James H McLaren @JamesHMcLaren@qoto.org

Growing up, I had three sisters. One of them was a quiet child, often angry or sullen and sometimes cruel.

One day that person went away.

And then I had a brother.

He was cheerful and warm, finally comfortable in a body he'd wanted his entire life.

Conservatives want to eradicate my brother. I'm here to say that's not going to happen.

#transrightsarehumanrights

It seems in the end a sizable number of the convoyers were nothing but paid crisis actors

This tweet comes unironically from the GOP, which loves giant defense budgets, wants to regulate women's bodies, wishes to tell schools what they can teach, desires a 1900-mile-long border wall, wants to increase the size of police forces, thinks the government should prevent drag story hours, is trying to track young women's periods, thinks social media companies need more regulation, is banning books from libraries, and is trying to tell doctors what prescriptions they can & can't write.

Last night SNL's Cold open was about Fox News scandal of how Fox hosts and executives knowingly peddled 2020 election lies. That means SNL has covered that scandal more in one sketch than Fox News has in the weeks since the story broke. (Fox has literally banned story from air)

Onlybeans is delighted to present a compact, bijou, studio apartment available to let in a sought after location. €2500 per month with pretzels included.

People love the idea that masks don't work against COVID because they'd rather live in a world where there's no way to prevent COVID than live in a world where there is a way to prevent COVID that they personally don't wanna do.

My alt text is gonna be weird

People who don't speak a word of German are far too confident in their ability to assassinate baby Hitler if given the opportunity to time travel.

If overwhelming hypocrisy destroying a nation was a news story this would be "above the fold" - in "WAR fonts."

Hate farming Republicans are in convention, sowing seeds of division and hate for LGBT communities, 👉 while seeking anonymous gay sex with locals 👈 👉 that they plan to imprison, fire and ruin the lives of.👈

Science is grand, look at these GOP 🤡 hypocrites humping men.🍆

"First, they came for the transgender, and I spoke out immediately even though I'm straight and cis because I've read the rest of the fucking poem." – Patrick Tomlinson on Twitter

It’s an illusion to think we can make any major progress in this country without getting corporate money out of politics. It is the root of all evil in Washington.

The ever dependable Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) with a blistering diatribe against corporate “recycling” programs...
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Plastic recycling’s origin story starts in 1973, when Exxon’s scientists concluded that plastic recycling would never, ever be cost-effective.

Exxon sprang into action: they popularized the recycling arrow logo and backed “anti-littering” campaigns that blamed the rising tide of immortal toxic garbage on peoples’ laziness.

When I was a kid in Ontario, we had centralized, regulated, reusable bottle depots — beer and soda bottles came in standard sizes, differentiated by paper labels that could be pressure-washed off. When you were done with your bottle, you returned it for a deposit and it got washed and returned to bottlers to be refilled again and again and again.

After intense lobbying from soda companies, brewers and the plastic industry, that program was replaced with curbside “blue boxes” that promised to recycle our plastic waste. 90% of the plastics created has never been — and will never be — recycled. Today, the plastic industry plans on *tripling* the amount of single-use plastic in use worldwide.

Think of the billions of human labor hours we all spent washing and sorting our plastics for a recycling program that didn’t exist and will never exist — imagine if we’d spent that time and energy demanding that our politicians hold petrochemical companies to account instead.
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FULL ARTICLE HERE -- https://doctorow.medium.com/dow-promised-to-turn-sneakers-into-playground-surfaces-then-dumped-them-in-indonesia-ef7e1168a0c1

#GreenWashing #Pollution #AntiCapitalism

Tea With Milk

Ah, gotta love malicious compliance.