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Watergate kicked off a multi-decade project by the right wing to insulate Republican leaders from accountability.

No post-Trump settlement can accept his regime as having been legitimate. Either because we have a republic again, or a new autocrat, or whatever else, but it isn’t possible to have a system that treats his actions as valid precedent after he’s gone. A personalist regime can’t survive the person.

Why loos are important Talking about loos used to make me squirm with embarrassment. But since being diagnosed with a chronic pain condition 15

What’s known as the ‘urinary leash’ impacts marginalised communities the most. The lives of women, pregnant people, disabled people, the elderly, trans people and others can be majorly restricted based on the availability of public facilities.
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Just noticed that the word bubbles for both the question and the answer in the first two panels are spoken by the same character.

We need a new Constitution with a unicameral parliamentary system and term limits on Supreme Court judges.

I don't think we can fix this by band-aiding what we've got, and it's honestly pretty unusual that we've kept the same Constitution for so long.

"Only 10% of Russians attend church every month. The “veritable storm of church building and Cathedral construction” disguises the fact that most of them are half-empty… Ironically, monthly church attendance is almost double in Ukraine. "

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A meme with a bunch of drawings of people with Samus Aran arm cannons with the trans flags that says “Repost this is trans people should have Samus Arm Cannons.”

Did you ever hear the tragedy of Darth Jesus the Wise

one of the greatest humiliations of rule by these fascists is that, despite having total and complete control over the entire system of american government, the only thing they know how to do is ask for the manager because they're too stupid to understand that they *are the manager*

and we could likely have a thousand more if improving education and funding healthcare was another priority

perhaps the desire to colonise the rest of the stars is ineffectual if we aren’t first investing in the actual betterment of the human race hmm?

Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk say human population not nearly big enough: ‘If we had a trillion humans, we would have at any given time a thousand Mozarts’ “I think in a lot of these endeavors we're very like-minded,” Bezos said of himself and Musk regarding getting humans into space.

I don’t know why this incenses me as much as it does, but it does:

we very likely have a thousand plus Mozarts *right now*. But they make non-Western art in economically destitute conditions so they have to do other work to pay bills; if you cared, UBI’d be more important to you than going to space

has anyone made a “signed the harper’s letter” labeler

RFK Jr. Just Did Something That Should Really Anger Certain Trump-Cozy Billionaires. Will It? We're living through a massive, life-saving breakthrough. Trump’s health secretary is trying to strangle it.

I feel like the logic here relies on believing that the longevity bros think they can ever get sick. They don't. They genuinely don't. slate.com/technology/2...

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what are you people doing dude

A tweet saying "every single municipal budget looks like the dril candle budget tweet" with a graph showing Police taking like 90% of a city's budget. Baltimore specifically.

When people talk about how systemic and structural issues don't exist but the data all looks like this.

They’re straight Q dropping now

An army where libs, queers, women, minorities and so forth get purged every 4-12 years and fascist cishet white guys get to keep climbing the ladder is a fascist army.

Also, “weeds” are often introduced plants whose seeds are good at spreading. Every year I find new plants on my garden that I did not put there; when I look them up, I often learn they’re European or Asian species.

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

World Athletics says that "The SRY gene is a reliable proxy for determining biological sex." The guy who literally discovered the gene and has spent the last 35 years researching it says they're wrong. theconversation.com/world-athlet...

Screenshot of a tweet by JK Rowling, "Freedom of speech means freedom to cause offence. The number of supposed liberals who’ve fallen at this most basic hurdle, because for the first time in their lives they risked losing the approval of their tribe, has been staggering."

I'm sorry, how many times has JK set lawyers on people because they criticised her?

A Queer Shoulder to the Wheel A version of this piece was originally published in Flaming Hydra, an art collective I'm proud to be a part of. Then I let David loose to edit as he does so...

"What can you do? What can you do, resourceless as you are, with freedom withering in a bone-stripping sirocco of stupid, wasteful fascist oppression?" buttondown.com/theswordandt...

I've created a calculator that gives you the right answer 80% of the time and I believe it will change the world

Also, apologies for mansplaining carpenter bees.

Mike Pence’s role during the 2016 campaign was to look aghast when people quoted Trump verbatim and respond with some variation of “how could you even *say* such a thing.” It’s a superpower to make the truth so hideous that it discredits your opponents just for mentioning it in polite company

Maxwell trying to blackmail an innocent Trump would be like the guy in the Dark Knight who figured out who Bruce Wayne was, except if Bruce Wayne was the President and also as bad morally as the Joker

It literally only works if he knows she knows she can destroy him

Woah!

Around here (Northeast Ohio), the biggest bees are called carpenter bees. They look like bumblebees (fuzzy and stocky), but larger, and with proportionally bigger eyes.

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Are 'National Immunization Survey' Calls From the CDC Legit? Unsurprisingly, some people were suspicious when they received unsolicited phone calls about vaccinations from the CDC.

I’ve been getting numerous CDC immunization survey voicemails. They apparently were legit under Biden, but I could easily see RFK & Trump improperly disclosing private information (laws don’t matter to them) and twisting results to attack immunizations in general. Any thoughts @altcdc.altgov.info?