“.. Moving a cargo from Houston to Asia now adds about $26 a barrel, or $52 million a cargo … that’s equal to roughly a quarter of the price of WTI futures.” - Schwab

Liberals in the US will look at slavery, the genocide of Native Americans, the Chinese Exclusion Act, the Tulsa Race Massacre, Japanese internment, Jim Crow, the Vietnam War, Cold War CIA coups, the Iraq War, and the genocide of Palestinians and be like, "That's not who we are." 🙃

No movement yesterday bc I wasn't here to boost. I'm sorry we have to do this again. Really hoping to hit $1300 before Tuesday. Sitting at $1130/2k Please help us make this goal.

Ouaquaga on Chenango@jnxouaquaga.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hate to ask when so many people are worse off. I'm not proud of this. My spouse's employer left without a word yesterday, and despite you all pulling together last winter to help us, we need help again. Monthly goal for now is $2k Cashapp, Paypal, venmo, BurdockAndBramble

Big tech keeps eyeing tribal land for new data centers. But Native nations are pushing back: the Seminole Nation passed a complete moratorium. The Cherokee Nation banned hyperscale data centers. The Kickapoo Tribe formally opposed them.

Developers eye Native nations, tribal communities for new data center projects - ICT

Data center developments are continuing to spread throughout the country as the demand for digital processing power grows — especially as artificial intelligence systems become more prevalent

ictnews.org

More proof that AI is a tool of fascism.

Reuters@reuters.com · 2h ago

Trump says he will create 'AI Force,' name AI czar reut.rs/4yNgNdu

If you're NOT struggling with all this <gestures at everything> I don't want to know you. Seriously. If you're reading this, on this stupid app, and you are NOT SERIOUSLY DISTURBED by the state of the earth and humanity and the urgent need for revolutionary change, you're a pos. Or a liberal.

What's the difference between Liberal Currents and The Atlantic?

Way too many people in the US will look at this and ignorantly blame "communism" and not the US government, which is currently engaged in a blockade of Cuba. If you're wondering why people all around the world hate us, this is why. We're constantly doing harmful things like this everywhere.

Cuba has 7th power grid collapse this year

Cuba suffered a total blackout as its power grid collapsed again, its seventh of the year. Power is slowly being restored Saturday.

yahoo.com

It's fucking wild how liberals are so bad on trans rights that it's pushing others that are liberal adjacent further left, because they're seeing how bad Blue MAGA is and they don't want to be affiliated with that.

Oh, yeah, because the guy supporting genocide is the real victim here 😒

Revealed: Ed Sheeran 'furious and upset' about Macklemore clash

The singer, 35, has faced much backlash for continuing with his LOOP tour despite his good friend Macklemore being axed

standard.co.uk

LOL

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 11h ago

Ed Sheeran is set to resume his tour Saturday, perhaps alone, after all his supporting acts withdrew.

We're using a playbook and tactics that are more than a century old to wage a class war against capitalists that have infinite resources at their disposal. The only time I've ever seen the oligarchs freak out is during Occupy Wall Street because they didn't know what was happening, or how to stop it

Darkest Timeline Chelsea@annesurely.bsky.social · 11h ago

I'm honestly tired of the emphasis on organizing your workplace. Unions are not going to fix capitalism. In most cases, they're not getting employees the bare minimum: A living wage. I don't understand the point of unions if they can't even do that.

The ideological incoherence of liberals on this app is exhausting. They claim to be on the left, but say they believe in capitalism. They claim to oppose genocide, but voted for it and only condemn Netanyahu, not Israel. They claim to believe in human rights, but gladly abandon trans people.

Liberals: “You need to vote for right wing Dems so that the party has control of Congress and can implement their agenda!” 😤 Also liberals: “You can’t blame the Dem president for not doing what they promised! The right wing Dems we elected blocked everything they wanted to do!” 😭

Regime Change Begins At Home@mikevago.bsky.social · 22h ago

You know, it's funny, the only time I ever get personal insults on this web site is when I try to suggest to the Democrat-hating left that letting the Republicans win isn't going to accomplish any progressive goals. It's almost as if people don't like being called out on their bullshit.

The word you’re looking for is CAPITALISM. Trump is a capitalist. Republicans serve capitalists. Democrats serve capitalists. Our entire society is controlled by capitalists. You’re not going to fix this without getting rid of capitalism.

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 20h ago

By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy.

Allowing the US to have an expansive military presence in your country after Trump has explicitly expressed an intent to seize it is absolutely bonkers.

You can tell that Dems are fake opposition, because they're purely focusing on Trump, not Big Tech. All of this is being pushed by the tech CEOs that own Trump.

FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · yesterday

The Trump administration has moved to build at least 12 data centers on 17,600 acres of public land.

Square is really going all-out in their marketing for the third game 😅

Kotaku@kotaku.com · yesterday

I guess the Pope can cast Aeroga now, but I'm not sure it's a good idea if he does https://kotaku.com/someone-gifted-the-pope-a-giant-hunk-of-materia-2000735588

They make it so obvious which corporations are paying them to take these positions.

Politico@politico.com · 2d ago

Democratic advisers are warning their candidates not to go too hard at AI

Don’t exercise learned helplessness by locking yourself into a false choice dictated by a rigged system controlled by capitalists.

Johnny Applememes@johnnyapplememes.bsky.social · 2d ago

My choices are: 1) vote for anti-trans Democrat 2) vote for anti-trans MAGA Republican 3) don’t vote What’s the play here? Genuinely.

VERY important paper! This study detected SARS-CoV-2 in the air of common areas of 4 big US airports. SARS-CoV-2 detected in 98% of samples through the year. Influenza A was found during flu season. That’s why you want to wear an N95 respirator in an airport! And all indoor public spaces all year!

Multimodal genomic surveillance for respiratory pathogens at four U.S. international airports: A comparison of air, wastewater, clinical, and national surveillance data

Early detection of outbreaks and emerging pathogens is critical for public health and global biosecurity. Airports, as major international travel hubs with dense, enclosed populations, are high-risk s...

journals.plos.org

I browse a lot of the financial press and finance subreddits because I think they’re more likely to say the quiet part out loud, since their money is often on the line, and it’s shocking how none of them can conceive of a global economy where the US isn’t the hegemon and where number doesn’t go up.

From the very start, it was obvious that RFK Jr was one of the most dangerous agents of the Trump regime because he plays on the distrust of corporations and the government to push a neoliberal agenda. Ultimately, all of the snake oil he’s peddling is to advance the interests of giant corporations.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

RFK Jr: "We are also looking at chemtrails"

I don’t vote against Democrats. I just let them lose. There’s a difference. I’m not obligated to save you from the natural consequences of your own actions when you’re supporting genocide, bigotry, racism, and exploitation.

wiredog@wiredog.bsky.social · 2d ago

Because things will be so much better if the GOP wins? The time to vote against Democrats was during the primaries.

The lesson of 2020 is that we shouldn’t mistake anti-Trumpism for liberals seeing through propaganda and changing their politics. This is likely temporary at best, and once a Dem is back in the WH, they’ll be promoting neoliberalism, a neocon foreign policy, and scapegoating immigrants again.

Iran has always been the rational actor when dealing with the West. The US installed a dictator to control the oil and it caused a revolution. In every deal, the West has failed to live up to its obligations yet Iran kept to agreed terms. The US assassinated its leaders, yet Iran didn’t retaliate.

JW@jonw75.bsky.social · 2d ago

In the past, it used to be the Iranians who were the nutcases. This sounds like quite a sensible plan as there's not much sanity coming from the USA / Israel right now. Just bullying, corruption, murder and thieving. I fucking hate the world right now.

The US is so fucked. Prepare for massive price increases and shortages everywhere.

How many Bush administration officials did Obama hold responsible for the illegal war in Iraq and similar war crimes, including torture? Here's what Dems are going to do if they retake power: Nothing. Because taking action would mean that they have to prosecute themselves for past war crimes.

Jack Kennedy@jackkennedy.ie · 2d ago

As a non-American, I would really like to see Democrats in the US start promising war crime prosecutions in future - for this and for the strikes on boats in the Caribbean. Failure to do so would really undermine any attempt to rebuild the US's international reputation

Vulture capitalism.

Bloomberg News@bloomberg.com · 2d ago

Elon Musk’s SpaceX has held internal discussions about buying customer and operational information from troubled or defunct startups, according to people familiar with the matter

Only half a year late. Much like Israel's ongoing genocide, no one will be held accountable for this because the US controls every international institution.

NPR@npr.org · 2d ago

Human rights experts commissioned by the U.N. say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran, including a strike on a school in the southern city of Minab. n.pr/4Ak7inF