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10,000 monkeys banging away at 10,000 typewriters could absolutely, without a single doubt, 100% come up with a better healthcare system design than what the US currently has.

For absolutely no reason at all on this day, I'd like to point out that The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes have always been the superior comics. Just saying.

Why are so many job postings, "Must have degree with likely oppressive student loans and multiple years of experience; location in a high cost-of-living city. Pay: poverty level wages! Come work with us!" ???

"Don't use SNAP, get a job! No, not that low-paying job, those are for teenagers, even though I expect the business to be open during school hours. And NO, you shouldn't get any kind of education, go into the trades, which definitely won't be overrun if everyone does that!"

Republican plan, y'all.

Republicans at election time: WE HAVE A MANDATE! WE ARE SO STRONG AND POWERFUL!!! RAWR!!!! 💪💪💪

Republicans now: We are but weak powerless children, the bIg sCaRy dEmOcRaTs are too powerful and are responsible for everything right now. 😭😭😭

You know who really sucked as a human being? Charles Lindbergh. Fuck that guy.

Black and Brown people. PLEASE, PLEASE for the love of us all do not allow yourself to be interviewed if SNAP benefits don't come on November 1. Make the white folks do the interviews. They love getting Black folks to do these interviews so that people think we are the only ones hurt.

Every child that enters our house: OH, I SEE YOU HAVE A PIANO. THAT MUST MEAN YOU'RE DESPERATE TO HEAR THE ONLY SONG I CAN PLAY, 'EXTREMELY LOUD CACOPHONY.' LET ME POUND IT OUT IMMEDIATELY.

it is ALWAYS worth pointing out who gets to be just a helpless little innocent precious baby boy at the age of 34, vs. who is framed by the cops as a big scary dangerous man whose candy bar might be a gun when he's barely in middle school, or described as a "13-year-old woman" by her predator

Two people just walked past my house wearing winter coats and hats.

It is 64 degrees out.

Image of lady justice beside a stack of books.

**NEW**

Today, the ACLU of South Carolina filed a lawsuit on behalf of public school students and school librarians. They're challenging the constitutionality of the state's book banning law and a memo outlining the state's content censorship policy.

bookriot.com/aclu-sc-laws...

This is an excellent article. Read it. Know what we're dealing with. SPEAK THE FUCK UP AND FIGHT.

Yeah, this has also made me sad. But I refuse to participate in fascism, so. Right there with you.

JD Vance: We have people who require food assistance, who will not get it unless we reopen the government

(Trump's budget bill cuts SNAP for millions of Americans)

23,000 Book Bans Since 2021: PEN America Releases Its Latest Report on the State of Literary Censorship PEN America's latest report shows nearly 23,000 book bans in US public schools since 2021 and nearly 7,000 in the 2024-2025 year.

PEN America has released their latest report on the state of school book bans in 2024-2025.

They've found nearly 23,000 book bans since 2021, and there were 6,870 in 2024-2025.

This report is crucial reading for understanding the state of book censorship right now.

bookriot.com/pen-america-...

🎶I don't think you're ready for the shutdown
Republicans can't govern with all three branches
It's so obvious🎶

Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I have an 11 year old; it's so unnecessarily difficult to get flu and COVID shots for kids under 12! Literally been in tears over this in past years trying to find available vaccines.

This is good information, thank you!

The South('s infectious disease rate) will rise again!

The funny part about Congress not reconvening until September is that's when we can continue to demand they release the Epstein files. :)

It's always a good day to remind everyone that Kirk Cameron is a huge fucking douche.

Elon Musk, the genius visionary who could not predict that the guy who has betrayed every person he has ever met would betray him

Searched for a book on Black history. Some bullshit by Ben Fucking Shapiro came up.

Ben Fucking Shapiro should shut the fuck up. He should shut the fuck up, STAY shut the fuck up, and fuck off into the sun forever and then longer than that. JFC, that dude sucks.

I downloaded the Chrome extension that turns every picture of Trump into a picture of a kitten, and I do not have the words to fully express how much better my internet experience is this way.

Its the spring shedding season, so here's a reminder to please be careful about leaving your dog's brushed-out outside for birds to use as nesting material. If you use a topical flea/tick preventative for your pets, their shedded fur can be toxic to nestling birds.
#dogs #birds #spring

Last night at work, I shelved a book called 'Atlas of Cats,' and I am so. deeply. angry. about this, because CATLAS was RIGHT THERE, MAN. RIGHT FRIGGIN' THERE. How could you whiff that so hard???

SHUDDER.