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Incredibly important and an underpinning principle of mutual aid. Childcare, clothing swaps, food and material good sourcing or delivery, repair projects, etc. are all things we can do to support each other as the state wants to deprive us. Especially centralized in neighborhoods/small communities.

If you're wondering why the quality of anything Lord of the Ring related has nosedived recently its because Christopher Tolkien died in 2020 and the rights to JRR's works passed to his nephew whos like a dentist and doesn't give a shit and just wants money for whatever

Today, THROUGH GATES OF GARNET AND GOLD, the eleventh (!!) book in the Wayward Children series, has been released into the world.

All media mergers end up hurting writers, actors, directors, and everyone else who works in the industry. Executives, assistants, caterers, teamsters, everyone. Fewer companies means fewer jobs, period.

It's time for everyone's favorite chronologically unanchored holiday, The Story of the Lizard in the Leg.

summoning circle:

🕯 🕯
🕯 dodgers 🕯

🕯turn down invite 🕯

🕯️to White House 🕯
🕯 🕯

Note: while not unprecedented, it’s actually pretty rare for a sitting Catholic bishop to participate in a demonstration. It’s just not generally what Catholic bishops do.

Thus: Getting the hierarchy involved in this protest outside an ICE facility is no small thing.

This is a really vulnerable time for paypro call centers. It's already been reported that Mastercard is stressed by our persistence

I know we're all busy around this time too but let's fire the engines 🔥

What we are going to have to do in the coming years is build out a whole lot of parallel institutions that can do the work previously assigned to the state, most especially civic education.

Eventually I will find my way to excitement for that project but right now the prospect exhausts me

The government of Jamaica has set up a portal for contributing to official relief efforts. I will update this thread if anything analogous opens up for Haiti, Cuba, or the DR

supportjamaica.gov.jm

Yet again i want to remind everyone that Bill Gates and several other billionaires have invested in mining projects in Greenland that are only accessible because of melted land and sea ice, he and other billionaires are essentially shorting the planet

Dems *can’t* fold. Not anymore. Folding and getting nothing is a tacit admission that the shutdown and what pain it caused is all on us. We are in this now, and we’ve got to see it through.

look if you watched as much anime for 8 year old girls as I do you'd know there is a stark difference between the personality of a girl who is blue and a girl who is purple. In fact they couldn't be more different.

It takes an extra level of cruelty to announce layoffs both right before the holiday season and at a time you know people can’t even access SNAP or other assistance. This is so broken.

you KNOW when the soundtrack in the movie switches from extradiegetic to diegetic during the course of the same song??? it's absolute bedlam. me and the boys jumping up and down, screaming, breaking the couch etc

you ever think about those real weird overlaps. like tennessee williams might have listened to the ramones

They’re playing Superman

"Yeah, it was clearly illegal, but what are going to do?" becoming the defining legal mantra of the Trump era.
All of this conditioned by SCOTUS refusing to act with any sort of urgency until the damage is done *except* when Trump asks them to jump in to facilitate the damage.

Poster-style graphic with bold text reading “TELL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES: THE QUACK RFK Jr. HAS TO GO!” A large photo of RFK Jr. is overlaid with a yellow biohazard sign, while a man’s shoe is about to kick him out. At the bottom, logos and text say “Stand Up For Science” and “Fuel the fight: standupforscience.net.”

🚨BREAKING NEWS: Congresswoman files articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. We've been sounding the alarm for months, sending 3k+ quack-o-grams, and collecting 25k petition signatures calling on our reps to impeach & remove RFK Jr.

We’re closing in on him. Help us WIN the fight. 🦆 zurl.co/vkZQV

Brilliant businessman accidentally gives employees 7-month paid vacation.

The Bisexual Manifesto: We are tired [the rest is redacted].

Happy #Bisibility Day to those who celebrate. 💙💜❤️

Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

Pages - Maryland Department of Health issues respiratory virus vaccine guidance, COVID-19 vaccine standing order An official website of the State of Maryland.

Today, Maryland took additional actions to protect COVID access:

- Issued a standing order so vaccines can be administered based on guidance developed by medical professional societies instead of the federal government

- Confirmed they have joined the Northeast Public Health Collaborative

A pitch for those of you canceling Disney+/Hulu this week would be to use that cash and subscribe to PBS/PBS Passport.

Public media is foundational to our democracy and supporting @pbs.org is just about the best value for your dollar. Plus, there are so many British mysteries!!!

now's a better time than any in living memory to start dressing and acting like a beatnik. little goatee or fugly bob, striped shirts, saying daddio a lot

This was from banning trans girls from girls sports. Just so you understand the reality of what's going on here.

ZINKE: A news outlet called President Trump a Nazi 3,000 times. 3,000 times!

SEAWRIGHT: His own vice president called him a Nazi

*trying to make conversation* wow i love your books. they all have such nice covers *not wanting to seem shallow* which of course means jack shit

How Trump Sold America Out to His Kleptocratic Friends While the American people get saddled with the staggering cost of his trade war, the president has given the world’s worst actors the license to misbehave.

With little fanfare, Trump announced he was gutting the US's shell company registry, and undoing the biggest anti-corruption step the US had taken in decades.

If "cruelty was the point" of the first term, it's clear that, in the second term, corruption is the point.

newrepublic.com/article/1922...