John C. Reilly: “Why aren’t people on the right wing concerned about human rights? They’re human too. Elon Musk says don’t be fooled by the empathy trap. Empathy is not a trap, empathy is a superpower. It’s what makes human beings exceptional, our ability to look outside ourself”
are the republicans going to ask “where are we getting that money from” for this the same way they do when we talk about feeding kids in elementary schools or providing daycare for working families or providing healthcare for americans ?
As an adult, you're going to get the urge to return to hobbies, like reading, that you used to enjoy as a kid... it is very important that you do so, and start doing things that bring you joy again.
“It was not Hitler or Himmler who abducted me, beat me, shot my family. It was the shoemaker, the milkman, the neighbor, who received a uniform and then believed they were the master race.”
~ Karl Stojka, Auschwitz Survivor
as a white american i simply could not imagine giving a single shit about this. america isn’t an ethnostate and we’re not native to this land regardless. if you can’t grow up and learn to be in community with people who look a little different from you that’s frankly embarrassing
The fact that people need a de@d man’s files to believe a thousand living women…tells you everything about whose voices they value and whose they don’t.
“Why are folks getting dumber?” Because they don’t read. “Why aren’t men as romantic & poetic as they used to be?” Because they don’t read. “Why are people so vulnerable to propaganda?” “Why is everyone a conspiracy theorist?” Because they don’t read. Because they don’t read.
“At this moment in time, the ballroom is really the President’s main priority.” — Karoline Leavitt
Not wages, education, utility bills, health care, housing, food insecurity, veterans, child care, climate disasters, tariffs, national security, or a gov shutdown.
A ballroom.
Trump fired the head of job statistics so you won't know how many people are unemployed.
Trump delayed the inflation report so you won't know how bad the economy is.
Trump cancelled the annual hunger survey so you won't know how many people are starving.
This is NOT America.