Kendra 😷 🇵🇸

I feel more like this with every passing year.

We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.

We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.

look I know being an engaged citizen IS the work of democracy but it is also the work of elected officials not to create situations where everyone has to be mobilized all the time to prevent them from allowing some kind of Dickensian horror on a Sunday night while you're in between loads of laundry

it does seem like there’s a major—though potentially fleeting—opportunity to invest in left-wing media. more than a million people in the most populous city in america just enthusiastically elected a democratic socialist and the world is watching. putting $$ towards left media rn is good business.

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

Mayor Mamdani redefines what it means to hope His victory has created a harsh contrast between the world we want and the world we have.

"Hope is not blind optimism or uncritical belief in a political savior. Hope, to me, means the ability to imagine a better world is possible and then work to build it brick by brick. It is, as @prisonculture.bsky.social says, not an emotion but a discipline—one we must practice every single day."

you can win without billionaires supporting you

you can win without party leadership endorsing you

you can win unapologetically standing with every persecuted minority pundits say are too politically toxic to touch

we could do everything about this process differently if we wanted to

Same three, Western Massachusetts

You don’t have to mourn war criminals. You don’t have to issue condolences to their families.
You don’t have to launder their legacies.

Save your grief for the innocents they killed, maimed or tortured without ever seeing justice served to their executioners.

Do something Dick Cheney would have hated and help a Palestinian family ❤️

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

Opinion | A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness

This piece is excellent.

“Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them.”

Halloween Watch Three Packs.

Twisted Fairytales

The Ugly Stepsister
Moon Garden
Pan's Labyrinth

Vampyres

Blood Red Sky
A Girl Walks Alone At Night
Let the Right One In

On a floral fabric, three hard copies of Bitch Magazine are arranged on top of a pink t-shirt with The Flytrap logo in white on it.

We were so happy to see everyone's enthusiasm for our project to reprint pieces from Bitch Media! We are all excited because we also loved Bitch just as much as you. It was a formative publication for many of us. So here's a thread of some of our fave Bitch articles.

Record cover, Beastie Boys, Check Your Head

Here at The Flytrap, we pledge to never use AI for producing journalism or art. Unlike many newsrooms that are embracing the fairly new technology without understanding the ramifications of feeding journalism to a plagiarism machine, we decided to serve our readers with distinctly human content.

YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC My Message to Muslim New Yorkers — and Everyone Who Calls This City Home.

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker.

And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows.

No more.

Jumping the shark: New study reviews the breaching behavior of sharks and rays One of the most iconic images of shark behavior is a great white shark hitting its prey so hard from below that the whole shark flies out of the water. This behavior, called “breaching,”…

ICYMI: I interviewed the scientists who reviewed shark breaching behavior

www.southernfriedscience.com/jumping-the-...

I honestly don't think centrists believe anything at all. Just as I don't want to see a "mainstream" presidential candidate who hounds homeless people and abandons trans people, I don't want a "progressive" Senator with a Nazi tattoo. The uprights aren't narrow here. This shouldn't be hard.

Bill S Preston Esquire and Ted Theodore Logan playing air guitar and looking joyful

Exclusive | Treasury Tells Employees Not to Share Photos of White House Ballroom Construction Images of the demolition of parts of the East Wing went viral on Monday, and Treasury’s headquarters next door to the White House has a front-row seat.

The Treasury Department instructed employees not to share to share photos of the demolition of parts of the White House’s East Wing

Gentle reminder that should a general strike happen, it’s crucial to plan and establish robust networks of community care.

There will be people, especially within the disability community, who can’t participate.

Who have needs that must be met.

Let’s make sure we figure out how to include them!

Apple Review #18: Jonathan I don’t think you should name pets people names. It’s weird if your dog is named Jerry and not, say, Commander Poopypants or something. Lucky, Scoot, Scout, Patches, Batman, whatever, t…

A lot going on today -- No Kings, Fuck ICE -- but hey, in the interim, if you got time to read a review of an apple, well, I happen to have a review of an apple just for you.

Today: the JONATHAN.

Yeah the speed of bubble cycles are now faster than our ability to pivot. We will just be approving an AI textbook for a program that won’t start until two years after AI mania has completely receded

We banged our heads against the true costs of healthcare cuts this week and JFC. It's not just ACA price hikes + people losing Medicaid coverage, though that's already bad It's also hundreds of hospitals and nursing homes poised to fall like dominos. Healthcare will be worse for all of us.

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

10/14/25 Post on Facebook from We Rate Dogs: This is Chop. He was shot and killed by masked assailants in plain clothes who go by ICE. They showed up at his door "looking for migrants after receiving a tip." The son of the family asked if they could wait before entering the home while he put Chop away in the bathroom, as the dog can be aggressive with strangers. According to the family, it is at this point that the son went to his pickup truck to retrieve his ID and a Border Patrol agent entered the home, opened the bathroom door, and shot Chop. None of the agents helped the family, who desperately tried to render aid to Chop, as he bled to death on the kitchen floor. Unsurprisingly, the agent who shot their dog then hid from them and refused to give his name. Even more unsurprising, they did not find any evidence of the migrants they were there to terrorize in the first place. Do not open your door for these fucking losers. Rest easy Chop @ 14/10 CBP Office of Professional Responsibility: 202-344-1808 Jointintake@cbp.dhs.gov El Paso Border Patrol Sector: 915-834-8400 fpfelpaso@cbp.dhs.gov Rep. Veronica Escobar (El Paso):| 915-541-1400 veronica.escobar@mail.house.gov https://kfoxtv.com/.../el-paso-family-claims-border…

I couldn’t find that post from the We Rate Dogs account on Twitter or Bluesky, but I logged into a Facebook account and used the link from @quietengineer.fyi, and the post is, indeed, there, and was posted today.
www.facebook.com/100064856283...

I really love this ❤️‍🔥

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🧵 UPDATE FOR MY BIRTHDAY:
Hi, so AI killed my career(s) and I'm still barely holding on. Some people tried to get me to start a fundraiser, but that felt weird, so I thought maybe if I was contributing something? So I started making shirts. Can you share this and maybe think about grabbing some?

On the left, the German Mud Wizard in their druid cloak pushes a German riot cops who is already stuck in the mud. On the left are 3 Portland Antifa frogs in green inflatable cartoonish costumes and one black frog with white frog bones on him like the antifa frog skeleton.

Future historians: As their computers ate and destroyed all their languages we can only assume that what happened was magic became real and that's how they defeated global genocidal fascism

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