If you’d told me that between Barbie and Oppenheimer, one would start online discourse about on-screen age gaps and the other would lead to international controversy rooted in 1940s Asian geopolitics, never in a million years would have I guessed which one would yield which.
Pete Buttigieg on the homophobic DeSantis video to CNN: "I'm going to leave aside the strangeness of trying to prove your manhood by putting up a video that splices images of you in between oiled-up, shirtless bodybuilders."
"And just get to the bigger issue that is on my mind whenever I see this stuff in the policy space, which is, again: Who are you trying to help? Who are you trying to make better off? And what public policy problems do you get up in the morning thinking about how to solve?"
It’s Disability Pride Month and I’m so proud to be disabled, but right now our people are suffering and being attacked in ways we haven’t seen in a long time, and I refuse to spend July pretending like it’s all sunshine and roses and “Yay ADA!” while our people are dying.
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I can't wrap my head around why this is not major news. A WHITE BOY, killed a black gay boy and left his body on the train tracks in what suppose to be one of the safest cities for queer people 🫤
https://t.co/dDnPAynKE6
Blaming the 5% of Black students for you not getting into a school where you’d be 30% of the population is exactly why you aren’t smart enough to go there.
Something that I find interesting is when someone asks if you’re wearing a mask because you’re sick. If you say yes, you have COVID, they suddenly freak out and distance themselves. My dude, if you truly don’t want COVID, why don’t you wear a mask?
If you are struggling
to understand what it means
for the emergency to be over
as the pandemic continues
here is a useful comparison:
it is like removing the batteries
from that bothersome
shrieking smoke detector
so you can make peace
with living
in a building that is aflame
The fucked up timing of releasing a remake of The Little Mermaid in theaters, guaranteed to make BILLIONS of dollars, and removing the documentary about the man who gave the film its heart and soul a week prior. Holy shit I’m seeing red right now.
The Iranian women’s ice hockey team is the FIRST EVER women’s sport to be live broadcasted on Iranian national television.
This team is breaking barriers yet nobody is talking about it. Not the IIHF, no major sports network, and not even the prominent voices in women’s hockey.
There is something so funny abt the idea that people r radicalized leftward in college bc a professor tells them to, never from day 540 standing in line to buy a soggy sandwich in a plastic bag for $7.98 w/ loans you’ll never pay back while everyone demeans your skills and labor
Don’t forget “everywhere is understaffed,” “millions of ppl are disabled”, “every flight is delayed,” “every hospital is overwhelmed,” “every kid is continually sick,” “proliferating brain fog is causing accidents”, “younger ppl are dropping dead of heart attacks”….
On this day in 1955, Claudette Colvin,15, was arrested for refusing to give her seat to a white woman on a public bus in Montgomery, Alabama.
She was arrested 9months before Rosa Parks, but NAACP didn't want her to represent their organization because she was 15 and pregnant.