Cassandra and the Infinite Doomscroll

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

You CANNOT spend FSA money on health care premiums, and if you’re self-employed or unemployed you don’t even have a fucking FSA.

How do so many democrats still not understand that the ACA *was* the compromise.

Painting of a black cat with golden eyes looking down at the viewer. The artist's signature and @joyousjoyfuljoyness watermark are at the bottom.

The portrait that launched my Close Encounters Collection, "Golden Eyes." I think he's saying, "Perish."

#blackcat #art #cat #painting #catart

US Congress: Arguing over whether poor people deserve to eat.

US churches: running soup drives to feed poor people one cheap meal a week

US bootlickers:

Our politicians did more to regulate Prince and Twisted Sister songs than glacier melting chatbots that promote suicide

the trinity (father, son, holy ghost)

YouTube video by Anthony Vincent System of a Down - Toxicity (in the style of Queen)

It sure is a day.

The goal.

Watch how government ‘propaganda’ techniques portray Chicago as a city at war with the feds The government’s social media storytelling doesn’t always match what’s happening across the city and suburbs. The diverging sources of information are creating “parallel universes," Professor Nick Cul...

Very important investigatiom. These are the techniques by which people become persuaded that, some day, people like you and me need to die, to preserve their safety.

If you can stomach it, check into right-wing media occasionally.

Don't look away.

chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

Did you even read the article cited? He never actually said that! That NYT article is deliberately misrepresenting his position and is counting on others to do the antisemitic accusation of "double loyalty"

Israel in Judaism can refer to the Jewish people, our spiritual homeland, or the actual physical country itself. And these are three separate things.

And NYT is counting on folks to not know this and come to antisemitic conclusions.

Dems took multiple votes in 2021-2022 on the Freedom to Vote Act, which would ban partisan gerrymandering, and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, which would (re-)ban racial gerrymandering. Republicans blocked them every time.

I’m quite amazed that all the people concerned that Mamdani’s election is going to potentially lead to a spike in antisemitic incidents are completely ignoring the very real and frightening spike in antisemitic incidents that’s occurred ever since Trump was elected

Unannounced Child "Wellness Checks" by Armed Federal Agents Raise Concerns - Institute for Public Service Reporting - Memphis % % %

Federal immigration cops are using "wellness checks" on minors as a ruse to get into homes and arrest people for alleged immigration violations. In this case, an alleged check on a 17-year-old let them arrest his 22-year-old brother, who was brought here at 11 and has protected status.

"What radicalized you"

Nothing really, its just that society had redefined radicalized to mean "Basic Fucking Human Empathy"

A rain-slick backalley containing two men, both tall and dressed predominantly in black, each walking a cat on a leash

Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover

ICYMI – For my first original Access Granted report, I spoke with disabled players unable to afford the continuous rising prices of games, systems, and tech. If these trends continue, they say the disabled community will undoubtably be alienated from gaming. Read more here:

I want you to think about the worst person you know and how miserable they are

and use that as motivation to keep going

we are going to win

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

Because it’s cis kids.
The NHS will quite casually give cis kids whatever treatment they need, even PBs👇
No trials. No concerns about side effects. No moral panic.

I declare a redo. Let's just squeeze in Second October before December gets here.

I LOVE that this woman in Georgia decided to terrorize her neighbors with the Fall Of Democracy and Trump's Ghouls (in poetic detail) instead of your usual demons and monsters.

She said, "It's scary because it's true."

/3 But a huge plurality, at least, of the modern GOP is of the opinion that noticing bigoted trash is more un-American and destructive than BEING bigoted trash: that dehumanizing fellow Americans based on immutable characteristics is morally superior to criticizing anyone for doing that.

It should not be understated how much clever shit like this actually annihilates morale at places like ICE/CBP.

Getting made fun of like this on national television while people laugh at you is.. well, you may call it victory wine, but it ain't.

If you want to say "inshallah" but you're a white American, try this one instead: "the good lord willin' and the creek don't rise"

just tack it onto the end of any hopeful sentence to acknowledge that we are all humbled by the power of god and/or the creek after a rain

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Two tall, skeletal figures occupy the foreground; they appear to be female and statues. The nearest one has a drawer in her chest and another set of drawers embedded down her left leg. Both statues are supported by... Look, it's Salvador Dali. There is far too much going on here to describe, and it's all incredibly weird. The pertinent point is that in the background, there is also a giraffe that is on fire and doesn't seem too troubled by that.

Art of the evening, as determined by me: Salvador Dali's "Burning Giraffe" (because there was one, except as an animate topiary, straight from the Overlook Hotel).

Song of the evening, determined unanimously by the players: "'Yakety Sax played in a minor key" (eg share.google/yyE11yGi8DX1...)