At least China has nice things. In comparison, our tech is basically like Soviet garbage during the Cold War.
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At least China has nice things. In comparison, our tech is basically like Soviet garbage during the Cold War.
The best way to do land back is by ruining the plans of fascists at the same time đ
A man so "dangerous" for the status quo that the government murdered him.
âNothing is more important than stopping fascism, because fascism will stop us all.â - Fred Hampton
If Jesus showed up today, most Evangelical "Christians" would call him a terrorist and cheer as ICE tackled him to the ground.
People who might be comfortable with their neighbors quietly disappearing aren't always comfortable when the grotesque human rights abuses involved are made public. They don't like to imagine themselves as the bad people you make them seem like when you point out what's happening. So keep doing it.
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
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.
They look like they've at least seriously considered fucking their first cousin. Fugly
Kehoe is a plague... Just making shit even harder here. I hope this blows up in his face when the people finally realize how shitty and selfish these GOP asshole politicians are.
Thousands of farm animals & livestock are going unattended. They arenât being milked. They arenât being fed. I feel a great deal more for those animals than for the farmers who voted for this shit. They KNEW who their workers were & where they came from. But they voted to hurt them anyway.
There should be a cognitive function test for anyone running for election over the age of 80. Mostly because I don't understand why they would be truly invested in the future, with which the rest of us will actually be forced to recon.
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The Free State of Florida is now trying to ban *sidewalk chalking*
Jones: We have a presidential administration that has more outrage about the changing of the cracker barrel logo than they do about changing the policies that allow our children to be gunned down in schoolâŠ
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If they were comfortable and unbothered they wouldnât be gerrymandering like lunatics.
Guys nothing happened. However, CEOs are still trying to convince you that quiet quitting is worse than wage theft, while planning on replacing you with a robot and charge you for the robotâs rent Unions know better. Happy Labor Day Weekend.
Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.
Imagine burnt up nuclear reactor Kennedy thinking he is among the "exceptional gene pool." Fuck this guy and the rotting horse he rode in on. đ€źđ€źđ€źđ€ź
This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.socialâs @mizzwelch.bsky.social
Honestly, with Trump itâs a Schrödingerâs President situation. Until someone checks Mar-a-Lago, heâs both golfing and dead at the same time.
Let them drink bleach.
Old Soviet joke for today: A man walks into a newsstand every day, looks around, and leaves. After a long time of this, the owner says âCan I help you find something?â âIâm looking for the obituaries.â âThe obituaries are in the back of the newspaper, comrade.â âNot the one Iâm looking for.â
We used to be a bellwether state. Now, these state legislators foam at the mouth thinking about the southern border when we're closer to Canada. It's madness. Yet, if they flipped Georgia... MO needs a Stacey Abrams-esque revolution!
If it weren't for that enormous river border or leaving Kansas City behind to rot, it's appealing to daydream about StL seceding from Misery. There are a lot more progressives here than people realize - they get stuck on terminology. Luckily, organizers in rural areas are gaining a following.
People who refuse a cognitive eval at 98 are just trying too hard to not retire. Get a hobby! Go outside! Why cling to a stressful job? Or if you're super passionate, just take the test and go back to work? Unless there's something to hide ...
This Labor Day, I urge you to join a Workers Over Billionaires protest. We must continue standing together to show Trump that we, the people, have the power â not his billionaire buddies and corporate cronies. bit.ly/4lMgKaR
Any party/movement that sneeringly dismisses very legitimate concerns of LGBTQ+ people shouldnât be taken seriously.
And YET... We are all just "overreacting"... đ©
The Boots Theory is an economic theory that people in poverty have to buy cheap and subpar products that need to be replaced repeatedly, proving more expensive in the long run than more than the expensive items the wealthy only need to buy once. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...
Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.
Or hell
All the Passion Tax posts today make it so clear to me that people across plenty of industries want to make things, solve problems, and provide care, and itâs just that not one guy from the ânobody wants to work these daysâ camp wants to pay for that work.
regardless of what happens to the tariffs, they're doomed from the start because the average conservative holds all three of these positions at once: â virtue signals about supporting US manufacturing â against increasing the minimum wage â buys foreign imports because they're cheap
âIndependent journalist Marisa Kabas was first to report on Borgesâ resignation and his emailâs disappearance in posts on Bluesky.â
ALL BECAUSE SOME RICH ASSHOLES BOUGHT IN ON AN IDEA THEY COULDN'T PULL OFF. And now the electrical grid is fucked. And the idiot pulling back on sustainable energy has caused the cost of electricity to skyrocket. Just as stupid as Elon's rockets blowing up, or his cars cremating people alive.
Important 𧔠about historical mythos
TEXAS: âWould I be required to carry my birth certificate to the restroom because I have short hair? Is there anything in it to protect people like me?â REP. ORR: âNo. It protects biological females.â @jessicafortexas.bsky.social : âThatâs what I am.â More: www.fox7austin.com/news/texas-h...
NEW â I wrote about the resignation of SSA's chief data officer just says after he blew the whistle on a major data vulnerability, including the full text of his blistering email and how his allegations confirm those made by a previous whistleblower and a former employee back in March:
Fuuuuuuuck
BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy has said again and again that the state government would work with Alaska Natives to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people. BUTâŠthe state is refusing to release lists of Indigenous murder victims. @kylehopkinsak.bsky.social
I just saw someone refer to rfk jr as microwaved mel gibson & i canât unsee it.
How it started How itâs going @SenJoniErnst edition
A federal judge has ordered Florida to shut down "Alligator Alcatraz," after the state spent a staggering $218M to build the now-vacant detention camp. Closing it will run taxpayers another $20M. An utterly cruel and costly waste.
Garcia: We finally got word from the Epstein estate. They're going to be providing the actual Epstein book⊠the estate is actually going to actually now get us that book and a bunch of other documents that they have that's actually not been reported yet.
Somehow, I've never wanted to watch a show more after seeing that sweet floof face!
Chicago keeping art alive:
Many of us see through their bullshit.
No conversation about crime is useful unless we talk about what causes most city crime: exploitation and poverty. Any intervention that isn't aimed at reducing the working class oppression that leads to poverty (wage slavery, for-profit housing, over-policing etc) will simply not work
A guy I went to grade school with is mad that a judge shut down the Florida concentration camp. He says, "we have a president to make these decisions. They should just ignore the judge..." I reminded him of something we learned in school: America doesn't have a king. People have lost common sense.
WHOOPSIE DOODLE
âWho pays the tariffs?! Who pays the tariffs?!â Bama folks not playing
I will never get over how a handful of tech bros set billions of dollars on fire to build a plagiarism machine that doesn't work and will destroy human society when they could have used a fraction of that money to fund a new golden age of creativity and knowledge.
This is some Taliban bullshit. And they lied to our faces when I was a kid and claimed we were "saving" the world from people who do this shit. Where's GWB to call for war against the Oligarchs and their WMDs?
Watching people freak out about the increasing likelihood of collapse of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulatiom, meanwhile, SMOC, or the Southern Ocean equivalent, has by all accounts already reversed and is driving melt in Antarctica, and a whole other cascade.
she said that âblackâ with a hard r
Is Loomer trying to say "not a real cop"? What the fuck is even her point
Fuck all of this. Tyre Nichols' family deserves justice and peace... Dragging this back into a court is just cruel.
The new ICE song by Jesse Welles nails it. ICE isnât recruiting heroes, itâs recruiting the bitter, the rejected, the ones desperate for a badge to cover their failures. Losers with power become the most dangerous kind. (c/o Caroline Codsi)
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
"You are not allowed to play victim because the emptiness of your convictions is a national cliche." Omfg that line resonated through my entire body
Normal campaign event.
This is giving Eye of Sauron and honestly? It does feel like there's some Big Brother nightmare eye somewhere. If only there were an equal but opposite force...
Angus: Iâm saying we need to start building progressive media that people actually listen to. Iâll give you an example: MeidasTouch. Wherever I go in Canada, working-class people listen to MeidasTouch because they talk about whatâs happening in a practical way. They give facts.
How come saying "Happy Holidays" is a war on Christmas, but literally occupying Bethlehem and bombing churches full of Christians is "Israel defending itself"? If this doesn't cause a stir among the ranks of Klan Karenhood, I don't know what we're even doing anymore.
In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes from: (Published Dec. 2024)
remember, yâall: we hang together, or we all hang separately. (as ben franklin famously said) you cannot fight your way out of authoritarianism by telling the authoritarians that youâre willing to offer up a group in exchange for freedom. it only gives the bullies the signal to divide & conquer
âA dangerous crank â what on Earth are you on about??!â @chrislhayes.bsky.social goes in on RFK Jr. for claiming he can diagnose kids just by looking at them.
YES! Please go off about this piece of shit nutcase
Though DNC Chair Ken Martin got attention for admonishing the party for only bringing a âpencil to a knife fight,â the message conveyed to those attending the DNC meeting this week was to avoid any internal debate about the direction of the Party. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/democrats-...
Umm... They have semiauto weapons of war and our pencil has a flat eraser and broken lead. I fucking cannot
Goddamnit
The amount of people in denial of how bad shit can get were raised on twisted "history" in US Classrooms where they barely discussed any harm caused by the US government. They didn't hear about all the countries being ravaged by US Imperialism, nor do they have the capacity to see it happen here.
From now on, I'll be using locked/loaded "pronouns." This fucking place. Where words hurt their feelings so they shoot children and families...
"Ashli Babbitt was a grown ass adult who made a series of conscious, ill-advised decisions to engage in treasonous behavior, and she got exactly what she deserved. She was a traitor. She was a threat to national security. There is no nuance needed here."
Starbucks CEO pay: $96 MILLION Starbucks worker pay: $15,000 Coca-Cola CEO pay: $28 MILLION Coca-Cola worker pay: $14,000 CEOs used to make like 20x the average worker. In 2024, the average CEO earned 632x more. The system is rigged.
NEW: Local Officials Have a Powerful Tool to Warn Residents of Emergencies. They Donât Always Use It. by @jenniferberryhawes.bsky.social
ah yes, vital that we have housing for cars and not people
THE TRIFECTA: Guns. God. Government. In that order. *At the risk of giving that asshole any relevance
According to Gun Violence Archive, out of 4,600 mass shootings in the United States since 2014: đ 0.13% involved transgender people đ 100% involved firearms
Trump is afraid his tupee will blow away ....
They're dragons, butâinstead of wealth like the oligarchsâthey hoard weapons. It gives them "good little idiot" status when they vote for the best interests of the .01% & do their dirty work for free.
all of this makes total sense when you recognize that âfreedomâ here means the freedom to dominate those you view as your subordinates and âtyrannyâ is when someone threatens that âfreedomâ or worse, when those subordinates try to claim power as political equals
When Republicans villainize a mass shooter, they are giving away their game: They are saying the shooter should never have had a gun, which Republicans made sure they could buy. Being trans doesn't shoot people, but owning an assault rifle does.
When you get stuck halfway through "Fake it til you make it"
I hope RFK jr can recommend an optometrist, because however the fuck he can see mitochondrial DNA without assistance?!?!? That's witchcraft.
Chakras are more real than the unassisted human eye detecting mitochondrial DNA. Is he trying to make a point about epigenetics?! Because guaranteed: access to healthcare, vaccines, clean air, potable water, & healthy food in a world where you aren't struggling to survive is how to fix that.
As kids return to school, another mass shooting has stolen young lives. Children shouldnât fear their classrooms. Teachers shouldnât risk their lives. Parents shouldnât wonder if their kids will come home. We are the only country with more guns than peopleâand this is the devastating result.
NEW: A federal grand jury has REFUSED to indict sandwich guy! I imagine the DoJ will keep trying. They have two weeks, at which point theyâll have to drop the charges or reduce it to a misdemeanor. đ„Ș www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...
Putting a 10 year old on tv to talk about his friend being shot at school is a different level of diabolical.
NEW: Yesterday, I posted that I was unable to get the COVID vaccine at my VA clinic, and many of you assured me that the new one would be available soon and that I was overreacting. I was not overreacting. I am no longer eligible for the vaccine. apnews.com/article/vacc...
My primary care doctor's office told me they "don't do COVID vaccines" .... So I'd have to try my luck at CVS. đ©
Oprah: Everyone gets a revolution! The English civil war took place ~100yrs before we pesky colonists started throwing tea in the harbor. Ours followed that, & the Confederacy went largely unpunished. It seems these things are cyclical...đ© Plus, late stage capitalism. Has France entered the chat?
He's such a malignant narcissist... I wonder if he even sees it. Dude has delusions of grandeur and advanced dementia. He'll probably die thinking we all love him and he's the "best."