Daydreaming .

"Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music"

[mikarchive-deactivated20250714]

i am a girlboss i am a war criminal i am a lunatic . i am clinically insane & the next virgin mary & i am never going to die

[gemeentepijnacker]

[reallychaoticcoffeesstuff]

[fullpraxisnow]

“[I]t is actually more expensive to be poor than not poor. If you can’t afford the first month’s rent and security deposit you need in order to rent an apartment, you may get stuck in an overpriced residential motel. If you don’t have a kitchen or even a refrigerator and microwave, you will find yourself falling back on convenience store food, which — in addition to its nutritional deficits — is also alarmingly overpriced. If you need a loan, as most poor people eventually do, you will end up paying an interest rate many times more than what a more affluent borrower would be charged. To be poor — especially with children to support and care for — is a perpetual high-wire act.”

— It Is Expensive to Be Poor | The Atlantic

[bae-in-maine]

“Poverty charges interest ” holy hell. Ive never read$heard someone put it that way before. But its so friggen true.

[useless-bisaster]

See also:

(Source: Men at Arms by Terry Pratchett)

[vinstage]

[propertiesofjoy]

peter brown / huguette clark

[mijomii]

miguel and miniguel

[mijomii]

This is my current source of happiness I love people translating the Miguel & Miniguel joke in their language 😭

[misgnomer]

multilinguel 

[psychedelic-psychoo]

[historyofhumanity]

On this day in history 1990 east Germany ceased to exist as a nation and was reunited with the west to form the Federal republic of Germany.

Happy reunification day to all my German followers!

[sprachgefuehle]

That first tag is the most authentic german reaction I could imagine

[cybergus]

[meanplastic]

THE SCAM OF THE CENTURY

[smolfrogi]

SCAM OF THE MILLENNIA

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[lejacquelope]

[chocolatehighhh]

Please reblog this every time you see it

[whitepeopletwitter]

[tshifty]

some of yall really think politics is only about the presidency and it shows when you say shit like “i dont like biden so i wont vote” get a motherfucking vibe check and go vote blue so we dont have a conservative majorty supreme court for the next 30 years holy shit

[tshifty]

wow there are really some of yall out here adding the absolute stupidest fucking comments onto this post huh!! the amount of people I’ve seen in the past day pull some shit out of their ass about “biden is just as bad as trump” is astounding tbh. 

firstly, the central points of this post are that you need to vote DOWN THE BALLOT because newsflash the presidency isn’t the only election and that voting biden does more than just him it also allows RBG to retire and gives us our first female vp and a progressive presidential cabinet. 

now for yall acting like biden and trump are the same im going to highly encourage you to do a few things. 1, go read biden’s policy platform. 2, go look at every politician and organization who has endorsed him… people like bernie and warren and obama… organizations like the congressional black caucus 3, turn on the news and go read up about how trump is sending in federal officers to brutalize peaceful protesters and how he threatened to send in the us military, and how he’s blocking the cdc now from collecting coronavirus data. 

does biden suck?? uhhh yeah no shit that really isnt news. am i happy that biden is the nominee?? FUCK no. but im not stupid ignorant or selfish enough to say some asinine shit like “oh well i dont like biden so you know what fuck it trump can stay” ???? what are yall planning to do exactly, storm the capitol?? redo our entire political system in the next 3 months???? oh my fucking god. this is the choice we have right now. biden or trump. that is your choice. im not asking you to like it but im asking you to pull your head out of your ass and understand that every single progressive politician and organization you support is begging you to vote biden because they understand that if trump is reelected we will NEVER have a chance at creating a better more progressive system. yall want to have a progressive president in 2024? 2028? then go vote for biden so we make it until then. oh my god. 

[kadeedoes]

If trump wins the next election, we’re looking at a Conservative Supreme Court for potentially the rest of our lives.

We’re alreading removing the separations of Church and State through recent Supreme Court rulings. I want you to imagine future Conservative Supreme Court rulings on the following cases:

Religious School funding

School integration vs segregation

Limits on police brutality

Voting rights and protections

Healthcare coverage

Marriage rights for LGBT couples

Housing/job/healthcare discrimination on basis of ‘religion’ against women, other religious members, lgbt people

Immigrant rights and immigration rates

Affirmative action

Climate change and EPA requirements

Employee rights

Funding for family planning services

[kali-tmblr]

And that’s only the start of their list of demands. If they get those past, they’ll be back with even more extreme demands, and there will be no one left in a position to stop them.

[harostar]

So Trump has released a list of potential Supreme Court Justices.

Judge Bridget Bade, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Daniel Cameron, Kentucky attorney general

Paul Clement, former solicitor general

Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas

Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Steven Engel, assistant attorney general at the Justice Department

Noel Francisco, former solicitor general under the Trump administration

Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri

Judge James Ho, 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Judge Greg Katsas, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

Judge Barbara Lagoa, 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Christopher Landau, U.S. ambassador to Mexico

Justice Carlos Muniz, Florida Supreme Court

Judge Martha Pacold, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Judge Peter Phipps, 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Judge Sarah Pitlyk, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri

Judge Allison Jones Rushing, 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

Kate Todd, deputy White House counsel

Judge Lawrence VanDyke, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals

A majority of those are Trump appointees. 

[harostar]

I am reblogging this again, for reference.

These are the people Trump announced to replace RBG, before she even passed away.

Now, these are the people being considered for the Supreme Court to make it a 7 - 2 breakdown. 

If Trump is re-elected, one of those people WILL take RBG’s seat. 

They will help lead a predominantly Conservative Supreme Court for decades to come. Some of them openly opposed LGBT and Reproductive Rights. 

[tshifty]

I want to put below what AOC just posted on instagram today 9.19.20: 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CFU6sUHn73X/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

“Voting for Joe Biden is not about whether you agree with him. It’s a vote to let our democracy live another day. That’s what this is about. We need to act in solidarity and protection for the most vulnerable people in our society, who have already experienced the violent repercussions of this administration. And the reason we need to do that is because yes, the political middle is willing to sacrifice immigrants; the political middle too often is willing to play both sides when someone dies to police violence. Absolutely. That’s why we need to show up. We need to show up, because if we don’t show up, those people don’t get protected. Because no one politician is the answer. No one president is the answer. YOU are the answer. Mass movements are the answer. Millions of people are the answer. I’m sorry to tell you, you’re not going back to brunch. We’re not going back to brunch. That’s not happening.”

[bustedbernie]

[rosey-posy]

May her memory be a blessing

[autumngracy]

Yo Biden just announced an infrastructure devolopment/clean energy/environmental justice plan and it's honesty pretty fucking amazing and much more ambitious than I ever would have expected from him, goddamn. He's trying to Eisenhower/New Deal our way out of the economic collapse.

Some notable points addressed by this plan:

Expanding American railway systems

Fixing the crumbling roads, bridges, dams, etc. that haven't been kept up

Capping abandoned oil wells

Undoing Trump's financial bailout policies for unclean energy companies

Reinvesting in American-made automotive companies

Getting America to 100% clean energy by 2035

Fixing air, water, and ground pollution issues that disproportionately affect poc

Getting justice for victims of environmental racism

Reinstating a bunch of environmental and medical jobs Trump had cut

Getting the US back on the Paris Agreement/Climate Accord

[tsarinajissa]

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-07-14/biden-to-call-for-2-trillion-in-clean-energy-spending

[lyricwritesprose]

For those who were wondering what the point of voting for a leftist candidate was, if the leftist didn’t win—this is it.  Biden is trending leftward.  That’s what we want him to do.  He wouldn’t be doing it if the left hadn’t shown itself to be a real force.

I know that the work is never done and all that, but I think we can count this one as a win.

[parliamentrook]

please god vote. register ASAP. check to make sure you’re still registered because they’re kicking people off. look into your states mail in ballot laws

I don’t like the guy, and I doubt if most of this would actually get done, but please, it’s better than the guy actively dismantling anything good we have and pushing us backwards

even if you’re in a state that swings dem and you think your vote doesn’t matter, it does. the popular vote tally means something even if the system is broken. Hillary got millions more votes and that was the voice of the people. vote even just to add to the tally of people against Trump because you know the numbers will hurt his vanity

[thecuckoohaslanded]

And for all the “lesser of two evils” people out there who think a Biden victory means rewarding the Democratic party’s ongoing rejection of the left wing of the party, reminder that the alternative, GREATER of two evils, is THIS:

A new policy change to prevent trans women from accessing homeless shelters is teaching people how to police gender presentation and physical features just so the country can legalize a new way to get away with killing us.

This is the shit we would have four more years of if Biden loses.

Shelter workers may use “factors such as height, the presence (but not the absence) of facial hair, the presence of an Adam’s apple, and other physical characteristics which, when considered together, are indicative of a person’s biological sex,” the rule says.

If a homeless person appears too transgender for a homeless shelter, the shelter is allowed to ask them for proof of “biological sex.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2020/07/trump-administration-memo-explains-spot-transgender-woman/

Biden wasn’t even my fifth choice in the primaries.  But we have to focus on the general now.  There are only two possible outcomes this November.  We’ve seen how one of them turned out for us, and we all know damn well it’s only getting worse, and getting worse faster.  Do not forget that the other outcome is not just about Biden; there’s an entire Democratic platform that comes in with him, along with a complete 180 in White House staff, federal appointments, judicial confirmations, etc.  And the judicial confirmations ALONE are a huge deal.  If you are somehow NOT convinced that Biden would be better for us than Trump, I need you to understand the existential threat of these words:

Losing Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat to another Brett Kavanaugh.

Do NOT let your ideological purity put us through THAT.

Anything lesser than the evil we have now is a rejection of how far right the Overton Window has been dragged the last few years.  Don’t forget how much we stand to lose if we don’t live to fight another day.

[peaceheather]

Reblogging again because RBG has passed. We are fucked without Biden, assuming they don't ram a replacement through before November.

[bemusedlybespectacled]

Reblogging because RBG is fucking dead and I will be damned if Trump gets to pick another Supreme Court judge.

[traeumerin-2709]

Every american who can vote, register and vote! I don’t want have to read you have to suffer four more years under the joke that’s called president.

[val-ritz]

The problem with forcibly seizing the assets of, say, Jeff Bezos is that his net worth of $161 billion does not mean he has that in cash. That’s the worth of everything he owns, including stock in his own company.

And the problem with seizing THAT is that it isn’t real. It’s based on confidence and what people might conceivably pay for it. And if you just seize it, that confidence tanks. And then that wealth evaporates.

The problem with capitalism isn’t that there’s a bunch of old dudes sitting on hoards of cash. It’s that they’ve collectively created a system by which they have ludicrous social and economic power based on the PROMISE of hoards of cash. That don’t exist. They have created a social stratum in which debt is money.

That’s why the exhortation is to SEIZE THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION, not GO GRAB ALL THE MONEY. Because the money isn’t real, and the need to go out and get it is blinding people to the fact that it doesn’t need to exist.