It Is Jed

Look I don't get patriotic about much but me and my extreme bed hair are incredibly psyched for Women's Gold Medal Hockey today. I have to work late and thus won't be able to watch the game until later tonight, so I will be pretty much off the Internet until then. I will see you all after!

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

is it time to bust out my "bigfoot is bears" photo collection again? if your mental image of a bear is a thick-furred, fat glossy male bear in autumn, you're probably not prepared for how weird their proportions can look in spring, or when walking upright, like they frequently do.

Well, a few of them might take action, and by "action" I mean posting on Twitter about how "This is NOT normal" and maybe some sarcastic clapping.

This pride month remember that Reagan killed thousands of people by refusing to take action on AIDS and he's in a human centipede chain in hell.

Send a Third Stage Guild Navigator to Kitain to demand details from the Emperor.

Here's a really visceral example of why everyone should be upset about potentially privatizing the USPS-- whether you ship things, or have things shipped to you, you would be VERY effected.
That price from UPS is the next "cheapest" international rate compared to USPS rates.

A CNN news notification : The convicted killer crab walked between two walls and pushed through the newly installed razor wire to break out of prison, authorities say

*crab-walked

A triangular diagram of the Christian Holy Trinity, repurposed for Dax from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. It illustrates that Jadzia is not Curzon or Ezri but is Dax; Curzon is not Jadzia or Ezri but is also Dax; and Ezri likewise is not Jadzia or Curzon but is Dax.

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think there actually *is* an effective treatment for measles.

That’s why the vaccine exists. The vaccine is how we treat measles, by stopping it from infecting children, you absolute fucking monster.

Our Purpose Isn't Efficiency Society is not a corporation and we are not its employees. Moving the sick American spirit toward health by abandoning fool notions and damned lies.

“The money the Post Office spent came from us already. It is used to provide an insanely valuable service to us. And we could say that about any number of other things that provide massive value that we already paid for: libraries, schools, parks, fire departments, roads.”

picture of a person coloring over a check engine light with a sharpie, with text that says "pov: the rich people light came on"

the worst light

i'm forbidden from trading stocks because my *husband* works two degrees removed from the UK government and that means the risk of me having privileged information is too high. meanwhile, congress

A taco bell and marijuana dispensary in the same building

get me to gods country

That *is* the point.

The future history of now will include something along the lines of "social media put billions of people worldwide in the same room together for the first time in history and it drove them absolutely insane"

They claim they can snatch people up, put them on planes, and deport them to a country run by an authoritarian, where those people will be forced to work slave labor at an inhumane prison. All without due process, and in defiance of federal courts.

The hypotheticals are over. This is the nightmare.

good lord. didn't see this till now. musk didn't just say his site falling apart was a cyberattack. He said it was a cyberattack by Ukraine.

Cool cool cool.

They literally pulled $1Bn from American farmers. I'm sure that'll end well.

Judith Butler, philosopher: ‘If you sacrifice a minority like trans people, you are operating within a fascist logic’ A leading figure in feminism and gender studies, the thinker welcomes EL PAÍS in California after being voted one of the most influential minds in the world

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

the purpose of banning section 230 is to ban all political, sexual, or critical speech from the internet

this is to silence grassroots movements that don’t have the explicit sanction of the wealthy and powerful

you are an abject moron or a liar if you believe it has any other purpose

the way this works is:

section 230 is repealed

all websites are now legally responsible for all user generated content

you post to warn other women that a certain senator is a rapist

all websites are now culpable for defamation and ban any mention of rape in their TOS

People keep saying Democrats have no power.

Uhm, have you forgotten how Rs dug in their heels and committed to obstruction of anything Barack Obama tried to do?

That is the fuck-you energy we need, along with some theater of the absurd.

Cooperation is immoral at this point.

I think when the average person watches a politician always being quiet and not hitting back when someone insults and spreads grotesque lies about them, they think “this is a coward who won’t fight for me.” And / or “well, they’re not fighting this, maybe there’s something to the [false] charges.”

Democrats at the State of the Union address with li’l protest signs

Democrats at the State of the Union address with li’l protest signs

Democrats should have either skipped the shitshow entirely or gone and heckled the fuck out of this parade of lies and insults.

This? Kinda pathetic.