RawrTigerlily
@rawrtigerlily.bsky.social
Progressive living in Georgia, but always Minnesota Nice until you push me. I have a husband & an adult son. ^We had a senior cat who passed away. Can we make this a better place? I'm trying.
Never forget that Republicans took food out of poor kid’s mouths to pay for this wasteful, stupid nonsense.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 2d agoAccording to the whistleblower: - Agents have to investigate 40 voter records a day, leaving just 11.25 minutes per investigation. - Agents are using state voter registration in a way that may be illegal. - Agents are using source data that many think is completely unreliable.
America’s trend toward higher profits, higher share prices, and mounting executive pay but near stagnant wages is unsustainable — economically and politically. It's time to bring back profit sharing. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Share the Profits! Why US business must return to rewarding workers properly | Robert Reich
The economy is booming and corporate profits are huge, but American wages still stagnate. History provides the answer
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More Perfect Union@moreperfectunion.bsky.social · last wk.Since 2000, the value of the S&P 500 stock index has gained about 600%. Over the same period, inflation-adjusted worker earnings have risen just 12.5% — according to NBC.
NEW: Once exceptionally rare, illegal deportations — in defiance of court orders or due to ICE screw-ups — are now a routine part of President Trump's mass deportation push. It happened 3 times this past week and more at least 30 times in recent months. www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Yep. If El-Sayed frames his appeal this way, it's harder for JD Vance to pretend to be outraged about it.
capitolhunters@capitolhunters.bsky.social · 4d agoQuote-posting to highlight Sargent's excellent advice for El-Sayed: say "JD, every time Trump and MAGA attack my family's religion and smear my wife for wearing a hijab, they are attacking your wife and kids, too." This works on so many different levels, without being an attack on Vance's kids.
We're being told that if we sacrifice the rights of some people, then the rest of us get to keep our rights. We all know that's some BS.
"It's hard to square the idea of an 'energy emergency' with the Trump administration's actions against renewable energy: By mid-August, the administration had committed about $4 billion in payouts to companies to stop offshore wind projects that could have ... powered more than 15 million homes."
Truthout@truthout.org · 4d agoThe ruling is one of the first successful legal challenges to the administration’s use of “energy emergency” powers.
The term that's needed to capture the point behind this satire is *proportionality.* If we analyze the pathologies of the present political agenda through the lens of political judgment, the problem is a systematic failure of opinion-makers to respond proportionally to the issues of the day.
NY Times Pitchbot@nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 7d agoRepublicans have helped a senile narcissist destroy our economy, our system of laws, and our standing in the world. But my liberal neighbor has one of those stupid "Coexist" bumper stickers on her Subaru. I have never felt more politically homeless.
It’s kind of crazy how no one ever wants to ask the front line staff, the people actually doing the work, what would enable them to do their jobs better and more effectively. Nah, let’s just get yet another tool so someone can watch charts as they squeeze the life out of people, until they quit.
It’s often hard to believe these companies are even capable of producing any good in the world, when you read their human employees closed an account, instead of reporting someone to police when they were clearly obsessed with becoming a mass shooter. Beyond negligence. futurism.com/artificial-i...
OpenAI Is Now Facing Over 50 Consumer Harm and Wrongful Death Lawsuits
OpenAI was hit with 30 new lawsuits overs its alleged role in the Tumbler Ridge school massacre. It now faces over 50 consumer harm lawsuits.
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans’ Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Tony Colletti@tonyc007.bsky.social · last wk.Once again, Conservatives take dystopian fiction that the authors wrote as cautionary tales (like The Handmaid’s Tale, 1984, Brave New World, Animal Farm, Fahrenheit 451, Hunger Games, etc.) and instead treat them as instruction manuals.
The real mind virus was Elon all the time
The Author, Séamas O'Reilly@seamas.bsky.social · last wk.Have seen this Nature piece about the effects of X's algorithm mentioned again and it bears repeating; exposure to a right wing algorithm makes you - measurably and predictably - more right wing, even after you stop using it. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Maybe I’m just too fucking jaded, but I already fully expected every AI company would be looking for power users & spying on/stealing their conversations. Just ask yourself “what would an evil asshole do here?” And you’ll never be shocked by these companies.
Quantian@quantian.bsky.social · last wk.Dancing very very VERY close to saying “OpenAI stole our almost-complete proof of Navier-Stokes from internal access to our ChatGPT sessions because they were desperate to scoop Anthropic” which is absolutely 100% a believable thing OpenAI would do right now cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...
it’s okay though. the top tenth wealthiest people only own about 90 percent of the stock market
Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · last wk.(NBC News) — It is now the least rewarding time to be a worker in the U.S. economy since the government started keeping track. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/business/eco...
It's Labor Day in the US, folks, and while the details of the fight for labor have changed, the urgency and nature of the fight has not. Share a favorite labor quote to celebrate! "Power concedes nothing without a demand, It never did and it never will.” - Frederick Douglass
On this Labor Day, let’s acknowledge that worker power is the thing that must stand in opposition to the capital class’ drive to consume all.
I forgot to mention my annual “why are pumpkin buyers for grocery stores so insistent about putting them on display earlier every fucking year?” watch… Publix was putting hundreds of dollars of pumpkins outside, directly on the concrete, when it’s been 96 degrees out everyday on Thursday, Sept 3rd.
“More leaders means more leadership.” They really do seem to think this in middle manager land.
McSweeney's@mcsweeneys.net · last wk."I am an Associate Slop Doula for Mondo Mayo, founded as a mayonnaise company, which now sells consumer packaged goods, software as a service, and surveillance technology, and is one of three large corporations remaining on Earth." buff.ly/RbEQoJg
Our society's unfathomable cruelty to homeless people is not just morally unjustifiable, but more expensive than housing people would be. Cruelty against the homeless is an unaffordable luxury. Abandoning homeless people to avoid offending the Protestant work ethic is an unaffordable luxury.
ProPublica@propublica.org · last wk.ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote:
Right-size Scotus and declare their rulings void. Enforce the constitutional edict against insurrectionists holding office. Overturn all their work. Demolish their buildings. Money out of politics. Nazis out of government. Cancel all Musk contracts; seize his property for a global restitution fund.
The challenge as I see it: 1) making sure the election isn’t stolen; 2) cementing this unpopularity not as a unique Trump feature, but as an intrinsic part of the Republican brand. Republicans must be made equal to failure, corruption, incompetence, cruelty, and authoritarianism in the public mind.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2w agoThis is so good to see: Even in red areas, strong disapproval of Trump is vastly outweighing strong approval of him. This is a key reason the midterm map is expanding into redder areas. The anti-Trump intensity gap is truly remarkable. I wrote about it here: newrepublic.com/article/2151...
Anyone who doesn’t want to dismantle this agency & put all it’s personnel behind bars has no place in leadership.
Angry@angrystaffer.bsky.social · 2w agoThere’s no legitimate purpose for ICE to have this information. There are a ton of nefarious ones, though.
The "law and order" party really determined to decide the law only applies to other people.
Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2w agoNEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
A visual representation of the concentration of wealth in America.
Mike Konczal@mtkonczal.bsky.social · 2w agoBLS this morning, with revised 2Q data: "The labor share, which is the percentage of output that accrues to workers in the form of compensation, was 52.8 percent in the second quarter of 2026, the lowest level in the series, which begins in the first quarter of 1947."
Good news, everyone! (Hahaha! Jk) Instead of coming up with any policy changes that would actually help stem the tide of small business closures, the Trump administration is going to let 5 small businesses compete in the Hunger Games for your amusement. www.mediaite.com/politics/tru...
Trump Administration Taps Nicki Minaj, Dean Cain for Shark Tank-Style Show
The Trump administration is bringing Nicki Minaj and Dean Cain to Washington, D.C., next month for a Shark Tank-style competition in which small businesses will battle for a piece of $1 million in pri...
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