Tom Morello: I’d like to thank all the 2nd Amendment loving patriots who are caravanning towards Chicago right now to defend the people against a Tyrannical Federal Government that has declared war on a U.S. city!! Thank you for putting aside the racism & white supremacy that has kept you from stepping up until now! Big Government Thugs wanna “tread on” the people! Now’s your time to stop them. Like you talk about.
Quotes
Monday, September 8
jordanmooney: It will cost the taxpayers BILLIONS of dollars to update 700,000 DOD facilities across 40 countries and all 50 states with the new “Department of War” logo. But please MAGA, tell me more how cancer research is wasteful spending.
celadonsage: Imagine if all that money was actually spent on veterans, serving members of the military, their families, and updating military facilities that are literally falling down.
Friday, September 5
ACLU of Indiana:
- A person can decide … that they don’t want to read a certain book.
- A person can decide … that they don’t want their child to read that book.
- But a person can’t decide … that an entire school or entire town can’t read that book.
A Cockroach Moment
Friday, September 5, 2025
A Cockroach Moment SAM (FALCON): Whelp, here we are. Happy birthday, Steve. STEVE (CAPT. AMERICA): Thanks, Sam. Though I’d hoped it would be under happier circumstances. And yet, here we are. Trump unequivocally elected. SAM: A conservative Supreme Court locking in executive power and conservative values. STEVE: Cuts to health care access and vaccines. SAM: Rollbacks to climate policy, manufacturing jobs, social safety net. STEVE: ICE as a growing extralegal police.
damnslippy.slippy.me: “Sincerely delighted to discover, 45 minutes into this nearly-wordless three-hour documentary about French monks who take vows of silence, that among the reasons they can talk is ’to make sure the monastery cats know when it’s mealtime by making little kitty-calling noises at them.'”
Wednesday, September 3
Wednesday, September 3, 2025 →
Matt Damon: So, what happened was the DVD was a huge part of our business, of our revenue stream, and technology has just made that obsolete.
And so, the movies that we used to make, you could afford to not make all of your money when it played in the theater, because you knew you had the DVD coming behind the release. And six months later, you’d get a whole other chunk. It would be like reopening the movie almost.
And when that went away, that changed the type of movies that we could make.
I did this movie, Behind the Candelabra, and I talked to a studio executive who explained it was a $25 million movie. I would have to put that much into print now. Advertising right to market it—we call P&A—so I’d have to put that in P&A. So now I’m in $50 million.
I have to split everything I get with the exhibitor, right? The people who own the movie theaters. So I would have to make $100 million before I got into profit.
And the idea of making $100 million on a story about, like, this love affair between these two people—yeah, I love everyone in the movie—that’s suddenly a massive gamble in a way that it wasn’t in the 1990s, when they were making all those kind of movies. The kind of movies that I loved, and the kind of movies that were my bread and butter.
Sunday, August 31
Mayor Johnson: “We have asked law enforcement to do too much. Police officers are being asked to be social workers, counselors. What I’m simply saying is, if we’re going to build safe and affordable cities across America, the one thing that safe communities all have in common, they invest in people. We have a poverty issue in the city of Chicago and cities across America. Police officers alone will not put food on the table. Police officers alone will not guarantee a high quality education. Police officers alone won’t drive down unemployment. We need all of it. The President of the United States of America and the federal government could restore Medicaid. They could restore SNAP. They could stop defunding our public education system.”
Friday, August 29
Andor:
There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.
Remember this: freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction.
Random acts of insurrection are occuring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause. Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And then remember this.
The Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks.
Authority is brittle. Opression is the mask of fear. Remember that.
And know this: the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empire’s authority. and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this. Try.
Wednesday, August 27
EarthlyEducation: If you ever feel heavy because you care deeply about injustice, suffering & ecological destruction, remember, a trillion dollar propaganda machine was built to make you numb and it didn’t work on you.
Monday, August 25
One of the most badass TNG lines: “You may test that assumption at your convenience.”
CryptoNaturalist: We seldom admit the seductive comfort of hopelessness. It saves us from ambiguity. It has an answer for every question: “There’s just no point.” Hope, on the other hand, is messy. If it might all work out, then we have things to do. We must weather the possibility of happiness.
Albert Einstein: Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is to not stop questioning.
Harley Diamond: My neighbor was complaining they were short on money. I went over there and found a TON of savings for them. First, I sold both of their cars for them, I fired the babysitter who watches their children after school, and I canceled the fire insurance on their home. I saved that family thousands of dollars! Despite all I’ve done for them, they’re now complaining that they can’t get to work and they need their babysitter or the kids will be left unsupervised. The solutions they need are so easy; I own a car service and they can pay me to drive them to work. I also own interest in a day care down the road. I just can’t understand what they’re so upset about.
CrowsFault: People speak of hope as if it is this delicate, ephemeral thing made of whispers and spider’s webs. It’s not. Hope has dirt on her face, blood on her knuckles, the grit of the cobblestones in her hair, and just spat out a tooth as she rises for another go.
Sunday, August 24
BlerdsOnline: How old were you when you learned the reason Reading Rainbow was canceled is because “No Child Left Behind” disqualified them for prior grants & book publishers kept increasing the cost of reading books on TV?
“Trans people existing does nothing negative to your life, you crybaby bitch.”
“2008 was a perfect storm of over leverage. And the reason why it all hit the fan is multiple things were coming to a head at once. It was residential mortgages, the market was faltering. Right now we have consumer debt, which is about to pop. We’ve got student loans, which has always been about to pop. And then we have a regime where we’re not sure if rates are going up or down. The best part about financial crises like 2008 is that you don’t know when they’re going to happen. So you always have to have some safety of positioning in your portfolio because is eventually going to hit the fan. It’s not a matter of ‘if’, it’s ‘when’.”
Homunculus-argument: The main difference between the weather being uncomfortably cold, and the weather being uncomfortably hot, is that the things you can do in the cold to warm yourself up (hot food/beverage, blankets, cuddles, nice clothes like sweaters, thick scarves and snazzy jackets, getting exercise) are very pleasant and very effective, and the things you can do in the heat to cool yourself down don’t do shit.
Noucetnerd: I’ve been trying to explain this to folks. It’s easier to go from a state of low energy to high energy than vice versa. That’s why for the majority of human history there’s been more ways to stay warm than beat the heat, and the ways to resist the cold are FAR simpler. Light a fire, layer up, stand close to others. If you wanna cool down with no wind and no water? Saddle up, bucko, you’re in for a wild ride.
Cory Booker: “Don’t speak to me about your religion; first show it to me in how you treat other people. Don’t tell me how much you love your God; show me in how much you love all God’s children. Don’t preach to me your passion for your faith; teach me through your compassion for your neighbors. In the end, I’m not as interested in what you have to tell or sell as I am in how you choose to live and give.”
probabiybadrpgideas: “Oh yeah? What if I rotated you 90 degrees in the fourth dimension so that rather than going forwards in time, you stayed in the current moment but in progressively more deviant timelines? Several people have questioned how this mathmatically works, so let me explain that I have hit maths with a crowbar repeatedly.”
Gov. JB Priztker: The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
The safety of the people of Illinois is always my top priority.
There is no emergency that warrants the President of the United States federalizing the IL_Natl\ _Guard, deploying the National Guard from other states, or sending active duty military within our own borders.
Donald Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he’s causing families.
We’ll continue to follow the law, stand up for the sovereignty of our state, and protect lllinoisans.
Tuesday, August 19
sedoretu: It’s just nothing but bad news these days. Even the good news is just “federal judge temporarily pauses bad news”.
thejobchick: Unbelievable. The U.S. has already logged 10 MILLION layoffs & discharges (BLS JOLTS) from Jan—June 2025. June alone: 1.6M.
Let’s estimate July around the same (~1.6M) + half of August (~0.8M) = 12.4 MILLION job losses in 7.5 months.
And here’s the thing, y’all…
If BLS is misreporting the unemployment rate (as many suspect)… how much worse are these numbers in reality?
They call this a “strong labor market.” You tell me.
Your worth is not conditional. It doesn’t depend on external factors. It is inherent in the fact that you exist.
Dick Solomon, Third Rock from the Sun: “Why should I be concerned about gaining weight? My body is just the vehicle that carries my brain around, and my brain deserves a smooth, luxurious ride.”
Keep going, not in the ‘don’t take a break’ sense, because breaks are important, but keep showing up for what matters to you. Keep doing good in the world, and keep making it through no matter how slowly or imperfectly you go. Keep going. You can do this.
datadrivenmd: The way that the Supreme Court drops opinions that change how we live our lives while a few of them pack for billionaire-funded summer vacations & how they don’t take questions from the public or televise proceedings – all that feels antithetical to the very essence of American democracy. ** Matthew 25:42:** “When I was hungry, you put up posters of the Ten Commandments in my classroom while making sure I didn’t get lunch at school.”
Sunday, August 17
Saturday, August 16
QudsNen: Israel’s Supreme Court has ruled to continue withholding the body of 14-year-old Palestinian boy Wadia Shadi Sa’d Elyan, killed by Israeli occupation forces near Ma’ale Adumim in February 2024. This decision comes despite video evidence showing he was shot from behind while fleeing and again while lying motionless. His remains have been held for a year and a half, with the Court accepting the state’s claim that the body can be used in future negotiations with Hamas. Israel’s systemic policy of withholding Palestinian bodies includes over 45 children and 668 individuals in total, denying families the right to a dignified burial.
Friday, August 15
Karis Nemek, Andor:
There will be times when the struggle seems impossible. I know this already. Alone, unsure, dwarfed by the scale of the enemy.
Remember this, Freedom is a pure idea. It occurs spontaneously and without instruction. Random acts of insurrection are occurring constantly throughout the galaxy. There are whole armies, battalions that have no idea that they’ve already enlisted in the cause.
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
And remember this: the Imperial need for control is so desperate because it is so unnatural. Tyranny requires constant effort. It breaks, it leaks. Authority is brittle. Oppression is the mask of fear.
Remember that. And know this, the day will come when all these skirmishes and battles, these moments of defiance will have flooded the banks of the Empires’s authority and then there will be one too many. One single thing will break the siege.
Remember this: Try.
i don’t like the fact that my changes of survival seem to be linked to the common sense of others.
Word of the Day is ‘copemate’ (16th century): the friend in life who gets you through.
Jack LaLanne: “Exercise is a CELEBRATION of what you can do, not a punishment for what you ate.”
Hurkle durkle: A 200 year-old Scottish term meaning to lounge in bed long after it’s time to get up.
We are things that labor under the illusion of having a self, this accretion of sensory experience and feeling.
In a society that profits from your self-doubt, liking yourself is a rebellious act.
Bayard Rustin: Let us be enraged about injustice, but let us not be destroyed by it.
I’m starting to realise that one of the purest forms of love is consideration. When someone thinks about how things would make you feel. In any situation how much they care about you is found in how much they consider you.
“When you’re not used to being confident, confidence feels like arrogance. When you’re used to being passive, assertiveness feels like aggression. When you’re not used to getting your needs met, prioritizing yourself feels selfish. Your comfort zone is not a good benchmark.”
Chidi,, The Good Place: So, why do it then? Why choose to be good, every day, if there is no guaranteed reward we can count on, now or in the afterlife? I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, We are not in this alone.
vanillatifa: My uncle said, “You’ll always be a boy to me." The table went silent. My little cousin, 9 years old, slammed her fork down and said, “No. She’s my aunt. And she’s pretty.” That one sentence did more for my soul than years of therapy.
“I think we’re living in a dystopic riff on the main timeline, like a nightmare that someone in the main plot is having. That’s where we exist, because I was just watching the news and they had a talking hat on. He was talking about the situation in the Middle East and he was like, I wish we had a Bush presidency right now. And my first thought was, oh man, that would be great. Anyway, happy Friday the 13th everyone.”
Thursday, August 14
Marc Maron Gets a Cereal Box with a "Lifetime Ally" Badge
Thursday, August 14, 2025
Maron: At this point, it’s lazy and sloppy and hackneyed, you know, to be in a club where, you know, I’m walking down the hall at the comedy club, or, and, you know, in one room, someone’s doing their bit about trans people. And then I get down the hall and there’s someone on stage going, “Well, I guess I got to do my bit about trans people.” Like, no, you don’t.
Tuesday, August 12
“I think Tarantino was just having fun and subtly tells the audience that this is a fictionalized version of Bruce, not anything like the real deal. The one thing that the real Bruce said about Muhammad Ali is that Ali would beat him in a fight. How does the scene open? With “Bruce” bragging about how he would paste Ali. Tarantino is way too geeky about movies, including martial arts movies, not to make that specific reference purposefully. It tells you that what follows is fiction.”
Monday, August 11
Chidi, The Good Place: “I argue that we choose to be good because of our bonds with other people and our innate desire to treat them with dignity. Simply put, we are not in this alone.”
brighteyedbadwolf: This is so goddamn important. I verbally express affection. A lot. My husband doesn’t. I don’t know why. For the longest time, part of me wondered if it meant he loved me less.
At some point, I told him about a thing I had done as a kid—holding hands, three squeezes means “I love you!” Suddenly, he’s telling me “I love you” all the time. Holding my hand, obviously, but also randomly—taps on my hand, my shoulder, my butt, my knee, whatever body part is closest to him, with whatever part of him is closest to me. All the time. More often than I ever verbally said it.
It’s an ingrained signal now. I can tap three times on whatever part of him and get three taps back in seconds. Apparently, I do the same. It’s made a huge difference for us. People say things differently.
rhutabhayga.bsky.social: Fascism - rule by dictator. Oligarchy - gvt by wealthy few. Theocracy - ruled by religion. Kakistocracy - gvt by least qualified. America has produced a most unique system of government: a theofascoligkakracy.