MarkG 🎄🎉🎅🏽
@markggarcia.bsky.social
This one's ours, let's take another. Chicago. Mostly nonsense about stuff.
Always an idiot. Same handle on MSTDN
Always an idiot. Same handle on MSTDN
Shoveled the bus stop at the end of my block (it was irritating me).
November 30, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Shoveled the bus stop at the end of my block (it was irritating me).
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Independent, pro-worker, class warrior candidates can absolutely beat Republicans in red states if they are not tainted by the Democratic Party brand. The labor movement can make this happen systematically.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
How to Win Red States With a Labor Party
We can take political power without asking Democrats for it.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Independent, pro-worker, class warrior candidates can absolutely beat Republicans in red states if they are not tainted by the Democratic Party brand. The labor movement can make this happen systematically.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/how-to-win...
Sounds perfect.
I guess my only problem with the "strong floor, no ceiling" thing as a political slogan is it makes no sense, conveys no message, does not translate to anyone, and does not mean anything.
November 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Sounds perfect.
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I'm about 500 times more concerned with my own elderly parents being victimized by an identity theft or pig butchering scam than I am about them being mugged or burglarized and I think that's similar for most voters bsky.app/profile/todm...
I think the scams at issue are phone and email scams, phishing, identity theft etc. Most people I know are actually quite familiar with those, worry about them and wish government would do more to stop them. A promise to do something about that sort of scam might resonate with voters.
November 30, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I'm about 500 times more concerned with my own elderly parents being victimized by an identity theft or pig butchering scam than I am about them being mugged or burglarized and I think that's similar for most voters bsky.app/profile/todm...
I would be interested to see a sociological profile of someone who only shovels enough to get to their car, and nothing more, including their front steps if they don't use them. Added points if that person is also a big proponent of dibs.
November 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
I would be interested to see a sociological profile of someone who only shovels enough to get to their car, and nothing more, including their front steps if they don't use them. Added points if that person is also a big proponent of dibs.
Wait until they shoot down a passenger plane.
November 30, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Wait until they shoot down a passenger plane.
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The best slogans are the ones that require an explanation that trails off into an ellipsis
November 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
The best slogans are the ones that require an explanation that trails off into an ellipsis
What the hell?
November 30, 2025 at 6:44 PM
What the hell?
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just a reminder that *lots* of countries have universities, and (to my knowledge) none of them but the U.S. treat their universities as largely minor league sports franchises
LSU is paying its previous football coach over $50 million NOT to coach there while likely guaranteeing Kiffin something approaching double that, all while having an academic hiring freeze and budget cuts across the board. What is the purpose of a university (rhetorical)?
SOURCES: Lane Kiffin is expected to accept LSU's offer to become the Tigers next head coach. Kiffin is set to meet with his Ole Miss team this morning at 9 AM CT. As we reported yesterday morning, LSU has been very confident it was going to land Kiffin. www.nytimes.com/athletic/684...
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
just a reminder that *lots* of countries have universities, and (to my knowledge) none of them but the U.S. treat their universities as largely minor league sports franchises
I don't know how I should feel about this. In the end it's just shuffling around cruel and awful people. I suppose there will be some sort of breaking point some time, but who knows. People suffer, at the hands of ice or in prison. Both are shit.
“We’re broken and we’re being poached by ICE,” one official with the prison workers union told ProPublica. “It’s unbelievable. People are leaving in droves.”
By @keribla.bsky.social
By @keribla.bsky.social
As Federal Prisons Run Low on Food and Toilet Paper, Corrections Officers Leave in Droves for ICE
Many of the problems the agency is facing now are not new, but staff and prisoners fear an exodus of officers could make life behind bars even worse.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
I don't know how I should feel about this. In the end it's just shuffling around cruel and awful people. I suppose there will be some sort of breaking point some time, but who knows. People suffer, at the hands of ice or in prison. Both are shit.
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indeed, it's very very hard to sell even middling aspirations for a party/faction that works so hard to keep constituent expectations in the cellar
the reason everyone is making fun of jeffries and the slogan is not because the slogan is particularly bad or anything — it’s solid mid. it’s because no one trusts or likes jeffries
November 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
indeed, it's very very hard to sell even middling aspirations for a party/faction that works so hard to keep constituent expectations in the cellar
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The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
it is amazing how so much tech gets unremittingly worse year on year at whatever you once used it for and less pleasant to use and more bound up with creepy politics as well as personal and environmental harms and yet also still less productive of actual goods and these are somehow great visionaries
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The billionaires who own much of the the infrastructure of our 21st century lives have progressively enshittified that infrastructure while expanding their wealth, and then they scold us for being small-souled peasants who don’t believe in progress anymore.
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Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
November 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Soon small businesses won’t have to wait for Small Business Saturday to get attention from their Mayor.
Some changes that they can look forward to:
Some changes that they can look forward to:
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Andy McCarthy in National Review: if the WaPo account is accurate, then Hegseth committed either a grave war crime or an unprivileged homicide, that is, ordinary murder. www.nationalreview.com/corner/we-in...
‘We Intended the Strike to Be Lethal’ Is Not a Defense | National Review
The laws of war, incorporated in the federal war crimes statute, prohibit the killing of people who have been rendered hors de combat.
www.nationalreview.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Andy McCarthy in National Review: if the WaPo account is accurate, then Hegseth committed either a grave war crime or an unprivileged homicide, that is, ordinary murder. www.nationalreview.com/corner/we-in...
I am so not ready for monday morning dibs.
November 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I am so not ready for monday morning dibs.
Double trouble. 🙂
November 29, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Double trouble. 🙂
I always forget about the truck parade. Impressive.
November 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I always forget about the truck parade. Impressive.
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Western media & politicians constantly claim one "evidence" Muslims are extremists is due to "child soldiers."
CIA recruited DC shooter at ~15 to become a child soldier. We see the horrific result. Yet 0 talk of accountability for CIA who recruited and trained him. Every accusation is a confession.
CIA recruited DC shooter at ~15 to become a child soldier. We see the horrific result. Yet 0 talk of accountability for CIA who recruited and trained him. Every accusation is a confession.
November 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Western media & politicians constantly claim one "evidence" Muslims are extremists is due to "child soldiers."
CIA recruited DC shooter at ~15 to become a child soldier. We see the horrific result. Yet 0 talk of accountability for CIA who recruited and trained him. Every accusation is a confession.
CIA recruited DC shooter at ~15 to become a child soldier. We see the horrific result. Yet 0 talk of accountability for CIA who recruited and trained him. Every accusation is a confession.
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Folks from a local elementary school in my area are trying to raise $1300 to cover the December rent of a family that's struggling due to an ICE abduction. You can donate through this local church's Zelle. Pls note that your donation is for the "Kilmer family" (Kilmer is the name of the school):
Zelle QR Code.png
drive.google.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Folks from a local elementary school in my area are trying to raise $1300 to cover the December rent of a family that's struggling due to an ICE abduction. You can donate through this local church's Zelle. Pls note that your donation is for the "Kilmer family" (Kilmer is the name of the school):
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Canada needs money so desperately the government is going after low income people who took pandemic benefits in good faith.
But it doesn't need money desperately enough to keep the luxury tax on yachts, or the slightly higher tax rate on capital gains Carney cancelled.
But it doesn't need money desperately enough to keep the luxury tax on yachts, or the slightly higher tax rate on capital gains Carney cancelled.
Canadians fight back as CRA cracks down on pandemic benefit recipients
Federal Court swamped as Canada Revenue Agency allegedly targets thousands of low-income Canadians over pandemic benefit errors
www.biv.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Canada needs money so desperately the government is going after low income people who took pandemic benefits in good faith.
But it doesn't need money desperately enough to keep the luxury tax on yachts, or the slightly higher tax rate on capital gains Carney cancelled.
But it doesn't need money desperately enough to keep the luxury tax on yachts, or the slightly higher tax rate on capital gains Carney cancelled.
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Yes. It's a very common misconception about the past that horses were just a one-to-one replacement for cars - only the rich had carriages, few people rode on horseback for transportation, most horses were used for hauling, not transporting people. Most people (like most of human history) walked
There was never really a point where horse usage reached anywhere near the saturation of car usage, so it's hard to compare. At the highest point there was about one horse for every five Americans. People just walked a lot!
Considering that horses are dangerous and riders are very regularly seriously injured, I wonder what the direct overall injury/death rate looked like when everyone in our society had to constantly ride/drive horses, versus the injury/death rate from cars today?
November 29, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Yes. It's a very common misconception about the past that horses were just a one-to-one replacement for cars - only the rich had carriages, few people rode on horseback for transportation, most horses were used for hauling, not transporting people. Most people (like most of human history) walked
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day
November 29, 2025 at 6:02 AM
Imagine posing for a photographer friend who sells your image to iStock and a year later, you see this is what The Washington Post has done with the image of you walking on a beautiful fall day