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The US is racing to become a global backwater.
Never should have stopped calling them fascists in 2024.
“The national democrats are too far left” -Facebook poster who apparently doesn’t understand what words mean
Thank you on this labor day!!
Why do you have to have a fucking public pray before your football game? Just play the damn game! These fucking snowflakes, I swear to god, cannot go one damn minute without having their identities reinforced
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
"the threat of homelessness is most acute not in the poorest regions of the country, but in the richest, fastest-growing ones. In places like these, a low-wage job is homelessness waiting to happen." There's no housing in Marin for those who earn less than $65K, which is more than most workers earn.
All that’s to say, that you’re 100% right
There’s a direct line between Madam Blavatsky, Theosophy, and Nazism. This isn’t new. Woo, anti-intellectualism, and fascism go hand in hand with
The neo-Nazis and Birchers of the late 1950s and 1960s went all in on crazy anti-fluoridation conspiracies in the same vein... all generally matched with rehashed eugenic opposition to social services and public aid. The ideology of "Granola Nazis" has been going strong for over a century here.
When your foundational race science worldview is extremely well thought out
We’ve basically invented a magical device that takes power out of the sky and there are people who are like, “nah I’d rather burn shit” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
Also notice how the MSM couldn’t flood Dearborn with reporters fast enough, when Muslims would talk about how they don’t support Harris because of Gaza. Now: zero interest in talking to Muslims about their opinion of Trump and Gaza. I see a pattern here.
Too stupid to understand the basic economic principles, they blame trans people.
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Nothing is certain except death, taxes, and highway engineers surprised by induced demand
Ouch…
Baffled by those who oppose traffic cameras because they “sacrifice the safety of our immigrant neighbors.” The alternative is for police officers to pull people over. Do you really think that’s safer for immigrants?
I suspect this explains much of the “but think of the immigrants” hand-wringing re: traffic cameras. It reminds me of Donald Shoup accusing affluent car owners of using human shields when they claim poor people can’t afford to pay for parking.
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
Every one of these maps is absolutely terrifying. That agriculture yields map in particular because any major shifts like that are going to be really tricky to manage
I want “we’re going to actually complete reconstruction” to be a platform plank for democrats
All I’m saying is when this shit is over, these ICE agents better not get away with the Nuremberg defense. They need to know that they will answer for torturing innocent people
What people think they 80s were like versus what the 80s was actually like.
there are a LOT of caveats that go with this graph, because most Americans slot into that "richest 10%," so it's very much a part of our society, including our individual choices, that go into that but one should also be cognizant that we subsidize a BUNCH of ghg heavy industries for consumers
Hey ICE guys, when your best defense for taking mothers and fathers from their children is the Nuremberg Defense, maybe fucking quit your job.
Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.
Oh it's just heritage for you? Weird that you're proud of a heritage where enslaved people were systematically raped by their masters.
We should really just start treating the people who wave confederate flags as if they support sex slavery, because that's what the confederacy stood for.
More teachers should run for state rep. We’d be a lot better off than we are with the failsons who currently run states
This would be a disaster for the American economy.
West central Indiana, baby! It’s false fall here!!!
Really important moment for me in high school when I met my state rep, Jeff Armbruster, and I realize he was just a bumbling idiot who failed upwards.
We should require that state reps visit the senior government class of every high school in their district. Then 18 year olds will know just how fucking dumb their reps are and that even they, an 18 year old who hasn’t even graduated high school, could do better.
The lion does not concern himself with actually being tough and strong. The lion concerns himself with being performatively tough and strong.
Data science is really easy. just use chatgpt.
If you're good at vibe coding you should definitely applied. You're definitely qualified.
me to linkedin: find me data science freelance jobs please linkedin: i have found no data science jobs. but can i interest you in some fascism?
Yeah that’s silly. I’m definitely paying $90 to get ~4 hours back and playtime for kids if I can afford it, and it sounds like they probably can…
I mean yeah people have weird schedules but our built environment really sucks for getting around and managing these things
it's a 4 mile ride for us across town to daycare, so I'm closer to 50Âş on that cutoff. We'll probably walk our oldest to walk to school in pretty much everything - it's less than a half mile away
I'm weighing the ethics of making my kids ride the bike when its in the 40s vs. just taking the EV. These guys are just burning diesel so they don't feel the slightest bit of discomfort for ~3 minutes
I guess, to be fair, the air quality is shit so you have to keep your windows up. Of course the air quality is shit because of the idling cars
Car culture makes people so god damn selfish. Literally burning gas so you don’t have to feel the slightest bit of cold.
On a run this morning, there were multiple people warming up their cars. It’s 55 degrees out. And car-brained people act like I’m weak because I ride a bike, which I use my legs to power.
I woke up pissed off this morning and this was really cathartic
Wrote a first draft of my talking points. I may edit it down
So I guess I’m just awake at 3:30 now
Woke up thinking about how I’m going to get shouted at by a bunch of “environmental activists” and who are opposing solar energy production and would prefer that the farmland for this project continue to be used for genetically modified #2 dent corn that is completely used for ethanol production
Yeah but I saw a guy on facebook who said his hand shook uncontrollably after the vaccine and even though there is no widespread evidence of that happening who’s to say?
This is the political equivalent to spitting in George Washington's eye. What a bunch of traitorous un-American monarchists the modern GOP has become.
The whole occupation is a political stunt and political stunts are supposed to tell stories. And the story this tells is, oops, actually these streets are so boring and free of crime that all we can think of to do with these guys is make them pick up trash
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse. ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
Trump claimed there were "millions and millions of people over 100 years old" receiving social security. He has still not prosecuted a single person for this alleged crime. Who's really soft of crime? www.factcheck.org/2025/02/trum...
Dictator style www.yahoo.com/news/deeply-...
Pass the fucking torch. Retire.
Like, we can pay people to do this kind of stuff to get work experience. We can house them, offer tuition assistance, and require some basic service work. Good for communities; good for individuals.
Not a bad service project though, if we were interested in scaling up a national service corps or a national jobs program
Incredibly good news out of the special election for a vacant state senate seat in Iowa last night: A 31 point swing to win a district that Trump won by 20 points, breaking the supermajority in Iowa. www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/p...
I feel like they already failed that test
Midwest Dems get a one vote margin & do free universal school lunches, abortion rights, and on & on MA Dems have an untouchable supermajority & use it to give corporations tax breaks to pollute & drive up our electricity bills for virtually no public benefit
And this is what we call a perverse incentive. www.indystar.com/story/news/i...
With the upcoming gerrymandering war, it's pretty clear that blue states who refused to build housing because it was turning red states purple just shot themselves in the foot big time. darrellowens.substack.com/p/california...
this is fixable and the way you fix it is with public trials
Blue states need to get serious about reducing the cost of living so that people can move there (or stay there)
This genuinely frustrates me so much. So many people are interested in history & even consider themselves history buffs, but the history that’s widely available is just watered down patriotism. I think people would really get into grappling with the past but it takes work to access good history
It’s just leave it to beaver bullshit because people have a long-term memory of 18 months and zero interest in actual history.
The “80s” somehow evolved into the “50s”: People think it was all leave it to beaver. They don’t remember the recession, tune in and tune out, the oil crisis, Iran-contra, the dumb wars, AIDS, the war of drugs, etc.
Remember when there was the satanic panic and stranger danger, all in the 80s?
A middle school I interact with is in a state with a school cellphone ban and y’all everybody in there is relieved. EVERYBODY. The kids, the teachers, the janitors. They are so relieved. Nobody is really uptight about it…except some parents.
The US eats only 10% of its cereal crop, the rest going to animals or biofuel. But 8m acres of corn ethanol makes the same energy as 50,000 acres of solar, of which a single acre could drive an EV for 1.4m miles. Thoughts on land use, from...
"...a “one-acre solar farm produces as much energy as 100 acres of corn-based ethanol.” bsky.app/profile/bill...
@douglewin.bsky.social: "One acre of corn for ethanol = 25,000 miles in a Ford F-150. One acre of solar = 700,000 miles in an F-150 Lightning. That’s the scale of possibility Bill McKibben laid out on the Energy Capital Podcast." #alwaysbecharging www.douglewin.com/p/here-comes...
I got some more details: it turns out that 100% of the corn grown on the plot of land currently goes to POET (the ethanol plant in Cloverdale). I’ll forward you a call to action on it
We’re barely months into this and we’ve just completely normalized the domestic deployment of the military in America’s largest cities for no reason at all. Something that would have been a national scandal, if not immediately ended, any presidency from Truman to Obama. All for One Special Boy 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️
Someone who’s good at the economy, explain to me why we should tax poor people but not rich people
Is it an unrealized capital gain when I take the money from my paycheck and use it to pay to stay alive, or do we only do special carve outs for people who are using it to make more money?
After 15 years of a Republican supermajority in the general assembly, Indiana ranks 42nd in infant mortality
Democrats should make more hay out of the fact that Republican states have the worst quality of life in the developed world. The state of Mississippi, Texas' Permain Basin, SC's "Corridor of Shame" - this is what Republican party rule gets you.
100% - one of my pet peeves (and I’m sure I’m guilty of it too) is anything that pits generations against one another. It is a right wing tactic to divide people. We need more generational solidarity, not blame.
*hear… Jesus
It’s wild that we just have these regressive taxes
Here me out: what if we removed the tax cap and instituted a social security tax on investment earnings, like Bernie Sanders tried doing in 2017 www.indystar.com/story/opinio...
Trump (and Braun) take care for kids with disabilities www.indystar.com/story/news/h...
Come to think of it, I saved a butterfly once, and it flapped its wings, preventing 100 pre-wars. So I’m 10x better than Trump + 3
"the Republican-controlled Pennsylvania State Senate seems to be motivated by pure cultural animus toward urban life."
More fast = more poor
These fucking crybabies think a news report about a mugging is a national emergency
Bumping this and sharing some more. SB1 is going to devastate our communities. Small towns, suburbs, cities, and especially schools. Heck out sb1hurtshoosiers.com
But yeah NYC, LA, Houston, PHX, every city bigger than Wyoming etc should all have two senators
Or… bsky.app/profile/kevi...
Yes. No joke we should 3x every city in the country. It’d be a massive boom and add mutual prosperity
This completely goes against their argument that “people in the districts choose their reps”
I agree, Jim. There should be 4 D (44%) districts in Indiana, rather than ... 2 ... (22%)...
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Suburbs will get hurt too - Carmel schools will lose $11.5 million Rural areas too - Converse, IN (pop ~ 1000) is going to lose 1/3 of its town budget AND 1/3 of its library budget. Absolutely devastating
Gary is losing $19 million