Posting and doomscrolling won't stop the genocide of Palestinians. Refusing to vote for genocide supporters is not enough. In a year or 2, the heroes now using their bodies to block weapons headed to Israel will be who every other American will wish they had been.
Thanks for bringing this to our attention! Democratic leadership should be forced to explain why they're meeting with a Nazi admirer who has been funding conservative extremism for decades.
The last three years would have been completely different if the eradication of smallpox was broadly considered the marvel of human achievement it actually was.
The reason we don't tell this story is because the effort was led largely by the USSR.
A reminder that, just yesterday, news reports revealed that Musk was planning to salvage Twitter’s ad business by forcing users to share their location — “basically assassination coordinates” — with advertisers.
Elon Musk continues banning left leaning accounts as he admits neo-nazis back onto the site. And now he’s banned Mastadon’s account. He’s not pretend to be independent or unbiased anyone, and no one else should be pretending for him.
We’ve reached the stage of the pandemic where no one can find pediatric cold/flu medicine or fever reducers amid record-high demand, so media is suggesting parents crush up adult Tylenol and put it in chocolate milk. https://t.co/pEYXhhlBfc
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 had the support of 100,000 workers after wages were cut for the 3rd time in a year. Railroad barons used militias, the National Guard, and federal troops to stop the strike by killing about 100 people.
They don't teach any of this in school.
“People should have to nod and smile when I say the dumbest bullshit you’ve ever heard” is at least 75% of all complaints about deplatforming/suppression of speech right now
It’s incredible how much resistance there is to masking despite the crisis at our children’s hospitals nationwide.
It really shows how much “the mask” has become a symbol of what people lost during the pandemic - a scapegoat for their grief and anger.
You're being asked to believe trans people are simultaneously sickly frail eunuchs and perverted superathletes--or, to paraphrase Umberto Eco on fascism, "by a continuous shifting of rhetorical focus, the enemies are at the same time too strong and too weak.”
Daily reminder that a vial of insulin keeps me alive for a week and, in the US, costs the same as an Xbox Series S. Imagine being forced to buy an Xbox every single week for the rest of your life in order to not die.
This is reality for 7 million insulin dependent Americans.