Purple Top Neep

@purpletopneep.bsky.social

Viva Mexico 🇲🇽 y Canada 🇨🇦 Just a simple neep trying to make his way through the galaxy... in case you're finding me from other socials, warning - this WILL get political.

Turns out Apple Maps lets you leave a report if something on its map is wrong and needs correction. So I submitted a report about Lake Ontario. Would be a shame if lots of people flood the service with similar reports.

 An Apple Maps screenshot: 

Thanks, Cristian!
You're making Maps better for everyone! We'll let you know when we've reviewed your report.

Watch this the next time you want to say that all Texans are ignorant hicks who deserve everything bad that happens to them. Watch these people fight. Watch how our voting rights keep getting stripped away as they have been for over a decade. If you won't help, then shut up and get out of the way.

Jen Rice@jenrice.bsky.social · 3d ago

Happening now in TX: Voters in battleground Tarrant County are telling GOP local officials what they think of their plan to cut 30% of voting locations this year “Nothing you can do can stop us from removing you in November”

A reminder for Corporate Democrats: New research from Yale found that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. It's no surprise why the majority of Americans — including 90% of Democratic voters — support it.

ICE must be Dismantled and INS reinstated….. ICE abducted 100+ people in Memphis, Tennessee at 1:00 AM and threw them in buses. Nobody knows where they were taken. This is modern day human trafficking.

“When mayors in other cities ask me how #Copenhagen afforded to invest in its cycling networks, I ask them how on earth they have been able to afford highway projects. We invested in bike lanes because that was the cheapest option.” What the world can learn from Copenhagen’s cycling revolution.

Copenhagen Cycling Revolution: Lessons for Cities

Close to two-thirds of the city’s residents commute by bike to school or work every day.

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NO media 1000s are marching in DC to defend voting rights; 90 orgs signed on, Reuters sent photographers, but local media Bernie Sanders, AOC and Martin Luther King III attended Wa Post buried it A Black-led march is visible in DC only after somebody else reports it Repost the march they buried

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1/ Are #DISH technicians installing #Flock cameras? Yes, technicians working out of DISH Network-branded vehicles or through local subcontractors have been documented installing and servicing Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras.

Yes, technicians working out of DISH Network-branded vehicles or through local subcontractors have been documented installing and servicing Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) cameras

Darline Graham said that because her own parents died when she was a kid, people today shouldn't expect "government health care." So I dug up the real story of the death of Darline/Lindsey's parents. It makes a strong case FOR government health care. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2148...

What Darline Graham’s Ugly, Viral Outburst About Death Really Reveals

The senator’s parents died when she was a kid. That’s tragic. But it’s also tragic that she’s against the kind of care that could help untold numbers of people avoid that fate today.

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These people had protected status. They lived here legally. They worked, they paid taxes. They made lives. Raised families. Now we’ve dehumanized them. Ripped away that protection and told them to get out. This is a stain on the soul of this Nation.

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Looks like we’re using Gitmo to imprison immigrants again. This is an ICE charter airline owned by ICE’s flight broker using the callsign they use for all their ICE flights.

An FR24 map showing N411ZW going from Miami to Gitmo.

You think? They are increasingly dangerous. The real fraud is that the FICA witholding of high earners is capped. Most Americans arent even aware we pay a higher % of income than these guys. The Social Security Trust Fund will be fine if we just scrap the cap.

"Greetings, fellow ordinary Americans, that money you've been putting into Social Security all your life was a scam and I should get it instea--" "lol no fuck off" See how much better that works?

He advises looking at this without sentiment and without sentiment I think the best way to solve this problem is to enforce 1950s level top marginal rates and fold capital gains into income, and uncap social security contributions. It’s just the RATIONAL response.