From the March 18, 2023 essay:

The pattern here is rather obvious: both sides like to print embarrassing or inflammatory information about the other side, while ignoring parallel information about their own side. That is also why the New York Times seems to print far more stories about Donald Trump, even now, than about Joe Biden.  It is also, perhaps, why the biggest focus of the Democratic House of Representatives in 2021-2 was the January 6 investigation, not any of the huge economic and social problems which the nation faces and which might have benefited from an extended set of hearings. Both parties are now arguing, in effect, that the electorate has no choice but to vote for them because the other side is so horrible.  And yet, if the media are any guide, both sides also seem to understand that much of what their elected officials are doing is unpopular.

I also look at ground.news frequently to find stories that I might have missed in my usual reading.

elbdot

Hey @staff? :)
H E L P ((Shoutout to my Patrons for supporting this animated sh*tpost!))

silverquillsideas

@staff @staffs-secret-blog we're all begging u, fix this damn website 😭

jv

This is .. is ... An absolutely incredible animation O_O

bro you're seizing the day too much you're gonna give yourself carpal diem

billyname

1958 catboy party game by willa morley

pruane2

This is what being a straight man on tumblr is like I think

marq-winks1067

Three true things are death, taxes and there’s always more to learn.

yandere-angela

this is the most effective advertisement i’ve ever seen for a product

mysterious-percentage

The first tags here are my own, but I just wanna say the best thkng about this is that I have yet to see a SINGLE person say they’ve tried it and disagree

zanephillips

Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan
Encino Man (1992) dir. Les Mayfield

ellagarto

If you could go back in time to the set of “Encino Man” in 1992 to tell Brendan Fraser and Ke Huy Quan that 31 years later they would both win Oscars on the same night, they would think that your prediction is even more improbable than the premise of the movie that they were filming at that time.

gh00st13

Drew this at work just cause I thought it was cool.

Solar eclipse above the pyramids on August 30, 1905. Photography by Gabriel Lekegian.

hopephd

Seizure First Aid. 

Learn it. Share it. Know it. Use it. 

king-in-yellow

100% correct medical information on tumblr for once; also consider calling 911 if you don’t know how often the person has seizures and ESPECIALLY if the seizure has lasted 5 minutes or more (which is why the watch is critical)

ishipphanaf

I have epilepsy so making sure the word is out on how to help people who do have seizures means a lot to me.

relevant xkcd

hapalopus

Kinda surprised how many different animals can be black and tan

Opinion: Republicans' end run around Black Mississippians is being copied in other states | CNN

Derrick Johnson, NAACP President, writes that the Texas state takeover of the Houston school district follows a playbook that is all too fam

https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/17/opinions/mississippi-texas-racism-conservative-playbook-johnson/index.html

Editor’s Note: Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, has been a resident of Jackson, Mississippi, for nearly 30 years. The views expressed in this commentary are his own. Read more opinion at CNN.CNN — 

Headlines this week trumpeted��the infuriating news that the state of Texas was planning a takeover of the Houston Independent School District, one of the largest and most diverse school populations in the nation, where 90% of students are Black and brown.

State education officials in Austin plan to name a new board to run schools in the district, usurping the authority of local authorities. The move ostensibly is meant to address lagging academic achievement in a school district that has seen a substantial decline in the number of failing schools in recent years.

The takeover is a playbook that is all too familiar to residents of my city of Jackson – Mississippi’s majority Black capital city – which has been battling the hostile takeover of aspects of its local governance for years.

The racist undertones of what’s happening – in Jackson, in Houston and elsewhere around the country – are undeniable and unacceptable. Mississippi’s White leadership – in a state which has the highest percentage of Black citizens in the nation – does whatever it can to ensure that its Black population remains second class citizens.

posttexasstressdisorder

Yup.

punk is an inherently left wing subculture.

it grew out of the collective disillusionment of marginalised communities the world over. whether you were a person of colour, working class, a part of the LGBTQIA+ community, or any combination of these and other communities, punk was and still is for the most part a scene which welcomes everyone.

right wing politics are, by their definition, opposed to everything punk stands for: anti-establishment belief, radical acceptance, and anti-consumerism.

so don't forget what dead kennedy's said in that absolutely amazing song, 'nazi punks fuck off':

"You still think swastikas look cool

The real Nazis run your schools

They're coaches, businessmen and cops

In a real fourth Reich you'll be the first to go"

and if any right wing 'punks' see this post, all i can really say is cope harder lmao.