cool democracy where private corporations can just openly threaten to obliterate our healthcare system if nurses get a say in working conditions. straight authoritarian.
Grannies are so real for drinking tea and doing puzzles and crocheting and standing in the garden looking at the flowers and wearing slippers and going to bed at 9pm like that’s just what life’s about is it not
Jameela Jamil slams ‘famous feminists’ who attended the Met Gala to celebrate ‘known bigot’ Karl Lagerfeld:
“A lot of famous feminists chose to celebrate at the highest level, a man who was so publicly cruel to women, to fat people, to immigrants and sexual assault survivors.”
one of the things that has been exceptionally disheartening to me with the recent wave of these kinds of stories is that these shootings/killings aren't even in response to interpersonal conflict, they're just happening within normal ranges of interpersonal interaction
Missouri Republicans passed new rules:
1. Women lawmakers are banned from showing their bare arms.
2. Women lawmakers are required to cover their dress with a “second layer”.
The road to the Handmaid’s Tale world is lined with people telling us to stop overreacting.
Billionaires don't wake up at 5am. Bus drivers, teachers, nurses, service workers, etc wake up at 5am. Billionaires wake up whenever they want because their wealth doesn't come from their own labor. It comes from the labor of people who will never be billionaires.
I can't believe this has to be pointed out: the reason cars are designed to crumple, rather than be indestructible, is to divert the energy of a crash around the cabin and protect the occupants.
If you crash in this thing, the car will be fine but YOU will shatter into pieces.
That video of a man spraying a homeless person with a hose is one of the most disturbing things I've seen. When we dehumanize the homeless for their poverty we not only create the conditions for them to be hurt, we also equate human-ness with wealth, which is immensely dangerous.