Aunt Aeife
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Amtrak is more comfortable and enjoyable than any flight I've been on. No body scanners, free movement along the train, the cheapest seats (36$ Portland to Seattle) have as much room as a first class flight.
The only downside is speed and that can be solved if Congress wasn't full of cowards.
The only downside is speed and that can be solved if Congress wasn't full of cowards.
Airports are in chaos as the holiday travel season approaches—and the railroad is looking pretty good by comparison, @kait_tiffany writes.
Is it Amtrak’s time to shine?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
Is it Amtrak’s time to shine?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
America Is Taking the Train
Airport chaos is leading people to ride the Amtrak. Will they stick with it?
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Amtrak is more comfortable and enjoyable than any flight I've been on. No body scanners, free movement along the train, the cheapest seats (36$ Portland to Seattle) have as much room as a first class flight.
The only downside is speed and that can be solved if Congress wasn't full of cowards.
The only downside is speed and that can be solved if Congress wasn't full of cowards.
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
I still (half jokingly) argue the opposite. If you're elected to public office, your private ownership is nationalized and you live on state assistance for your term. You do not get back what you owned.
One should sacrifice all to hold office.
One should sacrifice all to hold office.
ryan is right. people HATE hearing this. but it is just a matter of simple incentives. if you want a more representative legislature — and if you want a legislature more resistant to corruption — then you need to jack up the salaries. serving as mayor of NYC should net you a cool 500K *at least*
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
November 7, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I still (half jokingly) argue the opposite. If you're elected to public office, your private ownership is nationalized and you live on state assistance for your term. You do not get back what you owned.
One should sacrifice all to hold office.
One should sacrifice all to hold office.
You cannot take the jobs back. I know it's terrifying. I know in many cases it's an unacceptable risk. But my god we cannot let them do this.
I've said this about writing and art -- the goal was not to replace writers and artists with AI, the result was either:
a) *threaten* to replace them with AI, and use that as leverage to be able to pay them less
b) replace them unsuccessfully and pay them less to fix the shit the AI barfed out
a) *threaten* to replace them with AI, and use that as leverage to be able to pay them less
b) replace them unsuccessfully and pay them less to fix the shit the AI barfed out
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
October 30, 2025 at 7:44 PM
You cannot take the jobs back. I know it's terrifying. I know in many cases it's an unacceptable risk. But my god we cannot let them do this.
Awesome. So we go from overt genocide to... overt colonial genocide. Great ceasefire, guys.
October 26, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Awesome. So we go from overt genocide to... overt colonial genocide. Great ceasefire, guys.
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I said what I said.
IL Congressional candidate Kat Abughazaleh: "I think Kristi Noem should have consequences. I think she should be tried at The Hague."
October 4, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I said what I said.
Voting for a democrat or republican gets me killed. Voting socialist protects me.
You voting Democrat and insisting I vote with you, means we both lose, because I'm voting Socialist.
You either vote with me, or we can both die.
You voting Democrat and insisting I vote with you, means we both lose, because I'm voting Socialist.
You either vote with me, or we can both die.
1. Telling trans people that even if Democrats won't protect us we should be selfless and vote for them to protect other people is a shitty thing to say. Asking for our rights and calling out Dems when they won't support us doesn't help fascists. Tell Democrats to support and defend us instead.
September 21, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Voting for a democrat or republican gets me killed. Voting socialist protects me.
You voting Democrat and insisting I vote with you, means we both lose, because I'm voting Socialist.
You either vote with me, or we can both die.
You voting Democrat and insisting I vote with you, means we both lose, because I'm voting Socialist.
You either vote with me, or we can both die.
This is just the "long shower" discourse from the 90s. You, individual, are using too much water. Ignore that corporations use 300,000x more water, you are the problem. This is just AI data centers demanding your drinking water for their use.
Don't fall for it.
Guillotine.
Don't fall for it.
Guillotine.
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as 'data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems'.
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
http://jrnl.ie/6788643
UK government advises people to delete old photos and emails as England faces water shortfall
The UK government has urged people to delete old pictures and emails as ‘data centres require cast amounts of water to cool their systems’.
jrnl.ie
August 12, 2025 at 6:13 PM
This is just the "long shower" discourse from the 90s. You, individual, are using too much water. Ignore that corporations use 300,000x more water, you are the problem. This is just AI data centers demanding your drinking water for their use.
Don't fall for it.
Guillotine.
Don't fall for it.
Guillotine.
This is the guillotine sign. You can't go back from this without nationwide unrest. It disenfranchises voters permanently - the voters that would reinstate it will lose their representation. With Texas and the resulting Gerrymander War, there's no way this gets resolved peacefully.
Everyone in DC knows that if you want to hide something, announce it on a Friday in August. Better yet, make it nearly impossible to track down.
That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
That's exactly what SCOTUS did last week. But the news is too staggering to hide for long: SCOTUS has decided it's time to destroy the Voting Rights Act.
The Supreme Court prepares to end voting rights as we know it
And they don't want you to notice.
www.motherjones.com
August 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
This is the guillotine sign. You can't go back from this without nationwide unrest. It disenfranchises voters permanently - the voters that would reinstate it will lose their representation. With Texas and the resulting Gerrymander War, there's no way this gets resolved peacefully.
I get the sentiment, but $750 for 280 sqft is still abysmal. That's more the 50% of a minimum wage income for a space that is smaller than the smallest apartment.
A 400 sqft for over $500 in any city is unacceptable, I don't see how this is an improvement.
A 400 sqft for over $500 in any city is unacceptable, I don't see how this is an improvement.
Do it again x 100,000
Units are ~ 280 square feet with a bathroom & kitchenette. The building includes 2 wheelchair accessible units and shared amenities such as lounges, bike storage & laundry. The couple privately funded the project and intend for it to remain affordable in perpetuity.
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
www.boston.com/news/local-n...
August 1, 2025 at 11:32 PM
I get the sentiment, but $750 for 280 sqft is still abysmal. That's more the 50% of a minimum wage income for a space that is smaller than the smallest apartment.
A 400 sqft for over $500 in any city is unacceptable, I don't see how this is an improvement.
A 400 sqft for over $500 in any city is unacceptable, I don't see how this is an improvement.
Why are you not bringing a police force to these interactions? Use your authority, use your office. "I have the right to..." prove it. Arrest that warden for denying a lawful inspection and charge him with dereliction of duty and refusing a lawful order.
What are they hiding? You don’t get to slam the door on a Member of Congress during a routine ICE visit. I’ve toured this facility before—so why am I suddenly a “security risk”? My team requested permission. They had no right to deny us. They’re clearly afraid of accountability.
August 1, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Why are you not bringing a police force to these interactions? Use your authority, use your office. "I have the right to..." prove it. Arrest that warden for denying a lawful inspection and charge him with dereliction of duty and refusing a lawful order.
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"It’s just that, a court case requiring a little more decorum than a drunken undergrad, they simply can’t yell “get out the way nigger”."
I wrote this ten years ago, and I hate that it still reads like a banger cause nobody fucking listens.
I wrote this ten years ago, and I hate that it still reads like a banger cause nobody fucking listens.
"Lesser Schools" and My Experience as a Black Texas Ex | Washington Monthly
Fisher v. The University of Texas at Austin is in the Supreme Court again. The lawsuit centers on whether or not “less qualified” students were admitted to The University of Texas at Austin, at the ex...
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July 25, 2025 at 1:07 PM
"It’s just that, a court case requiring a little more decorum than a drunken undergrad, they simply can’t yell “get out the way nigger”."
I wrote this ten years ago, and I hate that it still reads like a banger cause nobody fucking listens.
I wrote this ten years ago, and I hate that it still reads like a banger cause nobody fucking listens.
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Same in Denmark. 10+ years now and not a single issue reported.
Quite the opposite according to the head of the Women's Council Denmark, who said;
"I wouldn't say that self-ID has been any threat to women's rights movement in Denmark - actually I would more say the opposite."
Quite the opposite according to the head of the Women's Council Denmark, who said;
"I wouldn't say that self-ID has been any threat to women's rights movement in Denmark - actually I would more say the opposite."
Denmark's decade of self-ID cools debate on trans rights | Context by TRF
Denmark has avoided bitter polarisation over trans rights after becoming first European country to pass self-identification law
www.context.news
July 15, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Same in Denmark. 10+ years now and not a single issue reported.
Quite the opposite according to the head of the Women's Council Denmark, who said;
"I wouldn't say that self-ID has been any threat to women's rights movement in Denmark - actually I would more say the opposite."
Quite the opposite according to the head of the Women's Council Denmark, who said;
"I wouldn't say that self-ID has been any threat to women's rights movement in Denmark - actually I would more say the opposite."
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I just saw a post by someone who thought it was the state government that sent HEB to Kerrville. If only TX government was this well-prepared.
July 7, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I just saw a post by someone who thought it was the state government that sent HEB to Kerrville. If only TX government was this well-prepared.
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If we hit our goal ($50k to go!) by Sunday night, we’ll make merch of me flipping off a transphobe.
Do your part here: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
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![Libs Of Chicago @Libs_OfChicago
This is @KatAbughazaleh flipping off one of her potential constituents for having a different point of view on men dressed as women reading to children at the library that taxpayers fund.
[picture of me showing my middle finger to a lady who was calling the crowd predators and pedophiles outside of a Drag Queen Story Hour event]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ats4shmeia7i7ildqm3denmd/bafkreiewzht5havk3d2s2tsa6cdxeal5gcxuv4jqthuokib2wd65naen5y@jpeg)
June 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
If we hit our goal ($50k to go!) by Sunday night, we’ll make merch of me flipping off a transphobe.
Do your part here: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
Do your part here: secure.actblue.com/donate/abu-b...
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One of the things I've learned over time is that liberals are really good at making conflict and hostility towards minorities invisible. Like they'll refocus every conversation on to how the person raising a problem raised it wrong, how procedural propriety wasn't fulfilled by the marginalised.
December 12, 2024 at 2:28 PM
One of the things I've learned over time is that liberals are really good at making conflict and hostility towards minorities invisible. Like they'll refocus every conversation on to how the person raising a problem raised it wrong, how procedural propriety wasn't fulfilled by the marginalised.
There's no point in keeping the Democrats anymore. They run right-wing, lose to rapist felons, and then claim they ran too far left.
Enough.
We go full Progressive. Full feed children, heal the sick, house the poor Socialist. We can't keep doing Conservative vs Fascist and expect a win.
Enough.
We go full Progressive. Full feed children, heal the sick, house the poor Socialist. We can't keep doing Conservative vs Fascist and expect a win.
November 6, 2024 at 6:31 AM
There's no point in keeping the Democrats anymore. They run right-wing, lose to rapist felons, and then claim they ran too far left.
Enough.
We go full Progressive. Full feed children, heal the sick, house the poor Socialist. We can't keep doing Conservative vs Fascist and expect a win.
Enough.
We go full Progressive. Full feed children, heal the sick, house the poor Socialist. We can't keep doing Conservative vs Fascist and expect a win.
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Was just talking about this post a few days ago and it came across my Tumblr feed.
October 25, 2023 at 9:30 AM
Was just talking about this post a few days ago and it came across my Tumblr feed.
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unhinged and low-stakes answers ONLY:
what is the most trivial piece of legislation you would force through Congress if you had the power
mine is a standardized rubric for AO3 ratings (who are you fooling with that “E” for like one kiss at the end you absolute monsters)
what is the most trivial piece of legislation you would force through Congress if you had the power
mine is a standardized rubric for AO3 ratings (who are you fooling with that “E” for like one kiss at the end you absolute monsters)
oh my god FINE everybody I’ll be the speaker
One plan being discussed: Jim JORDAN starting with his third floor vote tomorrow at 10 a.m., then just going straight through the weekend with back-to-back votes, grinding it out, no coming off the floor at all. — Annie Karni, NYT
October 20, 2023 at 4:32 AM
unhinged and low-stakes answers ONLY:
what is the most trivial piece of legislation you would force through Congress if you had the power
mine is a standardized rubric for AO3 ratings (who are you fooling with that “E” for like one kiss at the end you absolute monsters)
what is the most trivial piece of legislation you would force through Congress if you had the power
mine is a standardized rubric for AO3 ratings (who are you fooling with that “E” for like one kiss at the end you absolute monsters)
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the big secret about rich people is that they have 0-stake in anything. How it works is that they're born into a network and ask other rich people to loan them other people's money, which they gamble with. If they win, they're business geniuses, if they lose, that's the market
October 18, 2023 at 2:32 PM
the big secret about rich people is that they have 0-stake in anything. How it works is that they're born into a network and ask other rich people to loan them other people's money, which they gamble with. If they win, they're business geniuses, if they lose, that's the market
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Cops in Minnesota are running a straight-up mafia protection racket targeting immigrant-owned businesses
Small business owners in Minneapolis say the city forced them to hire off-duty MPD officers for security gigs. Some were led to believe MPD wouldn't respond to their calls if they refused. The officers often insisted on cash payment.
Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty MPD cops for security - Minnesota Refor...
Small business owners — particularly immigrant owned — say they've been pressured by police to hire off-duty officers to provide security.
minnesotareformer.com
October 17, 2023 at 1:07 PM
Cops in Minnesota are running a straight-up mafia protection racket targeting immigrant-owned businesses
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The death of satire
October 17, 2023 at 11:24 AM
The death of satire