So Trump’s wearing the same clothes as yesterday?
“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” - Philip K. Dick “Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.” - Bertrand Russell
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www.usda.gov/about-usda/n... They voted for this. And hate.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
Ex-MAGA who finally realize they've aided in irreparably harming every American institution, made us less safe, less prosperous, less healthy, & less welcome everywhere in world shouldn't be shamed, but we're living what happens when there aren't consequences for behavior- inadvertent or not.
The farmers, who employed illegal labor to save money, who voted for Trump knowing & not caring that their workers would be traumatized & deported because farmer subsidies mean whether their crops get picked or not they make the same money: are they still getting the checks they thought they would?
If Kennedy is indeed an "expert", according to Kennedy himself we need to stop listening to him.
Vibes are all you need. And a brain worm. Heroin.
It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.
The beatings will continue until morale improves!
Completely, vehemently agree but would stop at just "here".
All the information in the world at our fingertips now and here is where we are. It is unbelievable.
3. This is precisely how Long Covid hides in plain sight. Societally camouflaged by the imperative not to test. This is precisely why so many people have Long Covid but so few realise they do. /end
A "a controversial turn"?? Are you fucking kidding me Women's Health?? Please do downplay into non-existence the blatant stupidity and racism of yet another mediocre TV personality with no political experience- great idea!
Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.
Give *UP shareholder profits
I’m willing to give up CEOs making five million dollars a year. I’ll gladly give shareholder profits. Thats a good start and should lower costs for care.
A LOT of healthcare company fees and costs are to pay healthcare company shareholders and ridiculous CEO salaries - that has to change. Profit over people has to change. The entire industry has become a funhouse mirror.
Seems like something AI could do. (joking but only sort of)
MAGA's not embarrassed as they are totally amoral (plus they lack humanity so they can't feel shame): they're erasing history because they love cruelty, revel in the ability to do things they know they shouldn't, and the only time they don’t feel dead inside is when causing the suffering of others.
No flyover states. No communities not worth the time. No voices we can afford to ignore. The new Democratic Party organizes everywhere, because we can win anywhere. ALL of our families are worth fighting for.
Brought to you by the "Fuck Joe Biden" crowd.
"At no other time in modern history has a country so throughly turned its back on its core national strengths."— @vermontgmg.bsky.social Gift link www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/o...
Republicans are DEFUNDING mass transit in the fifth largest state in the country. Thanks for nothing PA Republicans 😒
There are tons of Rebeccas out there who are supportive of shitty people with shitty policies that will do real damage- as long as said damage does not affect them. Then all of a sudden- change of heart. Empathy, sadly, is dead for far too many.
There would be an immediate cease fire if Russia immediately ceases firing.
Does he have anything to say about the recent ICE atrocities?
Gonzalez: I don't care what your job is. I don't care what part of the state you live in. I don't care where you came from. You have more in common with an undocumented farm worker than you did with the fucking billionaires who are causing this problem in the first place
I am quite partial to the WellBefore KN95 3D Pro. The padded nose bit and adjustable ear loops really help with comfort and the fit/seal is excellent (for me- ymmv). wellbefore.com/products/3d-...
Do you know who still masks? Celebrities like Selena Gomez.
A Democratic Party with any spirit would stage a press conference every single day to present Donald Trump with one sarcastic award after another. The Dennis Hastert Award for Enabling Pedophilia The Richard Nixon Memorial Trophy for Lawlessness The Blue Ribbon for Setting a Record Federal Deficit
"CDC...employees turn their anger to RFK Jr and Trump"?? That's your headline? What about "After years of RFK Jr and MAGA stoking baseless anti-vax fears using debunked science, the inevitable occurred" Fuck off, Washington Post. Like the CDC are just flailing around looking for anyone to blame.
There’s a word this administration keeps throwing around that should worry you: “Liberation.” Kristi Noem said in Los Angeles, “We are staying here to liberate the city from the socialists and the burdensome leadership that this governor and that this mayor have placed on this country.”
They were looking for it under "V" and couldn't find it, perhaps?
Earlier this month Open AI reduced the size of the files you can upload to be analyzed. Just...stopped allowing larger sizes. Absolutely zero notice.
We really need mow awareness of, and countermeasures to, this.
Is Kyle an ICE agent yet?
Fascinating how republicans contemptuously, gleefully, and brazenly flout the law but expect democrats to meekly follow it (granted, historically they have).
Republicans complain about Texas Democrats “fleeing”—yet just days ago, they themselves fled D.C. to avoid voting on the Epstein files. Why? To protect a convicted felon sitting in the Oval Office. One side dodges accountability. The other fights for democracy. Repost @djmelodie
If the Texas dems get charged with felonies they should run for president.
The best way to know if the tariffs are costing you any money is just ask yourself if you spend any money at all on anything.
10000%
🚨 Rep. Swalwell, “Are you familiar with disinformation?” This is EXACTLY what I need to see from people in office.
Well, you had a good run. Hope the kids don’t take it too hard. P.S. Compliments should always be siloed.
It’s not enough to simply vote against Trump’s bad ideas—with the belief that Trumpism will discredit itself. You have to engage in full-frontal war with the GOP. Force them to defend themselves. Find a way to blame them for everything that goes wrong. https://trib.al/rQ02Ydl
You win an extra "e" to make it needless suffering! Congratulations!
"God, give me the confidence of a mediocre white dude" - Sarah Hagi
I remember hearing, "if you want to know how well you understand a concept, try teaching it." somewhere.
Came to say just that
1- it CAN be, but not unsupervised. if all the claims are checked by an actual person every day and within a few days the results of a complete check are available to the public along with the transcript I think that could have some value
Possible fake news problem solve: real time unbiased fact checks running in a banner along the bottom of any news channel that has been found guilty in a court of law of lying or who paid over X amount to settle out of court. Perhaps AI-driven with human double-checking random bits through the day.
Knowing you have a safety net enables all sorts of decisions that wouldn't be possible otherwise: life is completely different with & without that assurance. I was fortunate enough to have that & I didn't realize how much it helped in literally everything until I was in my 30s. (P.S. Thanks, Mom!)
So what happened when 10 year old "good genes" Bill got sick and couldn't work? Was he still housed and fed? Did he get adequate medical care? Did he go into snowballing debt that he is still paying off?
And they will be the first (and loudest) people screaming about the consequences of their actions that aren't their fault.
If you're white, male, & the cosmic lottery had you birthed to white wealthy parents, you get a chance at the American dream of coming from nothing and being a self-made success. Otherwise you're a parasitic undeserving recipient of DEI displacing a rightful white male & should be vilified at best.
Actor Mandy Patinkin’s plea for Jews to consider how what Netanyahu’s Israeli government is doing to Gaza is not just harming Palestinians and killing kids — but also endangering Jews across the globe.
For every criminal in gov that you allow to ride into the sunset when their terms are over without prosecution, you enable the next more brash criminal. This is how you have Trump. You should have prosecuted Bush. That was the start of this. Every admin after has taken his lawlessness further.
ChatGPT is like a toddler who will lie to your face and when caught, infer it's your fault.
That's interesting. Just today Trump jumped in to stop someone from asking his AG about the Epstein files the day after he sent the military through a park in Los Angeles as a show of force a few days after he helped cut the ribbon on a concentration camp in the swamps of Florida and gutted Medicaid
According to ChatGPT (after I asked why things are not processing), "the interactive sandbox I use to run code now aborts after a stricter CPU–time limit than it did two days ago." Thanks for the zero notice and that I get to pay the same money for less, OpenAI. JFC.
If only the NYT worked as hard to publish fact-based news as it does to manufacture reasons for their lies and bias against Mamdani and what they deem "woke" things in general.
Dear IntelliJ @intellijidea.com, It would be great if my html and my ts file were situated next to each other if I open one when the other was already open. Thanks!
The idea that generic “A1” is unbiased is dangerous. As is the assumption that it does not make mistakes.
How do we rewrite the narrative so that really rich people brag about their tax rate? "You think *you're* rich? I hit the 85% bracket this year." Or Wealthy man walks by. Socialite whispers to her friend, "He's in the 90% tax bracket. School kids got free tablets" Friend: "Ooh, that's so sexy."
Who checks the AI for bias- a human or another AI? Turtles? Ouroboros?
This is an excellent point.
it's too many for advent calendar: Christian Child Sex Criminal of the Day, perhaps?
"SAGA" :)
A large part of the problem is only one side wants society as a whole to thrive- the end game for the other side is quite different: the other side will gladly, even gleefully, bleed to death as long as their hated others bleed more, first, or they still somehow believe everyone will bleed but them
What *IS* a choice: - refusing to pay a living wage - getting around providing healthcare by employing people "part time" - declaring bankruptcy to get out of paying legitimate contracts - the idea that you are owed the maximum profits you can squeeze out of the blood of the people you undervalue
The losses from Trump's awful bill will affect the poorest families exponentially more than the gain for the richest- one will barely notice the change but it will be catastrophic for the other.
Seems like Christians can believe all sorts of different things and not agree with each other and that's just fine but Jews? Rift! Divide! Rupture! Like we're all supposed to be in lock step or doom.
MY suffering is obviously worse than your suffering so you have zero suffering! You're welcome!
I don't think Trump considers blue state residents to be Americans.
It is disheartening to realize how many people will inconvenience themselves if it means actual harm to others.
Here's your periodic reminder that political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.
Wasn't this a Brady Bunch plot?
Horrifying.
Lots going on in the world right now but please don’t forget they’re going to try and jam one of the largest transfers of wealth from working families to the richest corporations through the Senate this week.
The language most of this administration uses is just mind-bogglingly 8th grade mean girl.
I have a (unfortunately very) clear memory of being in nursery school in NYC: we were taking a class walk and a sewer pipe had broken nearby and the sidewalk was flooded with roaches. Still not over it.
It's not simply the ruling class. It is the utter cowardice of the people elected to be a check on this current illegal bullsh*t in the executive branch, regardless of party. It's that simple. They go along with it, or falsely oppose it, while only caring of their re-election chances. Trash em all.
The fact that our military was perfectly happy to use weapons abroad in violation of the War Powers Act doesn't bode well for us when they are asked to use weapons at home in violation of the Posse Comitatus Act.
Since there are no people left that would say, "Does this have congressional approval? No? Then we aren't bombing (or invading or deploying) anybody." We're well and truly fucked.
A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.
I do think Fetterman should resign but I think his about-face is stroke-induced. www.stroke.org/en/help-and-...
Just thinking about how some people can be taken to an ER in an ambulance in "an abundance of caution" and don't need t worry about what it will cost. That's not enough people.
Just a reminder that Republicans in Congress could put a stop to this at any time.
Dodgers Stadium, 6/19: More heavily-armed, masked terrorists driving around Los Angeles in private vehicles without license plates. What is @mayor.lacity.gov doing about this?
Just some creepy armed Mad Max guys trying to gain entry to Dodgers Stadium. ICE says it wasn’t them. DHS says they were Border Patrol. But honestly who the hell knows? They’ve given permission for any psycho to put on a ski mask, point a gun, grab people & throw them into an unmarked vehicle.
Once again in Trumps America let’s play “feature or bug!?”
Senator Schiff, you are an admirable orator but we do you to DO not just say. A pithy turn of phrase is not going to cut it (ditto the sternly worded letter)- words don't matter (did you not say something like that once?) America is drowning: we need a lifeboat, not a glass of water.
Did Elon get the guy who played his video game for him to take the drug test, too?
This was...unexpected in a few ways lol. www.reddit.com/r/PublicFrea...
I hope Kristi Noem gets the same level of care as she's been bestowing.
Another round of "Feature or bug?"!
Scooby and Shaggy.
i remember when journalism and marketing were different fields
This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input. See what public lands would be available for sale: www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
Trump rolls into the G7 summit complaining about how mean they are to Putin, trashes America on foreign soil, confused the EU with the UK, dropped papers on the ground, trashed Tucker Carlson, accomplished nothing, then bailed early to escalate a war. MAGA!