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Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?

If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.

Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

in a heteronormative patriarchal culture, women are treated like fashionable accessories who enhance a man's status simply by standing near or being possessed by him in some way

let's not pretend that body trends are anything more than the marketing of the next Rolex or Lambo or whatever to dudes

🚨 EXTREMELY IMPORTANT ELECTION UPDATE 🚨

🚨 YOU MUST VOTE AT YOUR ASSIGNED PRECINCT 🚨

We are hearing that NEARLY 1/3RD of Dallas County voters are being turned away from polling locations because they are NOT at their assigned voting locations. #VOTE

When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.

In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.

And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.

The fetishization of a sickly level of thinness has reached such disturbing heights. I'm afraid for young women and girls who internalize this shit. It feels as bad as the 90s, when I was a teenager. I remember sitting in class and hearing very thin girls talk about how Cindy Crawford was "fat."

This is just the beginning. Universal child care is within reach — and we’re making it happen.

Black fluffy cat with big round eyes peeking from green hills, holding a small white flower, under a colorful textured sky with the text: “Stay hopeful, even now. Especially now.”

A tiny flower of hope for you 🐈‍⬛🌼

literally your customer base was 90% parents of young children who want a good future for their kids in which they can be free to be themselves, no matter who they are. you told those people to go fuck themselves. they won't be back

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There is a real enemy to fight in this moment, and it’s not each other. To me that’s the greatest tragedy of this time because I don’t know how we overcome this if we don’t work together.

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Obvious ai manipulation on the left. Original photo by David Batcheller on the right. Look at the wings, feather shape, head, neck and bill shape, lack of tail etc. This is way more than a filter and absolutely destroys the joy and wonder of the original.

So loads of people are sharing an obvious ai "glow up" of an actual photo. I never share ai stuff even to dunk, but in this case I'm sharing a comparison to show the problem. We have to stand against this slop at every level or it becomes normalised. They want us to stop caring. See alt text.

Ok listen, anyone stupid enough to think a tasty, simple and ‘easy when you’re low on spoons’ meal of ground beef and rice is “new”, “boy” coded in any way, or akin to “dog food” deserves to lose ALL their money to snake oil “influencers”. 🤣

WELL NOW, would you look at that?

A massive, 26-YEAR-LONG study of MORE THAN 2.4 MILLION people in Sweden found found NO EVIDENCE to support a causal link between acetaminophen (the API in Tylenol) use during pregnancy and increased risk of autism, ADHD, OR intellectual disability in children.

The existence of autistic folks like me or my son doesn’t need preventing. FFS. Democracy and science die in the void left by what was once a credible news source. Read the whole thread, and protect yourself from wallowing through the mountain of dreck WaPo has become.

If anyone wants to get a sense of the world GenXers grew up in, I’d highly recommend it.

I even discovered recently a serial killer victim was dumped in a field less than a mile from my house when I was 7, and there were several active in our immediate area. Makes me wonder if my parents knew.

Still working my way through Murderland (by Caroline Fraser) and oof, it’s very emotional.

I’m a couple of years younger than the author, but this is like taking a walk through my own childhood with adult eyes. I was in SoCal, not the PNW, but so many things were much the same.

A whole bunch of shiny rainbow dildo looking whistles, in honor of Minneapolis. I can not express what a pretext rainbow gradient this is.

One single glorious cock & balls whistle. They really went all out modeling this

I did it for the people, and for @lookitup.baby

YES you can request them at ConsensualDickWhistles.com, just make sure to explain you want the rainbow dick whistles. 😂 They worked very hard to make these perfect.

a doodle cat with narrowed eyes and a grumpy face. underneath, the handwritten text reads “GRRRRR”

the cat is stretching his leg, the handwritten caption below says “going for a walk”

the cat is now less grumpy, the text above and below it reads: “heck yeah. life is beautiful”

going for a silly little walk for my silly mental health

Watercolor doodle of a crow and a cat reaching out to touch each other's wing and paw

"The Creation of a Kitty"
#sketchbook #watercolor

The money would also be used to:

-Reverse the cuts to Medicaid

- Raise the minimum salary of every public school teacher to $60,000

- Expand Medicare to cover dental, vision, and hearing for seniors

- Build $850 billion of affordable housing

- Provide universal childcare

BREAKING: Today Bernie Sanders is proposing new legislation to raise $4.4 trillion in taxes from America’s billionaires — a move that would virtually cut their massive fortunes in half.

A chunk of the money raised would go toward sending a $3K stimulus check to every person earning under $150K.

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When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards

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no nazi shit
No Nazi Shit
NO NAZI SHIT
NO FUCKING NAZI SHIT

YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

So much bad news but just saw this guy & his lady are married. Needed this to end our day ..
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Gentle reminder that you don't have to fully boycott Amazon, just stop making it your default. Need socks? Lots of places sell socks. Need printer paper? Need rye flour? Many other options.

"This startup only sells through Amazon!"

Okay, buy that but don't buy the sneakers and coffee beans.

This is exceptionally thoughtful and well said.

GOOD NEWS! A UNIVERSAL sarbecovirus vaccine candidate has OFFICIALLY started clinical trials. GBP511 is the FIRST vaccine to reach human testing that is intended to protect against MULTIPLE strains of SARS-CoV-2 as well as other related coronaviruses with the potential to spark dangerous outbreaks.

I’ve been re-watching Revenge (old tv show from 2011-2015, Emily VanCamp, Gabriel Mann, Madeline Stowe) and ngl it’s helped a bit watching super rich assholes get taken out, usually by their own greed. 😈

Also re-watching X-Files at the same time (they were so young and cute!)👽

No votes on ANYTHING untill we vote on the War Powers Resolution.