Cynthia from the PNW

If you’re not fully dissociating living in the US right now is just walking from one crazy scene after another with people having breakdowns as the veneer of normality just melts. It’s like Mad Max right before everybody moved to the desert and started modding cars.

YouTube video by D A Smith Mitch & Mickey - When You're Next to Me

RIP to this legend.
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YouTube video by DiscountComedy Holland 1945- Neutral Milk Hotel Lyrics

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I continue to be mystified by Americans who give so little a shit about…well…everything, that they don’t bother to vote.

Like….HOW does one function day to day and actually not care about ANYTHING happening in this world country.

Weirdest shit ever

It's heartbreaking to see 300 million people directly exposed to Narcissistic Personality Disorder simultaneously.

The same guy telling you Portland is war-ravaged, told you Mexico was going to pay for the wall and people were eating your pets in Ohio.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens.

Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

War-ravaged Portland

The financial economy is immersed in the kind of wild gambling we saw leading up to the 2008 financial crisis.

We’re seeing it all over again — this time with crypto, meme stocks, junk bonds, and investors pumping up shares of AI stocks without knowing what it is.

Be warned.

Crazy thing is the Germans didn’t have a historical precedent to warn them

Harvard can't use someone's race to decide if they are going to be a student, but ICE can use a student's race to decide if they are going to detain/incarcerate them.

According to the Supreme Court, race can only be a factor if you want hurt, not help, someone.

Dr. Teeth

The mental health benefits of not knowing any history right now must be massive. Moving through your day with total equanimity. What happens next? Who knows? Maybe something good

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new stereolab!

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We're not just in a political crisis, it's a full-blown mental health crisis

Intentional inequality, scarcity and precarity, the decline of empire, growing authoritarianism, everpresent control and manipulation by tech, and an ever-evolving system of grift and exploitation has pushed us to meltdown

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Belle and Sebastian -- The Gate
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We live in a world where the same people who believe a man built a boat big enough for every animal don't believe in climate science because it’s “unproven.”

It's so wild watching the majority of people just going about their everyday lives pretending we aren't in the new Nazi Regime 2.0.

Walking their dogs and eating ice cream while this evil regime is building concentration camps in aligator infested swamps on OUR LAND.

It's beyond surreal.

Trump breaks historic Columbia River deal between U.S. government, tribes, Northwest states • Oregon Capital Chronicle In an order Thursday, Trump said he is withdrawing the U.S. from a 2023 deal made with tribes, states, to end lawsuits over fish losses.

Your 'moment of kakistocracy' for today:

"Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum withdrawing the U.S. government from a Dec. 14, 2023 agreement to help restore salmon, steelhead and other native fish being decimated by federal hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin."

BREAKING: A Chilean woman on vacation was kidnapped by ICE and NYPD in New York City. Her 12-year-old daughter was left alone on the damn street.

You think that’s a “mistake”?
This is Trump’s America.
Xenophobia runs this country now.
Do not come here. It’s not safe.

Another person being attacked via horse...

The way they just yank at people bodies as though they’ve had NO professional training is telling.

The Big Fucked Up Bill, is NOT a spending bill.

It’s a government restructuring bill, that consolidates power in the executive, defunds critical services to the point of absurdity, removes the power of our courts to enforce the law and dramatically curtails voting rights.

It’s Project 2025

It really feels like we don’t talk enough about how much COVID has fucked up our politics, our culture, and all of us personally. It’s not surprising considering how absolutely averse this country is to confronting trauma, but sometimes it still needs to be said.

Part of the bill that Republicans jammed through includes something you may have missed:

Defunding Planned Parenthood.

There's nothing "pro-life" about defunding breast exams, pregnancy tests, prenatal care, and so much more. Over 1 million women could lose access to care.

BREAKING:

For the first time in its history, Moodys has downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA1.

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

75% of American researchers & scientists are considering leaving the US
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Let this sink in—the head of the EPA has now labeled climate science as “religion”, and reframed the purpose of the EPA to “lower the cost of buying a car… and running a business”—the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY!

That’s where we are now.

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