Santa Monica banned unhoused people from possessing pillows or blankets. This is murder.

when will we recognize that covid protections aren’t unique or special and they will help with all sorts of viruses? avoid groups, travel, restaurants wash hands STAY HOME WHEN SICK + 2 days after symptoms masks- touch face less, reminder to distance, ease healthcare system

pretty much every major city in america has a republican mayor who cosplayed as a democrat in order to win and yet every suburban idiot thinks their closest city is run by a socialist.

The Democrats decided very self consciously to shed their image as a labor party in the 1980s and 1990s in favor of the professional managerial class so yeah of course the working class vote is now divided.

Therapists will be like “Yeah I know how to treat mental illness” and then only know how to treat irrational thinking, having no idea how to help people whose mental illness is actually a reasonable and proportional response to objective reality

As of 8:47pm, I have received 31 emails from Cornell asking me to participate in today’s Giving Day. I wouldn’t mind nearly as much if my email inbox wasn’t also interspersed with notifications from the university that all of the job searches I’ve applied to have been canceled.

I asked the Andrew Cuomo ‘canvasser’ sitting on the corner of my polling site watching YouTube on his phone why he isn’t handing out the lit materials and he said “I’m being paid either way and don’t like the man” lmao

One of the key principles to understand about our society--which is not taught in law schools, or any other school--is this: (1) when local governments do things that capital doesn't like, state governments usually override it; (2) when state governments do something capital

If you actually teach English or History you will in fact hear them regularly say this.

when they said there'd be bread and circuses, they should have specified that the bread would cost 200% more than it did four years ago and the circuses are only available on your least favourite streaming network for $19.99/month