hey religious people, you're a massive part of the problem

If gambling tax rises, we’ll shut all our 1,300 shops, warns Betfred Increased levies expected to be imposed in next month’s budget could cost the company 7,000 jobs, according to Joanne Whittaker, the chief executive

Stop threatening us with a good time.

So in western Alaska, thousands of people are homeless due to flooding rains, one person is dead & two people are missing. But yet, the regime hasn't said a word, no thoughts or prayers, nothing.
Once again, they could care less about Americans, it's about enriching themselves through GREED.

the *really* scary inmates in the psych ward are the folks that seem totally normal

the WHAT scans now?

Himes: If you've got the capability to blow a boat out of the water, you've got the capability to interdict it, arrest everyone on board, interrogate them, and find out where it was going, where it came from, who the bosses are, and what the distribution networks look like.

Pritzker: "Stephen Miller is clearly ordering people to break the law. So he should know that yeah, it may be three years from now that he is held accountable, but I think it's important for them to know that whatever they do now, it's not like we're going to forget."

The "ceasefire" does not seem to be going great

is he dead yet?

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!

#nokingsday Salmon Idaho!

time is up

rip humanity

I'm not afraid. Come and get me, Donald.

I will stand up for the law and the Constitution. That’s what we do in the State of Illinois.

My VOTE was RECEIVED and COUNTED. YES ON PROP 50!

I've been observing the conversations between inpatients at a mental health ward. Their debates are hilarious: these folks are completely disconnected from reality, also they have no interest in listening to their interlocutor. It's hilarious because this changes nothing, compared to everyone else.

CHRIS CHRISTIE (a Republican): “This is no longer the Department of Justice. What it is now is a Capo regime who goes out and executes hits when directed by the Don to do so.”

Inside the Improbable, Audacious and (So Far) Unstoppable Rise of Zohran Mamdani

we’ll see how his mayoral tenure shakes out but i am convinced that Mamdani has the juice. not just the charisma to win an election but the temperament to govern and the measured pragmatism of someone who genuinely believes what they’re saying and wants to accomplish real things.

Daily Reminder: Social Security is OUR money!

being against rape is so unamerican nowadays

Columbus genuinely was pretty bad by any standard. I mean, even the Queen of Spain concluded he'd gone way too far with the whole enslaving and raping and torturing and murdering thing, along with wiping out entire peoples. Surely no one would want a holiday named after the guy nowadays

The concentration of wealth in the hands of a few isn't just bad for our economy. It's corrosive to our democracy.

When the wealthy and well-connected control our political system, regular people don't have a voice.

The result? The demagoguery and corruption we're seeing now.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’ Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

RIP humanity

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Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so,

When platforms are forced to block “anything that might harm kids,” the result is overreach. A real rights-respecting solution to keeping people safe online is one that's built on user control, privacy, and smart design, not censorship. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

actually, not sure I care enough about the *details* of why and how exactly a 15th century genocidal maniac was as bad as he was

huh, so he *was* punished for violence against other spaniards, not for violence against indigenous peoples

this is my surprised face