It's all about coercion.
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It's all about coercion.
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Awful lot of Americans working 2 & 3 jobs to make ends meet don't have time to cook.
Ethnic cleansing was the goal since Zionism decided on Palestine. More recently, since 10/7 genocidal intent has been clearly & repeatedly stated. What is happening in Gaza & the West Bank is not a war.
Classic lynch-mob mentality.
Kinda skin-crawlingly correct on occasion, but not rampant. & maybe even less in the ER because everyone was just too busy.
Now I'm feeling weirdly lucky because I used to work occasionally in the emergency rooms of public hospitals in NYC & those doctors (many of them residents) were most often way more decent than this. Come to think of it, they treated me well as a patient. Another argument for universal health care.
Being able to avoid long-term complications is absolutely awesome. Too many of the viruses we can easily dodge with vaccines come back later and bite hard.
Wherever they may be found.
The intention was clear from October 2023 onward.
Mamdani for Mayor! Curtis Sliwa for head of the Department of Feral Cats in the Subway!
Also, when has Satan's Mascot ever used the word "ponder"?
Of course it's false.
Stiffing people has always been Trump's jam.
Because of course. The U.S. has never cared about human rights, and anyway never signed a treaty it wouldn't break. We're a rogue state.
They're always obsequious to Satan's mascot.
This! Even with congestion pricing, which helps, there are times and streets in NYC that scream: Why is anyone allowed to drive a car into Manhattan?
Great thread
Unless he gets sent to the very, very, very coldest part.
You don't think people who want to be good Americans would resolve to make America stop being bad & start to be good? There is that option.
I'm telling you, Talib. They're lonely! They need you!
This is true. The structure of the U.S. government was deliberately designed to be dysfunctional and anti-democratic, and that is why we need a whole new constitution. Made by us, not the Kochs & Co.
And it purely sucks.
Causing pain is what it's all about. They're sociopaths, & the closest they can get to happiness is a fleeting moment of malicious glee when they've succeeded in hurting, harming, or destroying.
Except perhaps for Eric Adams, who took money away from schools and gave it to the police.
In Spanish-speaking countries, I say I'm from "los Estados Jodidos - o sea, Estamos Jodidos." Always gets a laugh.
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We have a felon as president. Why should the ambassadors be any different?
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Now you're talking!
Thanks! Where?
Paywall.
Or try this, if you're so inclined: healing-white-racism.com
From your skeet to God's screen!
The smirk on Putin's face & the whipped-dog look on Trump's said it all.
😂 This is too good! 😂
Advisors to Democrats busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
And here I am thinking that you've been running a Lonely Hearts Club for very confused & lonely White guys on here.
"Real officers do not wear ski masks."
At least read Eviction, by Matthew Desmond. And then spend some time in housing court. Which, BTW, was set up in NYC to enforce the Warranty of Habitability & has long since been turned into a collection agency & an eviction mill.
To be fair, that loop has been there all along.
He's been hiding the back of that hand for months.
Satan's mascot has the chronology of the Nazi takeover in Germany backwards. He wants an economic disaster because he thinks the ensuing radicalization will confer power on him. May his ignorance finally lead to our bliss.
"Chipping away"? He's taking a fking sledgehammer to it.
Yes we do, only too well.
Locally owned pharmacies are the best. They'll have your refill ready before you even ask for it. Shout out to Hartley Pharmacy in my neighborhood!
Garland didn't do anything, which is hugely why we're here.
Why am I starting to surmise that mortgage fraud is DJT's jam?
Ojalá
Exponentially worse. See The Half Has Never Been Told, by Edward E. Baptist
Sometimes tedious, sometimes exhilarating, sometimes fun!
Even Reagan knew better than to say something so spectacularly stupid & ignorant ... perhaps.
Trying to follow the German Nazi playbook without knowing enough history to know he's got the chronology backwards. History is so horribly woke.
They're used to steamrollering tenants with minimal effort and you're making them work! ✊️
He wants us all to imagine that bringing back chattel slavery wouldn't be so bad. It'd be fine, in fact!
The GOP is proudly antisemitic. And clearly having a blast pretending that other people are, and should be punished for it.
Absolutely atrocious.
Rest in power ❤️
Powerful newsletter piece and a great thread.
Likewise. My dad was a librarian, and we were raised to know that books are sacred objects.
"Socially unacceptable" behavior like breathing while Black.
Poor dude still can't spell "Thucydides."
White racism has kept us from having nice things since Europeans first set foot here.
The passive voice is so convenient.
But she looks so sad.
Mamdani is supposed to demonstrate that he can put his (actually good) ideas into practice before he gets elected? That's what we're electing him for!
Cuomo is very deep in the real-estate industry's pocket. Expect no accuracy from him.
A lot of people don't. There's a lot of misunderstanding out there. Here's one useful organization: www.metcouncilonhousing.org
Who pays those economists' salaries?
That looks like a skill we could all use more of.
And the feeling is clearly mutual.
Great thread.
Totally on brand. Everything is someone else's fault.
Rent regulations aren't a benefit. They regulate a scarce necessity of life to prevent price-gouging by people who want to make a killing off treating a necessity as a commodity.
Proving in this case that it could be harder to indict a ham sandwich than prosecutors might like to think.
The nation has never been safe for anyone except for a handful of rich White people. That's what the Nazi clown car crew wants to go back to.
Pulling statistics out of their asses again.
Great thread!
How many official & revered statues of Hitler are there in Germany? Any number higher than 0?
The same people who wait for the light to change with the stroller pushed out in front of them into the traffic.
There never really has been a quiet part. The plan has been right out there for well over a hundred years.
The police are a very thuggish gang of violent criminals who just happen to be very useful to the .01 percent.
And steroids.
Lucy with the football ...
Fascists tend to turn out to be more corrupt than anyone, over and over throughout history. If only more of us paid attention to the history, the fascists couldn't keep coming to power promising to do away with corruption.
"No one disagrees with reducing racism" is either insanely cynical or weirdly naive. Big 🚩
Antisemites working hard to make universities less antisemitic, too. So much fun for them.
Yes, please! Hierarchies are abuse factories.
Sometimes training goes both ways. More so if it's a cat, but still.
"Mussolini made the trains run on time" - no he didn't. He just made it illegal to report that they were late.
Ruth Messinger has always had class.
Truth.
Getting rid of the Senate would solve it all. It's an antidemocratic sop to slaveholders and human traffickers that has never been good for us. Other countries get along just fine with unicameral legislatures that actually represent the people.
Is there anything the criminal gang in the White House is doing that doesn't use lies as a pretext?
It's an ultra-White gentleman in a suit and tie! What could be bad? Sir, it is an honor to invite you into our humble abode.
If we just do the math, $2,300 per month, the rent now, is $27,600 per year. A full-time minimum-wage job yields $34,320 before taxes. Like Adams's & Bloomberg's & Giuliani's Rent Guidelines Boards, Andrew Cuomo must think poor people can live on air, & the board he'd appoint would, too.
Broke a simple primary rule of reporting, and maybe of writing in general: do not use superlatives or absolutes. They will almost always prove you wrong.
Great thread.
Moby Dick is not a children's book. & if you reread it, it's different every time.
The parts that are a slog tend to be revealed at the end of the chapter as a gonzo metaphor.