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explain to me right now why your low level, front facing employees are more replaceable by ai your ceo who just regurgitates whatever bull shit all their contemporaries are saying
It’s time to stop the influx of immigrants who take drugs, father children out of wedlock, and steal from the government. by Elon Musk
"A song like this, built of stories and theories and wild conjecture, means everything to those who hear it day after day." ICYMI, new @pastemagazine.bsky.social column started yesterday, about working in a grocery sore in the 90s, and Toadies "Possum Kingdom" www.pastemagazine.com/music/alt-ro...
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Jen Sorensen nails the hypocrisy and racism of the "European culture" argument.
You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.
A “funeral that would never end.” That’s how the CEO of a Florida nursing home characterizes the exodus of 38 immigrant workers, as they lose their temporary protected status. “They’re my best employees.” Gift link ⤵️ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/b...
What America Might Look Like With Zero Immigration
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When people convince themselves that they should get mad at the dummy rather than the ventriloquist. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...
Republican Anger Erupts at Johnson as Party Frets About Future
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
Denny Carter@dennycarter.bsky.social · 9mo agoThis whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
it is wild that Labour is doing exactly what the reactionary centrists recommend and is absolutely destroying its base of support as a result, and yet reactionary centrists in the US are just utterly silent about the complete failure of their program.
It's so interesting that in the name of practicality we are urged to avoid any practical action; in the name of redemption we are urged to exonerate people who have shown no interest in redemption; in the name of civility we are urged to overlook the cruelty of those who scorn all civility
The powers that be in US media decided a while ago democracy and rule of law are boring. A reality TV / prestige antihero show about a personalist dictatorship is more exciting. So instead of “President Interferes, Violating Constitutional Principle,” it’s “Will Voters Stupidly Make Him Hit Them?”
Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · 9mo agoCrazy how much some media has normalized the idea that voters are taking a risk if they elect governors/mayors who will defy Trump. That he’ll threaten their funding, etc. Try to imagine, say. Greg Abbott being asked if he’s worried that Biden will punish Texas over his lawsuits.
Dems: "It's really important that we not seem like we're overreacting, so we'll keep our criticism inside-voice - no allegations of authoritarianism, only a focus on policy." MAGA: "Great. In that case we'll ignore the Constitution, invade the capital, set up checkpoints, prosecute critics."
Wall Street Financier: "I just like a candidate who is pro-business & pro-economic growth. That's why I supported a guy, who raises and cancels tariffs without thinking; fires the person who brings him numbers he doesn't like; and is thinking of integrating crypto schemes into our financial system.
It's infuriating that the entire political universe understands why this is happening - Donald Trump and Stephen Miller are gutter bigots whose nativist politics are rooted in their all-consuming hatred of nonwhite foreigners - but for some reason we can't say it out loud.
Catherine Rampell@crampell.bsky.social · last yr.Wow. Had not realized that Columbia’s settlement with Trump admin included a commitment to decrease international student enrollment. In what way does this help “combat antisemitism,” which is supposedly the administration’s objective? www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
The authoritarians have agency. Stop acting like these are acts of God. There is no "fight" between Columbia/Harvard and Trump. Trump is attacking Columbia/Harvard. (Also, the idea that the procedural violations are equivalent is absurd.)
Kevin Carey@kevincarey1.bsky.social · last yr.A master class in passive voice and false equivalence from AEI's Rick Hess. The consequences "were going to follow", like the laws of physics, and not a decision that his fellow travelers made and are responsible for. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...
there’s something that really rankles about all of these utterly unqualified dipshits who got their jobs because trump liked how they looked on television spending all their time on television telling other people to get a job
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.Oz: "When the program was created 60 years ago, it never dawned on anyone that you would take able-bodied individuals who could work & put them on Medicaid. Today the average able-bodied person on Medicaid who doesn't work, they watch 6.1 hours of TV or just hang out. Go out & try to get a job."
really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves
Dr. Mansa Keita@rasmansa.bsky.social · last yr.Curtis Yarvin, who has been profiled in media like Politico and The Wall Street Journal, has publicly stated in the past that he thinks black people are naturally fit to be slaves.
Standing up for immigrants means not freaking out when an immigrant celebrates their country of origin
Nazi Germany, 1935: “Was President Hindenburg mentally fit in 1932?”
The US government, which has claimed it has to destroy American universities because a few pro-Palestinian protesters are evidence of unchecked anti-Semitism, is defending an actual neo-Nazi party in Germany.
They’ll pressure a NATO ally to release a sex trafficker and racketeer but they won’t pressure a tiny dictatorship to return a man it’s holding on our behalf, who they admit they sent there by accident
The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.
Trump refuses to repatriate innocent man from El Salvador prison because man has no history of sexual misconduct.
There's no reason to beat around the bush on this: Trump's Ukraine plan is literally just to make Ukraine an American colony. He's trying to divide up the country with Russia like Germany did with Poland.
