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Made Korean BBQ at home. So happy right now!

My mom is worried about the fact that I've been posting stuff supporting the trans community against a couple of anti-trans bills in my red state. She fears it will make me a target. I fear what will happen if I don't make a stand

I'm glad I spent more time making my own HP themed stuff than giving that woman money for licensed stuff.

And now I've moved on to other book obsessions.

No Other Land Is the Year’s Most Powerful Documentary No Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary. But no one in the U.S. wanted to distribute it.

No Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary. But no one in the U.S. wanted to distribute it.

Gender identity includes cisgender women.

$75 million was awarded to plant trees in places that badly need them. In anti-DEI push, that's over The U.S. Forest Service has terminated $75 million awarded to the Arbor Day Foundation to help disadvantaged communities plant trees.

"tree equity" is the kind of thing that columnists like to make fun of when why it works is actually instantly apparent to anyone who's ever walked down a street in the summer apnews.com/article/tree...

As of October 2024, approximately 72 million Americans were enrolled in Medicaid, representing about 21% of the U.S. population. It provides health coverage to low-income individuals, including children, pregnant women, adults, seniors, and people with disabilities. 

This is what House Republicans voted for tonight.

Another reminder that we have socialism for the rich, harsh capitalism for the rest.

The republicans just passed that disgrace of a budget bill that basically guts Medicaid & SNAP and gives all the tax breaks to billionaires

Think about that. Medicaid is for poor people to get minimum help for food, medical, housing and so on

Fuck these GOP ghouls

PETE: “What we have to do now is make clear we do want government to work differently and better than it has, but burning it to the ground won’t do that for anyone.”

Baldwin: "Last night, the president said 'I'm not touching Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, VA, I'm not touching them.' By this morning, he endorsed the House budget resolution which paves the way for massive cuts to Medicaid."

Wow! What a hero! 💙

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It's fiction but trust me on this: Dungeon Crawler Carl. Key line: "you will not break me. "

hello cis friends
this is what people mean by trans genocide

if a type of person does not officially exist, then any harm against them cannot be measured or reported

this headline change isn't even being caused by an executive order

it's simply the NYT editors deciding we don't deserve to exist

If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

Elon Musk & @elonmusk Follow The REAL reason so many Democrats are upset about entitlements (social security, medical, etc) fraud investigations is that they are using your taxpayer money as handouts to attract and retain ILLEGAL immigrants. Their future voters. That's what it's all about. Truth. 10:48 AM • 2/17/25 • 7.7M Views

Now that musk is saying he’s doing the DOGE stuff “because the globalists have plotted a Great Replacement in which they use government handouts to buy votes from illegal immigrants and urban blacks” maybe we don’t have to act like this is about deficits or cost cutting anymore

Dungeon Crawler Carl

The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]

People telling me all the time, "good for you, wearing a mask" because I'm immunocompromised and I work at an elementary school. I'm like, "good for you washing your hands trying to stay safe from airborne illnesses."

At this point, I'm petty.

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Across the government, probationary employees and Schedule A workers—including individuals with severe physical, psychiatric, or intellectual disabilities, as well as veterans—are being let go.

Dammit! I laughed way too hard at this.

Tulsi Gabbard has just been confirmed as the Director of National Intelligence. 😫

A mystery for the ages.

This reads like the opening paragraph of a novel so bleakly dystopian you'd put it down after five pages

image of zul-qarnain nantambu, the super bowl protester, holding up a gaza/sudan flag with his profile picture superimposed over and a quote “i didn’t want to face my creator with a sign of weak faith”

i’m not a believer but sometimes other people’s faith really really helps me