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The choice is:
Support trans kids, which has no impact on anyone but them
vs.
Wars, deportations, destruction of the environment, cratering of the economy, graft and corruption, all of which have negative impacts on the lives of everyone in this country.
Hrmmm. Tough choice, Mike. Tough choice.
sharon take: gender is part of the reason decarbonization is so hard
If my phone is in my hand, and therefore not in my pocket when I pat myself down, I panic momentarily.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I will never, ever forgive the people in my family who continue to vote for this political party.
There are now more kids with measles in Texas than children who have ever had transgender surgery
Had to get gas today and I have no idea why, but damn it's super expensive all of a sudden. Did they let another trans person swim or something? They're to blame for everything, and there's literally no other issue I've heard about, so I guess that's what happened?
A medium-sized black bird is standing behind a dark pile of wood chips and dirt with a bit of snow mixed in, such that only the top half or so of its body is visible. The crow's body is facing the camera but it has its head turned to the right for a profile view.
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Corvidae (any bird of the corvid family) and this American Crow is here to show us how elegant a corvid can be.
#birds #photography
Before Trump didn't give a shit about COVID, Republicans didn't give a shit about AIDS
Before Trump and the brutalization of brown people, Republicans brutalized black people.
Before Trump fucked around with our elections, Republicans took one to the Supreme Court
Before Trump in Iran, you get it
It's amazing how many times I can look through a stack of tests and not find the one from one kid, to the point I'm tearing my apartment and classroom apart in a mad search, and then see that it's right there in the stack, in alphabetical order even (!!), and has been the whole time.
Local man's understanding of events once again confused and obscured by use of passive voice in headline.
Imagine if we applied this logic to others who have committed mass shootings and terrorist attacks. "Everybody apparently forgot about the Oklahoma City bombing when they voted for that white Christian guy."
we keep operating like trump flipped some kind of switch to make the gop more misogynistic and racist but this path has been clear since the 50s. you dont get here without goldwater, reagan, nixon, the bushes and mccain/romney. trump didnt come out of nowhere. the monster was always there.
Screenshot from NY Mag feature on how much people make in NYC: "Bronx Day-Care Worker $31,000 $16,600 from day-care profits $14,400 from trainings and consulting Last year, I lost a lot of kids. I live in the Bronx, and a bunch of families in my neighborhood lost their child-care vouchers. We're talking about people who make as much as I do; most of the moms I work with are home health aides. They can't afford full-time child care. If I have 16 kids, I can pay myself for 40 hours of work. But last year, I didn't, and obviously I'm still doing the same amount of work. I've been running the day care out of my home for more than seven years. It's a profession I entered out of necessity and have stayed in out of passion. I pay for everything - food, cleaning supplies, toys - and we have to meet the same requirements as a large company in terms of paying for liability insurance, which can feel pointless in this industry. I mean, if something happens to one of my children, I lose my license. End of story."
Screenshot from NY Mag feature about how much people make in NYC: "Consultant $17,000,000 $9.5 million from consulting fees $7.5 million in stock in companies that went public The big-picture way that I make my money is consulting; that work covers my day-to-day. Separate from that, I had stock in a couple of companies that went public. Because I made money later in life, my tastes and needs are a lot simpler. I don't spend money on things like having multiple homes, or flying private, or watches, or boats. I make enough money that I do what I want and I don't think about it. I also don't believe in leaving my kids a crazy amount of money because everyone I know who has that is fucked up, so why would I do that to them?"
When people in the future ask what America was show them this
👇🎯 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.
Every day the economic experts get up and are like “we think today is the day the racists will use logic”
I don’t think Trump and his people are capable of engineering “distractions,” I think the mind-numbing chaos we see every day is straightforwardly the result of giving the dumbest, cruelest, most corrupt, most selfish people of a generation near-unmitigated power
All I keep thinking about is how the pardons for all of this have already been written
Pretty soon they're gonna need to release the Epstein files as a distraction from the price of gas and the dropping Dow.
How can you tell I'm on a deadline to grade this test, with report cards due in a few days?
I just cleaned out a junk drawer.
As with completely ignoring Project 2025, & all the actual domestic policy positions of the far right authoritarian party, we spent all of 2024 completely ignoring the actual foreign policy views of the far right authoritarian party. Harris v Trump was discussed on the most unserious level possible.
wanna help include disabled people?
enable the setting that requires alt text when posting images.
a lot of people use screenreaders to navigate the internet, and if there’s no alt text given for an image, all the screenreader will say for it is the word “image.”
Kids have gay families.
Some kids are gay.
Gay is not a taboo subject that must be discussed in hushed voices behind closed doors, lest it scar a child’s soul.
Scrubbing gay content is shoving us back in the closet. It’s priming America to treat gay people the way we’re treating trans people.
This. The thought of my mom and dad trying to explain to junior high school aged me what I was feeling? Hilarious and terrifying. *I* had to explain to *them* what it meant to be gay and how I knew it to be true, and they absolutely never got it.
The most insidious thing about this “parents should have these conversations with their kids” is that MOST STRAIGHT PARENTS ARE NOT EDUCATED ABOUT GAY PEOPLE! Certainly not as much as the queer people involved in these films.
That’s why we have chemistry experts teach chemistry, for example.
The common theme from negative replies to my gas price thread has been.
Well we don't have good transit, rail & bike lanes so I have to drive.
Which is my point. You're only noticing that now because gas has been too cheap. If gas had been more expensive, like $10/gal, you would have all that.
"If God is on our side
He'll stop the next war."
- Bob Dylan, "God on Our Side"
All of this is just profoundly evil.
It's so weird to think that yesterday, right now was an hour earlier.
I would like to get off of this ride now. Please can someone stop this ride I would like to get off. I do not want to be on this ride anymore is there any way we can stop please? Please someone please stop this.
5 top quality trans jokes
