yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Without getting into Burien's long history of policies that harm homeless residents, it's telling that every single city thinks they're doing more than their share and that the homeless people in their city are from "somewhere else." Everyone is doing too much and homeless people are from nowhere

i’m running for president in 2028, this is my platform:

- no more spam texts and calls
- smaller cars with weaker headlights
- imprison every person in ice and the trump administration on a remote island for a thousand years

a lot of people are finally waking up to the importance of the 3rd amendment. As a 3A absolutist, i think it should be illegal for soldiers to be quartered anywhere in this country. they should be camping under the open sky at all times. all military bases and barracks are unconstitutional.

Discovering computer as an adult makes you go crazy. Discovering computer as a baby makes you go crazy. In all of human history, there will only ever be one generation to discover computer at the correct age: 13

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

It's not that I won't vote for Gavin Newsom if he's the presidential candidate. It's that if the Democratic Party chooses him, then they are communicating to me that they actively do not want my vote, and believe they don't need it. I will simply honor their wishes

One of the most melodramatically malevolent federal officials ever to do it. If we live through this he should maybe become a stock villain of Italian theater.

What the ever living fuck

Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.

alternative pairing:

your favorite TNG character is you in the streets and your favorite DS9 character is you in the sheets

The Ones Who Visit Omelas Without Doing a Ton of Research But Then on the Tour of Omelas They’re Like “Wait What the Fuck Did the Tour Guide Just Say”

at what point does a government lose all legitimacy

Autistic people oppose a cure to autism and I have a hard time reconciling why that isn't the end to the conversation about it.

republicans hate portland because they think having that many great restaurants in such a small city is unchristian behavior

This is not at all the most important thing here, but you are hot in this pic! I hope you get what you need to make the changes you want 💜💜💜💜💜

With each day, this tweet becomes more prescient.

Keep packing the court until all 330 million Americans are justices

As usual with this issue, Harris is calling for a compromise that already exists. Every sporting body has standards for how long athletes must be on hormones before they can compete as women.

The problem isn’t that we’re ignoring ‘reasonable concerns,’ the problem is that republicans are lying.

Democrats: Oh this issue where the vast majority of people like it? We should compromise and help kill it. That is just good strategy. We wouldn't want to be seen as *shudder* progressive. And what's a few more thousand dead, really? When you think about it. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars.

I sincerely believe the end of Google Reader was when the Internet started to get worse instead of better