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Republicans: YOu CaN't bRiNg GuNS tO pROteStS. Republicans at protests:

🚨 NEW: ICE is now banned from schools, churches, and hospitals in Connecticut.

@UHD4000k @howlsponyo A book a month?! Are they all Moby Dick and Ulysses?

@howlsponyo I feel like if you're speeding through books, like faster than a book a month, you're not reading anything super challenging. Try reading something for teens published before 1950. You should be stopping every few pages to look up words unless that genre is your jam.

no way we acting like THIRTY books in 365 days is impossible without skipping things??

@DavidLeavitt *Children's* circumcised penises.

Why is he studying circumcised penises?🤔

This is extremely wrong. But don’t trust me, here’s Justice Antonin Scalia, one of the most conservative Supreme Court judges of all time, making the point clear.

@JTAlexander It is absolutely possible to read 300 books a year. That's less than one per day and even as an adult, I still lose myself in a book so deeply that I finish it less than 24 hours after starting it. As a teenager, that's what I did for a lot of the summer.

A funny story about how I accidentally ended my wife’s interest in BookTube. There was this girl she was watching that claimed to read 200-300 books a year. One of the books that came up in her list, somehow, was G.K. Chesterton. In her review, this girl said “It was good, I think, but I just couldn’t understand it.” I told my wife two things: (1) There is not one human that actually reads 300 books a year; and, (2) If anyone could read that much, they’d have no problem understanding Chesterton. I told her I bet that she just constantly had an audiobook on literally all the time playing at 2x speed like background noise. Within a week, my wife showed me a new video of this girl admitting that my prediction was dead accurate.

@87shenanigans I get why seniors don't want to move. They love their house and neighborhood, moving's a lot of work, etc. We need an @HGTV show that normalizes creating a single-level modest home plus a townhome out of the 3-4 bedroom homes. And we need zoning laws to allow it.

Genuinely though, why can’t seniors downsize. If they’re living in like a 3-4 bedroom house… why

@CrazyVibes_1 My parents were at work b/c they worked non-traditional hours. Most of my peers' parents were commuting into NYC two hours each direction, so were gone 12-13 hours a day.

Dear Gen X, I’ve been watching 80s movies and I just need to know…WHERE WERE YOUR PARENTS?? Every child was just wandering the earth unsupervised like a raccoon with house keys. Riding bikes across town at midnight, fighting ghosts, investigating murders, befriending cryptids, hacking government computers for funsies… And the parents were ALWAYS “out of town” or “working late” while the only adult-adjacent supervision was some random 16-year-old who got dragged into the chaos. No cell phones. No helmets. No adult supervision. Just vibes, life lessons, and several near-death experiences. You all weren’t “raised.” You were lightly monitored feral creatures with a bike and unresolved trauma. I’m genuinely shocked there are enough of you left to populate an entire generation.

John Cornyn sold his soul to MAGA. Ken Paxton never had a soul to begin with. It’s Talarico or bust here in Texas.

idk who needs to hear this but more drilling on public lands isn’t a magic switch for lower prices at the pump. 🫠 oil prices are set on a global market, and new drilling doesn’t even come online fast enough to change anything. so opening up places like the Arctic Refuge isn’t about lowering costs for people, it’s about locking in more oil dependence in places we can’t afford to lose.

@JaredDHardin If someone doesn’t want to be around other people at a gym, why would they want to exercise on a public street??

Nope. This is a terrible idea.

ICE's treatment of detainees at Delaney Hall in New Jersey is the latest in a long line of abuses we've seen across the country.

When @SenatorAndyKim stood up & called out these abuses, they pepper sprayed him.

Not another dime for this lawless agency.

Pope Leo is right. We cannot allow a cabal of oligarchs to use AI to enrich themselves through war and exploitation. Society has to be in charge. theguardian.com/world/2026/may…

@Demo4fhs They won’t be gone for a couple more decades. Do we have to wait?

When the boomers are gone do y’all want to make 4 day workweeks / 3 day weekends permanent?

“My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence. And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza is a genocide. A year ago when October 7th happened, like all Israelis I was in shock. It was a war crime and a crime against humanity. 1200 people - more than 800 of them civilians - were killed in one day. Children and the elderly were among those taken hostage. Communities were destroyed. It was outrageous, traumatizing, personal. Like most Israelis, I know people who were killed, who lost loved ones or whose loved ones were taken hostage. But immediately afterwards came Israel’s response and within weeks thousands of civilians were killed in Gaza. It took me some time to digest what was unfolding before my eyes. It was agonizing to confront that reality. I was reluctant to call it a genocide. But if you read Raphael Lemkin – the Jewish-Polish legal scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ and was the major driving force behind the 1948 United Nations Genocide Convention – what is happening in Gaza now is exactly what he had in mind when he spoke about genocide. It does not need to look like the Holocaust to be a genocide. Each genocide looks different and not all involve killing of millions or the entire group. The United Nations Genocide Convention explicitly asserts that genocide is the act of deliberately destroying a group in whole or in part. Those are the words. But there does need to be a clear intent. And indeed, there are clear indications of intent to destroy Gaza: Israel’s leaders - including the prime minister and the minister of defence - and many high-ranking military officers, media personalities, rabbis, as well as ordinary soldiers were very open about what they wanted to achieve. There were countless documented incitements to turn the whole of Gaza into rubble and claims that there are no innocent people living there. A radical atmosphere of dehumanization of the Palestinians prevails in Israeli society to an extent that I can’t remember in my 58 years of living here. Now that vision has been enacted. Tens of thousands of innocent children, women and men have been killed. Over a hundred thousand were wounded. There is a near total destruction of infrastructure, intentional starvation and blocking of humanitarian aid. There are mass graves and reliable testimony of summary executions. Children that were shot by snipers. All the universities and almost all hospitals are gone. Almost all the population is displaced. There have been numerous bombings of civilians in so-called ‘safe zones’. Gaza does not exist anymore. It is completely destroyed. Thus, the outcome fits perfectly with the stated intentions of Israel’s leadership. Lemkin - that scholar who coined the term ‘genocide’ - described two phases of a genocide. The first is the destruction of the annihilated group and the second is what he called ‘imposition of the national pattern’ of the perpetrator. We are now witnessing the second phase as Israel prepares ethnically cleansed areas for Israeli settlements. And therefore, I have come to the conclusion that this is exactly what a genocide looks like. We don’t teach about genocides in order to realize it retrospectively. We teach about it in order to prevent it and to stop it. But like in every other case of genocide in history right now we have mass denial. Both here in Israel and around the world. But reality cannot be denied. So yes, it is a genocide. And once you come to this conclusion you cannot remain silent.” - Statement to Led By Donkeys, December 2024 - Photo: Parliament Square, London, 8.40am, 4th December 2024

My heart broke to see Americans fighting Americans in our streets yesterday. As I saw ICE agents tackling civilians and firing pepper balls into the crowd, I was overwhelmed by how broken we’ve become. We cannot normalize this violence. Here’s what happened at Delaney Hall: THREAD

The SpaceX IPO is a shitshow. When you peel back the layers, you realize how thoroughly corrupt it is.

Ken Paxton was charged with securities fraud, bribery, and he was impeached as TX attorney general, then he basically pardoned a child rapist. He's the perfect Trump-endorsed candidate.

Elon Musk has used Trump’s war in Iran to quintuple the amount he’s charging the Pentagon for SpaceX services. thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-spa…

@Acyn That is so completely untrue. People have to provide proof of income (or lack thereof). They have to provide SS numbers for everyone in their household (including children). They have to show assets. There are so many hurdles! Evil MFer.

Miller: The way most welfare works in most states and most places is we take your word for it. If you say your kids are hungry, you are going to get food stamps. We don't check if you even have kids. You will just start getting the checks.

and you, through stock index funds, and because of some recent rule changes, will basically be forced to buy this garbage. Elon’s about to take a big chunk of your retirement, and unless you call your congresspeople to stop the imminent S&P rule changes, there’s very little you can do about it.