Lauren

STL✈️SC

[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

When we say "crime is a social construct", what we mean is that you, as an individual, can go to jail for littering, but a corporation can poison the air, the soil, and the water of an entire town, and no one will go to jail.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

Carmel High School really demonstrates the problem with how we fund U.S. public schools. Carmel, a hyper wealthy community, was able to put up a college-sized school while many other schools in Indiana struggle to even get updated textbooks and updated classrooms.

[David Rothschild 🌻 @DavMicRot]

When someone assassinated a *Democratic* federal judge’s family, and had detailed on Sotomayor as his next target: Republicans laughed. No problem with regular protests at Pelosi & Schumer’s homes. But interrupt Kavanaugh’s dessert and we should end First Amendment?

[Brandon Wolf @bjoewolf]

Where are Christians being denied access to bathrooms, having their health care ripped away, or being told their marriage is up for public debate — simply because they’re Christian?

Being told you can’t force your belief system on everyone else is not oppression.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

I need someone to explain to me why it’s always “if you can’t pay rent, buy fewer lattes and avocado toasts” and not “if you can’t pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts, rockets and spacecraft”.

Explain it to me like I’m in kindergarten.

[not wint @drilhistorian]

Shinzo Abe was no match for the power of dril

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

In case you don’t realize how bad anti trans hate is getting… in Ohio, a transgender man was forced to go to the women’s restroom. Cis women thought he was a transgender woman and so they recruited cis men to beat him up.

He was then arrested for disorderly conduct.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

The Supreme Court was fine with people protesting at the homes of abortion clinic workers. Scalia, joined by his colleagues, said the first amendment doesn’t exclude protests on public sidewalks. But none of this apparently applies to the justices making these decisions.

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

Republicans are more furious Brett Kavanaugh had to leave his dinner at Morton’s, but couldn’t care less that a 10-year-old girl in Ohio had to leave her STATE to get an abortion.

[Lauren @lke719]

!!! This is your sign to let that person/people go!

[𝚐𝚊𝚋𝚒 @igabitha]

a lot of people struggle to let go of friends they’ve clearly outgrown and we should talk about it. a lot of us feel this undying loyalty towards them because we remember when they were there for us at our lowest once upon a time. that’s cute & everything but…

[Kendall Brown @kendallybrown]

Imagine intentionally ruining the vacations (and possibly once-in-a-lifetime experience) for thousands of kids and not realizing you are absolutely the villain in this story.

[Katelyn Burns @transscribe]

The root of the anti-trans moral panic is that trans people want to be left alone and transphobes do not want to leave trans people alone and are willing to use their cultural and political power to insert themselves in as many trans lives as possible.

[Katelyn Burns @transscribe]

Cis people often tell my it was unfair to try to make my cishet life work with my ex wife. That I “stole” her good years from her. First of all, women have good years beyond their 20s and early 30s. But also, didn’t I do what y’all want trans kids now to try to do?

[AriZona Iced Tea @DrinkAriZona]

come at us

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

Wealth of Elon Musk
2012: $2,000,000,000
2022: $273,600,000,000

Wealth of Jeff Bezos
2012: $18,400,000,000
2022: $181,300,000,000

Wealth of Mark Zuckerberg
2012: $17,500,000,000
2022: $76,800,000,000

U.S. Minimum Wage
2012: $7.25
2022: $7.25

Three words: tax the rich.