Sesame Street really tells the story of America:

- Created for PBS to educate young (especially Black!) children
- Becomes a beloved institution cherished by the entire country
- Gets privatized and kicked to premium cable due to budget cuts
- Unionization leads to mass layoffs

What a country!

Just one day after unionizing, Sesame Workshop’s CEO announced layoffs, per a note to staff shared with me

Duane Puryear holding the AIDS quilt panel he completed before his death. It reads "MY NAME IS DUANE KEARNS PURYEAR. I WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 20, 1964. I WAS DIAGONISED WITH AIDS ON SEPTEMBER 7, 1987 AT 4:45 PM. I WAS 22 YEARS OLD. SOMETIMES, IT MAKES ME VERY SAD. I MADE THIS PANEL MYSELF. IF YOU ARE READING IT. I AM DEAD..."

Every time some elected democrat sucks off Reagan, I think about Duane.

so i don’t know if susan collins knows this but she belongs to a body that has the constitutionally designated power to tell HHS to stop making these cuts because they do not have the authority to unilaterally refuse to spend congressional appropriations.

i've seen a lot of people blaming the electorate for the disaster we are now facing but it is underrated how much the past four years have been elites talking themselves into doing this on purpose.

just spoke to a @mcclellan.house.gov staffer in her dc office who told me she hasn't even cooked up an official statement on elon musk's illegal weekend takeover of usaid et al. it's monday morning at 10am, can't even hazard a "that's bad, we're gonna do something about it." pretty cool?

i think we need to reexamine the economic system that allowed one person to accumulate enough wealth to literally purchase the us government

There will not be “free and fair” US elections in 2026 or 2028, but the Assholes are not omnipotent or popular - they only won with 30% of the population, which is their support ceiling across the decade.

Must've talked to hundreds of federal officials this week. One motivating factor in them reaching out, I'm told, is feeling like Congress is useless

this is on the home page of the ny times right now.

Image of Hind Rajab wearing a crown of flowers with the text: One year since the martyrdom of Hind Rajab 5 year old murdered by the zionist entity Jan. 29th 2024 "This is the most difficult feeling, to lose your daughter. This is her weapon, a crown that she was wearing." Wissam Hamadah, Hind's mother

Hind Rajab was murdered by an IDF tank one year ago today along with several members of her family.

While she was dying, the paramedics who came to rescue her were murdered in their ambulance by an IDF tank as well.

The Palestinian flag is now raised in the middle of Gaza City. ❤️🇵🇸

Biden and Harris had a year to decide whether or not they wanted victory over Trump or victory over every innocent baby and child in Gaza and they made their choice.

The remote work debate was funny because it forced the question "Is a job something valuable you do or is it a place you go to be watched like daycare" and the answer for a lot of them was yeah it's the daycare thing now come on inside recess is over

There’s a particularly evil strain of liberal/progressivism that is rooting for things to get worse in Gaza simply so they can do an “I told you so.” At any point in time Biden could’ve actually flexed US muscle and said knock it the fuck off but he just kept adding fuel to the fire. Own it.

we have a president with a tenuous grip on small legislative majorities who is out of the gate with a flurry of dramatically unpopular orders and who has just demonstrated his weakness on the international stage. if i were an elected member of his domestic opposition, i might try to draw real blood.

Wow, it's almost like Trump is enacting a radical, incredibly unpopular agenda that he never mentioned or explicitly denied during the campaign, and the Democrats and press are so mentally committed to servile accommodationism that they're pretending he has a sweeping mandate for that agenda!

Every day it breaks my heart to know that this level of misery is being inflicted on people, and that it's being done with American tax dollars that could be providing care for sick instead of slaughtering them.

Me: *tip toeing mischievously toward MRI machine*

Health insurance company (hands on hips): Stop right there mister! Is that medically necessary?

Me (kicking dirt): No

Gold Banner on Red Background: Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!

How Sunday Morning News Shows Promote an Anti-Palestinian Agenda for Washington Since October 2023, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union have not featured a single Palestinian guest.

"Since October 2023, NBC’s Meet the Press, ABC’s This Week, and CNN’s State of the Union have not featured a single Palestinian guest."

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

is there a non congress job where you can not show up for 6 months and still get paid

he's a 78 year old incoming president via historically narrow margins promising fascism while ineligible for another term with a single vote to spare in the house, any democrat who looks at that situation and with a straight face says "we have to work with them" deserves to be ejected from the party

Why I am fine with Eat the Rich:

Jeff Bezos announcing that he's marrying his next wife, Lauren Sanchez, in a lavish $600m ceremony. They live in Florida. $600m would cover 2 years of FL k-12 free lunch programs. Last year the state discontinued the office that helped schools file for free lunches.

The mystery is not why we Irish have responded to Israel’s barbarism. It’s why others have not I don’t believe in the idea of being on the right side of history. The histories of the future are none of our concern. Our concern is the present

"Why should Ireland be a special case? Perhaps I flatter myself, but I’d like to think that even if I were British, or American, or German, or Dutch, I would still be able to look at the campaign of slaughter and destruction Israel is waging, and see it for the moral outrage that it is."

Luigi Mangione receives 87 pieces of mail and 163 donations while behind bars Exclusive: The murder suspect has received over 100 pieces of mail since being taken into custody

People have been putting money in his commissary account and trying to donate money to a legal defense fund. He probably doesn't need it.

But if you're moved, you can donate to OTHER prisoners' commissaries www.thecommissaryfund.org

You can also request TCF funds for your incarcerated loved ones

when you’re definitely not the bad guys

Notice again articles about deportations never bother interviewing or seeking comment from any impacted party, no migrants or migrant rights groups. The sources here are entirely ICE. DHS, Republicans and Biden officials. The humans on the other end of these policies simply don’t register at all