Stepha

[. @mithkii]

When the beautiful summer evening randomly makes you feel like the loneliest person on earth

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy, where only a select few are allowed freedom, where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.

How small they are, how weak, how unoriginal. 

At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics, and the cheapest. But time and again-including 250 years ago-those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress.

And yet today, too many of our leaders do not believe in a vision of this nation as an asylum for the persecuted-but rather as one that persecutes those seeking asylum.

As we mark 250 years, what do we see? 

We see a city of contradictions within a nation of contradictions. We see the wealthiest country in the history of the world— one where children go to sleep hungry while the world's first trillionaire hungers for more. We see monopolies that dominate every industry and oligarchs who buy elections. We see masked agents terrorizing our streets, eating food cooked by our undocumented neighbors before spiriting them away in unmarked vans. We see a nation whose immense wealth has been built by those with calloused, dirt-streaked hands —those who toil on factory floors and chisel into stone —and we see a nation that has allowed so much of that wealth to be held instead in the soft hands of a precious few.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There are some who respond to those who ask for more from America with a simple refrain: Love it or leave it.

But patriotism has never been about pretending our nation is without flaws. Patriotism is every act of righteous dissent. It is every march led under the heavy sun. It is every protest held a decade before its time. It is precisely because we love this nation, that we will not leave it.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Holy shit this is perfect

[323 @Ggod323]

every day is literally just me distracting myself until the next day

[John (Anarcho Cat) @anarcho_cat]

Queen @AnaKasparian

[𝜗℘ @lacedli]

The kindest thing literature does is remind you that your peculiar little feelings have always existed. Someone, in some century, was equally confused by love, bored by society, tired of performing, and hungry for meaning.

[poppa @popitforpoppa]

microdosing pto by dissociating at work

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

outfit so fierce i almost liked a hate tweet

[Silly Lil' Kreechure @Krenbot_]

Giovanni sitting around the team rocket base with that fuckass persian

[Ruff Criminal @RuffCrim]

One of the funniest tweets I’ve seen in a while, pure brainrot nonsense

[Shoobz @shOoObz]

You can hear the difference between sports cheering and excitement vs. danger screams. That neighbor is lying

[Today In History @historigins]

Man receives a Christmas letter from the previous owner of his house (2015)

[Michael @Socdem_Michael]

He’s doing the meme irl

[Brunette @mimizima_]

2026 is so stupid I can’t believe we get to watch the myth of Narcissus play out in real time on our handheld devices