Whatever Amuses Me

*checks wiki*

Immediately uses it for piercing

I am dissappoint 😔

Where are the SWEEPS

OK

final one

for all the marbles,

this one doesn't have an illustration bc i think it was just a kids novel but i haven't been able to find ANYTHING about it on my occasional internet queries:

kids is staying with his (grandmother?) in the woods and she warns him not to look a fox in the eyes bc they're tricksy and will swap places with you. obviously that's the first thing the little boy does and gets body snatched by a fox who uhhhh proceeds to pig out with his new little boy human hands and the boy has to trick the fox into looking him in the eyes again to switch back...

i cannot express how much these are from memory, that's how internalized these artists and writers have become, they're a part of me now

The second one is likely Stellaluna.

Reason #13668893+316i why we are in this mess.

Democrats passed the affordable care act, passed the infrastructure bill, got rid of junk fees, lowered prescription costs, gave civil rights, protections, forgave student loans, etc.

Everything the republicans are doing is undoing the work of democrats. Yall would rather sit there on your flat asses and make these weakass centrist takes than actually have the courage to face what is happening with clarity.

The Supreme Court has had a conservative majority since Nixon was in office. In the last 60 years, Republicans have filled 15 SCOTUS seats; Democrats have filled 5.

The only time in recent history that Democrats controlled TWO of the branches of government — both chambers of Congress and the presidency — they passed the ACA.

Millions of people are alive because of it. No one seems to want to remember or acknowledge that people used to be denied insurance because they needed medical care.

Like cutting the child poverty rate by 30%

How it worked was kind of complicated and convoluted, but briefly lifted a huge number of kids out of poverty. One of our congresspeople here had been fighting for a version of this for 20+ years and very briefly got it.

but to get it passed AT ALL, it had a sunset clause in there. And it went away.

But it happened.

Justice40 reprioritized a huge number of grants from existing programs to now go to historically underserved communities that had suffered from underfunding and redlining. (40% was supposed to go to those) But it's loads of small projects in EXISTING programs so you never saw that. But that guidance on priorities was in the first month of Biden's administation.

Last year, provision kicked in where employers could now treat your student loan payments as if you'd made a contribution to a 401K retirement plan... and match your payments. again, complicated math, a little hard to explain, but a functional pay boost to a LOT of people because they otherwise would have gotten zero dollars there. they can't touch those dollars til years from now, but that may keep them out of poverty later in life. And that's just an adminstrative shift.

"because of The Curse?"