I’ve been listening to Wolf 359 to have something going on in the background while I do class stuff and. yeah….

I suggest everyone get into gardening cause theres blood meal and bone meal you can use for plants. and thats evil and cool

the age old struggle…

Massive Minnesota W read em for yourself

I was planning to drop the items from the linked tweet thread onto this post, but there are SO MANY new bills that it became a wall of text - line after line after line of incredible things Minnesota has enacted in a single session.

I'm.... actually blown away. the political landscape often feels so hopeless, but the DFL pulled themselves together, getting every member on board for these changes - real changes that are going to protect health, keep people out of jail and housed, and improve work conditions massively. this should be a beacon for every other state democratic party - change doesn't have to be incremental. things can get better and they can get better right now. get crackin'.

We are not going to let that fuckwad DeSantis gain a foothold in the 2024 election.

You are going to fucking vote for Joe Biden, and you are going to give us a fucking chance to save our country from fascism, and you aren't going to fucking complain about it, because there is literally no other choice.

We will not let another election be a close call. Are you listening?

Vote for Biden. Vote for whatever Democrat is most popular in your local elections. Our system sucks, but this is what we're working with. Just fucking vote.

"But he's --"

It doesn't matter. It does. not. matter.

Not every battle is about progress. Sometimes it's just holding the line until we get reinforcements. And they are coming. The Gen Z vote was monumental in stopping the red wave, and there are increasing numbers as more and more come of age.

Hold the line.

I want to push back on the battle “not being about progress.” Because /Biden has accomplished a lot, actually, especially given a Republican-controlled House. One could argue that he hasn’t gone far enough, but that’s not the same as having accomplished nothing. So here’s some things Biden has done:

1) Raised taxes on the wealthy and corporations.

2) Highest appointment of federal judges since Reagan. Reagan started a trend of Republicans packing federal courts with uber-conservative judges, and blocking Democrat appointments, which is how we ended up with our current Supreme Court. Biden is doing his absolute best to turn the scales back the other direction by appointing as many liberal and left-wing judges as he can, as fast as he can.

3) $1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure package that will pour federal money into things like public transit, high-speed internet in places that don’t have it (which are overwhelmingly poor, and cut off from the rest of the world), and a whole lot of other basic things that make life easier for ordinary people.

4) Halted Federal executions. This doesn’t affect state-level convictions, but it does affect federal-level executions; those are completely off the table for as long as he (or any other) Democrat is President. (13 people were executed under Trump)

5) Rejoining the Paris Climate Accords and pushing for other environmental care legislation,

6) Pushed through the “Inflation Reduction Act” (named that to get Republicans to be willing to allow it through). It’s actually the largest climate bill in U.S. history and allows Medicare to negotiate the prices of certain prescription drugs for the first time. It includes 369 billion for a climate initiative to reduce greenhouse emissions and promote lean energy technologies. $300 billion in new revenue through a corporate tax increase. $80 billion for the Internal Revenue Service to hire new agents, modernize its technology, audit the wealthy and more. A $2,000 annual cap for out-of-pocket prescription drug costs for those insured by Medicare.

6) Overturned Trump’s ban on transgender people serving in the military.

7) Re-authorized the Violence Against Women Act

8) Pardoned marijuana

9) Forgave student loan debt (this one the Republicans in congress managed to partially stymie, but that’s not Biden’s fault--it’s the Republicans).

10) Managed to get a modest gun-safety bill through the gauntlet of Republican opposition. (The first one anyone’s managed to get passed in decades.) It’s far from perfect, or enough, but it did expand background checks on gun purchases and made it easier to prosecute illegal gun trafficking. And the reason it was as weak as it was, is because the Republicans have a majority in the House and they blocked anything stronger, it’s the Republicans’ fault. Not Biden’s. If we want sensible nationwide gun control, we have GOT to get the House a Democrat majority.

11) Passed a long-stalled Post Office reform bill.

There’s a lot there! And the things that he promised but didn’t manage to achieve, he put them before Congress and the Republicans in the House stopped them. If Democrats controlled the House as well as the Senate, most of them would have passed and now be the law of the land! The problem is not Biden.

Biden may not be very exciting, and he may not be as far left as we want. But he’s still got a lot done in the last three years.

stepping in as a Poor on Social Security to say that Joe Biden has done more for me than any other POTUS in my lifetime.  Since he stepped into office I have seen:

-broadband internet help ($30/month toward my comcast bill, and even if I go delinquent, they are required to keep my internet connected albeit with a slower connection.  the point is: my internet cannot be cut off) -multiple SNAP increases -direct stimulus -MAJOR improvements to Medicare.  I have a $0 copay for EVERYTHING now through my Medicare Advantage plan.  Including prescription medicine!! I pay nothing!  Ambulance, hospital stay? Again, I pay nothing.  Including vision and dental and hearing aids if I needed them. -my Medicare OTC card used to just give me a little to buy medicine.  Now I get $205/month and I can use it for OTC medicines, groceries, and utility bills!  This is literally more money in my pocket every month. -speaking of that, Biden has given us two historically large COLA raises for Social Security.  Last year’s was the biggest raise in 4 decades.  This year promises to be very good, too.

this doesn’t even count in the multiple kinds of student debt relief or the pandemic-era child tax credit, because they didn’t affect me personally, but I know both of those moves were life-changing for people i know.  Not to mention a long overdue infrastructure bill.  And the fact that he has accomplished all this with the weakest possible senate “majority” really speaks volumes.  

Yeah, he’s old.  No, he’s not a socialist.  But he’s good at his job and he is making things happen for vulnerable people.  Not to mention that he is SO much better at foreign policy than any POTUS I can remember.  Remember how we were at war for decades?  We’re not anymore.  Yeah, Joe did that.

hi guys i not even tired at all :) *slips on a banana’s peel and slides directly into my bed under the blankets and

no i dont watch adramas (american dramas) or bdramas (british dramas) bc i dont agree with their governments and they mistreat their workers

tired of being casual. who will die for me

I wish I wrote as much as I fantasized about writing 

I have two moods.

1. Constant panic and worryng about every little detail

2. It is what it is

Nadja Auermann and a friendly skeleton photographed by Richard Avedon for The New Yorker, November 6th 1995.

I love the idea of Spock being super queer, highly expressive and very emotional from a Vulcan view point. Like...

What humans see:

What Vulcans see:

i love how this implies that gritty is how vulcans see jim

"I can fix him" not in a "I can make him into a better person" way but in a "if he was my character I would've handled his story better" way

No no you don't understand! I want to watch this show/movie, read this book, listen to this podcast, etc.! But I must be in the right mindset and the exact head space to begin, or I just can't!

I'm not ALLOWED to enjoy it yet, I'm not ALLOWED!!!

shoutout to boring queer people who don’t do shit. just go to work or school and then come home to watch shows. while gay

Yohan & Gaon at the Foundation gala

WGA Writers Strike (May 2, 2023)

Wow.... It's getting pretty serious out there. 😔

I just hope writers can be compensated fairly for their work. 🙏🏾

Hopefully they all come to a fair decision soon. Hollywood can't afford another writers strike in THIS economy imo. This isn't 2007. 👀 The rate of inflation is crazy 🤪 right now, and Hollywood has already been tanking for years.

This also makes me wonder about Euphoria S3 filming, and if it will get affected by this at all? 🤔