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You played the recorder in part to strengthen your fine motor skills and in part to introduce you to basic music theory concepts like rhythm, the C-major scale, and reading basic music notes. Your teachers wanted to make elementary music education available to all, not just the rich.
You and I — all of us taxpayers — funded this $533 million artillery plant outside of Dallas. It hasn’t produced a single usable shell. Yet the defense contractor, General Dynamics, has never been held publicly accountable. Nor has it had to pay a penny back… 1/
All the subway ads feel like I scrolled too far down on a Guardian article
andy and i were talking about this a bit yesterday. how much of the shit these assholes are trying to just wave out of existence by fiat and decree was *bought and paid for with blood*? we fought a war! secular multiracial democracy won! fuck you
Charlotte Thomas, MLS@caribouwireless.bsky.social · 5d agoThe concept that every person had a right to read and every child was owed an education came at the cost of 750,000 dead from bullets and disease. Universal public education and coast-to-coast municipal library systems are the children of Reconstruction that Jim Crow spent a century trying to kill
The "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
NEW: General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a real-life dumpster fire.
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
propublica.org
Saddest sight in the world is a wife without crow's feet. That's a husband who's not delivering the laughs
medicare for all is the litmus test for being able to rebuild america's scientific, health care and civil service capacity. if you arent willing to stand up to blue cross and united, you aren't willing to do the work necessary to rebuild and build it better. will get a better managed decline.
Uruguay, with 3.5 million people, generates 98% of its electricity from renewable sources. The architect of that transformation, Ramón Méndez Galain, put it simply: "The key is not technology; it is institutions. Once the rules are fair and predictable, the system builds itself."
Our solar power model isn't working — there's a fairer way
Solar lease-to-own could unlock Ireland's energy future — Uruguay, the Netherlands and Germany have all made this work with straightforward rules, writes Mary Teehan
irishexaminer.com
The DOJ indicted “Bitcoin Jesus” Roger Ver in one of the largest-ever crypto tax fraud cases. Those familiar with the case said the evidence was “rock solid” and that prosecutors were confident of a conviction. Then Donald Trump won a second term. (Published January)
How “Bitcoin Jesus” Avoided Prison, Thanks to One of the “Friends of Trump”
Billionaire fugitive Roger Ver was facing federal criminal charges until he sought the services of a select club of President Donald Trump’s former personal attorneys who have easy access to top Justi...
propublica.org
Wild what powerful people will just straight-up say on the record.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 2w agoNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
I have, with my own eyes, watched my tax dollars in the form of missiles as they hit buildings inhabited by civilians. I'd much prefer subsidizing a grocery story I don't use.
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2w agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
the odyssey is a realistic depiction of what it’s like when you’re trying to get home to your girl at 2 am on the mta. it’s always some shit
I’m always a little mystified at how quickly people rush to say, “Democrats don’t actually want open borders,” as though the real injustice is the inaccurate description instead of the fact that they don’t.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 2w agoIt is pretty sad that so few people actually believe in open borders
Chilean Summer continues, just finished House of Spirits and moving on to The Savage Detectives
This is terrifying and disgusting. Haitians are being convoked to appointments, to wear ankle monitors from now on to prepare for deportations. And our tax dollars pay for the ankle monitors to line the profits of the GEO Group. investigations.resistmap.com/p/breaking-i...
BREAKING: ICE Is Using GPS Ankle Monitors to Prepare a Mass Roundup of 350,000 Haitian Refugees
Haitian refugees being summoned to check-ins are being fitted with GPS monitors and sent home — making them easier to locate and round up for mass deportation later.
investigations.resistmap.com
The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.
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.
futurism.com
There's a remarkable *insurgent* contract campaign underway in DC 37 called "Serve NYC, Afford NYC." Goals: 1️⃣ $30/hr min wage 2️⃣ 6.5% annual raises for 5 yr 3️⃣ Telework + compressed schedules 4️⃣ Reduce outsourcing; restore NYC staffing 5️⃣ Reform civil-service system thechiefleader.com/stories/dc-3...
DC 37 members' next target: 6 percent raises & a $30 minimum wage - The Chief
Members of the largest union of municipal workers have a new fixation. Workers who successfully pushed their union to endorse Mayor Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary last year are once again se...
thechiefleader.com
The only creative industry that is inarguably both doing well and doing great work right now is "new baseball guy names."
Bobby Nightengale@nightengalejr.bsky.social · 2w agoJhomnardo Reyes is going to the Orioles for Dean Kremer, per source.
✨ New Essay! ✨ Against Councilmember Robert Kettle’s recent call for budget austerity, @greenbackbetter.bsky.social shows how the Seattle Loop enlarges the city's fiscal capacity while reorganizing the relationships among public commitments, institutions, & constituencies. Please read & share! 👩💻 🙌
Prototyping Democratic Public Finance With the Seattle Loop
By Will Beaman Seattle is once again being told that a projected budget deficit requires difficult choices about which public commitments the city can continue to honor. Councilmember Robert Kettle…
moneyontheleft.org
Isekai as a genre is exploding in popularity because it appeals to a universal desire to get hit by a truck rather than live in the 21st century.
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier used his office earlier this year to help Fontainebleau Hotel in its bid to build an onsite waterpark despite local opposition. The famed hotel is owned by billionaire Jeffrey Soffer – who also owns a casino that donated $25K to Uthmeier.
I fear if you're big upping the federal government for going after leftists providing aid to a country the federal government is trying to starve you're actually a piece of shit.
Heard the thickest Miami accent on the most annoying person on the train the other day and was both repulsed and crying tears of joy