951
the parenting phase where you're like oh my goodness his little teeth 😍 ow ow OW YOU LITTLE ZOMBIE
953
Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars.
—Carl Sagan
954
funny how ten seconds after they blew up the entire global economy, the people who spent a decade denouncing "whataboutism" became mysteriously incapable of getting through a conversation without thrusting their fingers at some random flag
955
Buyer's remorse. twitter.com/JeffBezos/stat…
956
the government has done such a good job solving our problems boy howdy we should probably just give those rock stars even more power to determine the outcome of our lives
957
State supremacy is threatening to become the global ideology of the new century. twitter.com/Snowden/status…
958
We have built databases of ruin—archives of intensely-detailed personal records so vast as to hold every individual life at ransom.
The inevitable leaks are ineradicable, and cannot be cleaned up: "The Internet never forgets." In time, the mosaic will leave no life unrevealed. twitter.com/opinion/status…
960
Every time I hear her, I am reminded @AbbyMartin has things to say that will never be spoken on the corpo media nightlies. The very definition of a "dangerous voice." twitter.com/EmpireFiles/st…
961
"Women couldn't own property, they couldn't sign contracts, couldn't get a mortage, couldn't testify in court, they couldn't vote. It wasn't until [1974], after decades of women's struggles, that they could have credit cards... They are not going to be forced back into the home." twitter.com/EmpireFiles/st…
962
every time i acknowledge someone to the left of dick cheney may have made a point, i—the guy hired by both the CIA *and* NSA—get accused of being a communist
like, really? the first question they ask on the polygraph is, on a scale of 9 to 10, how much do you love billionaires
964
So, uh, I guess the military poisoned a major Hawaiian water supply, lied about it, and then downplayed the harm. Now a whistleblower seems to have revealed a video of the leak to a local paper. Wow.
Locals would be justified in booting the military off the island over this. twitter.com/SDonziger/stat…
965
the central bank ate 17.5% of your pringles twitter.com/WallStreetSilv…
966
It is, in a dark way, psychologically reassuring to say, "Oh, everything is monitored and there's nothing I can do. I shouldn't bother." The problem is that it's not true. twitter.com/naomibrockwell…
967
Between 1999 and 2014, the percentage who imagine the Sun revolves around the Earth *went up*.
In this kind of world, time I spend on politics increasingly feels like a mistake. Drowning in the tide of imbeciles, we nod to sermons from the flotsam.
abcnews.go.com/US/quarter-ame…
968
The White House? Planning coups? twitter.com/CNN/status/154…
970
The good news: We're all going to be billionaires.
The bad news: A gallon of milk costs 2.6 trillion dollars.
971
I'm just trying to imagine the mindset of the kid graduating high school this year, after missing years of class time, and realizing they're about to step into the world with the difficulty slider locked on Nightmare Mode.
How are you handling it? twitter.com/Snowden/status…
972
This is the real reason Assange is in prison. #FreeAssange twitter.com/ggreenwald/sta…
973
Upon arriving in Saudi Arabia, Biden mimes holding up his half of a ceremonial saw—to bury the memory of murdered Washington Post columnist and US resident Jamal Khashoggi.
974
Biden before he had your vote: “I would make it very clear we were going to make [the Saudi government] pay the price, and make them, in fact, the pariah that they are.”
Biden after he had your vote:
975
And so you just let it go? You, the President of the United States, say you believe the guy is *personally responsible* for murdering a Washington Post columnist and US resident, and you just let it go for a smile and a fist bump?
Super. twitter.com/DeItaone/statu…
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