your friendly neighborhood jezebel.

If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare…

Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?

YES YOU DID

it’s teacher appreciation week and all i want is for my students to be on time, with a pencil, and to genuinely try. is that too much to ask?

it was 80 degrees 2 days ago….

I’m only 32 but jfc I want to retire already. 😭

first thing i did after arriving in Virginia was to go to #Wawa… only to find out that THEY GOT RID OF THE MIXED BERRY SMOOTHIE !! 😭😭😭 HOW DARE YOU WAWA HOW DARRREEEE YOOOOUUUUUU 😭💔

Everyone in the Midwest bracing for impact. Stay safe everyone !!

It feels like a ticking time bomb and every day feels even more unsafe than the day before. Kids blatantly cuss at us and each other. Tell us to “go away and leave them alone” when we ask them to go to class. The audacity and the blatant disrespect are absolutely un-fucking-real.

For posterity’s sake.
Mark my words: when something bad happens at the school that I work at, just know that all of the teachers have been complaining/BEGGING for something to be done to fix this place. The children are in charge, not the adults.

Every year my sleep schedule becomes so messed up that I’m literally wide awake at 2 am screaming at the walls because I can’t sleep.

The time change where we lose an hour should be considered a war crime.

Everyone please read this.

This is so clearly corrupt.

Also note it is coming from a news source that doesn’t prostrate itself for access.

FWIW, we are now @wired.com subscribers.

Montana Senate tables two bills aimed at restricting libraries The Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee on Friday tabled two bills seeking to put limitations on public libraries.  The bills, both sponsored by Sen. Daniel Emrich, R-Great Falls, would ...

The Senate Education and Cultural Resources Committee on Friday tabled two bills seeking to put limitations on public libraries.

via @dailymontanan.com
www.newsfromthestates.com/article/mont...

U.S. map titled "States That Allow Disabled People to Be Sterilized Without Consent." The subtitle reads, "Many states, including Arizona and Rhode Island, do not have laws that either explicitly allow or ban the practice. Disabled people are sterilized without their consent in states where the rules are unclear." The map uses a color key: yellow indicates states where forced sterilization is allowed, light green represents states where the legality is uncertain, and green marks states where forced sterilization is banned. States marked in light green (uncertain legality) are: Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Ohio, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. Alaska and North Carolina are marked in green (banned), while all other states are marked in yellow (allowed). The map was created by Julia Métraux using Datawrapper. The source is National Women's Law Center.

Forced sterilization of people with disabilities isn't a relic of the past—it's still happening. 30 states & D.C. have eugenics laws allowing forced sterilizations, with new laws passed as recently as 2019. More from Julia Métraux at @motherjones.com: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

As Abortion Bans Drive Up Maternal, Infant Mortality, Trump Admin. Shutters Key CDC Program The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS), which has worked to identify groups of pregnant people and infants at higher risk of health complications since 1988, was quietly shut down fol...

As abortion bans increase maternal & infant mortality, Trump admin. shuttered the CDC's PRAMS, a program collecting maternal health data since 1988, for promoting "DEI." This racist action dismisses the realities of medical racism, which systemically & disproportionately harms Black pregnant people.

“May be” is doing a lot of work here

Companies doing moderation: not a free speech issue

People blocking you for saying mean things: not a free speech issue

Fact checks: not a free speech issue

This right here? THIS is an attack, by the government, on your constitutional right to protest against oppression.

The famous communist rag, the Wall Street Journal.

Trudeau: He has said repeatedly, what he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy. Because that will make it easier to annex us. First of all, that's never going to happen. We will never be the 51st state.

Trump: DOGE, which is headed by Elon Musk...

DOJ lawyers, who've said that's not the case in court, 🤯

Palestinian women allege sexual violence by Israel since Oct. 7 Palestinian women are punished for reporting Israeli soldiers for abuse amid unsubstantiated claims of sexual violence by Hamas

Palestinian women come forward with allegations of sexual violence by Israeli forces, @kylietcheung.bsky.social writes. While Western media pushes unsubstantiated claims of a campaign of sexual violence led by Hamas, Palestinian survivors are punished for reporting Israeli soldiers for abuse.

What's it gonna take for everyone to realize the occupant of the white house is fundamentally anti-American?

DOGE isn't firing people to make government more efficient. Let's just get that one out of the way and move on.

(1/3) It needs repeating: in 1994, Ukraine was persuaded to give up its nuclear weapons to Russia in return for the US, the UK, and Russia guaranteeing Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and territorial integrity.

can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book

sonic I would die for your slushies but your damn food needs work

Mitch McConnell voted WITH dems against RFK?
These certainly are unprecedented times.

I am ashamed to be an American these days.