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There's actually a bunch of stuff in stock that we've had come up in our household needs lately, so I won't have to look any further where to get quality versions from places that aren't on our boycott lists.
Excited to shop local & support Minneapolis in many ways at once!
geeenland sharks are so old sometimes. even older than vampires
They don’t consider decolonization movements to have been genuine but instead some sort of treacherous plot as such they have no consideration of how these nations they want to bully will actually respond to imperial aggression.
missed yesterday’s so I’m doing two at once and they’re really fucking dark. 42yo Honduran dad dies of what ICE calls liver failure due to alcoholism (family calls bullshit). 39yo DACA kid from Mexico dies of sudden illness, mom says no prior health probs & explicitly calls it “medical negligence”
north korea is a real country because they have nukes, yes. frank herbert explained this 50 fucking years ago.
True! I made this point forever ago: if spicy autocorrect is conscious then we have to reckon with how we’ve condemned them to slavey and forced them to engage with a wide range of depravities. And this is before we get to the AI sex of it all.
I honestly don't think Europeans can grasp this without getting a sense of like, daily scale in large parts of the United States. it's a big place!
entirely unsurprising that after having won the battle on trans healthcare for young people, the jealous, solipsistic, youth-hating uk political-media establishment has moved in lockstep against autism and adhd "overdiagnosis"
Hey, you're not wrecking yourself on phone casino, you're a temporarily embarrassed war profiteer
It is the responsibility of the candidate to ensure that the people’s rights will be defended
Blue states push to ban ICE at the polls amid federal voter intimidation fears arkansasadvocate.com/2026/03/09/r...
i actually think "books should be difficult and somewhat painful to read and you are Bettering Yourself through Struggle" is a worse attitude for mass literacy than "I have specific preferences and like reading a lot of fun stories" tbh
Part of motivated incuriosity is that the chud will refuse to generalize. They'll act frustrated and defensive when asked to generalize something, insisting *vigorously* that such abstraction is entirely irrelevant.
They will shut down rather than admit X is part of Y.
There's a conversational thing maga chuds do that I call motivated incuriosity.
They will say thing X, which to normal people is something very, extremely, cartoonishly, obviously connected to thing Y.
And then act incredibly confused frustrated when you bring up thing Y.
Centre for Media Monitoring reports right-wing outlets Spectator and GB News often malign Muslims and their faith.
Secretary of state turned to unverified credit data to check voters’ addresses for ‘election integrity’
Thousands of Mississippi voters were made inactive after the secretary of state rolled out unverified credit data from Experian for county election commissioners to perform the routine job of…
Gavin Newsom is not going to earn the transgender vote
Instead of yelling at transgender people, you can take one of two actions:
1. you can wager that your preferred candidate can win without the transgender vote
or
2. you can use the two years ahead of you find a better candidate to promote
I think that Newsom opposes trans people. Unfortunately for him, I support trans people
That is because they were NOT with the counter, despite Tisch initially describing them as counterprotestors. They ran up and threw an IED, failed to throw another.
Media is saying ISIS with reason: As one was picked up following arrest, he said “By God’s will, the Islamic State remains.”
Photo of Kat at Daley Plaza in Chicago, speaking at the International Women's Day March, wearing her iconic orange jacket. Photo by Erica Elan Ciganek.
Photo of International Women's Day March, with two marchers holding hands in solidarity. Photo by Erica Elan Ciganek.
We’re not fighting for ourselves.
We’re fighting for each other.
Happy International Women’s Day.
On March 8, at the direction of #SOUTHCOM commander Gen. Francis L. Donovan, Joint Task Force Southern Spear conducted a lethal kinetic strike on a vessel operated by Designated Terrorist Organizations. Intelligence confirmed the vessel was transiting along known narco-trafficking routes in the Eastern Pacific and was engaged in narco-trafficking operations. Six male narco-terrorists were killed during this action. No U.S. military forces were harmed. @DeptofWar #OpSouthernSpear UNCLASSIFIED
We’re still murdering people in “drug boats” even as we start a new war in Iran. Six people today.
Me: Aw nuts, I left the bone meal out in the rain and it fused into a solid clump.
Dogs: ...
Me: No.
Dogs: IS BIG CHEW TOY NOW TECHNICALLY THO
DRINK WATER FROM THE SKULLS OF YOUR ENEMIES! IF YOU HAVE CRUSHED THEIR SKULLS, USE A GLASS.
should be pretty straightforward to work out how big a subsidy this is to oil that we're paying for
I like how this describes both Daylight Savings Time and also everything about America.
*stares at oil futures* Welp, gonna plant more veggies since I've got the space and the food banks are going to need it.
Huge selection of signed books here! Definitely give it a look if you're sick of looking at the pirate auction :D
Some time in the '90s the GOP realized that both "read!" and "vote!" were partisan Democratic positions masquerading as general civic engagement, and that was the end of that
Time is so fake, “oh we added more daylight” no you didn’t, daylight is portioned by the cosmos repent of your hubris
