[thefirstagreement]

Long.Live.Steelo

[roshicorp-deactivated20160804]

[achillesinhighheels]

I actually have to build the life I want to live.

[byjove]

they bombed iran

[byjove]

members of congress coming out and being like “guys, we didn’t agree to this 🥺 this was an unauthorized act of war” OKAY BITCH. START DOING SOMETHING. THE BLOOD IS ON YOUR HANDS TOO, YOU GLORIFIED INANIMATE OBJECT

[byjove]

“you guys, we said no, we swear!” that is not enough

[colddraftt]

it's amazing how useless elected representatives can be when it doesn't involve terrorizing minorities or silencing dissidents

[threedollarsdotcom]

theyre taking me out back behind the shed presumably to give me a medal for my valor and heroism

[catboybiologist]

-Kristi Noem

[stream]

SpongeBob SquarePants S01E18a

[mournfulroses]

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer written in 1913, featured in Letters To Felice

[dangerly]

[kodachrome-net]

The view from the porch: Halloween, 2017

[crabussy]

white people in this country are so scared of anything māori. it would be funny if it wasn't so deeply sad

[crabussy]

a few years ago there was national outrage and an attempt to boycott an entire chocolate company. not for unethical cocoa sourcing (whittakers makes an active effort to source all its cocoa beans 100% ethically). not for anything actually worth boycotting. nope! the outrage was over ONE special edition block of chocolate that was written in te reo māori instead of english. the main complaint from pākehā online? "we don't understand what it says! how are we supposed to know what we're buying!!!" I don't know man. I truly don't know how to help you if you can't understand that this is milk chocolate. no hope for you at all

[catgirltoes]

[image description: the gold packaging of a chocolate bar. From top to bottom, it reads:

Whittaker's

mai anō i te tau 1896

33% kōkō

miraka kirīmi

[picture of chocolate with a pitcher of cream]

hua o aotearoa

250g

End description]

[letsbelonelytogetherr]

— Melissa Cox

[thoughtkick]

“Trust yourself. You have survived a lot. And you will survive whatever is coming.”

— Unknown

[noahwhyle]

Mandy Patinkin’s tribute to the late Rob Reiner

The tragedy of Rob and Michelle’s deaths are incomprehensible. I’m hearing Rob’s voice telling us all to do more, to repair the human soul, to repair our hearts, to repair our country, to repair our world, to keep fighting, to keep living for every soul taken from this earth. We must raise our voices for them. I’ll continue to try and follow Rob’s example as an artist and a humanitarian. I hope you do too.

I don’t know what else to do other than try to cherish every moment we are alive, to be of service to every aspect of our existence and to never give up. When feeling lost one thing I might ask is “What would Rob do?” and then do it.

[elanormcinerney]

[pi-la]

[liberalsarecool]

MAGA denial is not an accident.

It is a survival strategy.

[liberalsarecool]

1500 times and we have not even seen what the DOJ is holding. Not even mentioning the 1000s of videos.

[robertreich]

Most people I talk with assume that the only way to stop corporate and dark money in American politics is either to wait for the Supreme Court to undo Citizens United (we could wait a very long time) or amend the U.S. Constitution (this is extraordinarily difficult). But there’s another way! It will be on the ballot next November in Montana. Maybe you can get it on the ballot in your state, too. Here’s the thing: Individual states have the authority to limit corporate political activity and dark money spending, because they determine what powers corporations have. In American law, corporations are creatures of state laws. For more than two centuries, the power to define their form, limits, and privilege has belonged only to the states. States don’t have to grant corporations the power to spend in politics. In fact, they could decide not to give corporations that power. This isn’t about corporate rights, as the Supreme Court determined in Citizens United. It’s about corporate powers. When a state exercises its authority to define corporations as entities without the power to spend in politics, it will no longer be relevant whether corporations have a right to spend in politics — because without the power to do so, the right to do so has no meaning. Delaware’s corporation code already declines to grant private foundations the power to spend in elections. Importantly, a state that no longer grants its corporations the power to spend in elections also denies that power to corporations chartered in the other 49 states, if they wish to do business in that state. All a state would need to do is enact a law with a provision something like this: “Every corporation operating under the laws of this state has all the corporate powers it held previously, except that nothing in this statute grants or recognizes any power to engage in election activity or ballot-issue activity.” Sound farfetched? Not at all. In Montana, local organizers have drafted and submitted a constitutional initiative for voters to consider in 2026 — the first step in a movement built to spread nationwide. It would decline to grant to all corporations the power to spend in elections.

[politicalantibody]

Fascinating!