Stop The Wars

straight up not having a good time

[Stop The Wars @Corbolj]

When I worked fast food in high school a 40-something year old man told me the chocolate shell, sprinkle covered vanilla cake ice cream cone I made him wasn’t fun enough and it still bugs me

[Stop The Wars @Corbolj]

@Brammflakes @ChadRails @WARDOGS Glad yall are sticking to the wipes. This is one of the first games I’m excited for the wipes. The progression of how the games play out due to different gear is awesome, and by the end of wipe I’m expecting to be ready for the meta reset

[Stop The Wars @Corbolj]

@Sacriel @RobinBlitz @WARDOGS I’ve been grinding as much as I reasonably can since the game launched, and I always choose blue. I like the additional challenge and it’s fun to teach newer players. I don’t think it’s really an issue tbh. As my friends and I have gotten better we’ve started winning a lot more.

[Wagie Capital @WagieCapital]

The son of the former President is doing crypto scams

The sons (plural) of the current President are doing crypto scams

The First Lady is doing crypto scams

The PRESIDENT himself is doing crypto scams

WE ARE IN HELL

[Rebecca Nagle @rebeccanagle]

Bears Ears was the first national monument in the U.S. created in collaboration with Native nations. Now it's been slashed by more than 85%.

https://t.co/tuSp7EL0QC

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[Sam @samhtfc1907]

someone at snapchat needs to fuck off with all the random notifications

[Fav @Favwontmiss]

I’m so tired of the “grow your own food” response to all of these recalls. I don’t want a damn homestead! I want all the damn tax money I pay to fund agencies that protect our food!

[Covie @covie_93]

Republicans endorsed trump getting immunity from IRS audits in the same week Capitol One revealed they closed trump's accounts due to suspected money laundering.

[Shimmy4404👽 @Shimmy4404]

Are you kidding?? "Using racial slurs"?? They raped women, they've raped children!!! Hell they've MURDERED innocent unarmed Americans on national television for fucks sake!!!

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

👆 Your eternal reminder that the reality of trans athletes in America is so vastly different from what grifters want to scare you into believing.

[Logan McMillen 🇨🇺 🇻🇪 🇭🇹 🇵🇸 @South_Gradient]

Never enough Democrats to pass reform.

Always just enough Democrats for war.

[Patrick Robles @robles4theppl]

When Charlie Kirk was killed, people said he was a father taken who didn’t deserve to be murdered for doing what they love etc.

This week, two unarmed, undocumented fathers were killed by ICE

Where’s that same outrage? Does our humanity end at immigration status?

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

It does not matter whether the man federal immigration agents killed in Maine had work authorization. It does not matter whether he had a social security number. The state killed a man, and the national conversation turned first to his paperwork. That order of priorities is worth sitting with for a moment.

The debate underway is whether the victim somehow earned his own death. The question that should be asked, why agents of the state are killing people over immigration status at all, has gone strangely quiet.

It deserves saying plainly: this is not a normal practice anywhere. Most authoritarian states, whatever else they do, do not execute people over work permits.

Among Western democracies, the number of countries that do this is zero. I say that carefully, and I include the United States in the arithmetic. A country where this happens, and where the response is to audit the victim, has stepped outside that category, whether or not it has noticed yet.

Nobody knows where this ends. America will not repeat anyone else's history; it will make its own, and its own history books will one day have to account for this chapter. But the direction of travel is visible from here, and it would be dishonest to pretend otherwise.

What worries an outside observer most is not any single incident but the paralysis around them. When one side asks the government to stop killing innocent people, the answer is not reflection but reflex: do not listen to them, they are the other side. When even that request has become a partisan position, something essential has already broken.

And the pattern from here is familiar. One killing becomes several. Unrest follows, because decent people will try to stop what they cannot accept. And unrest, in turn, becomes the argument for emergency powers, manufactured or real, which enable more of what caused the unrest in the first place. This is not prophecy. It is simply how these sequences have always run.

For decades, people asked how ordinary countries slid into darkness. The answer was never a dramatic turning point with sinister music. It was a Tuesday, a news cycle, a paperwork debate over a dead man. Then another one.

To my American friends reading this: I know the majority of you want no part of it. But watching from the outside, we notice something your own media seems unwilling to show: one half of your country has effectively been silenced. Not argued down, simply removed from the picture. The cameras point one way now.

They find endless airtime for the people explaining why someone had to die, why a mother lunged at twenty-two masked men, why the latest body is somehow its own fault. The people asking why any of this is happening at all do not get a microphone.

A majority you can neither see nor hear is still a majority. I have known your country too long to doubt it. So the rest of us will say what your cameras will not: the America worth remembering does not kill people, documented or not, and every single one of you knows exactly why that sentence should never have needed writing.

Stay connected, follow Gandalv @Microinteracti1

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[Stop The Wars @Corbolj]

I hate that everything is AI. You couldn’t write a single tweet about a cool movie scene? You had to farm it out to a robot? Fuck you

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

For 30 seconds, CLIFHANGER convinces you this is a real mountain.

The camera pullback doesn’t expose the trick. It proves how good the trick is.

An enormous matte painting by Michelle Moen made the illusion possible. A beautiful practical VFX shot.

[Stop The Wars @Corbolj]

@Jomboy_ Been looking forward to this one

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The president pardoned more than 70 convicted fraudsters. Don’t let them gaslight you.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[alex lei @alexL_E_I]

Dale Jr. kept racing and won at the track that took his dad not 5 months later. that’s legacy—this is cowardice

[Stop The Wars @Corbolj]

@mikewar123 @PlayWarframe You’re a fucking loser