Mantis Tobaggan, MD

[bONGO🪻 @wariocolosseum]

oh but i was told providing housing for the homeless and feeding all schoolchildren was too expensive and unfeasible

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

If the governments job isn’t to secure even basic shit like clean drinking water for its citizens, what’s its actual purpose?! THIS IS WHAT WE WANT OUR TAXES PAYING FOR

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Anthony Bourdain had what looked like the best job on the planet. He got paid to roam the world eating whatever he wanted, and strangers everywhere told him things they would never tell a reporter. Eight years ago today, he died by suicide at 61.

For almost thirty years before any of that, he was a cook nobody had heard of, working long hot shifts for little money. He was in his forties when he wrote a book spilling the secrets of what really goes on behind restaurant doors, and almost overnight, the unknown cook became a star.

What made him different was that he never faked it. Other travel hosts smiled at pretty views and pretended to love everything. Bourdain sat on plastic stools in back alleys and ate exactly what the people there ate. Then he got them talking about their real lives, and they trusted him enough to tell him the truth.

He went to places most shows stayed away from, like the Congo, Gaza, Iran, and New Orleans right after Hurricane Katrina. He once ate noodles at a tiny plastic-table joint in Vietnam with a sitting US president. His show Parts Unknown ran for twelve seasons and won a dozen Emmy Awards along with a Peabody, the top prize in broadcasting. It made a food show feel like real reporting on the world.

His death was so shocking because of the gap between the life everyone saw and the life he was actually living. Here was the guy who looked freer than anyone on TV, doing the job millions of people dreamed about, and the pain underneath was almost invisible to the people around him. He had actually talked about it in the open: on camera he once described how something as small as a bad meal could drop him into days of feeling low, and he had written about his heroin addiction from when he was young. None of it fit the cheerful, curious man people thought they knew.

He died just days after the designer Kate Spade died the same way, and that week, calls to the national crisis line jumped 65 percent. The conversation that followed kept circling one hard fact: the life you envy from the outside can be sitting right on top of pain you cannot see. What he left behind is bigger than any of the awards. He taught a whole generation that the fastest way to understand a stranger is to sit down and eat what they eat.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Never has a crime so obscene been so confessed to, so endlessly, so shamelessly, so proudly

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

I want to be calm and clear:

This will impact every American who is not a multimillionaire.

One accident.
One bad day.
One diagnosis.

That’s all that separates most people from needing the social safety net they spent their entire lives paying into.

[Ian Miller @ianmSC]

He’s dating Kim Kardashian, who has an estimated net worth of nearly $2 billion. He's worth nearly $500 million and lives in Monaco to avoid paying taxes in the UK.

Remarkable lack of self-awareness.

[auror ✞ @hoeror]

Dix-huit mille quatre cent cinquante-sept. Et on ne parle QUE des ENFANTS

[Maddie McGee 🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🇮🇪 @MaddieMcGee6]

It cannot be overstated the fact that we’re all gonna die for the wealth of like 1000 people max. When the collapse happens, just keep those people in mind.

[Red Operative Leninist @RedPill_Marxism]

Huawei "Chinese spyware" suddenly doesn't seem that bad in comparison

[Anthony Avon .Art @AnthonyAvonArt]

So stop it maybe? Who are you warning? I can't do anything, YOU are the UN.

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

Israel First 🇮🇱 John Fetterman in action

[Jenni @hashjenni]

We gotta change the rules so Mamdani can be president.

[Asshole 💩 @ItsReddAgainn]

Not adults, CHILDREN. INNOCENT CHILDREN

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

This is what a broken brain looks like

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Americans be like: "9/11, the most shocking day in world history, when we knew we werent safe at home"

The rest of the world on a daily basis for the past century under Isreal and american t*rrorism:

[Mister Rod - Caribbean (FWI) @MisterRodFWI]

Même les nazis n'ont pas bombardé le château de Versailles ou la Tour Eiffel

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

I hope she calls these motherfuckers out. She created that program to help kids who don’t have the resources to afford books or get an education. Why would anyone want to defund something like that? Especially the “pro life” party. Republicans want everyone to have children yet they also want to make sure those children have zero resources once they’re born. Fucking ridiculous and just cruel.

[danisha carter @danishacarterr]

“UM AcKsHUaLlY iTs NoT FReE Our TaXEs PaY FOr It” yeah it’s almost as if that’s what our taxes should be paying for instead of israel day parades

[Summer 🇵🇸 🇱🇧💛 #JUSTICE4PALESTINE 💚 @cutanddried]

💯 Correct.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

This is what a holocaust looks like.