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Being able to decide "guess we'll just let Aaron Ashby pitch until we win" is both a flex and somehow a perfectly reasonable decision on the merits.

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

We gotta start referring to data centers by both their mother and father's last names, Spain style. The Microsoft-Chevron data center, the Meta-ExxonMobil data center, and so forth. Absolutely no reason just the tech bros should be taking the heat on this shit

This was supposed to be satire. theonion.com/doj-to-bring...

what an asshole

“I’m lying. This is a lie. We do this every single weekend. These shows, presented as informational, are merely forums for us to blatantly lie.”

If you're on here telling trans people to shut up and vote, you should be angry that Republicans have manipulated you to such a degree. Why aren't you angry about it

Nice campaign by the Norwegian Consumer Council about the declining lifespan of products. Enjoy!

Glaciologist @matthias-huss.bsky.social shows that the centre of the Great Aletsch glacier in Switzerland (the biggest in the Alps) lost 6 meters(!) of thickness just this summer. "No words...", he adds on LinkedIn.

You can’t say you weren’t warned

There is also the uncomfortable fact that the national debt passed a record $40 trillion yesterday, much sooner than expected. The U.S. is currently spending more than a trillion dollars a year to pay interest on the national debt, more than it spends on defense.

"no one will be normal about AOC if she runs for president" is both true and a bad reason for her not to run. you could run the most milquetoast middle of the road clean cut straight white man alive and the right is still going to act like the deranged freaks they are

After raising costs by $1,700 per household last year, Trump issued tariff refunds for… Walmart: $2.4B Apple: $2.2B Ford: $1.3B Amazon: $600M Your refund: $0 Just another transfer of wealth from everyday Americans to mega-corporations.

Any president sending bulldozers to rip through our national parks is committing an unforgivable crime against our country's heritage. Trump & his GOP enablers are perfectly happy to permanently destroy America’s pristine landscapes just to build monuments to their own hate & political theater.

Cool cool cool, now do Colin Kaepernick

Issue for Rs is stocks have been soaring under Trump - corporations and the wealthy got a fresh round of tax cuts, many getting massive refunds after scotus nuked his global tariff regime, regulations nixed - but consumers / voters very unhappy. K-shaped $ -> K-shaped politics

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

ONCE AGAIN TAPPING THE SIGN www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/dont-take-...

Hungarian President Sulyok has signed the 17th Amendment to the constitution therefore removing himself from office. It’s been amazing to watch. Orban's Fidesz has been falling apart before our eyes. 🧵

nobody is giving fox news more headlines about how democrats can't win general elections than moderate candidates and their supporters in the media

The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?

Under Trump, U.S. federal debt has surpassed 100% of GDP for the first time since WWII. And it's on track to beat that all-time record by 2030.

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every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries

As much as you hate the corporate media, you can never hate them as much as they apparently hate themselves. This is a level of willing self-abasement and abject humiliation that the world hasn't seen since Renfeld.

In America today, the wealthiest 1% is now worth more than the entire American middle class. That never happened before.

It’s like when your food is taking a long time to come out so your server brings some free bread to apologize for the wait.

Sigh. I’ll be a hater and say it: In actual reality, your taxes paid for an illegal crew of naive tech boys, led by a billionaire, and backed by a Corrupt Court, to destroy your gov’t services, hospitals, housing, education, and cancer cures, taking them away from your American family members.

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

Roe is gone. Trans people have been sufficiently shoved under the bus and run over (twice). What will the boogeyman of the mid-terms be?

All of these cases are basically litmus tests for any Dem nominee. Are immigrants Americans? Do trans Americans deserve human rights? Are corporations superhumans who get to spend endlessly on elections to put whoever they want into power? These are simple questions with simple answers.

I’m just a shitlib, but until the dems are willing to take on the concentrated power of capital and the mechanisms that led to it they’re just painting the titanic a different color. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...

Slaughter House 6

You may have heard about the OMB rule change that will put politics over federal grants. However bad you think it is? It's probably worse. Thanks to @theverge.com for letting me report this one out. There is still time to comment. bit.ly/4v2X4nQ

Yes my darlings. You are too fine for this nonsense. Don't you EVER forget it.

Compare Alito's description of Trump's racist statements (on the left) to Justice Kagan's anthology of Trump's racist statements (on the right). These are passages from this morning's opinions in Mullin v. Doe.

This is the reason for the Fran Hong for Gov sign in my yard. Go Frannie!

one must imagine sisyphus cleaning the reflecting pool

Maybe the loneliness epidemic is not an epidemic, just people making personal choices to avoid a society that rewards those who are truly horrible.

So glad Bernie lived long enough to see the center quote his talking points.

“Giving a third of Elon Musk’s net worth to be able to use a strait you could freely use before you bombed them for fun and Israel” is not what that base wants. Don’t even need to do the “what if we used that money here?” gymnastics they simply don’t care about.

Tony Bourdain taught us all that a place is full of good food, good people, and good experiences despite very shitty politics and I think it’s kind of classically American to have thought we were excluded from that Venn diagram

I never imagined myself living in a cabin deep in the woods without any technology but that's looking more and more attractive every damn day now.