John Irvine

“Dead people are important. They’re a vital part of the eco-system: without them we would have no context. We’d also have very few houses and far inferior libraries & record collections. So: go dead people!” - Virgil S. Dinwiddie

Normal People Don’t Want This Shit is running away with the vote tonight

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.

Everything they are doing & saying right now is very obviously meant to clear the way for mass repressive violence.

Fact checking is not going to do shit.

Talking about kitchen table issues is not going to do shit.

We need open, unapologetic defiance & conflict.

pam bondi is a sentient yankee candle in which resides the spirit of Morgoth

This. No matter how good their candidates and messaging are, it doesnt matter a whit when the media universe is controlled by right-wing oligarchs.

Fook yeah. Love them.

The headline writers at NYT are the worst. No matter how substantive the reporting, it's still "Fear and Hope..." crap instead of "Trump Orders Civilians Murdered"

Best thing I've seen on the hellscape that is the internet in a long time.

For every €1 of public money invested in the pilot, society received €1.39 in return The net cost of the BIA pilot went from €105m to under €72m due to tax generated and savings on social welfare payments

It also finds that recipients’ arts-related income increased by over €500 per month on average, while their income from non-arts work decreased by around €280. Dependence on social protection declined, with recipients receiving €100 less per month on average, and 38 percentage points less likely to receive Jobseeker’s payments.

Ireland just released a report showing the huge success of the unconditional basic income it provided to artists. Each $1 spent led to society gaining $1.39. Artists' earned incomes went up more than their side job incomes fell. And they were happier and used less welfare

www.gov.ie/en/departmen...

If you think Tylenol is bad for children, wait until you find out about guns.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.

Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly.

sbgi.net/tv-stations/

bsky.app/profile/luck...

allies landing at normandy to defeat fascism

anti-fascism puts you on the right side of history

When freedom is under fire you can count on me to ramble and mutter incoherently.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

I was somehow aware of that, but there is entirely too much Hitchcock esoterica rattling around in my brain.

The FBI right now could probably use all those experienced senior career professionals with decades of investigative experience that they fired for absolutely no reason.

"I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights" - Charlie Kirk, 2023

www.mediamatters.org/charlie-kirk...

Hoping there are a few more Luigis out there...

If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations.

If you're 45, that number is 74.7%.

If you're under 28, the number is 100%.

Happy Labor Day.

Nice one. I've been on a Mulligan Quartet kick recently, and can't get enough.

Jumping Someone Else's Train

When our national bloodsport (football) meets our other national bloodsport (mass shootings)

"Now is the time on 'Pedals' when we dance!"

Are there any abolish ICE shirts that anyone would consider cute, or stylish, or where the proceeds are going to a good cause?