MockMaturity

Never mind the little things

[Hillcrest Card Company 🔥🍉🇨🇺🏳️‍⚧️🇻🇪🔥 @HillcrestCardCo]

If you are a woman getting married in 2025 a reminder you don't have to change your name, it's free to keep your name, i kept my name and it's way easier, literally nobody even cares its not 1807 anymore he's not paying a dowry of 14 goats, the name isn't the marriage.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Be suspicious of anyone who fixates on IQ as a measure of intelligence. Real intelligence isn’t a number, it’s a burning curiosity, a delight in the world, a voracious hunger “to follow knowledge like a sinking star / beyond the utmost bound of human thought.”

[Perc 𒉭 @PercThaGoat]

what do you mean “stealing”? thats HIS food

[Peter Symons#NHSLove❤.🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿.🍉 @brookebay21]

So very true

[🐐Winston🌈Thatcher🌈Domino, Walnut, Jasper🐐 @WinstonThatche4]

After consulting with our Time to Crime friend Barry, from @TheHerdHouse... we have decided, you want more entries in our fund raiser? Granted! The number of times you donate gives you an entry! You donate 3 times.. 3 entries! We've also added a 4th mystery prize! Our pinned tweet gives you the details! More chances to win and every bit helps our two groups out❤️

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

🚨 BREAKING: HOUSE APPROVES CLASS WARFARE BUDGET 216-214

$880 BILLION in cuts to Medicaid
$230 BILLION in cuts to food assistance
$14+ TRILLION in new debt

All to fund $7 TRILLION in tax cuts for the ultra-wealthy.

Only 2 GOP No Votes: Spartz and Massie.

[tabitha arnold @thetolerantweft]

“Sleeping Dragon,” a small tapestry I finished today in memory of Appalachian forest defenders.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

There's just something deeply sickening in seeing the nation accounting for 25% of the global economy, despite having just 4% of the population, claim they've been ripped off by the men and women working themselves to the bone for $3 a day in Lesotho and Cambodia.

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

The results from Germany's 3-year UBI experiment are out!

122 people got €1200/mo for 3 years. All were age 21-40 and employed with €1100-€2600/mo pay.

They were happier, healthier, saved more, gave more, enjoyed more social time and DID NOT WORK LESS than the control group.

[Tom Zandman @TomZandman]

If you’re reading this, know that it really happened.

I don’t know where and when you’re reading this. I’m writing from my home in Jaffa, Israel; the date is April 9, 2025, and the time is 13:00. >>

[Jeff Tiedrich @itsJeffTiedrich]

do I have this right? Donald Trump is just going to crash the world economy every three months — and then pretend to save it, over and over, while his cronies rake in untold billions on his shameless market manipulation, is that it? fucking hell

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

I'm calling for an investigation into whether President Trump manipulated the market to benefit his Wall Street donors—all while working people and small businesses paid the price.

Did Trump help insiders cash in on his tariff flip-flopping? It sure looks like corruption.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This is INFURAITING! 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

Purple Heart, Burned Alive, Deported Anyway: Welcome to America, Jose Barco 📷 Rick Gaspa
This week, several dozen Venezuelan nationals were loaded onto a U.S. deportation flight from South Texas like unwanted cargo. Among them? A 39-year-old Purple Heart recipient who literally ran into burning vehicles to save fellow soldiers in Iraq.
Meet Jose Barco, decorated American veteran. Twice deployed. Blown up. Traumatic brain injury. Burn scars. A guy who bled for the stars and stripes—now detained, shackled, and deported to a country he hasn’t seen since he was four years old. Because nothing says "thank you for your service" quite like ICE showing up at your door.
And before anyone jumps to conclusions—no, this isn't about a paperwork error or an overstayed visa. This is about a man who served a country he believed was his, only to discover too late that it didn’t see him the same way. Barco’s family fled Venezuela after his father was a political prisoner in Cuba. Barco basically grew up in the U.S. He joined the Army straight out of high school. He earned every inch of his right to be here—just not, apparently, the paperwork.
Let’s talk about that “serious crime” they say landed him in immigration detention. The story is long, complicated, and yes—there was a mistake. That tends to happen when you’ve been blown across a battlefield and handed a pharmacy’s worth of anxiety meds before the VA politely closes the door on you. But the part where we pretend he’s just another “illegal” is where the conversation falls off the rails.
Let’s talk about the U.S. military. We’ll give you a gun. We’ll send you into hell. We’ll pin medals on you for bravery. But don’t expect citizenship. That’s a separate line. And God forbid you show any symptoms of trauma when you come home, or end up in the wrong place at the wrong time. The military might’ve treated Barco like a hero—briefly—but the U.S. immigration system treated him like trash.
And the cherry on this disgrace sundae? When Barco landed in Honduras en route to Venezuela, the Venezuelans didn’t want him either. They didn’t believe his birth certificate. Thought his Spanish was “too Cuban.” (He was four when he left, what did they expect—slang and a cedula memorized?) One even said, “It wouldn’t be good for you here. You have no family.” You know it’s bad when the country you're being deported to has more empathy than the one you served.
So where is Barco now? Sitting in a second detention center near Los Fresnos, Texas, asking a reasonable question: What country will take him?
Here’s the thing: we’ve deported over 400 veterans since the 1990s. This isn't some isolated mistake. This is policy. Intentional. Bureaucratic indifference dressed up in red, white, and blue. We’ve created a system where a guy can get lit on fire rescuing soldiers in Fallujah, but still not count as “American enough” when he needs help the most.
But hey—thank you for your service, right?
Welcome to America. We value our veterans… not. ~ 📷 Rick Gaspa

[Typical African @Joe__Bassey]

Every African country needs to learn from Namibia 🇳🇦

[Wisdom Stoics @WisdomStoics]

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[Jo Thomas @rthomas86]

I own a small dessert business. My business has a 100% trade deficit with the grocery store. I’m always buying from them, and they’ve never once bought anything from me.

Now, of course, I take products I buy from the grocery store, turn them into delicious baked goods, and make a 50%+ profit, while the grocery store is running on 2-4% profit margins, but WE HAVE A TRADE DEFICIT! They’re ripping me off with their low, low prices, because they NEVER buy anything from me!

Of course, the alternative is for me to grow, harvest, thrash, grind, then finely mill all of my own flour, including into the various mixes of flour that I use for various products (cake flour, bread flour, all-purpose, etc…), maintain and milk a dairy cow, churn my own butter, make that milk into heavy cream, yogurt, sour cream, condensed milk, and evaporated milk, etc…grow cacao, and then turn into all the different kinds of chocolate and baking cocoa… grow and harvest sugar cane, sorghum, mine salt, make baking powder, baking soda, grow vanilla beans, etc, etc, etc…

All of that (plus WAY more), and we haven’t even talked about all the different fruits and nuts I would need, or how I would only be able to offer certain products during certain times of the year, or how a lot of what I said before wouldn’t even be possible in the climate I live in, but I digress.

If all of that wasn’t cost-prohibitive enough to completely wipe out my profits (it would be, and then some), the time commitment and significant additional physical labor certainly wouldn’t make any of it worth the tiny remaining profit.

Now, compare that to the current screeching about the trade deficits we have with other countries. We import raw materials (aluminum, steel, lumber, etc…) from other countries, which would be labor and/or cost prohibitive for us to make, or that we simply cannot produce or source here, and then we take those materials, and turn them into higher profit margin products, which we then export to other countries. It is exactly the same as my example, but on a macro scale.