Gift link with no paywall because everybody needs to read this one after the June we just had slate.com/news-and-pol...
A Sitting Judge Just Delivered the Most Scathing Critique of This Supreme Court Term
The Supreme Court has veered so far off track that even the harshest language can feel inadequate to capture the damage wrought by its most recent term.
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Deport this criminal immigrant. oh wait. We only do that to the poor and brown
CNBC@cnbc.com · 3w agoElon Musk likely broke the law by giving voters $1 million, Wisconsin board says
Since Trump’s 2017 tax law cut the corporate tax rate, America's biggest corporations have spent $4.8 trillion on stock buybacks. The top 10 corporations who bought back the most stock spent FIVE TIMES more on stock buybacks than they paid in taxes. This blew my mind.
Firms Spend $4.8T on Stock Buybacks Since 1st Trump-GOP Tax Law
Huge Tax Cuts Used to Enrich Shareholders Rather Than Boost Pay or Investment
4taxfairness.substack.com
This is a must read.
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 3mo ago"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...
All of that -- every bit of it -- is counter to the worldview & temperament of MAGA. None of it would have happened if these fuckers had been running things. Reactionaries are parasites. They depend entirely on social infrastructure other, better people build. The longer they're in charge ...
The “if she had complied, she’d still be alive” line that we’re hearing from ICE defenders is the mantra of apologists for security forces in dictatorships through the ages.
This is fantastic. Make sure you stick around until the record scratch at the end.
The Daily Show@thedailyshow.com · 9mo agoNew York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
Ah yes, this venerable cartoon reminds me of another point I meant to add: part of reactionary psychology is a pathological aversion to taking personal responsibility for anything, so they will *tell* you that they're just reacting. Of course they will. But you're not obliged to believe them!
Analytical Left@leaddreamer.bsky.social · 9mo ago
“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said
If you want to be healthy, keep those around you healthy
Noah Berlatsky@nberlat.bsky.social · 10mo agoundocumented people should receive free health care, just like everybody else. in addition to health care being a human right, health care is also a collective issue. denying people health care creates risks for everyone. contagious diseases are the obvious one, but there are plenty of others.
Good thread I happened across. Keep resisting!
"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux@bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 10mo agoThis brought out a bunch of doomers "...but! but!"-ing with all of the obstacles facing a pro-democracy movement in the USA, but I think it is worth thinking about the question from the other side. What does MAGA need to do to do (not how, just what) to hold power long-term? Are they doing it?
With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings. They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...
The Threat No One Wants to Talk About
As details emerge in the Kirk Assassination, the picture is becoming much clearer
jaredyatessexton.substack.com
Daniel Hunter says that researchers took 35 cases of democratic backsliding (rising authoritarianism) in states from 1991-2021. How often were people successful in stopping it? 7.5% with no civil resistance 51.7% WITH civil resistance #OneMillionRising
Most Americans long imagined that "the surveillance systems, the heavily armed police, the 'anti-terrorism' measures, the vast intelligence apparatus "would be used only for 'criminals'...Now we are surprised to find that we have been defined as the criminals." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/welcome-to...
Welcome to the Age of Disappearance
America's new era of secret police.
hamiltonnolan.com
Making Tesla socially negative will hurt Musk. Let’s make it happen. open.substack.com/pub/howthing...
Tesla Is More Vulnerable Than You Think
How to cost Elon Musk $100 billion.
open.substack.com
What we need are privacy laws protecting us no matter who owns the platform, not xenophobia.
Senator Mark Warner@markwarner.bsky.social · 2y agoI’m concerned that Americans are flocking to a number of adversary-owned social media platforms. We still need a comprehensive and risk-based approach to assessing and mitigating the risks of foreign-owned apps.
I love how Denmark isn’t taking any shit from Donald Trump. 🇩🇰 🤣
Tech bros love chatGPT because they would also rather make up a bunch of plausible-sounding bullshit than say "I don't know"
The only person destroying the fabric of this country is the guy on the left
We find ourselves in a situation where we can only wish to die
