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[Mindysan33]

Texas' Attorney General has decided that Pride Week is 'illegal' and threatened a school to stop it

Having grown up in the Texas they are fighting to recreate let me warn you… This will take the entire country down economically, socially, spiritually. Consider this a threat to your life and liberty because it is and having met people who weren’t raised under this ideology and method of social control… it’s worse than you think. The zombie south can never rise again so all it can do is try to poison its enemy, the US. Mind you not all the south is like this, nor all the southerners… But the o…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Arizona legislators approve ban on filming police

Agreed. Discomfort is necessary. Comfortable people don’t do anything to make changes. And the way police behave in the US needs to change. It’s odd that this law is itself a reaction to being made uncomfortable, but one which thinks the real problem isn’t police brutality, but being forced to acknowledge it might exist.

[chenille]

@ficuswhisperer

Tucker, next I wanted to talk about eugenics. I think it gets a bad rap — and I know all about this since I’m a bad rapper myself.

chef’s kiss

[TornPaperNapkin]

Watch: uncensored clip of Will Smith hitting Chris Rock in the face at the Academy Awards

It’s just all too much. The only one I give a shit about in this whole fucking thing is Jada. She should have been the one delivering that slap, too. Rock’s joke was pathetic, Smith’s reaction was typical toxic manly behavior, and the whole thing reeks of two men who don’t want to learn how to be better human beings and, instead, lean on nasty old tropes of what it means to be a comedian, to be a man. Now this is all anyone will talk about all day. The world burns, but sure… Will Smith slapped …

I dunno if I’m doing this right but this post needs more likes.

[chenille]

@TornPaperNapkin

@generic_name

you should back up and explain why fascism is good.

FWIW, that’s literally been his whole career though.

This is both an amazing burn and an incredibly succinct summary.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Trump says U.S. grocery stores are out of bread

I’m putting the odds that Trump has ever been inside a grocery store somewhere between slim and none. If he’s worried about the global wheat supply (narrator: he isn’t), he should tell his good friend Vlad to get the fuck out of Ukraine. But the odds he knows that wheat is involved in bread production are even slimmer than odds of his having been in a grocery store, so probably (definitely) we should just ignore the word-sounding noises coming from his pie hole.

[Mindysan33]

Marjorie Taylor Greene and her absurd "girls bathroom" attack on Pete Buttigieg

I think transferring a real fear women face (getting raped in or around a bathroom or at least perved on there) from the real aggressor (straight men who assault and harass women) onto a scapegoat who they want to see harmed (trans women) is the how and why. Using one group’s oppressive fear to do harm to a less powerful group is what fascism is all about, right? In this way men who rape women are the friends and allies of women like MTG, helping keep women under control and in fear, all while…

[Sally_Mahoney]

Em dash defended

Just learn to type the different kinds of dashes properly, people. Hyphen: For joining compound words and names. “British-Australian entertainer Olivia Newton-John is seventy-three years old.” En Dash: For denoting a range of dates or values. “Open 9am–5pm, Mon–Fri” Em Dash: For introducing a pause or aside. “I never—well, almost never—stalk the streets thirsting for human blood.” Dine and Dash: For evading responsibility for a restaurant tab. “Which way is your restroom?”

[Sally_Mahoney]

Sen. Josh Hawley doesn't know if a woman who had her uterus removed is still a woman

Women need to have the GOP removed from their uteri.

[smulder]

@cannibalpeas

Is Edgelord a font now?

[Sally_Mahoney]

I would love to see examples of what Florida found unacceptable in those Math textbooks

Because if you take all the nonsense (mo)Ron says if doesn’t add up. Also, 1 + 1 = 3 for ever increasing values of 1.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Watch: James Carville's assessment of the "weird" and "crazy" GOP is spot on

When you push the “weird and crazy” narrative over the authoritarian one, then you paper over the danger they pose. This happens all the time when white men go on shooting rampages - “Oh, they were mentally ill”… Bullshit. They were pumped up on dangerous ideologies and believed that killing people was okay because it’s “cleansing” the world of “filth”. We need to stop acting like these are still some fringe group and start calling them what they are: fascists. As long as we give them a pass, t…

[MrShiv]

Count to ten thousand! (Part 2)

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[FSogol]

Fiddlingfrog started this game on May 26, 2014. It was finished today

[Sally_Mahoney]

Disney tells Florida to F*** off

Don’t be modest, son, that’s executive-level thinking right there! Next time just do the typing part and let the lawyers worry about the “does it work that way” part. Hell, if I can count on you to help me bury the occasional figurative or literal body, I think we can fast-track you for our corporate leadership program.

[Sally_Mahoney]

Woman with a disability asks to be euthanized after being denied accessible housing again

Where the hell are the anti-abortion scumbags who demand respect for a wad of cells but don’t say shit when a human being desperately needs help maintaining life. Oh Sorry, you’re on your own. What a bunch of heartless creeps

[Murgatroyd]

Supreme Court to strike down Roe v. Wade in draft ruling leaked to Politico

A closer look at the basis for Alito’s opinion, partially sampled here (more at Lit Lady’s Twitter links): … …

[KathyPartdeux]

Fuck Today, Continued

Ms. Pane is now a criminal in the eyes of my state. As a therapist, if she treats a teen who is transitioning (which she does), and if her treatment plan doesn’t affirmatively put a stop to the transition (which ethically she cannot decide against if the patient does not want it) she can be arrested (which we are now planning for).

[Sally_Mahoney]

Majorie Taylor Greene displays more memory loss, this time about her love for Qanon

Again, my take as a linguistics guy: Republicans Murder Language. Words cease to have durable meaning, and that side just beams with Smirk when our side tries to hold them to any kind of account for their utterances.