LMAOOOOOOOOOO somebody finally asked the transphobes if they know any WNBA players besides and NOPE
Baron OC
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Snack pedant 🚩 OK Tenants Union and DSA Communist Caucus / Wanna build tenant power in OKC? Join @oktenants.bsky.social - http://bit.ly/Join-OTU
25% of the news is just did you know rich people spend money?
Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2h agoTo compensate for what college may not provide, some families are paying as much as $95,000 for curated gap years that combine travel, volunteer work and career coaching.
Kacey Musgraves asks fans to donate to the Chicago-based Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights in honor of her birthday
Every single president since 1967 has spoken against annexation and even against settlement construction, but every single president greenlit the de facto annexation process anyway. Not one has ever punished Israel directly for it.
Some sage advice from the southern textile strike-wave of 1934:
@devintoshea.bsky.social I was sad to learn "The Veiled Prophet" wasn't available in my library's network. Put in a request for them to purchase it; today got the notif & picked up this brand new copy! Will be spending my weekend with it. 📚 #booksky #libraries 💖
Carlotta Perez basically shows that bubbles don’t kill technologies but right size the rate of their deployment.
Henry Snow@henrysnow.bsky.social · 2d agoIn 1825 the radical labor writer Thomas Single argued that mechanization was "humbug" meant to "trick" workers. Unfortunately for artisans it wasn't! A bubble was not going to save them! Successful responses to mechanization understood new machines and tried to regulate the conditions of their use
If you include workers making under $26k/yr and workers that are only employed part time and want full time employment, the unemployment rate goes from 4% to (!!!) 25% (!!!) www.cbsnews.com/news/functio...
Nearly 25% of U.S. workers are "functionally unemployed," economic analysis finds
An alternative measure of unemployment that accounts for wages suggests the U.S. labor market is weaker than it looks.
cbsnews.com
Yall gotta stop shitting on ppl for not having what you got. Yes some adults don’t have the car you’re struggling to pay for. Yes some adults have to move back home & don’t got the apartment you’re barely keeping. Working class ppl need solidarity, not us shitting on each other.
Don’t get me wrong, this isn‘t Jon‘s fault, good on him for finding an attack that works. But it’s so incredibly bleak that this is a more effective line of attack than Epstein and Iran simply because the media gets bored easily and always needs a new shiny toy to get their attention.
Sahil Kapur@sahilkapur.bsky.social · 4d agoJon Ossoff tells Lawrence O’Donnell: “It’s been amazing to watch this White House melt down over this all week. And about Natalie Harp, these White House staffers are adults — public officials, paid by the taxpayer, with immense power in positions of public trust… No one cares about their feelings.”
$4 BILLION. That’s how much the Trump Administration has now spent paying companies to cancel offshore wind projects that would have lowered your electric bill. Yes, you heard that right: they are PAYING to keep more energy off the grid and your bills higher.
Trump Administration to Pay RWE to Cancel Wind Leases
It was the fifth such deal struck by the administration to get companies to drop offshore wind projects.
nytimes.com
The IDF does this all the time. They lie until they can't, then they say they'll do an investigation, then the investigation leads nowhere. It took 2.5 years for them to even admit they opened fire on the car, something we all knew happened hours after they did.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d ago"The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) had previously denied involvement in the January 2024 killing, saying months later that a preliminary investigation found its forces were “not present near the vehicle or within firing range” of the vehicle." www.cnn.com/2026/08/19/m...
Target's profits just doubled, because the company got a massive $1 billion tariff refund. Ordinary people have yet to see tariff refunds from the government or these corporations. www.ft.com/content/c555...
Target profits double after $1bn tariff refund
US retailer reports higher sales as net income boosted by Washington’s tariff return programme
ft.com
name something mark zuckerberg has created that wasnt a boon for perverts and creeps, one thing that didnt make perverts and creeps go “oh fuck yes”
Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 4d agoNEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
“These are our homes. This is how we protect each other and keep each other safe.” @lilyericksonseltz.bsky.social reports that from Vermont to Texas to Michigan, student renters are building tenant unions and challenging universities and corporate landlords alike.
Why Tenant Unions Are Spreading Across College Campuses
Faced with aging dorms, private equity landlords and few protections, student renters are banding together.
inthesetimes.com
It is pretty funny that the main thing Abundance contributed to was creating bottlenecks in various input industries and raising electricity prices without restructuring electricity market governance to facilitate... abundance
Atrios@eschatonblog.com · 5d agoremember abundance? that worked out well
"There has been at least one documented incident within the OKCPD who has used this for [private/personal] purposes" #OKC PD caught using the flock cameras for their own icky reasons 👀 This just mentioned in the city council meeting, by one of the councilors- she's against the contract
bonus points for demonstrating the technique mid interview. peak performance
Mikki Kendall@karnythia.blacksky.app · 5d agoI just want to know who's baby this is? Because I am proud of her like she's one of mine. This is perfection
The right uses 'communism' as a pejorative. But what does communism really mean? Ben M tells us in Spadework: "For us, communism is another name for the democratic self-organization of the vast majority. It is the people in power — directly." spade-work.org/why-we-call-...
Why We Call Ourselves Communists
"For us, communism is another name for the democratic self-organization of the vast majority. It is the people in power — directly."
spade-work.org
Weird how every time the economy struggles, CEO pay goes up and ordinary workers get shafted by every single entity that already takes our money. Almost as if the whole system is corrupt.
Wife: The trash is overflowing. Can you-- Me: Well I can't take it out but here's what I'll say. We need a strong trash can. And I'm committed to reforming the kitchen so the trash doesn't pile up
"We cheer for it when LeBron dunks the basketball. But what about when someone picks up a Christian baby and stuffs it through the hoop? Not so cool now, is it?"
Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · 6d agoThe guy who opened fire at Comet Pizza because he'd cooked his brain online and believed they were a child sex trafficking hub was exactly as confident the people he was aiming at deserved it as Luigi Mangione, which is just one reason it's a bad idea to lionise vigilante murder.
saw my fellow Vermonter Noah Kahan and wrote about it. i have to credit @chriswade.bsky.social for the phrase "involuntary townies" www.gq.com/story/noah-k...
Noah Kahan Sold Out the Rose Bowl, and a Good, Sad Time Was Had by All
Kahan's largest headlining show ever featured Chappell Roan, audience hum-alongs, and all the feelings America’s stadium could hold.
gq.com
One of my pet theories is that a lack of distress tolerance is one of the main differences between people who function in society and people who don’t
Maladroithe@maladroithe.bsky.social · 7d agoDiscomfort is an essential part of growth and wouldn’t it be so embarrassing to be the exact same person thirty years from now, in a totally different world, because you were so averse to discomfort?
You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes. Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.
The fundraising texts you delete are working on someone. It’s infuriating and heartbreaking. An 85yo in Ohio gave more than double the value of his home. A 91yo in an Indianapolis senior facility gave 25K times. The DCCC/DSCC don’t just tolerate the spammers who exploit seniors. They take part.
Hook and Squeeze
How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.
data4democracy.substack.com