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Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.”

A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

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It's passingly clever in some respects because the 80's nostalgia also allows them to tie a younger Trump to a rose-tinted view of the Reagan years.

But imo that really isn't the goal here, the entire point of this video is to have the government doing literal Nazi memes on main

We believe healthcare is a right for every American.

But starting today, millions of people will be notified that they are being priced out of their insurance thanks to Republican policies.

Enough is enough. The GOP may shut down the government, but we will stand tall for YOU.

🫧 Firms fueling AI mania know they're contributing to a bubble — it's part of their business strategy.

I can’t begin to tell you how damaging “the world isn’t fair, get used to it” line has been to every child’s psyche growing up and therefore has led to a world that stays unfair. If we teach children to get used to an unfair world, we are destroying the possibility of a better world.

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Here’s a thing I’ll add, as someone who’s been there: if you’re the CEO of a platform with millions of users, you don’t get to have as much fun on that platform, period. And your job is to eat shit every time a legitimate critique of policy comes up. That’s the gig. Don’t sign up if you aren’t game.

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

On the one hand Trump is cruel, predatory and a dictator in the making. He believes he owns the country. On the other (no real contradiction), this is entirely plausible. This presidency is an erratic/predatory ID being run and directed by a small handful of toadies and degenerate policy hands.

Oh we are SO getting Celeborn returning from imprisonment, haunted by the horrors of war

this is why we need to bring back shame

there need to be consequences for being a huge asshole, there need to be standards for how you behave in a decent society

the rules cannot be set by the worst of us

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement.

YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

Referring to Autism as a problem is fucking eugenics.

I always made fun of pre-2020 German politicians that were afraid of inflation like the Plague, turns out they were right!! Prices rising are the one thing that cuts through every messaging, chart and metric that you can throw at people, it is not even irrational per se!

They gave up on pseudo-science, now it's anti-science. They no longer try to make it look like authentic science, instead the hook is, "this is not what the scientists and doctors tell you, and that's how you know you can trust it."

Depressingly, this view controls the whole federal government.

I get the rapture jokes and I’m enjoying them as much as the next guy and also I hope everyone is keeping in the back of their minds the fact that these folks are literally praying that all the Jews in the entire world drop dead tonight so they can climb over our dead bodies to reach heaven

Outgoing NYC Cardinal Dolan Faces Unprecedented Catholic Backlash After Comparing Kirk to St. Paul Pope Leo stays measured, while Dolan’s likely successor — Bishop Daniel Flores — prepares to bring a very different voice to New York.

Pope Leo is said to have accepted Cardinal Dolan's resignation and to have picked his successor as New York archbishop. Will Dolan serve in retirement as spiritual advisor to Turning Point USA? In any event, his adherence to the GOP is far stronger than his adherence to the Catholic Church.

ICE held 5-year-old autistic girl in Massachusetts to pressure father to surrender, family says The girl's father, Edward Hip, has lived in the United States for the last 22 years, according to his wife.

ICE agents held a 5-year-old autistic girl outside her Massachusetts home to pressure her father to surrender to authorities last week, according to the girl's family

Consensual Non-Consent In Real Life A 3 panel comic Panel 1: Kink Negotiation Blushing Person: I was thinking maybe we could try out some CNC play... Person #2: Yeah, we can totally try that out, sweetie! We should plan out what we're willing to do! Panel 2: "The Scene" Person #2: The sex pollen.... it's... taking over. I... I can't...Hnngg.... Blushing Person: Noo! Please, you have to snap out of it! Panel 3: Aftercare Blushing Person: Thanks so much, that was fun. Let's do it again sometime. [end of comic] "The Scene" is the fantasy within a CNC framework. Some fictional works tell a story depicting two (or more) characters following the process of doing CNC kink, just as they would in real life: Consent discussion, Kink negotiation, “The Scene", and Aftercare. [image of a blushing person reading the above comic] Some fictional works focus on “The Scene only. A framing device is not required, as the fantasy is contained fully within the story. This lets the reader engage in the kink the same way as if they were engaging in “The Scene" portion of the CNC play. [image of a blushing person reading only “The Scene” panel from the above comic] CNC play, and both sorts of fiction are normal and healthy!

A comic about CNC kink I've been thinking about for a few years, and I finally decided to sit down and make it.

I'm a little ashamed to admit that TIL that the opposition to evolution in some sectors is because it means that white people and black people share a common ancestor and that narrative undermines white supremacy.

a man wearing sunglasses says " absolutely not " no way Alt: a man wearing sunglasses says " absolutely not " no way

The recent BSG convention from was so fun, but I have to tell you something disturbing I learned. You know the tubs they used for cylon rebirth? They would save the goo each time & reuse it. So actors would feel other people‘s hair within the goo. Not sure I’ll ever get over knowing this.

I often think how among all the other things it is against, fascism (and its attendant authoritarianisms and make-believes) is fundamentally a war against complexity—against the inherent complexity and multiplicity of the universe and social reality—and against any efforts to understand them as such

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

stop. carrying water. for the fascists.

They do not have the power they want people to think they do. it is almost all posturing.

Shit is BAD. there is a LOT of bad they are doing. But the game is far from lost, buck up, and stop falling for their psych outs.

What happens when private equity buys a hospital? More people die in the ER, a new report says. A new study by researchers at Harvard and elsewhere adds to a growing body of literature that shows the profit-seeking model can raise prices and hurt patient care

Patients are more likely to die in the ER when private equity buys a hospital.

That’s the price of corporate greed. This is why I will continue to fight for my Health Over Wealth Act—to protect patients, providers, and communities.

a good summary of the reactions I’ve seen on bluesky is very little sympathy for Kirk himself but a broad recognition of how dangerous this political moment is and a lot of worry about what comes next

and maybe that’s just me cultivating a good feed but it’s way calmer than I’ve seen elsewhere

The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway Conservative activist and pundit Charlie Kirk was shot and killed on Wednesday, becoming another victim of America’s epidemic ...

here is the truth the mainstream media doesn't want you to see

The whitewashing of Charlie Kirk’s toxic legacy is underway www.dailykos.com/stories/2025...

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?