me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58
Our cultureβs obsession with UFC is scary. Writing on the wall.
βThereβs no single answer that will solve all our future problems. Thereβs no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answersβat least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.β
β Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay
If I think too long about the terrible things the rich and powerful do with impunity my brain will break. Maybe this is why our ancestors invented the concept of hell. Itβs too painful to accept that theyβll all just get away with it.
She seems a little⦠off.
We're going to win because their side has no good art and they know it.
The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call βsymbolic compliance.β
Thatβs when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
Maybe heβs just not for me π€·ββοΈ
HUGE Dune fan, so please believe me that I wanted him to be good.
In Dune it sounds like heβs trying to mimic Nicholas Cage. Kept me from actually getting immersed in the movie.
I feel like his acting is completely overrated, but Iβm having a hard time finding people who agree with me.
I feel bad for all of us who have to be good at our jobs when the answer is to be sufficiently white, rich and powerful and then you can just drool on yourself and the press will be like βaudiences intrigued by his unusual communication styleβ
Yep.
Itβs all so so so stupid
Elizabeth Taylor in an 80s press conference speaking on the stigma of AIDS ββ¦And it so angered me that I finally thought to myself, Bitch, do something yourself.β from the documentary βElizabeth Taylor: The Lost Tapes.β
thereβs a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and itβs fucking everything
11 years ago today, 12 year old Tamir Rice was gunned down by police officers on Clevelandβs west side.
The officer shot him within seconds of arriving at the park he was playing in.
Tamirβs life mattered. It still does. My thoughts are with his family today.
Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.
So much work remains to be done.
"The average voter believes a SNAP recipient gets $20/day, more than 3 times the actual amount of $6."
This has not gotten much attention, but it should.
Virginia under Youngkin returned to an insanely harsh system where people convicted of any felony lose their voting rights FOR LIFE.
Dems' win this week mean they'll get to advance a constitutional amendment to end lifetime disenfranchisement.
Judith beheading Holofernes, artwork 1612-3, by Artemisia Gentileschi
Did women ruin the workplace?
Please stop falling for the MTG is a new person con.
Please.
BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students.
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"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be, and you do choose how you want to think." β
Grace Lee Boggs
Young angry men should listen to less Joe Rogan and more Joey Ramone.
Honey from our bees. I feel rich!
But our noooorrrmmms!!