Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform
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Your regular reminder that normal, mainstream, pro-democracy political parties do not make restricting suffrage the central pillar of their policy platform
The Iranian girlsβ school was hit by a US tomahawk cruise missile. NPR has confirmed the footage.
(I am incredulous because the government just used to want me dead for being queer. But for real every axis on which our government is deeply adversarial to my perfectly normal life is an axis on which I have personal freedom)
And if I ever move out of the US it will be because it is impossible to age safely here.
I pay more for health insurance per year than I pay for my housing. More than I pay for food. More than I pay for electricity. I pay more for health insurance per year than I earned annually at jobs in my first decade of work.
I am self-employed. Obamacare is how I get insured. My rates doubled this year. DOUBLED. Does our government believe that only people who work for corporations should be allowed to live?
If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.
Basically, take the amount of money you think your favorite author gets, halve it, and then halve it again, and you have a number that's probably a lot closer to their actual earnings from writing.
"But I don't think they make that much!"
Halve that. Halve it again.
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...
you donβt hate rich people enough
If he has a trans godson & still agrees w/Nazis that trans ppl shouldnβt be allowed to play sports or transition before age 26, considers them βnot normalβ & chalks up their struggle for rights to βpronounsβ then that makes him even worse cause he should fucking know better but pulls that bs anyway.
NO NO NO YOU DONβT
GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA
federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step βdesigned for normiesβ kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL
tell everyone you know
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Absolutely chilling story
March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.
Trump canceled a major scientific report on the health of the natural world. The scientists are finishing it anyway. Yay scientists! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/c...
Pixar is owned by Disney.
Disney. The movie studio that made Bambi (mother shot by hunters), Dumbo (mother locked up by torturing circus trainers), Lady and the Tramp (Jock hit by a car), Pinocchio (whale scene traumatized kids I was babysitting so badly we had to leave the rerelease).
Staff at the nationβs largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Chicago, IL
ICE abducted a US citizen when she came home from a trip to Turkey. Sundas "Sunny" Naqvi was born in Evanston, Illinois, and is being held in an ICE detention center.
ICE told her family they donβt know where she is. Her iPhone pings from within the ICE building. Protests are outside.
just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war
I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)
You can find lots of message boards about this. Parents bragging about finding βautism parasitesβ in the stool after treatment - itβs the dead lining of the kidsβ intestines
On this episode of 8TW's adaption of @terrymooreart.bsky.social's #StrangersInParadise #MyOtherLife: Tambi gives Katchoo the pitch while Francine reads bible versesβ¦
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Remember how Joe Rogan was "just asking questions" about trans women and sports and didn't have a problem with trans people otherwise?
He's now a full on anti-trans genocidal fascist.
There is a reason you hold the line at sports.
More than 1.5 million girls were sent to maternity homes during the Baby Scoop era, where they were kept in seclusion, told they didnβt deserve to be mothers, and returned to their lives to pretend none of it happened.
This is the America the GOP wants to make great again.
NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.
When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: βBecause they lie all the time.β
Video + interview with her and her daughter:
Our database paints a detailed financial picture for President Donald Trump and hundreds of his political appointees, some of whom have ties to the industries they regulate.
The disclosures include their recent employers, assets and debts.
βMAGAβs fundamental shared quality is a total lack of theory of mind for other peopleβ is a theory that keeps getting validated by reality - look at almost every decision theyβve made in the war with Iran, and how they seem constantly surprised by the unanticipated actions of other parties.
Letβs talk about Graham Platnerβs Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
ICE has arrested and detained a Nashville journalist who reported stories critical of ICE. Sheβs married to a U.S. citizen and has been seeking asylum here after fleeing death threats in Colombia because of her journalism there.
Theyβve already sent her to Louisiana.