The world is letting them

Asking your friend/colleague/partner to repeat themselves for the 65th time today, because you can't stop thinking about what's going to be on the Booker Prize 2025 longlist tomorrow...

Congress is voting on the Defense Appropriations bill this week to fund endless wars.

How do we always find money for war but never enough money for the children, the poor, and the hungry?

Lines you must never use if you write for TV or the movies:
1. It's complicated.
2. You look like shit.
3. Look at me.
4. That's so crazy it just might work.

Someone prove this wrong.

"The Declaration...says that government is not sacred, that it is set up to give people an equal right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness and that if it fails to do this, we have the right to 'alter or abolish it.'"– Howard Zinn, July 4, 1975
www.howardzinn.org/collection/s...

Fascism in full swing. Mamdani won with a mandate and Trump is losing his mind.

Sorry, Mr. President, Mamdani is here to stay.

Kicks 17 million off their health insurance.
 
Cuts nutrition for hungry kids.
 
Makes it harder for working people to afford college.
 
Biggest transfer of wealth from the poor to the rich in history.

But go off.

It's clear the American people don't want Trump's big ugly bill to pass.

-17 million will lose healthcare
-Largest cuts to food assistance
-$1 trillion in billionaire tax cuts

History will remember those who chose to stand with working people and who chose to serve the powerful.

Our communities aren’t safe when people pretend to be ICE, carry guns, and harass immigrants.

The Trump administration’s tactics of having masked agents and secret raids are creating space for impersonators and vigilantes to act.

It needs to stop.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

But at the end of the day our economy's demise will have one cause - parasitic financiers and their relentless, exponential demand for compound interest. laboristmovement.substack.com/p/the-produc... We don't have an economy structured to serve the needs and wants of working people.

They call it a fine because it's fine for them to pay it easily

I bet lots of his friends, by pure coincidence, sold their Apple stocks yesterday. They'll be buying them back for cheaper and then he'll back down as he always does and the stocks will go back up. Market manipulation, I say.

The Trump administration says they're screening new immigrants for antisemitic statements on social media. That rule apply doesn't apply to one of the much-feted white Afrikaner refugees, who has plenty of negative ideas about Jews. www.thebulwark.com/p/an-afrikan...

america we've been patient up until now but it's time

Kinda crazy how the president can’t forgive student loan debt but he can make everything you buy more expensive. Who came up with that