John J Rain

It's fucking insane that the Golden Rule only polls at 52%--but it's also pretty fucking clarifying.

Trump's biggest selling point to voters is that he removed the stigma of being anti-social and turned it into a symbol of power. The most important thing we can do as ordinary people is putting the stigma back.

They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.

impeach hegseth should be on the list day one it is not even debatable tbh

Neighborhood Aster, full bloom in the lightest of lilac-pink

just secured my first round of funding for my startup! it's called OMELAS. Its goal is to make Omelas in real life

Shit who hit the ‘Fall’ button

It’s like Skynet decided to cross Thomas Kinkade and Lisa Frank

Maybe Trump thinks that if he puts his name on enough buildings people will forget how many times his name is in the Epstein files.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony

Dolly Parton's family asked that, in lieu of flowers, fans make a donation to the singer's Imagination Library. Here's what the charity does ⬇️ www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

This is truly heartbreaking. Dolly Parton was an extraordinary person and an irreplaceable champion of the working class. We are a better country because of her.

Not to be some wild-eyed innocent, but I think it should be slightly bigger news that The Lancet have crunched the numbers and found that Musk's USAID cuts will kill 14 million people. And that's just by 2030. That's 9,600 people a day, every day, until the next world cup rolls around.

Top Shelf margaritas and Taco Time crisp bean burritos

lots of reporters suddenly worried about slipping into communism but strangely f*cking quiet about slipping into fascism

Blooming now, bubblegum pink Fuchsia

Dem consultants who believe that "kitchen table issues" -- material self-interest -- can sway right-wing voters should take note of the fact that many of those voters are willing to directly harm themselves in service of their deranged ideological hatreds.

What if it happens during pride weekend?

The fact that most of the wealthiest people in the world are awful illustrates that the key requirement for extreme, obscene wealth isn’t “genius.” It’s shamelessness/ruthlessness.

AI IS STUPID. And I don't mean this in the "that's just my opinion" way, I mean this in the "it is incorrect more than 40% of the time" way. That's an F grade btw, in case it isn't sinking in for you.

Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. Both are back because of this science denying administration.

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

people fucking died for the voting rights act. to wave it away with a magic wand is just so grotesque

Allium and Flamingo

The color of the sky in Seattle is cornflower blue #4b92fe

Compost bucket arrangement

I’m at ICE HQ

Why can’t any spellcheck recognize botanical Latin it’s driving me up a wall

So if AI Psychosis is a thing that happens because the human mind breaks when it's trapped by a sycophant who affirms every thought, agrees with every delusion - does this give us a window into what's been happening into the ultra rich , and why they're such broken people?

If we don’t build housing to solve homelessness, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth

Before the rain

Crocus tommasinianus, my garden