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When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free.

When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.

We’re converting the world’s most powerful military into a private army under the control of Republican donors. How about that

Protein Powders and Shakes Contain High Levels of Lead - Consumer Reports CR tests of 23 popular protein powders and shakes found that most contain high levels of lead.

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements

we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵)

www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

This could seriously be one of the 2 or 3 biggest Presidential scandals in US history

Remember when Alex Pareene predicted this after Charlottesville in 2017 www.splinter.com/charlottesvi...

a good night's sleep in the Deadly Premonition bed could fix me

The virgin AGI existential risk vs the chad global warming

I have never, ever heard a reader say their problem is too few books on the market.

I’ve heard MANY say there are so many that it’s hard to find *quality* reads, which is why they’re loyal to certain authors + publishers.

This “business” is solving a problem that doesn’t exist, using stolen work

The amount of money we are giving to Argentina amounts to $450 per resident of that country. But we're not even giving it to people there who need it, we're giving it to prop up Elon's pal, the corrupt President of that country, who'll then shovel some of it into the pockets of Trump's friends here.

He has to go, his people need him. Godspeed, skelly boy!

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Pope Leo quotes Hannah Arendt:

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist."

www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

“WHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!” exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.

Presidential cognitive abilities was the number 1 reported story of 2024.

Then the media collectively decided that’s not important at all.

Just a reminder that Wikipedia is the only remaining reliable source of information that right wing billionaires can't control. (Although they'll never stop trying.)

Please donate to them whenever you can. Even a little bit helps.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

We fired people we had no reason or budgetary need to fire and we actually screwed up and fired the wrong people and then rehired them the next day and all because of Chuck Schumer

The historical parallels are glaring.

a subway ad for some lawyer, with the tagline "It's amazing how a big fat check can ease the pain." However, the support bar is in the way and "check" is instead readable as "chick"

So true, subway advertisement, so true.

I fucking love fox

Federal charges against a Chicago couple who were arrested for protesting against ICE were dropped after a grand jury refused to indict them.

Most relatable thing about a Tesla tbh

DHS Fascism Barbie Tricia McLaughlin in response to a video of Pritzker literally walking the streets of Chicago: "Get out of your mansion. Go walk around Chicago. Go see the rampant crime."

Everyone who studies research methods just had an aneurysm

During a government shutdown, the Trump administration is bailing out Argentina, whose president is fond of saying, “The state isn’t the solution, it’s the problem.”

"we are going to murder americans without due process"
~pam bondi, US attorney general

r/Lollapalooza 3 yr. ago DaL 028 Join [deleted] I'm excited for Limp Bizkit, but I'm a little worried about Antifa... Question I'm sick and tired of seeing these thugs terrorize big events and am worried that they will try to interrupt Limp Bizkit's set. My gf (F19) and I (M31) are going to our first Lollapalooza and are concerned about the growing threat around the city

In some ways this is the government now

BREAKING

In a new video, Dolly Parton, the Queen of America, says she’s going to be ok.

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

According to evidence of elderly people, the world has been growing worse with each generation; men less manly; women less womanly, honesty less common; religion less of an influence. According to the evidence of conditions, however, the world seems to have been growing ever and always a better place for the human race to live in. --West Concord Enterprise, 2 Sep 1909

1909

you're already seeing & will see more stories about how various attempts at reducing energy use "aren't working," etc -- those are propaganda. this is fantastic