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the actual Republican parents who support the politicians pushing for this think the effort and money they spent parenting are wasted if their kids turn out different from them.

You eliminate that possibility by eliminating the public existence of other kinds of people.

Halfway through the decade, what are your favorite short story collections by nonwhite authors of the 2020s?

YouTube video by unvmebad86 George Washington

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

Sinners is a movie with the guts to say that no matter what you’re facing be it a gang of vampires or racism, it’s never a bad time to learn how to eat pussy good

“friends at the table is good gay representation” THEY EAT PEOPLE

i’m sorry but the people who think literally everything is a distraction from the epstein files are sincerely not grasping how normalized the abuse of
teen girls actually is and it’s the same abuse that leads to ice agents shooting a woman in the face and calling her corpse a fucking bitch

What the fuck. Trump is claiming the U.S. military captured a sitting head of state in his own country, with no extradition process & no legal authority.

No matter what you think of Maduro, that’s absolutely insane behavior—and a precedent that should alarm anyone who cares about international law.

OF THE EMPIRE We will be known as a culture that feared death and adored power, that tried to vanquish insecurity for the few and cared little for the penury of the many. We will be known as a culture that taught and rewarded the amassing of things, that spoke little if at all about the quality of life for people (other people), for dogs, for rivers. All the world, in our eyes, they will say, was a commodity. And they will say that this structure was held together politically, which it was, and they will say also that our politics was no more than an apparatus to accommodate the feelings of the heart, and that the heart, in those days, was small, and hard, and full of meanness.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

god help me I will live to see hegseth behind bars

"A Cat's Life - Wonder" Art by Gerard du Bois

"A Cat's Life - Wonder"
Art by Gerard du Bois

#MenWithCats

That’s what these ‘debates’ are really about: framing old fashioned oppression as some kind of high-brow concern for women’s happiness.

You know what makes us happy? Bank accounts. Voting rights. The ability to leave a bad marriage and not have a miscarriage kill us.

I know this is something I circle back to a lot, but it honestly feels, to me, like half the attacks on our trans siblings roots back to "children aren't people." The doctor said "boy," so I get to be the parent of a boy child! Not a girl child! How dare my child want things I don't want?!

I Sexually Identify as an Attack Helicopter wasn't actually that intense. A lot of the "queer community" pilloried a trans woman and ran her out of society entirely and buried her literary future because they felt like it and they could taste blood in the water, and that's how all this works.

any tent that’s big enough for billionaires does not have space for me 🤷‍♀️

Hey science fiction and actual play fans! We might just be your next favorite podcast 👀

i really hadn’t expected to be on anyone’s wrapped this year with so few episodes out but a few people reached out to tell us we made the list. genuinely means so much to see— we’ll have our next arc out as soon as we can, thank you to everyone that’s listened so far.

you’d better be actively explaining to me how to defeat my murderer if you’re gonna gesture at me to take off my over-ear headphones on the train. and even then there better be some kind of unavoidable oral/audio component to the explanation

ever since i was a little girl i knew i wanted to be buried with baffling grave goods

Perhaps a different complaint, but I think they are intimately related: As a reader, I actively resent being marketed at like the only thoughts I can form about a work are AO3 tags

FIYERO: finally after years of pent-up feelings we can FUCK

ELPHABA:

That was the entire point of #metoo. That one woman wasn't even enough. That a man had to derail the careers of dozens before people started saying "oh yeah maybe we shouldn't let him ruin the careers of so many people."

the gallery of maladies on long covid, hypochondria, and the forums

i wrote about having long covid as a hypochondriac and why no one should ever go on reddit www.late-review.com/p/the-galler...

it is impossible for a book to be cosy if the prose isn't good. sturdy, well-set prose is like 60% of any cosy read and this is the actual true reason why the cosy fantasy boom is wretched even before you get to the therapy speak and uninquisitive worldbuilding etc

Not now, widening gyre

i just need people to know it's not hypocrisy when Devout Christian Mike Johnson cuts off SNAP benefits. it's not a lack of "christian charity" to make kids starve; it's because the christian right wants to control who gets food, through churches, so they can deny queers and sluts at will

IRS asks for public input on free tax filing options to inform congressional report | Internal Revenue Service IR-2025-85, Aug. 21, 2025 — The IRS invites the public to participate in an anonymous feedback survey on tax preparation and filing options, which will run through Sept. 5, 2025.

Treasury is required to produce a report to Congress related to Direct File, the free tax filing option that the current administration intends to kill. They've created a survey with a bunch of leading questions. The survey deserves some responses supportive of the program to counteract its framing:

want to be in a throuple. not for love, just the homes i want to buy require 3x my income