ICE" within 9 months, and it really feels like a sign of how much more horrifying it must be on the ground than those of us not there can even imagine.

when the manager is not actually going to do anything but he's letting you vent

They literally ruin everything they touch

I'll just sit here and wait for parent drop-off to finish, because im not backing out into that entitled line of jerks. Even if the reverse lights were on, id still be sitting here. I know where i live.

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"I got 7 left, but its end of month and a weekend. Just trying to stay ahead of things since the government is actively starving us. I cry a lot." - me, tryna refill my anxiety meds. This is the first time they ever put an extra refill on it.

Reminder for Pennsylvania voters!

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

today i spoke to students at CUNY graduate school of journalism and the professor started things off by quoting my own words to me: “tom homan is a bitch.”

a landmark moment.

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Had doctor's appt. Put weight on. Quit smoking, firstborn moved 2,000 miles away. Betty Crocker and Little Debbie are my current bffs. Get off my balls, at least i can pinpoint the problem.

A colored drawing of the Elmo meme with Arson!! written over his head.

This one came from Kid1 in 2022. Not the assignments, either one. Spare time projects. The Nic Cage one might be involved in a printmaking project for actual school, though. We'll see.

A black and white marker drawing of Nic Cage from the meme. It reads "you don't say" at the top.

Kid2 takes an art class in town in the fall. Today, i got this.

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

what fire has been ceased, exactly

Human Resources is there to protect your employer. Not you.

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But many Salt Lake City service providers expressed anxiety about the plan. The proposed site is near the airport, in a remote spot where pasture is gradually giving way to industrial warehouses. The nearest public bus stop is about two miles away, an hour’s walk over stretches of road that have no sidewalks. “What makes you think anybody’s going to stay there?” said Dr. Plumb, the Democratic state senator. “Oh, excuse me — they don’t have the right to leave. That’s what is going to make them stay there.” Among the biggest outstanding questions about the project is how to pay for it. Mr. Shumway has estimated $75 million in construction costs, followed by yearly operating costs of $34 million. Some of the costs might be trimmed by offering mental health care on an outpatient basis, through a federal clinic Mr. Shumway hopes to locate there. He has also proposed redirecting about $17 million in federal homelessness grants now overseen by community groups and largely used for housing. “If you start fiddling with that money, you’re going to be pulling people out of housing into homelessness,” Josh Romney, son of the Republican former Senator Mitt Romney and the chair of Shelter the Homeless, a nonprofit organization that owns the city’s existing shelters, warned the services board last month.

you know things are bad when Romney's son is like "you guys are going to take money to intern the homeless?"

is this good

An America centibillionaire is using the $44 billion media platform he owns to stoke political violence in the UK in cahoots with a Malaysian shitposter but Americans are supposed to believe that a handful of six figure grants by George Soros to anti-racist NGOs will end Western Civilization.

I told him that I was born in Russia and was a writer. He showed me a list he’d written of his favourite desserts in the city. It was a sober hobby he’d started during the pandemic, going to restaurants by himself, sampling sweets. He made a lot of lists, he said, most of them food-related. I asked what other kinds he made. “Lists of lies liberal white women tell about Donald Trump,” he replied. Suddenly, his leg was shaking. He grabbed the edges of the table and raised his voice: “White, liberal women are a plague on our society.” He proceeded to drink 11 iced coffees.

A writer tried dating alt-right men as an experiment to learn about them. There is so much going on here I don't even know where to start

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I am so flabbergasted & tearful & grateful & JUST REALLY EMOTIONAL over everything that’s happened around this so-special pup since this saga started on…good god, how was it only Wednesday morning?

That it has meant as much to so many of you fills me up to the brim.

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I also do this. Have since '99 when someone at school turned me on to it. We lived in Florida, she told me it was Dutch in origin. I dunno, it was tasty enough i kept at it for almost thirty years.

Anecdote: grandma had my sister often. Grandma made her eat the crusts on her sandwich. Some years go by, and our uncle gets married to a lady with a kid slightly younger than my sister. She cut the crusts of Tyra's sandwich. Sister mad about that for years.

I have a living grandmother, but we've never been close, so it was no problem to go "well, don't be a racist piece of shit," yesterday when she was being out of pocket. All of your grandparents were immigrants. All four. Stfu.

It was the year 1993.

Every man, woman and child in America had the same mission.

Make a dick joke about the movie title Free Willy.