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Seems like a good day to share this again. This is how US dollars and spending ACTUALLY work. Can anybody get this to Madge? youtu.be/i35uBVeNp6c?...

Valuable history here: youtu.be/vsGkofzI_LM?...

We support The Mitch McConnell Act

It's so funny that Mamdani is doing *exactly* what the abundance types are calling for -- competent government in service of constituents' quality of life -- but they can't embrace him because their billionaire donors hate Muslims.

In this Philadelphia sports bar, OpenAI still means no one is guarding Allen Iverson. But they do know this: Even if the machines take all of our jobs, we'll still need real humans to boo Santa Claus.

Work until you die

For real. Those poor animals don't deserve to be harmed any mo--*touches finger to earpiece* wait what

There's just no way to excuse or ignore the federal government deciding who can or can't appear on Kimmel's show. Totalitarian.

"Even some of the original architects of the 1980s believe things have gone too far. Mr. Welch conceded in 2009 that the single-minded pursuit of profit and shareholder value as a strategy was 'the dumbest idea in the world.'”

1/ 🧵 A home care worker who keeps an 84 year old out of a nursing home now has less time to do it, because her own government benefits got harder to keep. Shorter deadlines. More paperwork. Fewer office hours to call for help. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

ez mode solidarity opportunity you might not have been aware of. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.

#OtD 8 Sep 1946 numerous empty properties, including 148 luxury flats in the Duchess of Bedford House in Kensington, were squatted by homeless ex-servicemen and their families in London in a wave of occupations across the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1086...

Lest we forget:

Did not expect to experience "liberals can be meatheads too!" today, but here we are. You know how you can tell someone works out? Oh, they'll tell you. Rest assured.

Unbelievably sleazy stuff here. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

macabre = “muh-KAHB” Worcestershire = “WOOSS-ter-sheer” omnipotent = “ahm-NI-puh-tunt” reticent = “RET-uh-sunt” epitome = “ih-PIT-uh-mee” myriad = "MEER-ee-ud" Never make fun of someone if they mispronounce a word. It means they learned it by reading.

Donald Trump needs to keep Dolly Parton’s good name out of his stupid f’ng mouth.

I wonder why Milo wasn't sent to South Sudan, like some other people who had no connection to the oppressive and dangerous country.

Post your getaway vehicle.

@lfn.bsky.social 👀

There's no forgiving this. No living it down. It's a stain on our humanity. When all this is over, the monsters who did this should be pariahs. And the soulless thugs who cheered it on while dehumanizing Haitian immigrants should be reminded of what they did every day of their lives.

"Of the immigrants arrested in July... the share with a past violent criminal conviction was less than 4%..." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

US corporate profits have hit a record high of over $9 trillion the first half of this year, while workers’ slice of the pie has recently sunk to historic lows.

"Everybody knows that the president's insane, but nobody wants to talk about what people do when their president's insane." - Carsie Blanton, "Everything is Great!" www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhZk...

"Be curious, not judgmental" That's a quote from the Apple TV+ show "Ted Lasso" that I've been thinking about lot about the past months as I've come off of medical leave and returned to work (nb: Lasso attributed it to Walt Whitman but Whitman to anyone's knowledge never said or wrote that). ...

If, like me, you grew up in the 80s, you likely had to deal with bullies. It was a pro-bully sort of time; majestic herds of bullies roamed our nation’s proud cafeterias and schoolyards. This is probably true of any era. Each era has been far too kind to bullies. www.the-reframe.com/soon-you-too...

The Labour Party ad (2019) Marshall Steinbaum @econmarshall.bsky.social

Speaks volumes

1/ Britain just saw its first political party pay for AI-generated hate content to influence a byelection. Now imagine that playbook scaled to a general election or rolled out here in US. This is not a meme problem. This is an election security problem. 🧵 #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

ICYMI — “The padres catching coordinator was taken by ICE at an airport… Oswaldo Pirela has been in 🇺🇸 legally for 10 years… Remember when they told you they were going after criminals and the worst of the worst? Turns out they’re actually just going after brown people.”

California drivers are fighting back. The California Gig Workers Union just crossed the threshold to represent over 200,000 drivers, one of the largest new organizing wins in modern history!

These are the armbands with the stars on them in case you didn’t know.

In the summer of 2013, two esoteric, technical, incredibly important texts were published within weeks of one another: the first is the Snowden leaks, which revealed a system of global, pervasive digital surveillance. 1/

12/ Property tax relief sounds like a gift. Follow the money and it is a machine: starve local government, force impossible cuts, blame the officials left holding the bag, then sell privatization as the fix. Know the play before your town gets played. Stay sharp, keep talking.

@bskyttrpg.bsky.social listancestries

So we're just gonna accept that Trump intervened with FIFA because he said he did??

Zlatan's shtick has gotten REALLY old.

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I want to see a movement rise that actually puts the needs, dignity, and thriving of all human beings first—and you'll know if it does, because the media will treat it as "dangerous" in a way that it never managed for open white supremacist fascism led by an illiterate addled Nazi ragejunky.

Submerged stories allowing fascist supremacy to stay popular even when its outcomes are disreputable, submerged stories that allow radical systemic change to stay disreputable even when that is what is both desired and needed, and how to tell the difference. www.the-reframe.com/the-submerge...

What's the opposite of "Uber alles"?

Unpopular take: the ref got it right

Ok then!

Cheers, Scotland! Good fight.