Anni Inkeri Toivonen

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In defiance of Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban, voters in Hungary today will vote against Orban’s authoritarianism. Today’s the day Orban’s reign ends. This is being almost entirely ignored by mainstream media. Let’s make it go viral.

[Anni Inkeri Toivonen @anni_inkeri]

I will never understand how can anyone just leave their animals behind and just abandon them in house, or just throw them away from car, like they're nothing but trash!? Those kind of people are truly heartless &evil. Thank you for this kind person for saving these two❤🫂

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

To the person who dumped these dogs in front of me — I want you to know that I watched you do it.
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I was behind you on that road. I saw your car slow down. I saw the doors open. I saw two pit bulls get out, and then I watched your car drive away and not stop.
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I pulled over immediately. The rain was coming down hard and both dogs were already running in circles on the wet asphalt, confused in the specific way that animals are confused when the people they trusted simply vanish.

One kept bolting toward the tree line and coming back. The other stayed near the spot where your car had been, as if you might return.
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It took time to catch them. They were shaking when I finally got close enough. Not aggressive — just fear and exhaustion and the desperate energy of two animals trying to understand something that has no explanation they can reach.
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I got them into the car.
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Look at them now, if you are somehow reading this. One is asleep in the passenger seat, the kind of sleep that only happens when the body accepts the emergency is finally over.

The other is sitting up, watching the road with quiet careful eyes, like he is still deciding whether to believe this is real.
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That part is the part I keep coming back to. The one watching the road. Still not sure.
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I don't know what you told yourself when you drove away. That they'd be fine. That someone would stop. That it didn't count the same way because they were just dogs. I'm not going to spend time trying to work it out.
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What I know is this. Pit bulls are not disposable. They are not dangerous. They attach completely to the people who care for them, which is exactly why what you did is as cruel as it is.

They will spend time looking for you. They will wait near where you left them if they can. They will carry that confusion longer than you might expect.
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But not these two. Not anymore.
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They are warm tonight. They are dry. They are in a car that is not stopping to leave them anywhere. They are going somewhere that is going to be theirs, and no one is taking that from them again.
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I have what it takes to give them the life they should have had from the beginning. Stability. Patience. A real home where the doors don't open to drop them on a wet road in the rain.
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Tonight someone chose them.
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They just don't fully know it yet. But they will.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

There is a video circulating on the internet that is difficult to watch. A woman sits on a pavement in Louisville, Kentucky. She is wearing a hospital gown. It is 36 degrees outside. Her belongings, everything she apparently owns, are in a plastic bag on the concrete beside her. Behind her, through the glass doors she has just been escorted through, the hospital hums along as normal. The security guards who brought her here have already gone back inside.

She couldn’t afford her bill.

This is not a scene from a developing nation or a history book. This is the United States of America.
The country in which it happens has spent decades telling the rest of the world that it has the highest GDP on earth. Which is a bit like a restaurant proudly displaying its bill on the wall. Enormous number. Terrible meal. The lobster was frozen, the wine came from a box.

Europe, by comparison, has spent the better part of a century building something rather different. The food, for a start, is extraordinary. Not in a showy way, but in the way that a simple lunch in Lyon or a glass of wine on a terrace in Lisbon reminds you that eating is one of the genuinely good things about being alive. The wine is the wine that the rest of the world has spent generations attempting to replicate, mostly without success.

Roughly 35 percent of Europeans live with a chronic illness. In America, that number is 76 percent. The difference is not genetic. It is architectural. It is the slow accumulation of decent food, walkable cities, actual holidays, and a healthcare system that does not require you to crowdfund your own appendix.

Europeans work fewer hours. They have more purchasing power on a smaller salary once you subtract the cost of health insurance, medical debt, and the private school their child needs because the local public one has a metal detector at the entrance. They live, on average, about ten years longer. Not ten years of decline and doctor visits, but ten years of being a person in the world.

In the first quarter of 2025, the number of Americans leaving the United States doubled compared to the previous quarter.  Europe was their top destination. Not for a sabbatical or a gap year. Permanently. These are not people who failed. These are people who did the maths.

There is a man somewhere in America right now who has worked fifty-hour weeks for forty years, taken one week off when his employer permitted it, and will, statistically, be dead before he sees seventy. And there is another man, not very far away on a map but an entire civilisation removed in practice, sitting on a terrace in the afternoon sun with a glass of something cold and no particular place to be. He has had six weeks off every summer since 1987. He knows his neighbours by name.

The first man’s country has the higher GDP.

The first man’s country tops the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) index. The second man tops the Quality of Life Index (QLI). The better health. The longer life. The afternoon.

MAGA America calls that losing.

Ask anyone.
Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

This enormous anti-Orbán crowd isn't just rejecting him; they're saying f*ck you to Putin, trump, JD Vance, and every other fascist jackass trying to prop him up.

Godspeed, Hungary.
May you SOUNDLY defeat Orbán.

[🌊Miss 💙Melody 💙 USNavy Retired @_MissMelody]

Trump says his life was better before he became president.
Dude, everyone's lives were better before you became president!

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

One of the most successful deceptions of our time was getting many Americans to fear diversity more than racism, equality more than misogyny, democracy more than fascism, immigrants more than authoritarians, the poor more than corrupt billionaires, and empathy more than cruelty.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

The day we brought Charlie home from the shelter, my heart broke watching him cling to that worn-out pink stuffed toy like it was the only thing keeping him going.
The volunteer told us he’d been there for eight months—eight long months of being overlooked as families picked younger dogs, prettier dogs, dogs without the scars on his muzzle that hinted at a past no one wanted to know about. That little toy was all he had, the only thing that never left him.
I made him the coziest bed, layered it with soft blankets, did everything I could to help him feel safe. But Charlie wouldn’t let go of that toy. He wouldn’t even sleep unless he could feel its familiar texture under his paw. That first night, my husband and I just sat there, exhausted, listening to his anxious whimpers while I quietly cried.
“What if we can’t help him heal?” I whispered, starting to doubt whether we’d made the right choice adopting a dog with so much trauma.
That’s when my stubborn husband disappeared into the spare room with a bag from the craft store. I could hear him struggling, muttering under his breath, getting frustrated over dropped stitches. He’d been watching YouTube tutorials and messaging crafters online, teaching himself how to knit—just so he could make Charlie something that felt like a constant hug.
Three weeks later, he came out with a blue sweater. It wasn’t perfect—uneven sleeves, messy stitches—but it was made with so much love by hands that had never knitted before.
And somehow, Charlie understood.
Now he sleeps peacefully every night, wrapped in his handmade comfort, still holding his pink toy—but no longer clinging to it in fear.
Sometimes healing comes from someone who refuses to give up on you… even when you’ve already given up on yourself.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

I’m an animal control officer. We got a call about an aggressive dog in an alley. When I got there, I saw a huge German Shepherd mix. He was barking his head off at a group of kids. But something was off. He wasn't lungeing. He was standing in front of a dumpster. I cleared the kids out. I cautiously approached him. He stopped barking and just started whining, looking back at the dumpster. I went around him. Behind the dumpster was a tiny, emaciated tabby cat, terrified. The dog wasn't trying to attack the kids; he was protecting the cat from them. They were both homeless, both hungry, but they had each other. I didn't separate them. They both came back to the shelter in my truck. They got adopted together by a family who needed a pair of heroes.

Anonymous

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

It should not be this hard to protect children and prosecute pedophiles.

[Apurva M Asrani @Apurvasrani]

That’s Rob Jetten, the prime minister of the Netherlands, with his domestic partner Nicolás Keenan, an Argentine field hockey player.
There was a time when images like this in public discourse felt distant, almost improbable.
Today, they belong quite normally to our world. 🏳️‍🌈🤍

[Mr. Mike @mrmikeMTL]

Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse?

[Mr. Mike @mrmikeMTL]

Does anyone else talk to animals like they are going to respond?

[SriSathya @sathyashrii]

Really Brilliant idea 👏👏👏

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

It's not subtle at all, if you're really paying attention. It's just dangerous.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Holy shit this cartoon.

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

They could have been us ..any of us