Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesnβt want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.
20.10.2025 22:56 β π 16299 π 4781 π¬ 387 π 162
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A lot of FAKE OUTRAGE over construction of the big, beautiful (and privately funded) White House Ballroom.
FACT: Presidents have been renovating and expanding the White House for more than 100 years.
In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt built the West Wing.
In 1909, President William Howard Taft added the first Oval Office during a West Wing expansion.
The White House keeps making a big deal of the fact that the ballroom is privately funded but thatβs one of the worst things about it.
These people and companies are buying influence. None of this is okay.
21.10.2025 00:09 β π 1451 π 412 π¬ 81 π 17
ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own.
Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.
20.10.2025 19:02 β π 6440 π 2258 π¬ 139 π 82
are people seriously unable to rotate "the ACA is exponentially better than the nightmare we had before it" and "the ACA fell far short of what should be considered an adequate healthcare system for a country with this level of wealth" simultaneously?
what the hell are we doing here, y'all
20.10.2025 19:05 β π 475 π 80 π¬ 5 π 3
BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases.
Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.
20.10.2025 19:35 β π 14065 π 4458 π¬ 222 π 198
While we spectate on The East Wing being torn down, it isnβt just another hallway, itβs where Eleanor Roosevelt built the modern Office of the First Lady, where WWII bunkers were hidden, and where the public enters the Peopleβs House. Erasing it is rewriting history.
20.10.2025 19:58 β π 7148 π 2789 π¬ 426 π 139
It's properly autumnal today. Wind rustling the changing leaves in cool gusts while crows dance along the rooftops to investigate the local gardens.
20.10.2025 20:50 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
The βviral photos and videos of animals acting cute or interesting with people or each otherβ industry has been destroyed by AI. The last few examples Iβve seen of this have been AI. I have a feeling slop will further derail a pop culture understanding of animal biology and behavior
20.10.2025 13:48 β π 1057 π 127 π¬ 30 π 26
I think a big confusion here is...like, advocating for your views, and criticizing people for failing to uphold your values, isn't kicking them out of the tent?
like, saying "Gavin Newsom is a transphobic ass" in no way prevents Gavin Newsom from voting or acting against Trump. 1
20.10.2025 14:59 β π 198 π 24 π¬ 10 π 3
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
HOW DO you EXCUSE THIS?
youtube.com/shorts/WlNZB...
The radical young magas scurry when the light is turned onβ¦
20.10.2025 15:02 β π 7 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
Resistance continues every day, when rapid response and mutual aid groups protect their neighbors, when professionals walk out instead of compromising their ethics, when we stage economic boycotts of complicit companies and social boycotts of those who help terrorize our communities. 6/6
19.10.2025 19:02 β π 72 π 17 π¬ 0 π 0
Okay so the ACA started getting implemented in 2014. That's almost 12 years of people having a degree of coverage previously unattainable by many.
That's a whole generation of people going from 18 to 30.
Is that REALLY the voting bloc you want to alienate?
20.10.2025 15:06 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0
re: no kings being a "party not a protest," ...the one i went to had longtime city community organizers speaking, an entire tent dedicated to jury duty info, multiple labor unions turning out in force, and the speaker of the house is currently getting his panties in a wad about it on national TV
20.10.2025 14:20 β π 153 π 38 π¬ 1 π 0
Some of the online friends I've had the longest are people I bonded with over Discworld back in the days of LiveJournal.
20.10.2025 15:13 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
A dragon that is enthusiastic about eels.
20.10.2025 15:11 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I just want to say once, to get it out of my system:
"Apart" means not part of, away from.
"A part" means included in.
I keep seeing apart used incorrectly in articles.
19.10.2025 15:34 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 3 π 0
While I know what they mean, it is nevertheless unsettling to see travel videos where they promise to eat all of the latest viral foods.
18.10.2025 02:49 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I still have a debilitatingly painful issue that's been a problem for about 2 years that docs want a specific test for, but United Healthcare says no.
The standard test for this could unalive me due to Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. UHC doesn't care. If you can't do basic tests only, UHC wants you dead.
17.10.2025 15:25 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
I'll take my shot at refutation.
I don't hate America. I loathe everything you and your kind is doing to undermine and destroy its honor, promise and humanity. So I will join with millions of others in dissent, which is the most American thing there is.
You lying, fearmongering, cowardly trash.
17.10.2025 15:04 β π 1865 π 473 π¬ 131 π 38
The people around Donald Trump are taking advantage of his diminished capacity to break the law.
Whatever they do now, we wonβt forget β and we will hold them accountable.
17.10.2025 15:13 β π 3691 π 1059 π¬ 306 π 63
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act at the Supreme Court
The Supreme Court is considering whether a key provision of the Voting Rights Act remains constitutional.
Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act has protected fair representation for 60 years. Now the Supreme Court is weighing whether it should survive. bit.ly/42LuCLV
17.10.2025 15:14 β π 31 π 19 π¬ 0 π 1
Folks on the right scream about how their tax dollars being used for social programs is βtheftβ
That they do not βconsentβ to helping the disabled, the homeless or the poor
Yet when thousands of people in Arizona are being taxed without representation because Grijalva canβt get sworn in?
Crickets
17.10.2025 03:28 β π 390 π 94 π¬ 14 π 0
Gov. Pritzker: "Anyone who is protesting and not doing so peacefully or is committing a crime when doing so should be held accountable for their actions...We have so many peaceful protesters, and you're going to see it on Saturday."
16.10.2025 17:10 β π 2729 π 622 π¬ 65 π 25
I don't a) want to hear from fascists or b) believe that fascists want to hear from me or are going to read anything I write. Why should I be on a platform with them? So I can hear about all the people they think are sub human? I'm good without that, actually.
16.10.2025 17:14 β π 221 π 15 π¬ 10 π 0
I'm using up the last of my super vibrant conditioning glazes with the idea of phasing that out and just going back to the Tudor gold color it was intended to be.
16.10.2025 17:19 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
No, we don't want "free" healthcare.
We want universal healthcare paid for by our taxes that covers everyone and leaves no one bankrupted and sick.
This isnβt difficult to comprehend.
16.10.2025 16:09 β π 494 π 175 π¬ 22 π 7
Sorry, America.
No health insurance for you.
No Education Department.
No cancer research.
No CDC.
No EPA.
NO FEMA.
No public housing or mental healthcare.
Argentina needs the dough.
16.10.2025 14:45 β π 371 π 156 π¬ 12 π 8
Strange men on golf courses distributing tariffs is no basis for a system of government. Bring back the women lying in ponds.
08.04.2025 20:09 β π 1009 π 288 π¬ 23 π 8
Toe BEANNNNNZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!
16.10.2025 16:37 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
A straw bale with several pumpkins of various shapes and sizes
Did you know: Pumpkins are native to the Americas and were domesticated by indigenous peoples around 9,000 years ago, so we have them to thank
for everything pumpkin π π±π
#indigenouspeoplesday #funfact #fall
13.10.2025 14:34 β π 105 π 21 π¬ 0 π 1
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