Midwestern Democrats are on fire recently. Over the last few weeks, the Minnesota legislature has passed measures which would turn the state into one of the closest things the US has to a social democracy. They have passed bills:

• creating universal paid leave
• codifying abortion rights
• legalizing weed
• making public college free for families earning under $80k
• universalizing free school lunches and increasing public education funding
• creating plans for 100% carbon-free energy by 2040
• investing more in public housing and homelessness prevention programs
• creating a new child tax credit to cut child poverty
• creating a refuge for those seeking trans healthcare
• instituting automatic voter registration
• expanding voting rights to former felons
• banning anti-gay "conversion therapy"
• creating a new tax to fund public transit
• banning worker non-compete agreements
• strengthening anti-trust rules in healthcare
• creating new labor protections for gig economy drivers, teachers, construction workers, warehouse workers, and more
• investing in efforts to prevent chemical pollution
• creating billions in bonds for public infrastructure and lands
• strengthening gun purchase background checks
• indexing the gas tax to inflation
• creating a public board to regulate pharmaceutical costs
• increasing support for public defenders, and
• expanding access to health insurance and drivers licenses for undocumented immigrants
• and still more!!!

Extremely, unfathomably based

garak what the fuck you are literally in your own tailor’s shop surrounded by thread scissors, if there’s a tiny loose thread on the shoulder of that jacket you don’t need to fucking bite it off with your whole mouth what’s wrong with you

I love how both corvids and parrots are in general highly intelligent, but where corvids generally have strict hierarchies, solve disagreements in the pecking order by fighting, and have a strong dislike for anything new or foreign until they figure out how to make use of it, parrots are just here to party.

The New Caledonian crow, who knows how to specifically build a tool in order to build another tool, never engages in play. These motherfuckers are smarter than some people with the right to vote, and they are Extremely Serious Birds. They don't have time to play, they got work to do and kids to raise.

And then there's the kea, straight-up titled "clown of the mountains", that has a specific vocalization for "playtime!". Scientists decided to try what happens if they play the Play Call for two fully-grown adult keas that are together in an area and can clearly see there is no other, third kea to make the call, and they just go "great idea, disembodied voice! it's TIME TO FUCKING PARTY!" and start wrestling.

Imagine working really hard in order to make it into a top university to study astrophysics, making it to your first Very Serious Class, sitting down full of serious determination, and the dude next to you is taking notes without using his hands, with a glitter pen he's shoved up his nose. And his notes are good.

File under: even more blatant proof cis people can joke about trans people without it being at their expense

Where’s the fucking post of the guy with the huge chain whipping the swat team

This time my twitter suspension was because a old lady was admiring the proud boys and I think her son was one of them so I told her every proud boy belongs in a grave. So here on tumblr I’d like to go on to say that she should be forced to watch while her proud boy son is tied down and decapitated by a belt sander. As in the belt sander should be used to sand his entire head until its down to a stump. Actually does that count as decapitation? Does the head have to be “cut off” and technically still in one piece somewhere to be decapitation? What do you call it if the head is simply worn down then?????? Oh man this is going to bother me that we don’t have a word for that

Not a good sign when everyone at your coronation looks they’re watching a really bad film at the cinema but are too polite to get up and leave.

wake up babe new elon crybaby just dropped. you can no longer make fun of someone for having twitter blue. he is equating jokes against twitter blue to the likes of racism, sexism and ableism. this is real.