That's what taxes are, man. That's the definition of taxes. "You are subsidizing things you might never use" man shut the fuck up. My taxes currently subsidize like oil company exec private jets, you think I'm upset at low-income people eating inexpensive bananas?
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 3d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Goodbye, Minneapolis, Chicago. Hello, Mt. Holly Springs, Pa., pop. 2,300 The inhumanity of mass deportation hits small-town America as a tiny borough with just 4 cops partners with ICE and pulls over dozens of drivers, turning over 32 for deportation My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/moun...
This quaint Pa. borough is a ‘speed trap’ nabbing immigrants for ICE | Will Bunch
Police in Mount Holly Springs, a tiny borough in central Pennsylvania, have turned over 32 immigrants to ICE since March.
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Argentina can still win if Mike Pence has the courage
The fact that J.K. Rowling successfully bullied Amnesty International into taking down a report that accurately called out her attack on trans people, especially trans women, is so repulsive and such a display of the power of her money, and her choice to put her vast fortune behind persecution.
Amnesty removes report that called JK Rowling's centre 'anti-rights'
Amnesty International UK has removed a report which labelled JK Rowling's sexual abuse crisis centre Beira's Place as "anti-rights".
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I like how all of these guys go for the identical Rogan knockoff aesthetic of putting up neon signs and having exposed brick in their faux man cave. It could make a case study for how one generation's hipster look becomes the next generation's stale copy-paste conservatism.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 4w agoVance: A lot of the people who are going and getting 4-year degrees, they're not like engineers and doctors. They have fake jobs
“Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal healthcare, calling it a ‘moral imperative’ that people have access to the health services they need.” www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Pope Leo calls universal healthcare a 'moral imperative'
Pope Leo made a plea on Wednesday for countries to offer their citizens universal healthcare, calling it a "moral imperative" that people have access to the health services they need.
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shutting down a major artery into the city during a holiday weekend while the world cup is in town and there’s a historic heat wave that’s lead to energy rationing just so you can have a wedding is a real radicalizing eat the rich moment
Diane de Vignemont writes in clear language about the Society of Saint Pius X, which is hankering for the good ol' days of Vichy France and a Judenrein Paris. "In France, our history won’t let us call it merely traditionalist. We know exactly what to call it."
The Dark History Behind This Week’s Schism in the Catholic Church
By framing the Society of Saint Pius X as quaint "traditionalists," U.S. media coverage is whitewashing the group's record of fascist sympathies and antisemitism.
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THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM
Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social · last mo.OH SHIT DUDES THE VATICAN HAS WEIGHED IN AND THEY ARE BIG MAD 🔥🔥🔥
As someone who watches a ton of sports, the concept of "fairness" is hilarious. OK lets ban Messi, it's not fair for a team to have a player better than everyone else.
No future without trans people. No future without immigrants. No future without strangers who become loved ones.
No, see, "overruled 90 years of precedent in order to expand presidential power" is the way *critics* describe it. *Your* side says: resisting intrusion into core executive functions, protecting the sanctity of the separation of powers, and acknowledging that the precedent has been whittled away.
also the line "I'm not a victim of racism. I am a tormentor of racists" goes so hard love vinicius
If your business model doesn’t work without breaking the law, then you’re not in business. You’re in organized crime.
Purchase with Purpose@purchase-w-purpose.bsky.social · 2mo agoMillions of copyrighted songs were fed to AI music generators - now there's proof Suno and rivals are being sued for $150k per song. A sum that would bankrupt these companies and set an important precedent.
Imagine being so unable to love your child that you set fire to the whole damn world instead.
Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 2mo agoRIGHT NOW: NJ state troopers with riot gear are forcing protesters supporting the hunger strikers of Delaney Hall and media ppl down the street. They’re firing flashbang grenades at the ground to force people to disperse, per the @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream www.youtube.com/live/yTlpCYk...
The basic problem appears to be that Elon Musk does not know Helen of Troy isn't a real historical figure.
Hedges absolutely killed with this opening. Short. Sweet. Correct.
Blaise Ulysse Bernard Collins@wittywebhandle.bsky.social · last yr.NW Cooled on Chris Hedges since I first found him in my Lib days, but he was pretty fundamental in getting me to question the structural integrity of US Hegemony, even domestically. If you haven't heard him speak on his time in Yugoslavia as the war broke out; a lot will become relevant here soon.
I know I keep banging this drum but this means nothing. nothing means anything. he doesnt know where he is
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3mo agoTrump on approving congressional approved weapons sales to Taiwan: "I may not do it"
The Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 3mo agoall this sweaty calvinball horseshit feels like hysterical panic from the court
One reason FDR's court-packing plan failed to catch on is that the Supreme Court was perceived by many Americans as apolitical and therefore a victim of unwarranted aggression from the president. This court, however, is nakedly partisan. And any Democrat in power should be saying so early and often
Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Roberts Court, the Trump White House, and the national GOP are acting like this is their one big shot. Either they secure the lasting end of US Constitutional democracy, or they’re in very serious trouble from the backlash. And they’ve already gone so far that there’s no other possibility.
read the cornell’s sun original story which is fucking CRAZY
Kotlikoff Drives Into Student and Recent Grad Following ‘Harassment’
President Michael Kotlikoff backed his car into a student and drove over the foot of a recent graduate after what he called a "harassment and intimidation incident" in a Friday email blast to the...
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Howard A. Rodman@rodman.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis story was broken by The Cornell Sun, which @nytimes.com nowhere cites. As a former editor-in-chief of The Sun — and in the name of brave, amazing college newspapers everywhere — do not treat student journalists as truffle pigs, taking what they've sniffed out without credit or compensation.
Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.
