The troubles
11.03.2026 08:16
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The troubles
I have never met anyone who is more adept at tracking every last cent they have than people who live or have lived in poverty
it is a skill developed out of necessity and it never leaves you
This is the legacy of Christian nationalism: a nation full of Christians behaving the exact opposite of Christ's teachings.
Difficult to emphasize just how much a generation of kids has been taught that being dishonest, superficial, and narcissistic is the pathway to attention and therefore success
After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?”
And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.
leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"
jim gordon taking on crypto hell yeah
The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th 🍿🤑🤣
i pronounce it biskee so he's not wrong
Fuck ICE. Free Palestine. Vote Kat.
estrogen is magic 🩷
Someone catfished that Jake Lang white supremacist guy pretending to be a 15 year old girl and he took the bait in the worst possible way.
The American right is heavily invested in the myth that progressives only oppose the war in Iran because we do not want freedom for Iranians
bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site
every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
cheating on your taxes under this administration is good actually, i dont want money going to bomb little schoolgirls and you shouldn't either
True redemption doesn’t usually involve an increase in power and influence for those redeemed, and we should be wary of those who try to gain those privileges from a pose of repentance.
"hey, you like my shoes? i'll get you a pair, they'll be at your house tomorrow" is unfortunately trump at his most hank scorpio coded
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
The reactions to Bluesky having a new CEO
I want you to know, yes, specifically the person running this account, you specifically: you are acting in service of genocide and the third world war, and your every night's sleep will be haunted by the ghosts of little Palestinian and Iranian girls whose murders you helped support.
cannot stress enough that "separate the art from the artist" was meant for private individuals reconciling the art they love with its flawed creators and not meant for the ceo of a company driving a dump truck of money up to a bigot's front porch
www.theverge.com/podcast/8914...
I remember him insulting Ted Cruz's wife, I don't recall him doing that to Rubio, where was this?
You can be a kind person, do good works, be friendly and fun to be around, but if you are supporting genocide in the middle east, that is a stain on your soul that you must spend the rest of your life washing out.
Somewhere in the past decade I lost the ability to compartmentalize people from their beliefs, and I don't want it back.
You can be a bad person with good beliefs.
You CANNOT be a good person with bad beliefs.
can't help but notice whose losses are expressed in dollars and whose losses are expressed in lives
Gallup Poll (3/5/26):
Do you approve of $8 gas
No: 99%
Yes: 1%
Do you approve of Donald Trump's $8 gas policy
No: 46.6%
Yes: 38.9%
Unsure: 14.5%
Attacks leave dead vs killed
