Jake.computer

You can't beat fascism by agreeing with fascism. You can't beat fascists by accepting a fascist frame. Corporatist Democratic Party leadership needs to be defeated and jettisoned. We have to fight them, not because we don't want to fight Republicans, but because they refuse to.

Watching You Can See Everything from the front row. 80% of the movie is closeups of people’s faces

I know I'm a broken record on this, but one part of what is going on is that people have literally no idea what the US immigration system actually is; effectively, that there are no pathways into the country legally for someone who wants to wait in line.

some deranged lunatic is going to storm an elementary school with an ar15 looking for the schools surgical center and the media is going to pretend we have no idea where they got that idea from

that’s right

The most fun thing ever to randomly see

Tennessee loves nominating a democrat named Justin- Pearson, Jones, Kanew. There’s probably some more Justin’s that I’m forgetting

Pretty clear to me there’s a very good case against this man for mass murder, and I’m saying that in as measured a fashion as I can. He’s order the killing of 234 people under no plausible war or legal justification. I am skeptical he will ever face legal accountability for til his but he should.

Warren: "This has been their argument every time -- they cut taxes and say, 'Ultimately it's really going to pay off for you.' What's happened every time? The academics study it very carefully and say, 'What really happened is the richest people got richer and everybody else got left behind.'"

#pixelart #silksong

NYC spends approximately $200,000 a year for every inmate in the corrections system. It spends about $27,000 a year for every student enrolled in CUNY.

I just honestly can't get over that Save Women Sports, an anti-trans group could only find five trans athletes competing K through 12. Five. The NCAA president testified a year and a half ago or so that there were less than 10 college level trans athletes. What the fuck are we doing, people

It’s very simple and it’s been said over and over but I guess it needs saying continuously: if you deem one group too small to have equal rights you are enabling fascism, not fighting it. The people saying Dems are GREAT on trans rights are not paying attention and/or saying stuff like this.

Abdul El-Sayed, to me today, on how he'd spend the 2.8 billion dollars the US is now spending on new bombs for Israel in Michigan, on Michigan schools, for kids here at home. My full 'Mehdi Unfiltered' Zeteo interview with him: zeteo.com/p/abdul-el-s...

anyway something that still bothers me is how the people who are/were loudest about Never Forgetting are often people who actively hate New York City and New Yorkers and spend the other 364 days of the year fighting against everything the city stands for

The Supreme Court blocked the student loan forgiveness despite there being explicit statutory authority for Biden to do it and allowed the Iran War despite an explicit Constitutional prohibition on anyone besides Congress declaring a war.

Any industry important enough to be subsidized or bailed out should be nationalized. Why are we using our tax dollars to increase shareholder value of a private company? Cut out the investors expecting infinite growth and have it beholden to the voters.

They actively believe in Mudsill theory. It has plenty of earlier roots but they are firm believers.

my main issue with ai is that i would personally see a larger ROI if those trillions of dollars were spent on healthcare or public transit or schools or road repairs or SNAP or free childcare or free school lunches or EV charging stations or public libraries or housing or clean energy or broadband

A new study suggests that we are not the only animals that like to take care of other species. The roots of wanting a pet companion may stretch deep into our primate past. nyti.ms/4iex7Pg

Guy who thinks cilantro tastes like soap but he’s a sicko who likes it

I’ve lived my entire adult life in constant pain from an auto immune disease that insurance companies refuse to approve treatment for. My story is not unique, so I’m surprised more health insurance CEOs haven’t been Luigied

UPDATE: @justinjpearson.bsky.social wins the Democratic nomination in TN-9

A teenager in North Carolina has been arrested for assault with a "deadly weapon" after taking abortion medication. @kylietcheung.bsky.social has been doing such an incredible job with these pieces on post-Dobbs criminalization

Breaking: GOP Congressman Andy Ogles, who has said gay people have “no place in America” and “Muslims don't belong in American society,” just lost his primary in Tennessee. He will no longer serve in Congress.

media when maga wins an election: we must travel the country and speak to these voters and extend empathy to them and give credence to their bigotry and false beliefs media when the left wins an election: is this the end of the american experiment

Expectations for the next Bond are much too high and it’s impossible to please everyone. Here’s the solution: don’t cast the role. Shoot the entire movie from a first-person perspective, allowing the viewer to imagine that they themselves are James Bond

The popularity of Wawa’s is evidence of the cultural decline on New Jersey. A more interesting culture would not be obsessed with a gas station convenience store. The same applies to Bucky’s.

The whole point of the Bill of Rights is to protect the only true minority - the individual. It limits the governments power to harm the individual. The whole constitution is designed to limit the governments power.

The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

Heading to Mitch McConnell’s hospital right now

I’m sure Nolan will do a fine job adapting Oddyssey, But I would LOVE to see SS Rajamouli adapt it

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.

Cartoons about hot dogs that are grilled to perfection. www.newyorker.com/gallery/lets...

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

jesus

bookmarking this for use anytime someone asks how we can afford social safety nets.

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

Here's a thread of ICE agents dragging people out of their cars to assault and beat them down:

Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. Both are back because of this science denying administration.

i may have lost my mind

Alex Bores, a Democratic assemblyman in New York, announced plans for a bill called the Anti-Insurrectionist Act, which would tax any New Yorker who receives compensation from Trump's slush fund. "If you storm the Capitol and you take from this slush fund, too bad, we're taking it."