Iridia Lux

if i were to reduce the parties into comic book style onomatopoeia they'd be the words *WHIFF!* & *GLORP!* hovering over a bubbling tar pit.

YouTube video by Hank Green Slavery was Racist

Particularly good, as usual. Thanks @hankgreen.bsky.social
youtu.be/RbXzz3oZDr4?...

What a surprise it was all a fascist stunt

YouTube video by Samuel Mena Breaking My Silence

YouTube is like, "here, only 350 people have watched this in two days and you should definitely be one"
...it's someone breaking their silence a year later after lighting themselves on fire in front of the white house in protest of the ongoing genocide of Palestinians
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frlt...

I think I'm starting to understand why some Dems wouldn't endorse Mamdani. They are just really into spineless cowardice and Mamdani is not about that.

Jim Acosta @ @Acosta • 28m Democrats had tons of energy coming out of last week's elections. Tonight's deal with GOP will outrage progressives and divide the party once again. For what? The possibility there will be a vote on Obamacare subsidies down the road? Which Trump will likely hold hostage? Huh?

The art of folding a winning hand

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Ever just use your cats paw to navigate your phone? Good fun.

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centrists will tell you to your face that we all need to abandon identity issues, and focus on kitchen table issues instead and yet when a leftist candidate runs a generational campaign based on kitchen table issues, it's the centrists weaponizing identity politics to smear the leftist.

“America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves. To quote the American humorist Kin Hubbard, 'It ain’t no disgrace to be poor, but it might as well be.' It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by the American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters. The meanest eating or drinking establishment, owned by a man who is himself poor, is very likely to have a sign on its wall asking this cruel question: 'if you’re so smart, why ain’t you rich?' There will also be an American flag no larger than a child’s hand – glued to a lollipop stick and flying from the cash register. Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves. This inward blame has been a treasure for the rich and powerful, who have had to do less for their poor, publicly and privately, than any other ruling class since, say Napoleonic times. Many novelties have come from America. The most startling of these, a thing without precedent, is a mass of undignified poor. They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.”

reading slaughterhouse 5 for the first time and i was absolutely knocked senseless by this passage, which is so true and relevant that it feels like it was pulled from a history book

There’s $5 billion sitting in SNAP reserves right now. The money’s there.

The Administration just decided feeding families matters less than bailing out Argentina.

UNTIL IT’S DONE, Ep. 4: Sylvia Rivera

In the 1970s, queer New Yorkers had been pushed to the margins of NYC. Our trans neighbors faced immense cruelty. But in Sylvia Rivera, they found a champion.

As we combat Trump’s politics of darkness, her legacy can light the path forward.

THIS!! 👇👇

We Hasan watchers think Kaya is more important than Hasan and holy shit does he spoil the crap out of that dog. If he didn't we wouldn't want anything to do with him. Don't believe the attempt at milkshake ducking him, it's bullshit.

I get a unique feeling of accomplishment and relief every time I do my injection, even after years. Sucks to have to stick myself but worth it enough to where I've completely conquered my near paralyzing fear of needles. HRT is miracle medicine.

Chart showing how homophobic views have declined around the world using data from Our World In Data with Iceland and the Netherlands and Denmark having the lowest levels of homophobia

Homophobia is declining globally

someone they love is incredibly ill but attempts at helping them get treatment have failed and there is no plan B?

them to go to get help because they became confused about where they would be taken. They've been mostly catatonic since, either sitting or laying in bed and won't discuss what's going on. What am I supposed to do?
Obviously this doesn't cover the details but what is someone supposed to do when

One of my loved ones had a bad reaction to medication three months ago and they're still very not okay. Even us calling 911 once each a few days ago when they asked for a hospital didn't result in them receiving any help. EMT's came, determined they were aware and oriented and then couldn't convince

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

One of the most perverse ideas on the anti-trans side is that trans people are instantly affirmed and celebrated by everyone when they come out and that acceptance is driving a social contagion.

It's the ultimate form of gaslighting against our community.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/pew-survey...

I love all the Final Fantasy Tactics love going around since the remake dropped. 💖

Use an emoji once in a blue moon, go look up what it means afterwards one time (maybe not the first time) and think "oh good yep that's what I thought!"?

it's this one🙃

Unfortunately we’re in an unprecedented era of rich people finding out that everyone hates them and making it a problem for all of us

the hysteria has gone off the rails so far that the average american thinks 1 in 5 people are transgender. pure absolute insanity that is driving the current lavender scare

"Gender Ideology" is do-I-get-to-exist. "Just asking questions" - yes, the question is, do-I-get-to-exist. "Shoving it down our throats" - Existing. "Debate" - yes, over whether I get to exist. "I was shut down by the far left" - when you said people don't/shouldn't exist.

I think it's a sign of how cowed the American media is that we're getting pieces like "you have to understand, in Korean culture, it's considered very rude for someone to lock you in a brutal prison camp for a week for no reason." Like yeah, any free people would be offended by that?

“Gender Ideology” Is a Conspiracy Theory In a recent essay, The Cass Review, WPATH Files, and the Perpetual Debate over Gender-Affirming Care, I made the case that “gender…

there's no such thing as "transgender ideology." the only ppl who think that's even a thing are the far right & conspiracy theorists. & given that Gr0ypers have been feuding w/Kirk in recent months, sounds like something one of them might engrave on a bullet...
juliaserano.medium.com/gender-ideol...

We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.

What the fuck happened to Ezra Klein, I swear he used to be at least relatively normal