Just so you capitalists know: Sovereign wealth funds like the one Trump announced are state-owned capital and therefore *profoundly* anti-capitalist. But it's pretty compatible with many types of Marxism. The more you know!
February 5, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Just so you capitalists know: Sovereign wealth funds like the one Trump announced are state-owned capital and therefore *profoundly* anti-capitalist. But it's pretty compatible with many types of Marxism. The more you know!
I'm sure history will note that it's not just a majority of the Supreme Court Justices but also the Vice President and every single Senator and every single member of the House that has abandoned and violated their oaths to the Constitution. Our Republic was overthrown after all.
January 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
I'm sure history will note that it's not just a majority of the Supreme Court Justices but also the Vice President and every single Senator and every single member of the House that has abandoned and violated their oaths to the Constitution. Our Republic was overthrown after all.
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Happy New Year, friends! Remember: That which does not kill us wins reelection and tries again.
Be vigilant and keep a good humor about your every day and spread laughter and good will. It’s the best inoculation against autocracy and idiocy.
Be vigilant and keep a good humor about your every day and spread laughter and good will. It’s the best inoculation against autocracy and idiocy.
January 1, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Happy New Year, friends! Remember: That which does not kill us wins reelection and tries again.
Be vigilant and keep a good humor about your every day and spread laughter and good will. It’s the best inoculation against autocracy and idiocy.
Be vigilant and keep a good humor about your every day and spread laughter and good will. It’s the best inoculation against autocracy and idiocy.
Apparently I am a survivor of Gov't Death Fog 2025...
So I see
January 1, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Apparently I am a survivor of Gov't Death Fog 2025...
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What Roberts is saying is, "How dare you treat Supreme Court Justices, who have the full weight of federal government behind them, with the same anger and indignity we allow right-wingers to scream in the faces of women seeking basic health care?"
Over there on Earth Two, the biggest threat to the rule of law is that Justices feel criticized and would prefer not to.
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...
Chief Justice Roberts Condemns Threats to Supreme Court and Judiciary
In his year-end report on the federal judiciary, the chief justice decried violence, intimidation and disinformation and warned against defiance of court rulings.
www.nytimes.com
January 1, 2025 at 4:16 PM
What Roberts is saying is, "How dare you treat Supreme Court Justices, who have the full weight of federal government behind them, with the same anger and indignity we allow right-wingers to scream in the faces of women seeking basic health care?"
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The fact AOC lost the vote for the oversight committee to Gerry Connolly (because of Nancy Pelosi told democrats who to vote for) tells me they haven’t learned a fucking thing since the election.
December 30, 2024 at 11:49 AM
The fact AOC lost the vote for the oversight committee to Gerry Connolly (because of Nancy Pelosi told democrats who to vote for) tells me they haven’t learned a fucking thing since the election.
I was just watching a Teddy Roosevelt documentary on Amazon Prime. It's remarkable how the problems we have today with ultra-rich capitalists like Elon Musk are not at all new. It really is the same struggle we've always had.
December 30, 2024 at 7:47 AM
I was just watching a Teddy Roosevelt documentary on Amazon Prime. It's remarkable how the problems we have today with ultra-rich capitalists like Elon Musk are not at all new. It really is the same struggle we've always had.
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In a letter to all 100 U.S. Senators, William Webster, the only person ever to lead both the FBI and CIA, wrote that neither Patel nor Gabbard meets the demands of top intelligence jobs. At 100 and still at the top of his game, Webster deserves to be heeded.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
Former FBI and CIA head prods Senate to reject Patel, Gabbard
William Webster, the only person to lead both the FBI and CIA, wrote that neither nominee meets the demands of top intelligence jobs.
www.politico.com
December 28, 2024 at 2:54 PM
In a letter to all 100 U.S. Senators, William Webster, the only person ever to lead both the FBI and CIA, wrote that neither Patel nor Gabbard meets the demands of top intelligence jobs. At 100 and still at the top of his game, Webster deserves to be heeded.
www.politico.com/live-updates...
www.politico.com/live-updates...
I've had such a really good time today watching MAGA figure out that Elon's not really on their side. But I'm sure they'll all fall back in line as soon as Trump tells them what else to believe. *Sigh.*
December 28, 2024 at 6:21 AM
I've had such a really good time today watching MAGA figure out that Elon's not really on their side. But I'm sure they'll all fall back in line as soon as Trump tells them what else to believe. *Sigh.*
I never feel bad about being a Costco customer. www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/b...
Costco is pushing back — hard — against the anti-DEI movement. It’s getting noticed | CNN Business
Walmart, John Deere, Tractor Supply and other companies are changing or walking away from diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs in response to right-wing pressure. But Costco believes DEI imp...
www.cnn.com
December 28, 2024 at 12:07 AM
I never feel bad about being a Costco customer. www.cnn.com/2024/12/27/b...
The fact that GOP politicians' strategy for power isn't to listen to citizens and adapt but to attack democracy shows their goal is to subjugate, not serve. If the interests they promote right now happen to be yours, I promise you that is a just a *temporary* coincidence. It's obvious.
September 11, 2023 at 4:32 AM
The fact that GOP politicians' strategy for power isn't to listen to citizens and adapt but to attack democracy shows their goal is to subjugate, not serve. If the interests they promote right now happen to be yours, I promise you that is a just a *temporary* coincidence. It's obvious.
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What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
September 7, 2023 at 7:53 PM
What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers $15 an hour.”
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”
Funny how that works.
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One benefit of Elon making Twitter mostly irrelevant to everyone but the Groyper wing of the GOP is that normal people who have no idea he'd become Captain Race Science. So they'll just be confused to learn that he's now in his "The International Jew" period.
elon is no longer content with pinning his problems on the ADL. he's promoting people who are pointing their finger at jews *as jews* now.
do not ignore the significance of this shift
do not ignore the significance of this shift
![tweet by @fentasyl:
-65% of jewish college students support censorship
-19% of jewish college students support censorship
[quoting tweet by @truediscipline:
Jews used to be very supportive of free speech, but the younger generation is not. Some background to the ADL debates: https://web.archive.org/web/20190925034914/https://infogram.com/1p6lzdem99jeyru5lp2zpxgxppi3d25p1q6
including bar graph which says "religious divide on Campus over Diversity and Inclusion vs. Free Speech" with bars for which a given group prioritizes and listing:
- mormon 19/81%
-white evangelical prot 29/71%
-white mainline port 34/64%
-catholic38/62%
- nonwhite prot 51/49%
- unaffiliated 54/46%
- non-christian religion 60/40%
- jewish 65/35%]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ixgid4nl7ufa7urmtaj6qgfe/bafkreiatpk5n265nj7gs4yhehv4uxuanlfr735lk4k5s7tazcw7ylrrfqi@jpeg)
September 7, 2023 at 1:50 AM
One benefit of Elon making Twitter mostly irrelevant to everyone but the Groyper wing of the GOP is that normal people who have no idea he'd become Captain Race Science. So they'll just be confused to learn that he's now in his "The International Jew" period.
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Notice how Elon pins the entire Stop Hate for Profit Coalition, which was made up of over 1,000 companies and non-profits, including the NACCP, GLAAD and the National Hispanic Media Center, on those meddling JOOOOOS
September 7, 2023 at 11:58 AM
Notice how Elon pins the entire Stop Hate for Profit Coalition, which was made up of over 1,000 companies and non-profits, including the NACCP, GLAAD and the National Hispanic Media Center, on those meddling JOOOOOS
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Putting yourself last doesn't make you a better person. It makes you a bitter person
August 6, 2023 at 1:40 AM
Putting yourself last doesn't make you a better person. It makes you a bitter person
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The Nazis are celebrating tonight.
September 5, 2023 at 3:49 AM
The Nazis are celebrating tonight.
On "Discover Feeds" I found absolutely nothing for "Buddhism" and nothing relevant for "Zen." I know Bluesky is new, but is it really *that* new??
September 5, 2023 at 4:29 AM
On "Discover Feeds" I found absolutely nothing for "Buddhism" and nothing relevant for "Zen." I know Bluesky is new, but is it really *that* new??
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On this Labor Day, remember the unions who pushed for 8 hour work days and weekends off in the first place. Those used to not be a thing!
September 4, 2023 at 5:13 PM
On this Labor Day, remember the unions who pushed for 8 hour work days and weekends off in the first place. Those used to not be a thing!
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A friendly reminder this Labor Day that unions didn’t win weekends and the minimum wage and laws against child labor and sick leave by being nice, polite, or respectful. They won by fighting. They won by striking and struggling and being radicals. And we have to do the same.
September 4, 2023 at 3:07 PM
A friendly reminder this Labor Day that unions didn’t win weekends and the minimum wage and laws against child labor and sick leave by being nice, polite, or respectful. They won by fighting. They won by striking and struggling and being radicals. And we have to do the same.
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"Research show[s] that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often w/o reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime.”..The NYT reviewed national dispatch data & found that just 4% of officers’ time is devoted to violent crime."
Police are not primarily crime fighters, according to the data | Reuters
A new report adds to a growing line of research showing that police departments don’t solve serious or violent crimes with any regularity, and in fact, spend very little time on crime control, in co...
www.reuters.com
September 3, 2023 at 9:31 PM
"Research show[s] that U.S. police spend much of their time conducting racially biased stops & searches of minority drivers, often w/o reasonable suspicion, rather than “fighting crime.”..The NYT reviewed national dispatch data & found that just 4% of officers’ time is devoted to violent crime."
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Some hard truth here.
September 3, 2023 at 9:01 PM
Some hard truth here.