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Mike Luckovich gets it right as he always does

$1,131,794,901 That's how much Big Oil has spent over the last 30 years paying off Congress to look the other way on climate action while the planet burns. Well, the planet is burning. Don't let them look away.

So, who all is ready to admit we need #Landback now and to stop giving all the money to billionaires, cops, and tech bros???

Ominous skies

An Israeli strike just killed 5 more journalists outside a hospital in Gaza. NPR: “Committee to Protect Journalists says over 130 Palestinian reporters killed... Israel has not allowed foreign reporters to enter Gaza except on military embeds…” www.npr.org/2024/12/26/g...

The police work for billionaires. They’ll attack a strike, they’ll arrest protesters, and they’ll devote themselves to making CEOs feel safe. Not only do cops defund our cities, they work overtime to stop us from building a better world. My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/the-cops-w...

These people eliminated 190 million dollars in childhood cancer research money to pay for tax cuts for the wealthiest corporations in human history. I’m a no.

The workers' union representing more than 10,000 Starbucks baristas said its members will strike at stores in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle on Friday morning during the busy holiday season reut.rs/3P6KGAy

The world's richest man managed to take $190 million away from a *child cancer research center* with his posts yesterday. Funding now stripped in the new bill.

Billionaires have more money than they could ever need but never enough to fill the holes in their souls. They would send every last one of you into an early grave if it meant paying one cent less in taxes.

The Democratic party will continue to lose far, far into the future because their clueless 70+ members are never going to get out of the way until they pass away. They do not care about winning. They only care about insider trading and enriching themselves.

Just to let y’all know: you never have to “well, actually” a Black person’s take on racism. “Oh, it wasn’t hatred of integration or white backlash politics; the decline of this public institution is entirely divorced from that” is something you can just keep to yourself

Hey corporate media, Thou shalt not spend thousands of hours on one CEO’s shooting and only one hour on a classroom of children.

“If you’re a governor or a senator that says it’s all about mental health, good—show me what you’ve done to really make a difference there, particularly for young people.” – @frankfigliuzzi.bsky.social #EndGunViolenceNow

The 39th time we've had to post this, and this time about The Onion's original hometown.

Dear Humans, I know how you feel. Exhausted. Confused. Scared. I feel it too. But hear me out!

Hey did you know there was a school shooting in Wisconsin today.

Remember, corporations steal more through wage theft than every thief in America put together.

A fundamental goal of this administration is take all the government services that are public goods and hand them to billionaires so they can make even more money.

Jesus. Posted on Reddit under "United healthcare denial reasons"

If we did a fraction of the research into our candidates for elected office as we did for our fantasy football teams, we would have the government we desperately need.

OMG, another fucking school shooting, this one in Madison, WI. Seven people shot, three deceased. We are the only so-called civilized society on the planet in which this is a recurring problem. IT. IS. THE. FUCKING. GUNS.

WISCONSIN: At least 3 dead, including a child. Gunman dead. Another tragic, avoidable American nightmare. abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-...

In Syria the Assad regime, Russia, and Iran left behind so many tanks that civilians are turning them into market stalls and art installations.

i am pretty confident that it will soon become the law that any effort to remedy racial inequality, private or public, will be illegal anti-white discrimination. fairness is, of course, when our institutions are lily white and male

Absolutely

"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all." -- Arthur C. Clarke, born #OTD 1917

Here's a passage from today's post on murder in America. Read the full piece here and please consider becoming a paid subscriber to support my work: www.thegodpodcast.com/p/the-hypocr...

STOP obeying in advance. trump has NO fucking mandate. PASS IT ON.

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It truly is a perfect simplified explanation.

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin