BREAKING: 21-year-old protester, Kaden Rummler, was shot point-blank in the face by ICE. he just spoke about how he’s blind for life and almost died:
“I will be blind for life. I have fractures in my skull that they can’t fix. They pulled a piece of plastic the size of a nickel out of my eye. I had shards of metal, glass, and plastic behind my eye and in my skull. They said it was a miracle I survived.”
What the hell is wrong with these people?
GoFundMe for Kaden Rummler, the young trans man blinded by ICE agents this week.
Also, pleasing to note that the article refers to Kaden Rummler as he or him throughout and does not call attention to his being transgender. (While to some audiences this is an important fact, given the Guardian’s iffy record on transgender issues I’m glad they didn’t make a thing of it.)
star trek explores these strange seemingly inconsequential extremes because it wants you to consider the possibility that your concept of ethics doesnt and could never possibly account for every scenario. It wants you to consider the ethical ramifications of just wiping out the little nanites taking over your ships computer even though eventually this will kill you all becuase
-What if they’re alive?
-What if they’re sentient?
-What if they don’t realize they’re hurting us?
-What if what hurts us is what they need to live?
-What if we can communicate with them?
Star Trek takes the situation of, “these computer bugs are eating our ship and in an hour we’ll all be dead and we COULD just wipe them out utterly but…what if they’re like us?” because the ramifications effect what risks we ourselves are willing to take in the name of pacifism and understanding. it says that even the smallest most immenently dangerous creature deserves as much of a chance to live peacefully as we can possibly give it through understanding.
without examining ourselves this way, through these made up seemingly inane situations, we will never be able to understand ourselves and what we’re truly capable of, what levels of understanding can be achieved. without the ability to place ourselves in a difficult situation and reach beyond our first instinct of fight or flight and self-preservation, we will never be evolve as a global community
this is unequivocally true. the rabbi at my childhood temple made it a point to bring a Star Trek scenario into every single d'var, and there was always something relevant!
Our youth and family nonprofit theatre is doing the musical Annie with a cast and crew of about 100, mostly children. Yesterday we had a two-show day with limited time for kids to rest and eat in between.
A parent offered to set up catering to be delivered for anyone who didn’t want to or couldn’t leave the site, and asked that anybody who was interested contribute a small amount to the cost. A few parents started asking if they could pay for other families who might not be able to contribute, and put in extra.
The whole cast was fed. There was food left over. Very few families left to get food or brought food from home because there was an abundance. Kids got seconds. Kids got seconds of dessert.
It’s been said a million times, but people balk at the idea of socialism and taxation and “paying for freeloaders” because we’re devoid of community and isolated. Nobody feared “paying for freeloaders” because those freeloaders aren’t faceless, they’re kids who go on playdates with your own children, or families who offered your child a ride when your car broke down. If we could think about other people as members of our community instead of faceless, we would be more generous and sharing almost instantly.
“the average income in <X> is <Y> of <currency>” cool, what’s the median
Average isn’t useful here. however, after a little bit of research, apparently the median income in the US is $24,327, which means the reality is actually much worse than this meme makes it seem. yay!
According to time magazine, median annual rent is $13,896, which means rent alone is 57% Of the median annual income, awesome!
Hang on…here’s one for ya: Got my official SSA1099 this past week.
According to them, my “benefits” for all of 2025 came to a total of…(drum roll please)…$10,332. (cymbal crash…thank you)
I bitch about it because it’s like comically abusive to expect anyone to live on $10k/yr in what is basically the most expensive place in the nation.
And what so many don’t understand is that once you get on SSI, you are basically in a Poverty Trap. You can’t dare HAVE or MAKE over X-number-of-dollars or they take everything away. Even if you were (physically/mentally/emotionally) able to work, you really can’t. No job you might get will give you even remotely enough money to make up for the SSI, SNAP and MediCal totalled.
Thor finally losing patience with Loki’s snark and spanking his bottom red. Disciplining Loki like a big brother should 💚💚 Loki’s little sniffles but his cock is hard and rubbing against Thor’s lap the whole time. (Yes Loki did act out just to get Thor’s attention and yes it worked all according to plan)
