private equity is destroying everything and must itself be destroyed

Not your imagination: from backpacks to food, consumer goods are getting worse

Is it possible to avoid the continuing decline in quality of consumer products brought on by corporate greed?

theguardian.com

If it looks like an Amazon delivery and drives like an Amazon delivery, then it's an Amazon delivery, right? Not according to Amazon. Big companies like Amazon have built a vast network of subcontractors who deliver their packages while shielding them from accountability.

Cassidy can fuck himself sideways. He could have stopped this and chose not to. RFK Jr.'s hostility toward vaccines was his fucking *job* before he was HHS Secretary.

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 9h ago

Bill Cassidy is concerned www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Senator Chris Van Hollen becomes the first Democratic member of Congress to call for Mike Huckabee's resignation over his support for Greater Israel.

Senator Chris Van Hollen@vanhollen.senate.gov · 13h ago

A US ambassador's job is to protect & defend the citizens & interests of the United States. US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, has failed to do so. As violence consumes the West Bank & extremists call for a Greater Israel, he's become a mouthpiece for the Israeli govt. He should resign.

People alarmed about socialism’s poll numbers ought to pay more attention to how capitalism polls. It’s bad—and entirely deserved. trib.al/ONXnzbJ

Memo to Those Who Fear Socialism: Why Don’t You Try Fix Capitalism?

People alarmed about socialism’s poll numbers ought to pay more attention to how capitalism polls. It’s bad—and entirely deserved.

trib.al

This jagoff

Gareth Watkins@garethwatkins.bsky.social · 22h ago

Curtis Yarvin is now publishing his conversations with Claude about Race Communism. Starting to think that he may not be a serious thinker!

Yes. Liz Cheney shifted the Jan 6 Commission to protect Clarence and Ginny Thomas, and Liz Cheney supported Brett Kavanaugh. Cheney has, using her political power, done much much more to help Donald Trump’s Project 2025 destruction of American than Hasan Piker.

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · yesterday

If you can't see the difference between Liz Cheney and Hasan Piker, you're part of why Democrats lose elections

Says a lot about the incentive structure of US politics on the left of center that every single progressive is scrutinized for every little thing while the most rabidly right wing Democratic member of Congress can go talk to Trump's stenographer and call his fellow party members bigots.

I’ll tell you why really aggravates me about this Sophie Cunningham shit. In my line of work, the profile is all but dead. We used to do them at GQ all the time, back when the magazine was great and EIC Jim Nelson let us paint the subject warts and all… www.gq.com/story/duck-d...

Duck Dynasty's Phil Robertson Gives Drew Magary a Tour of West Monroe

The stars of A&E's Duck Dynasty, reality TV's most popular show, drop knowledge on Drew Magary.

gq.com

The Free Press is now running pro-Flock “articles” (ads) without disclosing they’re both partially owned by Andreessen Horowitz. 🤦

I double dog dare anybody to top this “people I went to high school with” story. Please pardon the blogger’s choice of ethnic descriptors though tbdailynews.com/2020/07/07/u...

Any account of this trolling stunt that doesn’t begin and end with it being a trolling bigoted stunt is worthless. They made “Lady Ballers” and that sucked shit IDK what these assholes expect an IRL version to achieve other than attention

Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social · 2d ago

Let's be extremely clear: in doing this, they aren't just mocking trans women. This is just as much about making fun of women's basketball and denying that it's a real sport. www.foxnews.com/outkick-spor...

Ossoff is making a very strong play for the "I stand at the center of the Democratic Party ideologically, but I long to bathe in the blood of my enemies" lane in the 2028 primaries. And that's gonna be a good lane to have.

Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · last mo.

I don’t think it’s hype, I think he has it in him to become a 2028 frontrunner. I wish there were some polling on what is numbers are among people who know who he is I think that’s what convinced me Obama could pull it off, back when Hillary was “inevitable” in 2006/7, but the Obama people kept…

Colleges will be held accountable for the earnings of their graduates. But universities don’t have that data. So the depleted IRS, instead of tracking down rich tax cheats, will be tracking the earnings of 24 year olds and indexing them to the programs from which they got their degrees.

And the Lord said to Kurt Warner “Kurt when you saw only one pair of footprints in the sand that’s because Larry Fitzgerald was carrying you”

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2d ago

Drew Brees has entered the Pro Football Hall of Fame along with Larry Fitzgerald, Luke Kuechly, Adam Vinatieri and Roger Craig.

@amtrak.com Acela 2267 #WTF this is going on 3 hours to get a spare engine 30 miles from Penn station to wherever we’re stuck at.

A note on Royce White, the former NBA player who says he's entering the WNBA draft, a judge ruled he abused his wife and teenage son in an April court order and determined he could not have contact with either of them for 50 years. Great way to "protect women's sports" transphobes.

Update: the Dodgers have lost 7 straight games and are 4-9 (.307) since visiting the White House.

Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social · 5d ago

Update: Since the visiting the White House, the Dodgers are 4-8 (.333) and have lost six games in a row. Before the visit, they had the best record in baseball. Since the visit, they have the second worst.

ross douthat's last column is, like all his columns, a worthless pile of shit that shows what a dumb move it was to promote him as any kind of public intellectual in the first place.

Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 3d ago

“Civic and educational collapse.” No you didn’t. That’s not true.

I’m sweating my balls off inside a stopped train at New Rochelle that I’m riding only because American Airlines canceled my flight and couldn’t get me from providence to DC until possibly Tuesday, AMA!

You dinguses are acting like this is normal diplomatic stuff

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3d ago

The Trump administration has pressed its spy agencies to find a new person who could potentially lead Cuba.

OK, in honor of the The Odyssey, give me your top 3 films about trying to get home (NOT including The Odyssey) 1. The Warriors 2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles 3. Homeward Bound

Nigel Tufnel@misterrora.bsky.social · 2d ago

Planes, Trains, and Automoblies.

Fucking without the risk of pregnancy is good, actually. The only “consequence” of sex should be enjoyment. Who are these absolute weirdos

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Wow. And no. “I am not completely opposed to contraception. I think, though, that women in particular should behave as if contraception doesn’t exist… Maybe that’s my concrete proposal: that you should use contraception within marriage rather than as a means of seeming to have consequence-free sex.”

THANK YOU www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

They're just coming right out and saying it. When body camera footage makes them look bad, no one sees it. When it serves a proagandistic purpose, everyone sees it.

American Oversight@weareoversight.bsky.social · 3d ago

ICE is planning to make sure field agents have body cams by the end of September. But its policy to only release footage that is in the agency’s “best interest” means taxpayers may be paying millions for cameras without benefitting from their oversight. apnews.com/article/ice-...

Banks permitted millions in suspicious transactions tied to Epstein—and former 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi had the story months ago. But the report would never air. trib.al/OAqRC2S

And they’ll be rendered useless by drones that become ever cheaper

Robert Reich@rbreich.bsky.social · 4d ago

“A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

I’m being threatened with a good time here

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d ago

Trump on El-Sayed: "If he succeeds, the Dumocrats will gain 4 Senators, 8 Congressmen, many Electoral and Popular Votes, a stacked Supreme Court with 23 Justices, and I will be, sadly, despite the great job we are doing, the last Republican President!"

Christ what an asshole

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: Regarding the claims that Rep. Max Miller withheld his toddler's "blue bunny," I have some new screenshots suggesting there was a pattern of Miller not giving the bunny back. There were pleas from multiple people on multiple dates. (Thread: 1/8)

Paxton has his aide step and doesn't answer when someone asks him "how come on a government salary you own over 15 houses?"