“Washington under Trump has become Nero’s court, an incendiary emperor, submissive courtiers, and a jester on ketamine in charge of purging the civil service.
It is a tragedy for the free world but first and foremost it is a tragedy for the United States. Trump’s message is that there is no point in being his ally since he will not defend you, and he will impose more customs and duties on you than on his enemies, and will threaten to take possession of your land by supporting dictators who attack you. The ‘king of deals’ is showing what the art of SUBMISSION is all about. He thinks that he will intimidate China by surrendering to Putin, but Xi Jinping, in the face of such a disaster, is undoubtedly in the process of speeding up preparations for the invasion of Taiwan.
Never in history has a president of the United States capitulated before the enemy. None have ever supported an aggressor against their ally. None have trampled the American Constitution, taken as many illegal decrees, fired the judges that could stop him, sacked at once the Military Staff, weakened all the checks and balances and taken control of social media.
I have confidence in the solidarity of American democracy and people are protesting already, but in one month Trump did more damage to America than four years of his last presidency. We were at war with a dictator, Putin, but now we’re at war with a dictator supported by a traitor.”
Ok, those of you who said the economic blackout wouldn’t do anything, here’s a longer term thing to do, called for by Black clergy members.
We’re not shopping at Target folks. How we spend our money in a system that requires us to endlessly consume is a solid tool to lean in on. I don’t think that the current administration actually cares about “the economy” in the way that past ones have, but I can tell you that Target’s shareholders and c-suite REALLY care about how you spend your money.
Easy enough to do in Canada as we don’t have any anymore. Reblogging for my American folks.
Don’t forget they own Shipt, so ordering delivery from another store through Shipt still helps them. Stop using your Shipt account if you can and use more local delivery services.
I am a grown ass adult who has better things to worry about and could not care less about which characters people ship or what kinks somebody wants to write, draw, or read.
“Xyz creator of this is a bad person so you shouldn’t enjoy their content!”
I am a grown ass adult who knows how to separate the creator from the content and how to enjoy stuff without ‘supporting’ what the creator has done irl.
“If you like this in fiction it means you support it irl.”
I. Am. A. Grown. Ass. Adult. I can separate fiction from reality and curate my own experience online by filtering what I see and simply scrolling past what I don’t like without bothering the creator.
Exactly! I am a grown ass adult, and people trying to control how I interact with fiction is fucking stupid! Block me and find something better to do!
“But the question is, Did John Brown fail? He certainly did fail to get out of Harpers Ferry before being beaten down by United States soldiers; he did fail to save his own life, and to lead a liberating army into the mountains of Virginia. But he did not go to Harpers Ferry to save his life.
“The true question is, Did John Brown draw his sword against slavery and thereby lose his life in vain? And to this I answer ten thousand times, No! No man fails, or can fail, who so grandly gives himself and all he has to a righteous cause. No man, who in his hour of extremest need, when on his way to meet an ignominious death, could so forget himself as to stop and kiss a little child, one of the hated race for whom he was about to die, could by any possibility fail.”
Frederick Douglass, 30 May 1881, oration on the fourteenth anniversary of the raid on Harpers Ferry
i think we should be talking about the semi-recent advancements in cystic fibrosis treatment like all the time every day. there hasn’t been a drug like this since AZT medications for HIV infection it is truly fucking miraculous and very important
basically: cystic fibrosis is a genetic disease which makes the mucous a person generates extra sticky. it used to kill people in infancy, then with advancements in medical tech it killed people in young childhood, and until very recently cystic fibrosis patients could expect to live until about thirty years old with consistent painful lung infections and complications.
in 2019 the FDA approved a drug called trikafta (which is really three drugs in one) for cystic fibrosis treatment. what it essentially does is patch up the malfunctioning proteins that cause the extra sticky mucus. trikafta is effective on about 90% of cystic fibrosis patients.
people who had spent their entire lives in and out of hospitals, on and off of ventilators, suffering from pneumonia and sometimes treated through painful procedures like intubation took this drug, got out of bed, coughed up an entire lifetimes worth of mucus out of their lungs over the course of a few hours, breathed clearly for perhaps the first time in their lives, and now go on to live well into their seventies.
like isn’t that insane. isn’t that amazing. doesn’t that give you hope for the future of medical advancements and treatment. fuck. i think about it all the time……
there are two kinds of cat dislike. The first is by people who don’t understand consent and don’t understand personal space and don’t like having to change their own behavior even a little bit to make anyone else more comfortable, and honestly huge red flag there’s nothing you can really do for those people except don’t date them and probably don’t be friends with them either.
BUT
the other kind of cat dislike is the “my dad hated cats until i got him a kitten” kind of cat dislike, and the funniest thing about this kind of person is that cats actually get along really well with them… because that kind of person usually acts like a cat.
and that’s what usually wins the person over too. Because that person can be like “hey fine we can snuggle or whatever, okay this is actually kind of nice, OW FUCK YOU THEN GET OFF ME I HATE YOU” and to the cat this is a perfectly natural feline interaction.
a dog will usually be like “oh no, figuring out what has gone wrong or continuing this argument is now the most important thing in my day” You ever try to get a dog to leave you alone after they’ve done something like accidentally kick you in the face, or on purpose punch you in the stomach with both front legs? They turn in to one of those people who you ask to give you some alone time and they spend the next hour on the “are you mad at me” treadmill. Unless it’s a husky or something, and then they’re more like “ha ha, i’m not touching you i’m not touching you” about it.
Either way “get off me and leave me alone” is all about them.
But a cat? You’re suddenly over cuddle time and need to be alone? you seem upset for no reason? normal shit, i’ll check back later.
With a cat you can be snuggling and then jump up irritably and walk away and the cat will be like “hey! whatever. I’m gonna go do my own thing then”. Try that with a dog? lol no. They need to know what’s bothering you now, it is more important than ever that they be in your face
of course these are generalizations and there will be cats and dogs who react somewhere on the range of different to opposite to this, but. I’ve seen a few people who “don’t like cats” wind up with a cat in their home, and it’s hilarious how their similarities are what wins them over.
Because, like, you know who else doesn’t like you at first and takes a long time to work out a personal relationship before being willing to be friends? you know who else is often totally over dealing with cat bullshit? cats.
So they just take it in stride, and in fact often wind up better friends with “i don’t like cats” people than they do with people who want to be friends with them right away. And the person often winds up appreciating the cats willingness to understand “i don’t like you right now, check back later”… with the end result being: besties for life
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