All you can really do is hydrate, take your meds, eat well, work out, stretch, be kind, call your loved ones often, and make a difference locally/ in your fields. Like maybe .001% of folks on here can move real needles in the real world. Sorry! It's true. Focus on what you can change.
He can just use state power to make bad things worse, blame others, and demand that we don’t hold elections. That’s it, that’s the whole plot; and if we don’t see it that’s on us. (3/3)
#FindASongToExplain
#MusicChallenge
the Dismemberment Plan - back & forth
youtu.be/C4W49WMFfeo?...
that levitt simply ignored the question is entirely leavitt's fault, and the administration can correct this record any time they feel like it, no one is under any obligation to be charitable to them
you ever think how this is all because america elected a centre-left black president once, and the right never forgave the left for it
A blocked order still signals intent, keeps an issue salient, and produces months of political conflict. The performance of executive overreach, and the consequences that come with it, may be a feature of policymaking here, not a bug.
A series of Bluesky posts all exclaiming how ridiculous Kyle Schwarber is.
WELCOME BACK, BASEBALL.
Something that speaks to a sudden decline in our society is the amount of people I’ve seen lately approaching stop signs and then going right through them like “nope, don’t believe in this anymore!”
I do think this is a far-reaching phenomenon impacting everything from moral laws to traffic laws—when the system isn’t working for people and is actually fucking them over constantly, they rely on small acts of protest against it to retain their dignity, even if those acts are grossly misdirected.
March 5, 1926: Striking textile mill workers parade in Passaic, N.J., in a new show of solidarity two days after police attacked them with clubs. Many of the strikers are now wearing helmets in case of new violence. Radical activist Elizabeth Gurley Flynn tries one on.
I AM NOT FUCKING LAZY.
I am burnt out, overstimulated, and have been carrying emotional loads for YEARS that no one’s ever helped me hold.. I’M TIRED.
John Fugelsang takes it to a Trump supporter...
a) They trusted a known pathological liar, and...
b) Out of all the lies they have swallowed, *this* one makes the idiots feel "betrayed."
Not the racism, not Epstein, not the election lies... This one.
Ran away from the family farm at 17 to become a CWO in the Navy, served in the Pacific in WWII, then a self-taught engineer, the other was a Marine in the Pacific in WWII and later drove a gas tanker truck and was a dispatcher.
Yesterday I saw a post about Orwell's "Politics and the English Language"
There's a bit in it where he talks about how demagogues will talk in speech-shaped chunks of words, piecing them together without any thought about what they are actually saying.
www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...
Exactly. First you let Platner in the door, then you get Neera Tanden retweeting Nick Fuentes, and then your big tent is a fucking Nazi hangout.
No fucking Nazi shit. Period.
we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping
“If you believe in bodily autonomy you have to accept vaccine deniers.”
No, I don’t.
I don't believe in laws against blasphemy, but
Jamelle Bouie clearly and quite publicly works very hard to be informed and even-handed and anyone talking about him as if he’s not doing either of those things should shut the fuck up and definitely be widely ignored
That Trump neck thing? Seen it before.
Interphasic parasites that feed on cellular peptides.
People tend to think of functional illiteracy as just being unable to read words aloud or such.
What it *really* means is such as not being able to perceive subtext, context, understand who the audience of something may be, etc.
Media illiteracy is fundamentally part of functional illiteracy.
Think about all the libertarians you've encountered who will read a book and *entirely* miss the point of the book. Literally not perceiving that the book is describing a dystopia, or identify satire of real world events, or identify who is the villain.
54% of US adults read below 6th grade level.
Think about authors having to explain that they should not *have* to have the villain stop periodically and go "what I am doing is wrong, I am doing a bad thing. I am the bad guy, here" because being able to figure that out is part of what it means to be functionally literate.
Thank you, I’ll give this a go. I’ll mix my fiber supplement into it.
I’ve never had what I would say is a good smoothie. I love blueberries. What else do you put into yours?
> @covie93.bsky.social
Just do yourself a favor and press play.
Feeling overwhelmed by the amount of evil in the world.
