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I've said it once and I'll say it again for the people in the back. "I kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and everything seemed so shitty. And he'd say, 'That's the way it goes, but don't forget, it goes the other way, too.'"

This is a bad time to be in touch with reality.

Photographing the midwestern gothic

So many American people have no clue how much of their future is being outright stolen from them right now. They fundamentally don't understand the gilded age or the 1890s. If we dont bring this generation's version of teddy roosevelt and fdr, there will be nothing that resembles a middle class. Just haves and have nots with constant violent protests in the streets.

oh man this is so helpful i was planning on exercising medium caution but then the state department gave me this information

money is literally a black magic spell and we have to blow up all the banks if we want to live

@BoltzmannBooty these are great, man. i'm sorry for your loss. i'm glad you have these photos

yeah this is how artists, writers, organizers, and musicians were able to move across the country on a whim. no credit check bullshit just a bed to flop down on between gigs. a lot of American leftist theory and great novels were composed in a dingy room at 3 AM.

trying to find the balance between becoming more politically informed and not killing myself

@caitoz only once it's too late, of course

So, like, we’re going to start having mass protests at some point, right? Against this horrific US-Israeli war of unfathomable consequence? I mean, that’s on the agenda, right?

There's an old saying in Schelling—I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling—that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again

This was so pointed and clear that mainstream media decided to not engage much further with Coates. It’s important to also note who is allowed to become the critic and who isn’t. Carlson’s critique upholds American myths and power and can also be dismissed as right wing fodder. Coates’ critique doesn’t and cannot.

Joachim Trier: Norway’s two-time national champion skateboarder and first Oscar winner for Best International Feature.

@SketchesbyBoze it's kind of perfect. the american brain immediately went to sexual violence and consumerism.

You can be pretty confident that someone doesn’t read when they say “raped over at Kohl’s” rather than “raked over the coals.” As literacy declines, we are seeing new & unparalleled malapropisms.

I have waited years for someone to challenge this nonsense phrase on mainstream media. An indictment of the liberal PEP media that it took Tucker Carlson to do it. And he undeniably did it well.

Is anyone else just exhausted by all this even slightly? Absolutely no pause, just nonsense after nonsense after nonsense. Starting to think CERN experiments split us into an alternate universe.

Bruh. We have a trillion dollar military budget and no one can afford healthcare or rent.

The scale of the catastrophe is starting to dawn on Western minds. But they’re still far behind the curve. This is not a Pyrrhic victory. It’s a strategic defeat, a military defeat, one that is impossible to miss: the former unipole is incapable of militarily subduing Iran. This defeat has irrevocable consequences: Iranian hegemony in the gulf and Chinese hegemony in Asia.

@gruberr11 @Whale_Guru he’s writing words lol. just agree or don’t

@Whale_Guru WARNING ⚠️ EUROPEAN BOT PREACHING TO AMERICANS HOW THEY SHOULD FEEL!

🚨 NOBODY IS TELLING YOU HOW FUCKED REGULAR AMERICANS ARE RIGHT NOW. Not the news. Not your politicians. Not Trump. So I will. Three weeks ago — February 28, 2026 — Trump launched a war on Iran. That same day, your wallet started bleeding out. Here's every price that's gone up on you since then: ⛽ GAS Before war: $2.93/gallon Today: $3.91/gallon That's +$0.98 per gallon. +33%. In 20 DAYS. ⚠️ 🛒 GROCERIES Perishables going up first — dairy, fruits, vegetables, fish Beef already at multi-year highs (smallest herd in 75 years) Food transport costs rising DAILY as diesel spikes 💀 🏠 RENT & HOUSING Mortgage rates JUMPED the week war started "Undoing progress in housing affordability" — CNN Average rent in a mid-tier city: $2,000+/month ⚠️ ✈️ FLIGHTS Airlines will raise fares as jet fuel costs explode 💀 🏥 HEALTHCARE Interest rates frozen — no Fed relief coming ⚠️ 🌊 THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ 25% of all global seaborne oil trade passes through it. It's effectively closed. The IEA called it the LARGEST OIL SUPPLY SHOCK IN HISTORY. 💀 ⚠️ For context — the 1973 oil crisis caused a recession, fuel rationing, and ended a presidency. That impacted roughly 7% of global oil supply. This impacts 25%. Now. They're showing you maps of Iran. They're NOT showing you the math. $300 million. That's what American families are paying EXTRA every single day just to fill their tanks. Not to fund missiles. Just to drive to work. Drive their kids to school. Exist. First week of the war? $11 BILLION. Out of American pockets. Gone. $220 million a day goes to Operation Epic Fury. Every second of that spending = 577 school lunches. But there's "no money" for school lunches. There's "no money" for healthcare. There's "no money" for student debt. There's "no money" for veterans. They found $200 BILLION overnight for bombs. Meanwhile: 💀 – Lockheed Martin stock: UP 34% in 2026 – Northrop Grumman: UP 25.8% – Raytheon (RTX): UP 9.7% – Huntington Ingalls: UP 26.7% – Defense giants total profit surge: $30 BILLION while bombs were falling Your gas went up 33% so Lockheed could gain 34%. You're getting robbed in real time and CNN is showing you drone footage. 66% of Americans were already living paycheck to paycheck before February 28. Consumer confidence just hit its LOWEST point of 2026. The Fed won't cut rates. Inflation is about to spike. Groceries are about to get worse. JD Vance told you to "find comfort" that our allies are "suffering more than we are." That's the plan. You suffer. They profit. In 6 months, if the Strait stays closed, economists say food and fuel inflation could hit double digits. Your paycheck will not keep up. This is not a foreign policy disagreement. This is the most expensive wealth transfer in American history. And nobody is talking about it. Prepare accordingly. 🚨🚨🚨

This American teenager gets it: “We don’t have money for universal healthcare or to make sure kids don’t go hungry in this country, but apparently we have $11.3 billion fucking dollars to burn in 7 days to start a war nobody ask for to bomb innocent school children, twice.”