having anti role models is a beautiful thing. it's not easy to live up to someone else's behavior but it is easy to lasso yourself into behaving right when you realize you're reminding yourself of the worst person youve ever met in your entire life

Being anti-death penalty is literally the easiest stance ever. People just say "but should the state kill THIS type of person?" and you just say "no". Not killing people is so fucking easy actually

I need help covering my tuition! I'm aiming for 600$, which is about half. Anything helps!

cashapp is $cecilgcomix and venmo is @ cecilgcomics if those are more your speed

Let’s make our UAW brother a fucking millionaire:

Trevor Dubois, an indigenous man who was in the hospital for chemo following a brain cancer diagnosis, was murdered by Saskatoon hospital security via. forceful restraint on Friday over a plastic lighter that police are publicly calling an “imitation firearm”. The cops are now trying to make it seem like Trevor had methamphetamines and drug paraphernalia in the hospital room with him after security murdered him to justify what took place.

so like is anyone else seeing what's happening on the dilbert website right now

I hope Rian Johnson gets to make as many Benoit Blanc movies as there are Agatha Christie adaptations and more. I hope Daniel Craig gets to play the dapper, enigmatic, theater gay detective Benoit Blanc until he physically can't act anymore. And I hope that role far overshadows playing James Bond for years as his artistic legacy.

Johnson is the first writer in a long time to understand that the the serial detective archetype is a trickster spirit who takes power from the violently corrupt, and gives it to a common person who has passed his tests to prove they're good of heart and would use those resources to improve the world.

A video showing the young Iranian Mali Imani singing in the street has garnered millions of views on social media and has become one of the symbols of protest against the Ayatollah regime. In Iran, women are forbidden to sing in public, and violating this ban can lead to arrest and punishment.

The emotional moment, filmed about two years ago, was reposted on her Instagram page and since the outbreak of the protests has gone viral, already accumulating nearly 30 million views.

Mali described the moment and said, "This is one of the best moments of my life." She described how the whistle heard at the end of the video, which stops her singing, almost caused her to have a heart attack - hint of the approach of the morality police or security forces.

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Tu esposa dice que relucías,
y dios sabe que
necesitamos la luz. 

Tu madre dice que cuidabas
de otres toda tu vida,
que podías perdonar y perdonar.

¡Ay, mamá! ¡Ay, mujer!
Jinete del coche en las calles,
poeta bella. Hay jaulas
para todes nosotres ahora.

Tu eres una perla de collar 
demasiado largo. 
Lamento los nombres
como rosario de sangre.
Pienso que los lamentarías también.
Pienso que perdonarías 
aun a tus asesinos,
si pudieras.

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When Ciji Graham visited a cardiologist on Nov. 14, 2023, her heart was pounding at 192 beats per minute, a rate healthy people her age usually reach during the peak of a sprint. She was having another episode of atrial fibrillation, a rapid, irregular heartbeat. The 34-year-old Greensboro, North Carolina, police officer was at risk of a stroke or heart failure. 

In the past, doctors had always been able to shock Graham’s heart back into rhythm with a procedure called a cardioversion. But this time, the treatment was just out of reach. After a pregnancy test came back positive, the cardiologist didn’t offer to shock her. Graham texted her friend from the appointment: “Said she can’t cardiovert being pregnant.”

The doctor told Graham to consult three other specialists and her primary care provider before returning in a week, according to medical records. Then she sent Graham home as her heart kept hammering.   

Like hundreds of thousands of women each year who enter pregnancy with chronic conditions, Graham was left to navigate care in a country where medical options have significantly narrowed.