The main difference between the Bible and The Lord of the Rings is that when someone calls The Lord of the Rings their favorite book, they’ve probably read it.

"Trans people don't need to medically transition to be valid" and "Enes Kanter and Royce White are assholes pretending to be trans for yuks" aren't contradictory positions. Self ID is vitally important, especially in a world where our healthcare is increasingly inaccessible.

Oh so we CAN honor sacred places and not disturb them with infrastructure projects as long as "sacred" means "important to the fictitious canon of a racist transphobic fascist's children's book series." www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Harry Potter fans force relocation of £430m undersea cable to avoid Dobby’s ‘grave’

Power cable linking UK and Ireland now passes near Bronze Age human burial remains instead of fictional grave on Welsh beach

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Dear cis people, Please, for the love of G-d, stop using the terms "biological male" and "biological female." They're scientifically meaningless. Sex is a bimodal cluster categorization. The brain is biological, no? There is no one factor that's universally determinative of sex and gender.

"Those who are under-represented in your life will become over-represented in your imagination." —Amanda Ripley, journalist and conflict mediator, speaking with Brian Lehrer on WNYC The fewer immigrants in your life, the fewer Black people in your life, the fewer trans people in your life, etc…

Congress: “We’ve tried nothing and we’re fresh out of ideas.”

so democratic socialism is good

Democrats@democrats.org · last wk.

HUGE: Under Mayor Mamdani, New York City just recorded its safest first 7 months of a year in history—and its safest July ever. In July: Major crime dropped 13% Murder dropped 32% Robberies dropped 15% Vehicle thefts dropped 25% Democratic mayors are putting public safety first.

Not sure if Mitch McConnell is dead but journalism certainly is.

Nope. No, you haven’t.

Maybe they could ask the man who wants to be Attorney General how he thinks the Department of Justice would prosecute someone who repeatedly lied under oath to a Senate committee in a confirmation hearing?

Every time I see a depiction of a hangover in a book or a show I get almost giddy thinking about how I haven’t felt that in 4.5 years and I never have to feel it ever again. Recovery is so fkn cool.

BREAKING: Susan Collins clutches her pearls with deep concern.

Can we rid ourselves of "God Bless America " at baseball games. PUKE 🤮🤮🤮🤮

Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.

My brother, who did time for dealing, once lost his shit when he found a joint in my niece’s room. I think about this every time a university who made a deal with OpenAI punishes their students for cheating. Or anytime the NBA, awash in DraftKings money, punishes a player for gambling.

I just moved a refrigerator into a fifth-floor walkup with Mitch McConnell. At one point, he held the whole thing up with just one hand. It was a little intimidating how healthy and strong and virile he is.

The same Democratic leaders who lost the White House, the Senate & House, the Supreme Court and a majority of governorships are telling progressive Democrats pushing for change to shut up because they know best how to win. Once again: Dems don't have an identity crisis, we have a leadership crisis!

Well yeah, if Watergate happened again it would have gone off without a hitch because no one would have known about it until a year later when Woodward and Bernstein's book came out.

The Democratic Party is being hijacked by people who want it to do things and stand for something.

All these people mad that Socialists are winning are ignoring that adhering to Centrism is what got us where we are People want change and they're sick of watching Congresspeople turn into millionaires while they struggle to care for their families

I just saw a Cybertruck with a "Baby on Board" sticker and thought that was surprisingly self-aware of the driver.

I’ve sometimes seen folks argue that only a few police are bad, that most are good. But if ‘good’ cops won’t call out bad cops, then there are no good cops.

You should either be reporting for a newspaper or writing a book with news. I don't think you should be doing both.

We don't need a "Joe Rogan of the left." Rogan is a right winger, so saying we need a right wing cishet white dude of the left is absurd. There are too many of those already, from Bill Maher to Fetterman to Newsom to Carville. We need to actually GO LEFT. Appeal to marginalized people for a change.

Michelle Obama is an objectively beautiful cis woman. Yet she doesn't "pass" because she's Black. This is why transphobia and racism are two sides of the same white supremacist coin. What is a woman? To conservatives, a woman is a skinny white walking uterus.

rimidar@rimidar.au · 2mo ago

Oh yeah, this is a real black mark for the ritual blood sport event involving rapists fighting other rapists under the direction of rapists to honour the birthday of a rapist

A lot of people are confused by the concept of “cat years" so here's a little guide: 0-1 years - just a little baby 1-3 years - just a little baby 4-9 years - just a little baby 10+ years - just a little baby

Everyone who is scared of cities and multiculturalism is a loser.

Rav@rvbdrm.com · 2mo ago

New Yorkers singing Empire State of Mind

I don't know why Trump's so upset. He's usually so into redacting his name.

Just want to remind everyone that Elon Musk canceled $400 million in food aid for Gaza when he destroyed USAID because he said "we should treat Gaza like Japan during World War 2." That's who you're defending. He's a racist, Islamophobic, antisemitic, mass murdering bigot.

It really is sending me how many people hate Black people, trans people, immigrants, Indigenous people, and disabled people, but turn around and defend a LITERAL TRILLIONAIRE