Not sure how you get it back but Americans have lost a sense of social responsibility. Tales of the sacrifices made during the Great Depression & WWII for the greater good pale. COVID revealed how deeply selfish our nation has become & how stupid people are. The years since have not changed that.

"I'm not saying that I support (racist thing) but you lot have to stop calling it racist because that's why people support it! I'm just a reasonable person saying let's not denigrate people who hold this position that I am ambiguous about also holding (because I feel ashamed of it)"

This sort of appeal to "vigorous argument" and "democracy" as a way of supporting atrocities and tyranny while pretending at plausible deniability is among the most cowardly and disingenuous nonsense around. You are fooling no one with this crap, except possibly yourself.

The adoration of Bruce Springsteen is something that I’m profoundly fucking sick of. Liberals really needs to stop being so easily impressed by celebrities

Wow. The ICE shooter in Maine asked his ex-wife to "to lie for him and to cover for his character." She said he was abusive and had previously reported concerns about him to his military superiors. He was also a volunteer firefighter, but was removed after several spats with department leadership.

ICE agent who killed man in Biddeford identified as former Maine law enforcement officer

An ex-wife told the Press Herald that David Brouillette called her and admitted he was the ICE agent who shot Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero.

pressherald.com

Some may find it silly that I’m so in love with pigeons, but here’s the reason: to me, they embody everything that is sad and beautiful about life in this world. #pigeons #pigeonsky

I judge people on their capacity for being compassionate towards pigeons. If you can’t find a little room in your heart for the ignored, discarded and abandoned, that says everything I need to know about you. #pigeonsky

I love Puffins.

You can’t say you care about the environment and let your cats roam outdoors

Republican voters don’t have to plead with their elected leaders to do what they want as much as Democrats do

Work emails in the middle of the night and on the f@&!ing weekends students 🤝 boomer & Gen X coworkers

Never made sense that the while Democrats were warning us that Trump would deploy DHS as his private storm troopers, they were passing bills that raised DHS funding to record levels.

Just so it's clear for my delegation (@warren.senate.gov @edmarkey.bsky.social @ayannapressley.bsky.social), I will never again vote for someone who helps appropriate a dollar, not one single cent, for ICE or DHS.

Unfortunately at my age I’ve already been through an entire American war cycle waged by a Republican with Democrats who refused to do their jobs in response.

Marco Rubio was confirmed 99-0 by the US Senate one year ago this month.

The performative “I wuv books did you know libraries are FREE🤓 ” people on this app ignite my hater chemicals more than is probably healthy

Whenever someone follows me on this app

I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever

It goes into that weird thing that genuine appreciation is somehow considered less intellectual than criticism but everybody is getting trained to be such a cynical unfeeling asshole nowadays that I find the smartest people often are the “hell yeah cool song/drawing/story/video” people

Here is a googly-eyed house #pigeon for your enjoyment

Cold weather and the holiday season always gives me the urge to play Skyrim

It’s such a relief to have primary care that responds to messages, is quick with refills, follows up on test results without having to call a bajillion times, calls back when they say they will, is thorough in their care and looking at your medical history, and listens to you about symptoms

There is something particularly galling about my male colleagues not putting the toilet seat down in the restrooms at A WOMEN’S COLLEGE

And Bernie isn't calling for Schumer's ouster as leader. And Bernie isn't withholding consent as a procedural obstacle to any nominations

It’s weird how making friendly noises in the direction of socialism makes people forget that he’s a rich old ass white dude, like all the other rich old ass white dudes currently oppressing us, and that he’s just as inclined towards rich old ass white dude class solidarity as any other.

Really. You're going to tell us what to do? We're the ones paying the bill. Whose lives are on the line. Who are being abducted and deported. Who keep showing up to fight ICE We are the 7+ million who showed up and then voted Get rid of Schumer. Clean your house, get it in order, then listen.

The model of holding individual senators responsible is broken here. The retirees clearly agreed to take the fall. Which is why the nos should get no credit for voting no unless they move to oust Schumer

It took a courageous Republican bucking his party to give America affordable healthcare and eight cowardous Democrats bucking their party to give take it away.