union dad energy

just feeling more and more like it’s journalistic malpractice not to lead with the fact that the instructor in question is trans

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Squirrel with a thinly furred tail sitting on a deck railing with light snow falling.

Light snow at 8 AM sticking to elevated surfaces, grass, and stationary rodents. Frederick, MD, 415' elevation.

Alt:

Alt text: A notice with large bold text stating: “F and M trains will swap routes between Manhattan and Queens starting in December 2025.” Below, smaller text reads: “We’re making this change to improve reliability. Here’s what you need to know about how your trip may change.” Under that is a link-style line that says “New York City Transit.”

Mamdani was elected and already NYC is transing the trains.

Zohran says you’re trans now

The Pope tweets: "The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty. #DilexiTe" Someone replies: "I was so hopeful I could be a Catholic again after the disaster that Francis was, guess we just get Francis 2.0 now and I am heartbroken. How do I stay a Catholic now...I don't want to lose faith but I am. You belong to someone else, not God."

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

I'm mad about a lot of things (ha! ha!) but the sheer number of journalists who wrote "There are no plans to implement Project 2025" under the grounds of "well, Trump says there aren't, so..." and still have jobs is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy up there

when they said there'd be bread and circuses, they should have specified that the bread would cost 200% more than it did four years ago and the circuses are only available on your least favourite streaming network for $19.99/month

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

This Week's Onion Magazine:

WGA Statement on ABC's Decision to Pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ The right to speak our minds and to disagree with each other - to disturb, even - is at the very heart of what it means to be a free people. It is not to be denied. Not by violence, not by the abuse of governmental power, nor by acts of corporate cowardice. As a Guild, we stand united in opposition to anyone who uses their power and influence to silence the voices of writers, or anyone who speaks in dissent. If free speech applied only to ideas we like, we needn't have bothered to write it into the Constitution. What we have signed on to - painful as it may be at times - is the freeing agreement to disagree. Shame on those in government who forget this founding truth. As for our employers, our words have made you rich. Silencing us impoverishes the whole world. The WGA stands with Jimmy Kimmel and his writers.

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

While everyone is chattering about that guy, at least 5 (number keeps growing) HBCUs have received campus threats and had to go on lockdown today including one here in Louisiana. This is not ok.

It is entirely possible to be respectful about the death of a person you disagreed with without “honoring” him by vowing to continue his disagreeable, hateful “work.”

Just looking in the direction of a grocery store costs $20 now

Took off work for two weeks and now the mere thought of looking at a screen for eight hours has me kicking and screaming like a furious toddler

When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

A piece I made in 2024 vs one I brought home earlier this week 👀

Loudoun County Public Schools Defies Trump, Votes Not To Ban Trans Kids From Bathrooms The school board voted 6-3 to defy Trump's directive.

1. Major good news for trans students in Loudoun County.

The school board has decided to defy Trump, will not ban trans kids from bathrooms.

They have shown more guts than Ivy League universities and hospital systems, which have capitulated.

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Email subject line reading "How the transgender rights movement lost at the Supreme Court." The email is from the New York Times.

Meme of man in a hot dog costume captioned, "we're all trying to find the guy who did this."

????????? the actual audacity?????

If this was true we’d have a functioning rail system at least, come on.

Why do you need to performatively thank people committing war crimes?

There is no bravery in committing war crimes. There is bravery in rejecting illegal orders.

Nothing is a fucking distraction from anything it’s all the one thing

Can't wait for the NY Times to publish an op ed saying "technically yes, war requires Congressional approval, but critics say that's inconvenient in the modern world."

When Dobbs came down, the media rightly saw it as the culmination of a decades long effort to eliminate abortion rights by the conservative legal movement. When Skrmetti came down, the media blamed trans people and not that same conservative legal machine.

It's the same court and lawyers.

Me a very smart genius: the transgender movement should have not chosen to have the Supreme Court as the final arbiter of law. They should have picked someone else! This is, I assume, a choice they made, and not how other people have treated the US government for decades.

In Hurricane Katrina, mainstream media were more worried people might take stuff rom WalMart than that grandmothers were dying on rooftops of buildings surrounded by contaminated floodwater.