America in 2025 in a nutshell: I just had the unbidden thought “oh I got paid I can buy eggs”

06.02.2025 17:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

‘Not Everyone Can Leave’: Survival Advice from Trans Teens in Texas Media attention often focuses on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?

These unheard stories from young trans people unable to flee Texas now hold urgent lessons for all of us about how to resist by existing, in the face of fascistic movements seeking to deny so many communities the right just to be alive.

26.11.2024 18:02 — 👍 190    🔁 80    💬 3    📌 7

BREAKING: Tulsi Gabbard is on a TSA watch list because of her suspicious foreign travel patterns

Maybe — just maybe, hear me out here — the nominee for Director of National Intelligence should NOT be someone who made a TSA watch list for her suspicious foreign travel patterns

22.11.2024 23:54 — 👍 15520    🔁 4726    💬 437    📌 216

Dr Oz in charge of Medicare

Heart disease? Try crystals

Diabetes? Try some vitamins

The boomers fucked around and are about to find out

20.11.2024 14:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

If the average homebuyer is 56 are they focused on education funding and housing opportunity or are they focused on their own “home equity” as a retirement vehicle?

11.11.2024 17:22 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Meta's Threads is 'overrun' with liberal election fraud conspiracies Thousands of users have amplified baseless claims of hacked voting machines as Democrats become more comfortable embracing denialism

I think it's interesting and instructive that Threads has been overrun by liberal election fraud conspiracies and Bluesky just... hasn't. (h/t @taylorlorenz.bsky.social)

I suspect that's because Threads is 100% algorithmic media, and Bluesky has no algorithm to game.

www.usermag.co/p/metas-thre...

11.11.2024 16:08 — 👍 2846    🔁 562    💬 139    📌 103

Great point by @mehdirhasan.bsky.social just now on @samseder.bsky.social that he is less concerned about the specific legislative agenda of the next 4 years than the overall shift in the fabric of American society

08.11.2024 18:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How to get out the vote is easy: top of the ballot is “which are better, cats or dogs?” Bam instant engagement. Follow me for more cab driver wisdom.

23.10.2024 15:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Abbott Aims to Pardon Racist Murderer Who Sent Explicit Texts to Apparent Minor Greg Abbott didn't even wait a single day before calling for the potential pardon of racist murderer Daniel Perry.

Here's another one I recently wrote for Texas Observer about the Texas pardons system and the person who Governor Greg Abbott demanded be pardoned after Tucker Carlson told him to on live television.

https://www.texasobserver.org/daniel-perry-pardon-greg-abbott-garrett-foster/

28.04.2023 14:58 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 0

Time magazine cover "Dungeons and Dragons: the game that changed the world" with photo of a 20 sided die

In the 80s this woulda been about how D&D was converting children to satanism.

19.10.2024 19:25 — 👍 48    🔁 12    💬 3    📌 2

“We see it now; the hate has shifted to the trans community. They see that as an opportunity. If you’re watching any sporting events right now, you see that Donald Trump’s closing arguments are to demonize a group of people for being who they are,” Walz said. He continued, “We’re out there trying to make the case that access to healthcare, a clean environment, manufacturing jobs, and keeping your local hospital open are what people are really concerned about. They’re running millions of dollars of ads demonizing folks who are just trying to live their lives.”

Thank you Governor Walz

17.10.2024 21:50 — 👍 4679    🔁 1283    💬 25    📌 117