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So, what's the penalty for violating this law??? Is anyone gonna be charged with any crime? Somehow these things must be stopped before they happen. It's like, Trump does something obviously illegal, then court process starts. Months pass, in the meantime, he does 100 more illegal things.
There is no need of this. Public already "owns" part of corporations by investing in infrastructure, education, safety, security, etc. Corporate tax is the dividend.
DESCRIPTION: self-described alpha male, wearing body armor, assault rifle, and wraparound sunglasses because he’s “afraid of nothing.”
Need to face verdict sooner. Evidently, history doesn't help much...
Sure, a lot of things. Yet, mostly BAU. Do you think, BAU is what is needed now?
Remember TPP?
Mallory McMorrow: "When we take back power, we need a party who is not afraid to use it."
Kind of amazing how many analysts and scholars wasted 100 000s of wordcount worth of credibility in taking the incoherent flailing of an incompetent administration that is rapidly paralysing the US seriously
It's now. Corruption is crime. Abuse of power is crime. Governing by "deals" is crime.
How about "no ugly signs on sidewalks"
thinking about the fast, efficient driverless cars we should’ve had decades ago
PD needs to start arresting masked tuggs and charge them with assaults and kidnappings. Turn the table, let them fight in courts.
"Trump’s biggest reveal is what he shows about those around him; he is a mirror, and not a flattering one, for other people’s souls." @sbg1.bsky.social reviews the "longest, cringiest Trump Cabinet meeting yet." www.newyorker.com/news/letter-...
Portugal’s President Rebelo de Sousa: “The top leader of the world’s foremost superpower is, objectively, a Soviet or Russian asset. He operates as an asset.”
Besides, big corporations are already virtually socialist, as profits are distributed among big number of people.
I don't know about nationalizing defense industry, but having them work for profit is not ideal either. Promotes wars and conflicts.
Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.
This is an argument for universal basic income, not corrupt protection racket dictator bullshit.
54 years ago today, the corporate takeover of American politics began with Lewis Powell's infamous memo. I watched it happen with my own eyes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbbgfnpJN9w
ChatGPT and other LLMs aren't about to produce superintelligence, but if this is it, it's still changed the world. Not necessarily for the better. I did a big picture look at AI, comparing it to search and social media, On business, politics, education, misinfo, ability to grasp reality, and more.
Ossoff: "There is at some point is going to be a reckoning for all of this. These folks who are working at these private prison companies who are on Kristi Noem's staff right now, they are at some point going to have to testify under oath about what is happening in the facilities they're running."
Where are the hard-working Americans who screamed, “They’re stealing our jobs”? You’re getting your wish. Immigrant workers aren’t showing up, and farm owners are hiring.
Time for new instructions
Just absolute garbage from the NYT. It takes a really special kind of person to ignore a mountain of evidence and look at one RCT exploring a specific causal finding, and then say that because we didn't see certain brainwave activity at age 4 that $333/mo for every kid would not help the poor.
Universal basic income and healthcare, free college, affordable childcare + housing, a strong democracy that ends gerrymandering and publicly finances elections. My American Dream is built on a foundation of universal human and economic rights, where no one experiences poverty and we all can thrive
I've been thinking about Starmer's response to Trump here since I saw the clip two days ago—the way he's just incapable of resisting him in any way.
Centrist/Moderate is great branding because it implies reasonableness but there's nothing reasonable about stubbornly clinging to pro-business and pro-upper class politics when the country is falling apart. This is an ideology like any other, and it's a bad one
The Great Depression was a crisis of mass poverty. The authoritarian moment we're in now is a decades-long crisis of mass insecurity and extreme inequality. The only way out of it is nothing less than a NEW New Deal that needs to include universal basic income, healthcare for all, and a wealth tax.
What is the center of government spending as part of GDP? Must be 50%, right?
I feel horrible for the excellent faculty, staff and students there, not just because their ostensible leadership has sold them out but because their actions will put the university into a death spiral. What families will pay a fortune to subject their children to a school like this?
If you hate fascism, you're Antifa.
In 2023, astronomers detected a cosmic blast so powerful it released more energy than ALL THE STARS IN THE UNIVERSE COMBINED. The cause: two black holes colliding and merging… which is a problem, because they were way bigger than we thought possible. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/the-bigges... 🧪🔭
Unlike the Trump admin, The Atlantic hired someone with experience: me! 😂 Unfortunately, my experience was how democracy dies when attacked by a nationalist autocrat with a compliant legislature, oligarch backers, and an apathetic citizenry. Let’s not let it happen here!
Indeed. The lesson from Russia is not to mistake what an autocrat can’t currently get away with for what he "would never do". Trump has done many corrupt, illegal, and un-American things we know about, but they pale compared to what he would do if unchecked. His own words tell us that.
Universal basic income, universal healthcare, and proportional ranked choice voting in multi-winner districts in every state to end all gerrymandering forever.
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
Smart countries don't elect idiots. Twice.
You know what works better than thoughts and prayers? A functioning government.
Bulgaria’s geopolitical recategorization from USSR’s closest satellite to a member of core Europe is de facto complete. A historical achievement!
Universal basic income and healthcare need to be the two core parts of that platform. We have to focus on meeting basic needs if we are going to successfully combat authoritarianism and strengthen our democracy. Working a job should be about discretionary income, not survival income.
Listening and reporting what this administration says is useless and waste of time. It doesn't seem like holding them accountable, just the opposite. Journalists should find other sources. Just report on what they do, no need of their lies and superficial explanations and justifications.
What I'd call micro-retirement, is something like 6 month off every 5 years. Preferably without losing your job.
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America is beautiful, contradictory, unfinished. I am proud of our country even as we constantly strive to make it better, to protect and deepen our democracy, to fulfill its promise for each and every person who calls it home. Happy Independence Day. No Kings in America.
Inflation
I'm pretty sure that the biggest driver of growth is population increase through immigration.
What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly
"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.
Messaging is CNN's job.
When Republicans hold power, they hurt people, tank the economy, and distort our democracy to preserve their power because hurting people and tanking the economy is unpopular.
I'm always surprised when people are surprised by anything happening. The end state of pure capitalism is a single entity controlling all the wealth. That's why we have mixed-economy where part of the government's job is to maintain balance through anti-trust, taxes, and wealth redistribution. 1/4
AOC asked Trump voters on IG to share why he lost their support Here are the results
“The soft power suicide of the U.S. will be incomprehensible to future historians who will be dumbfounded in their attempts to explain why the global leader voluntarily wrecked one of its greatest national assets...” www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/b...
It’s interesting that Trump said Putin called him to mediate the war in Iran since if you were Putin this is exact outcome you would want: Iran keeps nuclear program. No deal on denuclearization. Iran oil sales to China approved by USA. Iran keeps supplying drones to Russia.
Get the more pressing things public first, like health care, prisons, detention centers. Grocery stores are fine.
Nothing can be strong and effective with incompetent corrupt leaders, especially the military. The Russians showcased this, when tried to take Kiyv.
Perfectly expressed.
A look at embedded and immersion chip-cooling tech; industry sources indicate Nvidia is mulling 6,000W to 9,000W TDP for its next-gen GPUs, up from ~1,200W now (Anton Shilov/Tom's Hardware) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
War criminal Netanyahu has been trying to drag the US into a war with Iran since the early 1990s, regularly claiming Iran is only a few weeks from nuclear weapons.
A little bit less, I'd assume, since he was fired.
Isn't kidnapping state crime?
As much as I covered Biden, we never had such blatant disregard of basic truth presented on the global stage with NO follow up from the US media The int media is LAUGHING. Really, laughing.. all of them. Gov officials too
""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...
On June 1, 1996, the last nuclear missiles were brought from Ukraine into Russia. The next day, Ukraine has lost its status of a nuclear state after signing the Budapest Memorandum. The US, the UK and Russia gave their assurances that Ukrainian security and sovereignty would not be violated.
Wow, what a revelation, things change. Like, everybody used to like America, and, if it continues like this, everybody will soon hate it...
America’s keyboard warrior
The World Bank nearly halved its forecast for US GDP growth in 2025, while Europe saw a smaller slowdown and China may see no effect at all. My @morningjoe-msnbc.bsky.social Chart
California Governor Gavin Newsom’s Press Office has posted a video of Emperor Palpatine's voice reciting Donald Trump’s Truth Social post about Los Angeles. I would call this epic trolling if it weren't painfully relevant.
Maddow: I also feel like there’s not very much about that that I don’t understand. Like, it’s the same everywhere. This is blond Berlusconi, you know what I mean? This is inarticulate Viktor Orbán, right? These guys are all the same. The authoritarian playbook is the same everywhere
Maddow is right.
Not bend the laws of nature, but maybe slow down, when you see children on the curb? If there was visibility to see them, driver definitely carries some responsibility.
must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away
HAWLEY: Let's see the Trump chart. You don't think it's a little bit anomalous that Trump has so many more nationwide injunctions against him? KATE SHAW: A very plausible explanation you have to consider is that he's engaged in much more lawless activity than other presidents
Raskin: This is a gangster state. This is not basically a legitimate government that is sometimes doing corrupt things. This is an essentially corrupt enterprise. It's like watching The Sopranos. Every day, they get up and they try to figure out how to plunder and pillage the people
They're not "fair" concerns. Sovereign EEurope had a fair concern that Ru would invade them again and sought protection in a defensive alliance. Kellogg's statement sells out EEurope and implies Ru has a right to control its neighbours. It's deplorable. kyivindependent.com/nato-expansi...
They already do...
I think my biggest problem with “we have Biden to thank for Trump 2.0” is it puts the bad decision onus on one man and absolves millions of bad decisions from voters who had ample evidence to know better. And absolves a press that obviously didn’t convey the stakes very effectively.
Simple story: when a politicians says "I support crypto," they are saying "I am a corrupt sleazebag who takes bribes." (You can get that from Google translate.) econjared.substack.com/p/crytpo-the...
🚨BREAKING: Federal Court STRIKES DOWN Trump executive order targeting law firm Jenner & Block. Another victory for law firms standing up to Trump.
Should have random selection of our representatives. Then it will match demographics very closely.
It is not a saving program, if it's paid for with tax. :) And UBI has to be paid for with tax, too. Math has to work, otherwise, can't do it.
Exactly. UBI is pretty much SS for all.
How about SS, is it based on need? Yet, it is very effective and popular.
It's not based on need, it's based on equality. It is not that straightforward for government to determine who needs what. Instead, people with more means should give more (taxed more). And, like you yourself said, targeted social programs, like housing, don't always work anyway.
Random representative selection. Then these would match.
There are already a lot of social programs. If UBI replaces them, there won't be much more cash, just simpler and fairer, less opportunity for corruption and abuse.
That's the point of UBI, replace targeted programs like that. Housing is undersupplied, but a lot of things have oversupply, price will not go up, people will spend their UBI on such things, instead of housing, alleviating inflationary pressure.
You're using math, which has a well known liberal bias.
Well, like it or not, this is our representation.
Many claim that businesses organized as democracies are inefficient and will fail at a higher rate than the conventional undemocratic model. But according to the data, democratic businesses are significantly more resilient and survive longer than conventional businesses. #EconomicDemocracy
If a foreign adversary snuck into our Federal budget and cut science research and education the way we’re cutting it ourselves — strategically undermining America’s long-term health, wealth, and security — we would likely consider it an act of war.
Trump and Musk have managed to increase government spending while also firing necessary employees, making government less efficient, and cutting medical research grants to initiate a brain drain out of the U.S. A stunning achievement in incompetence.
