Let's get real, it's Tara.

a) conflate "successful under capitalism" with "a good environment for kids to grow up in," which are two VERY different things.

And b) are unwilling to acknowledge that people they love can do harm, because they're afraid that would mean their loved ones are "bad people," so instead they deny it

My gen z daughter took me to the Mitski movie and it's quite moving to see these kids get into art like this. 😍

1/5 Trump was always just a way in for The Heritage Foundation and its junior Nazis like Stephen Miller and Russ Vought. But they're well aware they only slithered into power because of Trump's cult. They never could have pulled off their coup without those useful idiots. But Trump's decline is

If SNAP benefits vanished tomorrow, feeding 42 million Americans for a month would cost about $7.8 billion.That’s less than 1% of the combined net worth of the three richest men in the U.S. A reminder of how obscene inequality has become and how easily hunger could be solved if we chose to.

Good morning to everyone who won’t be spending their day rounding people up based on what they look like.

That's the strategy.

I don't know how many times I've said this to people - "Your opinion is not a fact, period." And, "your opinion is based on a lie - I don't debate lies?"

A lot of that goin' round.

A strange looking insect, looking like a crosd between a Praying mantis and a wasp, sits on a wooden frame against a wood panel

OMG I can't believe who has decided to grace my kitchen with its presence. My all time favorite insect - a mantidfly! Say's mantidfly, Dicromantispa sayii. Huge bonus that it'll eat the fruit flies. (I'm in northern IL and they don't survive the winter, so its free to live inside with me.) #Bugsky 🪲

Cheering on bank/railroad heir Timothy Mellon's $130 million "donation" to pay the military?

1) It's illegal. You can't earmark what a government donation goes to.

2) Using the money would violate the Antideficiency Act.

3) He is one of the largest MAGA donors. It is an obvious bribe.

A tweet from Morgan J. Freeman states: “FACT: Venezuela is NOT a major producer of cocaine. They do not have large cocaine factories. They do not produce fentanyl either. What Venezuela does have is the world’s largest oil reserves.”

Fentanyl and coke are the new “weapons of mass destruction” lie. It’s Iraq all over again, folks. It’s always about controlling the oil.

I want a restaurant that perfectly replicates the experience of the first time you go to a school friend's house for dinner. A plate of food where everything is just ever-so-slightly wrong, at a table with a family that is politely falling apart.

Flint pebble that fell out of a wall in Linton, Cambridgeshire and I picked up bc I thought it looked like the world's largest rodent. I added the eye with a fine liner pen

A photo of a mother and baby capybara nestling together affectionately

I found a capybara pebble🤎

also i’m not sad i’m just very aware of everything all the time forever

Officers in full military cosplay fire flashbangs or somesuch into a crowd of demonstrators in Oakland. Two protesters stand flat-footed in front of the officers, just a few feet away, hands at their sides, heads entirely hidden in smoke from the officers’ weapons. One officer has a noticeable wet spot on the crotch of his pants, plausibly urine or semen. A turquoise dinosaur in pink shoes walks unmolested behind the officers. Image credit: Jerome Palmer.

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If I can’t finish the dishes in the amount of time it takes to listen to Stairway To Heaven then there were entirely too many dishes.

I'll add Purple Rain and Maggot Brain to the list of options.

Nostalgia's okay, but it used to be better

a man with long hair and a beard wearing a white tank top is standing in front of a plane . Alt: Nicolas Cage in a white tank top and his long hair blowing in the wind, stands in front of a plane and gives a wink. The movie is Con Air and it is magnificent.

Oooh!

any time a politician answers a question with, "I don't know anything about what you asked about, but what I DO know is..." someone should come and just pie them in the fucking face because we didn't ask you about whatever the fuck talking point you had loaded and ready to go, so now you can eat pie

Man, a few lunges can do all that!

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Trump ignored every permitting law and approval required. The destruction is done, that cannot be saved.

BUT construction of a vanity ballroom larger than the White House can be STOPPED. The East Wing can be rebuilt more appropriately, historically.

Call your Sens & Reps (202) 224-3121

Calling an audible: no more “they’re not acting like they intend to cede power.” I can accept “we need to be prepared” but 99% of the time people say it, it’s sad sack doomer shit, and it’s rhetorically capitulating in advance.

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It was SUCH a good show!!!! His stamina is inspiring.

i chased down someone who dropped their keys earlier today and now i just turned in someone’s lost wallet, too. what’s next, a baby? a baby with powers that I have to raise with good morals so it doesn’t go all brightburn? or worse a plain baby

I'm very picky these days about the shows I'll go to. This year's lineup: Weird Al with my son, Reneé Rapp with my daughter, and Lady Blackbird for myself. Gaga's playing on my birthday but the prices are out of reach. Sigh.

Ikr?! Cats in businesses is for sure the one thing that helps me get over my social anxiety.

All they do is troll troll troll