When the world seems close to pear shaped,
When leaders fill you with despair
When things look dark and dreary
And love seems far too rare -
CUDDLE A DUCK
[ It works ...]
Today marks 250 years since a small group of newspaper editors, farmers, and soldiers signed a document declaring our nation’s independence — a truth that feels self-evident now but was revolutionary then.
What a privilege us Americans have, to live in a nation that every one of its inhabitants can shape. What an honor us New Yorkers have, to look out over our city’s waters from the shores where so many Americans bravely entered their country for the first time.
Today and all days, let us remember that patriotism is not pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent — because loving our country means fighting for the best version of it.
Happy Fourth of July, New York City.
Did you guys know the senator that made up the “trump derangement syndrome” slogan is in prison for trying to meet up with a boy to fuck him? Haha. Yeah! Look it up. Your favorite slogan was made popular by a dude who wanted to assrape a small boy! Have fun with that
70 years ago, people like this were raging about having to let black students into their whites-only schools. 125 years ago, they were raging about the Irish and the Italians being permitted to live here. 175 years ago, they were running riot in Kansas to make it a slave state.
It's always funny how everyone tried so hard for years to say Trump wasn't a politician like the rest...
Only to prove that he's actually the best at it. Lying, breaking promises and enriching himself at the expense of honest working people while making everyone believe he's fighting for the working class.
The right wing reaction to the birthright citizenship ruling suggests that they didn’t anticipate it as the extremely obvious, overwhelmingly likely outcome that it was, which tells you something about the information environment they’ve been boiling their brains in.