Goddamn, that was a depressing read.

Dealing with insurance is like: Your medication is approved! Just kidding no it’s not. Um, why haven’t you picked up the medicine? Come get it right now. Why are you trying to get this it’s not approved? I know you don’t need this medicine for 2 months but come get it now or else. 🫣

I think it's normal to be freaked out by the White House thing. In action movies, the White House getting fucked up is always a sign things are really wrong. What I'm trying to say: Trump is like if the aliens in Independence Day were one shitty guy

listen, I didn't stop listening to Nirvana when they started selling the smiley face shirts at Urban Outfitters; I'm not gonna stop using em-dashes just because chatGPT uses them

Palate cleanser: My kid insisted on showing his college-age swim instructors his LEGO minifig costume. (Not pictured: Him waving to everyone he saw on the walk to and from class—a one child Halloween parade.)

Sorry, but “history” proves mass nonviolent community protests NEVER work. The ONLY thing that can bring people together is reading my miserable posts. Smiling people hugging in the sunshine accomplishes NOTHING. Reading my punishing content, indoors and alone, is the only path forward.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving

All I can picture is this.

Now WeRateDogs is TRIPLING THE FUCK DOWN and talking about how often cops shoot dogs

Left: An excellent thread that the Department of Labor Bluesky account posted on the last day of the Biden Administration.
Right: What the Dept. of Labor Bluesky account posted about an hour ago.
I captured the second screenshot right before I blocked that account.

Your honor, please let us hurt reporters!

It's been so long! How can we harass, injure, and arrest protesters when all of those Nosey Parkers are lurking to catch us in the act? Again?

Please let us shoot camera people with rubber bullets! And don't you agree clouds of tear gas make us look cool?

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

After spending 43 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit, evidence hidden by the prosecution reversed his conviction. Rather than finally enjoying freedom, ICE abducted him for deportation

Depraved.

www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Due to Tennessee’s abortion ban, Mayron Hollis was forced to continue a pregnancy that threatened her life. An emergency delivery left her without a uterus and her baby with medical issues.

This was their first year in a post-Roe state (pub. Feb. 2024):

Chicagoland is a friendly, safe, vibrant, & fun place. I’m very happy my kids have grown up in the Rogers Park neighborhood of the city, & in Evanston. They’re both wonderful places.

But ICE is attacking us. People are doing everything possible to protect their neighbors. But it’s hard.

really striking the degree to which not a single person working in the trump administration appears to be interested in serving the american people

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

"does the president know what is real and what is not" is a legitimate question that should probably get asked a lot more

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day?

Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

You need to look in to your heart you piece of shit

I own a different version of this one, a port-a-potty play set that includes a construction worker with his own newspaper to read while he relieves himself.

I love Playmobil’s extremely specific characters and designs. Like, a firefighter performing a snake rescue—sure, why not!

“Become a courts reporter,” they said.

“You’ll get weekends off,” they said.

“Because there won’t be any hearings on the weekend,” they said.