Last Tuesday Donald Trump shat his pants on national TV. Ever since, he's been scooting his butt around on the national carpet to dislodge the detritus of loserdom. It's standard wounded narcissist self-care behavior, and it would be nice if all of this could be *only* funny. 🧵
SO BASICALLY PUBLIC LIBRARIES ARE JUST 0.4% OF THE NEW YORK CITY BUDGET, BUT THE MAYOR IS TRYING TO CUT THE LIBRARY'S BUDGET WAY BACK. I’M TALKING $58.3 MILLION! LIBRARIES ARE ALREADY CLOSED ON SUNDAYS BECAUSE OF PREVIOUS CUTS AND MOST BRANCHES WILL BE OPEN FOR JUST FIVE DAYS A WEEK IF THESE CUTS GO THROUGH!! WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL THE END OF JUNE TO TELL @NYCMAYOR #NOCUTSTOLIBRARIES AND SAVE THE LIBRARY.
Rep. Moskowitz's amendments to the Ukraine aid bill:
1. Rename Marjorie Taylor-Greene's office to the Neville Chamberlain Room
2. Appoint Marjorie Taylor-Greene as Vladimir Putin's Special Envoy to the US
It so happens that supremacy is an unsustainable lie, which means that it doesn't sustain: it fails. And supremacy, which believes itself exceptionally good and supreme, must believe itself unimprovable, and so, as it causes brokenness, it must create elaborate systems of blame.
From today's media release: Over the past few weeks, a devastating, destructive plan has come to light in our community. While the current project does not directly implicate our farm, the effects are far reaching for the farming community and our family farm business. 🧵1/9
I read a lot of stuff around #climate, much of it pretty scary, including lots of scary charts, but this one might well take the biscuit.
It’s not just #climatechange, it’s the insane RATE of change that’s so head-meltingly unprecedented.