remember when everyone was like “we cant raise minimum wage because inflation” and now the price of everything doubles every two years and minimum wage is still $7
Cleopatra spoke nine languages, studied astronomy, medicine, and philosophy at the Library of Alexandria, and ruled Egypt for two decades through war, famine, and Roman invasion. Rome reduced all of it to one word: seductress.
"Dying for your country is a patriotic fairy tale. In reality, you will bleed out in the mud like a butchered dog for absolutely nothing." - Ernest Hemingway
for all the panic about trans people being dangerous to children, it’s worth remembering that To Catch a Predator repeatedly exposed white conservative men during its run.
the people screaming “protect the kids” should remember who kept getting exposed.
it wasn’t trans people.
unpopular opinion: we shouldn’t use volunteers for war, we should draft everyone who has a domestic violence charge since they already proved they like to fight so much.
NEW: New Yorkers have started a trend of tagging Mayor Zohran Mamdani to report problems around the city and the fixes are happening so quickly that the videos are going viral.
A dangerous playground hazard was repaired after a resident wrote a letter. A pothole was filled the same day it was posted online. And ahead of this week’s heat wave, the city installed temporary water fountains in Prospect Park.
The message from City Hall: no problem is too small to fix.
Males think they're brave enough to fight a gorilla but in reality they’re not even brave enough to tell their friend to stop making women uncomfortable.