Time to start seizing wealth and transferring it to the people.

This isn’t a thing.

So has every action since WWII been illegal?

Genuinely asking. I’m not a legal scholar or historian.

But we haven’t declared war since WWII and yet we’ve sent our troops into numerous war zones.

I want to believe this is AI because I want to believe that even these people have a little bit of self respect.

But alas I know this not to be true.

Sad men hungry to be near the powerful.

So you knew it would go up? Did you buy oil stock prior to the strikes know it would go up?

a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man . ALT: a woman is sitting at a table in a living room talking to a man .

Ask Trump how much a banana costs.

The absolute best audiobook.

I’m hopeful and worried about the movie. I don’t think it can live up to my expectations.

I miss using a President we never heard from.

But I can name a group of people that want to impose Christian Nationalist Law.

And they get made when Muslims shout Allahu Akbar.

Better idea. Fuck all the way off.

“There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you.' Fool me—you can't get fooled again."

Yeah well that dude ate food that had bleach, mercury, arsenic, and lead in it. So what does he know.

And they treated every illness with blood letting.

Sounds like a bunch of Republicans.

This is and always has been America.

See post 9/11, Civil Rights Era, Jim Crow, Reconstruction, the 3/5s compromise, slavery, genocide of the indigenous populations.

It wouldn’t have ended his career in 2002 either.

North Korea isn’t this bad.

I say this every year, but:

The uni students I'm teaching are thoughtful, intelligent, will make everything they encounter better.

With a new addition for 2026:

They deeply hate AI.

The only people that like AI are lazy upper management that haven’t done any real work in decades.

👇🎯 The overwhelming supermajority of Americans have no concept of just how massively better off they would be, in real income terms, with universal health care funded by higher taxes, like every other civilized actual democracy.

I used this one on a different post but it also applies.

Lindsey Graham sowing: Yeah this is so much fun. I love sowing.

Lindsey Graham reaping: What the fuck is this shit? I hate reaping. I didn’t mean to sow this. Who could have ever guessed this would happen?

It is a short walk from banning trans people from sports to banning trans people.

But why did you have to say it was 18 years ago.

That hurts a bit.

Then make them documented and give them a pathway to citizenship.

Great. Then run on a platform that gives them citizenship or a legal worker visa and a fair wage.

Then raise the minimum wage to a living wage for everyone.

The next president should run on an anti-monopoly platform and break up every one of these large corporations.

Translation: “I thought he was going to give us rich people tax breaks and let us run the country without doing anything too stupid so we could get richer and richer while the poor did our bidding.”