Verminter

The Tea Party tore it down and re-built it just a few presidents ago.
I’m sure they’ll get it right this time.

Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson has passed away at the age of 84. My thoughts are with his family.

I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.

“…the last six months of 2024, he testified, mostly at night.”
Why did he mostly testify at night? 🤪

“Kara Thrace and her special destiny? That sounds like a bad cover band”
We should have been so lucky.

Combined with the rocking back and forth I was getting a smidge queasy.

In between all the fascism, it's also a MASSIVE crime wave.

If only the Insurrectionists (including Trump) had been held accountable right after January 6th.

The insurrection is ongoing because it was never stopped.

FUCK

IRS Watchdog Warns of Delayed Refunds After Shutdown, Staff Drop Taxpayers should brace for delays in refunds, the IRS watchdog warned, as the agency recovers from staff losses and a long government shutdown last fall.

Its gonna be really bad. Worse if we shutdown on Friday.

May the odds be ever in your favor.

What I'm saying is this. It's the only thing Black people have been saying for centuries. We don't know everything. But we know that you can't have anything you actually want while you keep ignoring white supremacy. It won't work. We will be here again. And again. And again.

I started learning Alex Pretti's name and how good he was on the *same day* he was killed. This country only mobilizes like this for white people. And as long as that stays true, then we aren't actually changing anything about what's happening. It'll happen again.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it...

Arizona, November 2020

It's STFU Friday.
Refresh the script 👇

Anton LaVey was worse than you think A cursory look at some of the politics and views of the the Church of Satan's founder and other key figures in the organization.

OBVIOUSLY opposing the State by illegally providing free food to whoever wants it is more rebellious than calling for "an American Schutzstaffel" or claiming that cops make the best Satanists, like the Church of Satan has done

queersatanic.com/anton-lavey-...

Picture of burning charcoal. The text reads: Great outdoors. Deadly indoors. Burning charcoal releases carbon monoxide - a deadly gas you cannot see or smell. Never use a charcoal grill indoors.

Tragically, we have seen incidents where people try to heat their homes using charcoal grills. Burning charcoal releases carbon monoxide. Never try to heat your home with a charcoal grill.

Vermont Adaptive to open new outdoor center in Rochester Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports has conserved more than 125 acres of land for a new adaptive outdoor center in Rochester.

Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports has purchased a 125-acre property in Rochester to build the first-ever adaptive outdoor center in the state. The move also permanently protects popular trail access.

I'd wager this is the angriest statement ever issued by the Nobel Peace Prize people...

Check your local thrift store.

The “one other thing” is a large deep-dish pizza with the works.

Heads up to gov employees:
Anonymity on Reddit is compromised.
With nothing more than a mere please & thank you from DHS, Reddit turned over user data on a yet unknown number of accounts.
That data is being used punitively at this time.
Please be aware & make your necessary choices.

This is what happens when your idiot-in-law comes across your fetish gear and you make up a lie to try to disguise it as an adult-sized prototype to avoid an awkward conversation, and the IIL goes ahead and markets it to other idiots.

It used to be that victims of murders in the U.S. would be smeared by InfoWars and Gateway Pundit as a way to fetishize guns and violence for ad dollars and supplement sales, with the added benefit of cozying up to far-right politicians. Now that work is done by CBS News.

Having seen several abductions up close, it is really hard to convey how much the thing they’re doing is roaming in military convoys until they see someone who is alone and isn’t white, and then jumping out in large numbers, pulling them into a van, and screeching off, all in 90 seconds or so.

FDA deletes warning on bogus autism therapies touted by RFK Jr.‘s allies The agency used to warn of chelation, used by RFK Jr.'s anti-vaccine ally David Geier.

There’s a big story everyone is missing—but this article hits on it.

We aren’t just seeing public health dismantled bc we’ve been taken over by conspiracy theorists and lunatics.

What we’re really seeing is the giant, predatory, underegulated wellness industry come to Washington.

If you're constantly rewarded for being terrible at your job, you convince yourself that you're not terrible because if you were terrible, why would you keep moving up, the problem here is that some people are terrible in a way that's convenient to those in power, and their ego cannot admit that

Here's two questions a leader should ask:
1. Should I be grossly enriching myself at the expense of society and the planet?
2. Should I be supporting or condoning fascism in order to achieve 1?

Sign on door prohibiting immigration enforcement on private property

Shelf filled with goggles and whistles

This is Minneapolis:

Walk into my neighborhood ACE last night & see the signage on their door notifying fed agents that it’s private property and cannot be used for immigration enforcement. These signs are all over the city.

Walk in & the nearest shelf has goggles & whistles.

Reminder that these kind of door-to-door “general warrants” are both explicitly illegal and also a major trigger for the American Revolution.