Also if you accidentally book transport through one if these deceptive shell brokers, you are unable to get weather cancelation info and rescheduling opportunities you would have received from the service provider. Ask me how I know.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16h agoCard companies allow merchants to set terms of service that refuse refunds under almost any circumstances, and, more often than not, the card issuers side with the merchants over their own customers when they call to cancel a charge from one of these scammers. 53/
If progressives lose, it’s bad for progressives. If progressives win, though, it’s also bad for progressives. Gotta love narrative setting.
Politico@politico.com · 20h agoProgressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted
The media's takeaway from an El-Sayed win is the same as it would have been from a Stevens win, and the same as it will be if El-Sayed wins the general, or if he loses it: everyone, no matter who they are, needs to take several steps to the right.
Facts suck, if you're delusional and in a cult.
More cops have been arrested for using flock cameras to stalk women than there are transgender athletes in youth sports.
Republicans won’t stop a corrupt tyrant from unnecessarily shaking down American taxpayers, but they *will* stop women from getting necessary healthcare. What amoral jackholes.
Donald Trump has used up almost all of the United States’ long-range missiles to increase all of the United States’ gas prices. He’s smart that way.
Discovery of Moonchild Sanelly's musical catalog has pretty much derailed my attention span for work today.
The fuck there wasn’t. Jesus H. Christ, Sen. Cornyn, with TWO law degrees you surely took (but maybe barely passed?) Con law. Time to read @profmmurray.bsky.social’s book on the U.S. Constitution and learn what you missed. In the meantime, shame on you.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoCornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"
Yup. You did. And cancer research for children was first to go.
That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim
They want you to forget that you took care of yourselves and others im 2020 because they want you to be helpless and frightened in the face of the violence and robbery theyre doing
Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/
I think heaven might just be time A chance to listen to every song ever sung A chance to do everything that might be done
Thanks to Pecora, public opinion went from being bewildered about what had crashed the economy to accurately blaming the conflicts of interests of the leading bankers. prospect.org?p=141893
Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.
Imagine defending the existence of ICE, knowing this:
Pacific Antifascist Research Collective@pacantifa.is · 5d agoHere is our full list of all 145 sex pests and sexual predators from ICE and Customs & Border Protection in a single image. The entries outlined in red indicate entries involving alleged sex crimes against children.
I am making it a habit to always look for the labor story behind these nasty scandals. The consumers are almost never the only ones being harmed.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
The lettuce-producing Taylor Farms was linked to the widespread use of prison labor before its involvement in a cyclospora outbreak.
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Heartening to read about Francesca Hong's mental illness struggles as a "high performing" teen. "I didn't walk at my high school graduation because I had been hospitalized for a week at a psychiatric hospital. I just felt like nothing had meaning anymore." www.meal-magazine.com/meal-digital...
Soup Lefty — Meal Magazine
Francesca Hong stormed out of her kitchen at Madison’s Morris Ramen to become the first Asian American member of the Wisconsin Legislature. Now she’s running for Governor.
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4,700 times he wired money to Epstein. If Comey had added two zeros to his seashells, I bet they would have been a lot less keen to make a show trial ot if it.
There was a good 25-year stretch where i’d pick up as many 60s-70s African comps on CD as I could Some favorite V/A comps: Afro-Rock, vol. 1 (2001) *unfortunately, vol. 2 was never released strut.bandcamp.com/album/afro-r...
Afro-Rock Vol. 1, by Various Artists
15 track album
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