Mike Davis
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"I don't know how to explain to you why you should care about other people." - Lauren Morrill
While he's not the odds-on favorite for the 2028 nomination yet, I'll bet he's in the top 3 by the time primary season starts. The man can throw a punch. Love to see it.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 14h agoOssoff: "If John Lewis were marching today from Selma to Montgomery, Mike Collins would be grabbing a billy club"
this is my favorite genre of social media post and I am soliciting links or screenshots to your favorites
The solutions are both: 1) Greater labor organizing and more unions 2) Significant corporate taxes for any business that does not provide at least X% of its revenue to labor. If they don't pay the share to labor, the government should be reclaiming it.
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago“.. the continuing divergence between corporate profits as a percentage of GDP versus compensation.” - Sarmaya Partners substack.com/@sarmayakar?...
“Originalism is an incoherent doctrine. It allows you to prove anything. Thus what it amounts to is a ritual invocation of the Founders, gesturing at this or that piece of text, before delivering whatever conclusion was approved on Fox News the night before.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-have-no-s...
We Have No Supreme Court
The philosophical incoherence of originalism prevents the Court from performing its core functions as a supreme court.
liberalcurrents.com
This country can't stop destroying itself. The number of ways we've managed to do it is truly astounding.
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · last wk.It’s so weird how when you tell the rest of the world to go fuck itself and fill your nation’s streets with gangs of armed, masked, and unaccountable armed thugs and terrorize people at the border…that people will decide to vacation elsewhere. Who could have guessed?
Yet another reason to run on oversight and accountability. Those are promises they can actually keep.
Paul Waldman@paulwaldman.bsky.social · last wk.Not to be a party pooper but a Democratic Congress is absolutely not going to lower costs; it just won't be in their power no matter how much they'd like to. Hard to tell what the political consequences of being unable to follow through on their central campaign promise will be.
I'll say it again: It doesn't matter what Democrats say now, or intend now. They will impeach Trump, because he won't give them any choice. So I hope they're preparing themselves for it.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · last wk.this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
Can’t stop wars. Cant stop the president committing nonstop crime. Can’t do anything about Epstein. Or cost of living. Or the environment. They can fuck over workers though. They’ll do that real fast.
Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · last wk.It is really remarkable that in a time of historic impasse in Congress, with both houses have been reduced to complete standstills despite a mounting number of political, economic, and ethical crises, both parties have spent months working to pass a bill limiting the pay of college athletes
Google maps has finally updated its Satellite photos of Gaza and it shows the most complete destruction of a city ever. A Genocide.
Whoops, I guess nobody is responsible for all those war crimes. Better not try to get any accountability.
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 3w agoThe real reason this exists. Mr. Nobody As A Service for when you do war crimes
See also: bsky.app/profile/thor... Make it stop, and make those who forced us to endure it pay.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 3w agoMaybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.
71% of Americans Say They're Completely Exhausted
A CDC report shows that people are not feeling relaxed and restful in the United States.
gizmodo.com
The *specific* thing that made Macklemore relevant in the past decade is his stance and songs on Palestine. Why would Ed Sheeran invite him as an opener if Ed's intent is to remain politically neutral?
Pop Base@popbase.tv · 4w agoMacklemore says Ed Sheeran and his team decided to remove him from tour due to his comments in support of Palestine, after Kraft Group rallied stadium owners and gave Ed an ultimatum:
The rule they are overturning was predicted to give $120 billion in public health benefits by 2047, with projections that by 2035, it would would prevent up to 1,200 premature deaths, 870 hospital and emergency room visits, 360K asthma attacks, 48K school absence days and 57K lost workdays each year
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 4w agoBreaking News: The E.P.A. is said to be planning to announce that the U.S. will no longer limit climate pollution from power plants.
"Foreign-born population" is only a negative metric if you're a racist. The only thought motivating their abhorrent behavior is "different=bad." What a sad, detestable way to go through life.
Bill@bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · last mo.Even from a purely national pride perspective, this requires you to think that the 100 year period from 1926 was a failure for the United States, instead of the zenith of its power, prosperity, and influence
We're the most psychologically fragile, narcissistic country on Earth. Completely incapable of even considering anyone else.
US only country to oppose UN resolution correcting Africa’s size on world maps
The U.S. was the only country to not support a United Nations resolution adjusting the appearance of Africa and other regions on world maps. The body passed the “Correct the Map” initiative b…
thehill.com
Major shout out to @pablo.show for proving that journalism still matters
Shams Charania Tweets@shamsbot.bsky.social · last mo.BREAKING: The NBA has ruled on the Los Angeles Clippers in for salary cap circumvention investigations on Kawhi Leonard after yearlong probe -- stripping the franchise of 5 first-round picks, issuing a $30 million fine to owner Steve Ballmer and suspensions for Ballmer, Lawrence Frank and Gillian
Genuinely maddening and infuriating. If any of the proposed rules are enacted, this is effectively the administration deciding who gets to vote and who doesn't.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last mo.New in PN: Trump begs SCOTUS to let him unleash midterm chaos "Multiple courts have ruled this is wholly illegal. And yet, no one knows whether SCOTUS's MAGA majority will again leap in to ensure he's able to violate the law. This is not how functioning democracies *go*. Or at least, not for long."
Final score: 2 Possibly 3, but I'm not positive if I've heard of Druski or if it just rings a bell because of an acquaintance named Drew who gets called Drew-skie.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · last mo.8.5. And since he's only 12 spots away from Hasan Piker, we should being asking Abdul El-Sayed to disavow @davejorgenson.bsky.social.
Just let women run everything. The other way isn’t working. Let’s give the matriarchy a shot. www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-ne...
Melinda Gates Matches Olivia Rodrigo’s $10 Million Daisy Chain Festival Donation to 10 Repro Nonprofits
Melinda French Gates joined Olivia Rodrigo at her inaugural Daisy Chain Fields music festival, doubling a $10 million pledge to nonprofits
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Objecting to the destruction of USAID is a pretty clean litmus test for being a serious person and not evil a surprising number of otherwise bad people pass this test, and a shocking number of people who pretend to care do not
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · last mo.So sure, USAID was a tool of US soft power and political influence, and also, I sometimes get the sense that people saying this don’t quite comprehend the torrent of death, horror, and pain that is currently unfolding from the genuinely evil decision to suddenly destroy it.
Man goes to prison. After many years, he gets out of prison.
Dan Hon@danhon.com · last mo.Make your favorite film sound as boring as possible without giving away the title: A chief technology officer is worried about keeping his spreadsheets private.
In the past month, I've had a conservative coworker and a conservative family member both tell me - deadly serious - that America is being taken over by Sharia Law. Whatever is percolating in the fever swamps is gaining traction. Everything is so stupid.
SLC Unc@dadshammdad.bsky.social · last mo.10 weeks to the midterms and we're back to 2001 levels of Islamaphobia. It's gonna get worse, too.
No Starbucks until they reach a deal. Solidarity.
Starbucks Workers United@sbworkersunited.org · last mo.🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
All due respect for NPR, but in a difficult competition among many iconic roles, I firmly believe this will be Tim Curry's most remembered. RIP to a legend.
NPR@npr.org · last mo.Breaking News: Curry will be most remembered for his role as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the tyrannical gender-bending alien scientist in both stage and screen versions of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. He was 80.
Will be interesting to see if this survives peer review, but if so, this is a fairly incredible projection.
Jen Taub@jentaub.bsky.social · 2mo ago“A single-payer universal health care system could cover every American, save more than 100,000 lives a year, and still cost $1 trillion less than the system it would replace, according to a new preprint study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health.” ysph.yale.edu/news-article...
