David August ❌👑
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Capitalism is a denial-of-service attack on human potential
George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽Judicial nominees who cannot answer a question this basic because they are scared of the president have no business serving as judges. The GOP doesn't care, though. Which is why we must vote them out of power in November.
Paul CantrellHard not to read that article and hear echoes of the ICE invasion of Minneapolis. What that Israeli army chief described in the West Bank is what the Trump admin wanted here: a completely stratified society, with summary execution for dissent in the lower strata. That’s the waters they were testing when they murdered Good and Pretti: “Do we have total impunity yet?” And that “yet” is still hanging in the air. They are still, to this day, disappearing people to secret prisons.
Heidi Li FeldmanRemember: tonight’s order from the Roberts Court makes it almost impossible to reverse or stop the Governor of Louisiana from cancelling an ongoing election. Doesn’t get much more authoritarian than cancelling elections. But when done in service to white supremacist, patriarchal Republican Fascism - a palpably anti-democratic, authoritarian program - the Roberts Court is all for it. 15/
All of this has happened on the shadow docket. So the Roberts Court has ok’d election cancellation without merits briefing, oral argument, etc.
This would be extraordinary and pernicious enough. But because Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented and pointed out how exceptional and dangerous the Court’s order is, Alito, joined by Gorsuch and Thomas, wrote an opinion basically calling her uppity. 4/
Irenes (many)@mos_8502 because... if people and our institutions are in the habit of doing things for wrong reasons
then there is no process difference between doing right things and doing wrong things, and the latter can happen more easily
Gildilinie Gremlin 🏳️⚧️i have a phd in ~language models~ and with the full gravitas of my expertise, ppl need to stop talking to chatbots
SecondUniverse (she/her/they)20% of women "might" regret a sterilization procedure, so the NHS often denies access.
1) The "regret" bogeyman is rolled out for any procedure deviating from social norms. For example, gender affirming care has an almost 0% regret rate, but "regret" is still used to gatekeep care. The rate of regret is not the factor. It is resistance to the idea people can choose not to follow the "norm".
2) People can choose things in life knowing they might regret them. The possibility of regret is part of our freedom. Only the person undergoing the procedure can decide if the risk is acceptable to them.
3) A life with regrets is not a lesser life. A life paternalistically shielded from regret is a diminished life.
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/may/01/female-sterilisation-nhs-access-questions
CelloMom On Cars"We are not getting richer. We are spending down a natural inheritance accumulated over geological time, entering the draw-down in the growth column, and refusing to note the corresponding reduction in assets. The net position is deteriorating, and the growth figure is a fiction. Selling one's mother's saris and calling the proceeds a salary is a known indicator of household ruin; we are doing it at planetary scale and printing the receipts as quarterly results."
The Hidden Cost of Climate Change: Why the Planet Is Paying for Human Consumption
An in-depth analysis of climate change, rising heatwaves in India, and the hidden environmental cost of modern consumption. The article explores how economic systems, consumer habits, and unchecked growth are pushing the planet toward crisis.
myrmepropagandistStory Set Up:
One day you get a strange envelope in the mail. No obvious significance of the return address, it's just a shipping depot. In the large bubble envelope you find... your childhood journal. An old tattered notebook full of drawings and writings you remember well. Who could have sent it? A relative?
But there is another much more serious issue. One you are reluctant to even confront.
You never lost your old childhood journal. It's right there on the shelf.
There are *two* copies.