A point economists & wannabe capitalists still miss: racism trumps making money in the USA. As this and many other nonsensical but deadly polices demonstrate.

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 2d ago

Don't miss this vile story: MAGA is raging at DHS chief Markwayne Mullin for admitting migrant farmworkers can beneft our economy. This means his devotion to ethnic cleansing is in doubt. He must be excommunicated! I wrote about the collapse of MAGA mythology here: newrepublic.com/article/2138...

if you are bigoted against trans folks you will not stop there and I know it you are either already racist, sexist, or homophobic or you are on your way there and I will not join you for your journey

“Modern life is standing at a gas station sink with your hands under a motion-activated faucet waiting for water that doesn’t come.” sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/quicksand

Quicksand

Gen X was right after all.

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Can't get numb to this: The United States is stuck in a war it started, cannot end, and may further escalate to no avail, having dismantled its diplomatic apparatus, depleted its military stockpile, and destroyed its credibility. A historic strategic mistake harming millions in many different ways.

If you live in Ohio, make sure she knows that unless she revises her stance on this issue, you will not vote for her. Exactly ZERO Republicans are going to vote for a Democratic candidate because they are an anti-trans bigot. They have a full-on Nazi on the other side they prefer. #AllAboutTheBase

More Americans have been killed in the Iran war Trump started than in the Afghan withdrawal Biden was handed and completed. The implications for America’s geopolitical situation is much worse with attacking Iran than leaving Afghanistan. But going by tone of coverage, one would think the opposite.

The reason to not defund all the pillars of a functioning society to save money is that society collapses and no money is saved. The reason to not spend all the money on police and tax breaks for wealthy pricks is then the wealthy pricks have everything in a police state designed to protect them.

every American political argument is just this meme repeated almost verbatim, forever

The supremacist spirit rests upon foundational lies: 1) We bear no relationship to one another. 2) Life must be earned. 3) Failing to earn life is a crime that slavery redeems. These are the foundational principles of the U.S., if you peek beneath the documents to see what the machine does.

“But the bigger problem is how much of the media of ‘the left’ is dominated by men who appear to have no understanding of sexual abuse or intimate partner violence, but do have a pretty hefty sexist streak that they either aren’t aware of or don’t care to remedy.” YES @juliedicaro.bsky.social

We have an even bigger problem than Graham Platner

The candidate's rise and fall perfectly illustrates the sexism in lefty media

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I had just finished reading your (important, relatable, moving) Handbasket piece from last night when I clicked over here and immediately saw Grim's bs. The entire Platner saga has been viscerally repulsive on every level and I'm starting to get ANGRY that some men are so dedicated to continuing it

I would kill or die for Larry

Hey, look at that, what had been subtext is once again just text. This is a Redeemer administration.

Putting this into a main text threaded post instead of only alt text and replies: Yes, it looks like Grant is surrendering to the proud, noble Lee. That’s the point. It’s a Redeemer/ Lost Cause / Dunning School painting from the 1920s. It’s Confederate agitprop. And now the White House is using it.

If Democrats fought Republicans as hard as they do people on the left they'd never lose an election.

An $11,000 golf cart. More than $7,000 on TV subscriptions. $1.5 million in office renovations. Those were among the expenses that one sheriff’s office billed to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling in the department. With @azluminaria.org

This Sheriff’s Office Says Racial Profiling Reforms Are Too Costly. Auditors Found It Misused $163 Million.

Since 2013, Maricopa County officials have approved $226 million in sheriff’s office spending related to a settlement aimed at rooting out racial profiling. Auditors found that more than 70% of it was...

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After these votes, the Dems who have voted yea for the most Trump nominees are: 1) Jeanne Shaheen: 58 2) John Fetterman: 50 3) Maggie Hassan: 49 4) Tim Kaine: 41 5) Mark Kelly: 36 6t) Jacky Rosen: 34 6t) Mark Warner: 34 8t) Ruben Gallego: 32 8t) Amy Klobuchar: 32

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

Rep. AOC posts new photo on Instagram celebrating the Knicks alongside Mayor Zohran Mamdani

Elon Musk should be mentioned in the same breath as Leopold and Hitler and any other mass-murdering human monster; he should be equated in the public mind with "genocidal racist mass murderer" and little else. And he should be brought to justice for those crimes.

An update on the American Diabetes Association drama 🍿 The editorial being handed out that got some scientists kicked out? Went from a few hundred views and downloads in May to >90K 💥💥💥 Can we make that number go up more? diabetesjournals.org/care/article...

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

The opinions expressed in this editorial are the personal views of the authors (S.E. Kahn, C.A.M. Anderson, J.B. Buse, and E. Selvin) and do not represent

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i literally just wanted to own a two bedroom home in a walkable neighborhood where i can have three cats and a dog and wear nice outfits to go feed pigeons and now society is about to collapse

"We already live in a world where you walk outside and there are billboards & signs that are obvious AI slop. That’s become part of our visual reality. To me, generative AI feels less like innovation than a symptom of a broader cultural and economic rot" popculturenews.com/backrooms-di...

Did you catch that? He’s worried about the credit card issuers, not the credit card holders. He’s confident they’ll get all their money out of you and he dgaf what you’ll have left when they’re done with you, and he says that’s a good economy.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo ago

BREAM: The Journal says percentage of delinquent credit card balances is 13%, the highest in 15 years. People are using them for necessities. Your message to them? HASSETT: We talk to CEOs of the credit card companies all the time, and there's not any threat to them. People are taking a bit longer.

So the administration that's keeping millions of Epstein documents under wraps, revealed the names and images of sexual abuse victims to the world, and hasn't charged anyone beyond Epstein & Maxwell with a crime, wants to go after a woman who won a case against her sexual assaulter?

Converting to Catholicism so I can tell my bosses using unregulated AI is against my religion and I will sue them like that cake lady who hated gay people if they make me use it

The Associated Press@apnews.com · 2mo ago

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

and you cannot yield, on the "liberal diversity" point, by creating a meritocratic society of all white men who are palatable to the angry populists! you will not have a strong base of scientists and experts unless you allow all people to flourish and become scientists and experts!

QRTing this bc of the news of GLP-1s reducing cancer rates: what's going on this country is that a bunch of guys' dads told them that being a protector & tough & not gay/a nerd is what society is built on, but actually society is built on going to college & learning stuff & they FUCKING HATE THAT

|horses|@chemotaxis.bsky.social · 12mo ago

has any institution in your life, you, the american voter, delivered harder than the biomedical research complex? a fuckin respiratory virus shows up out of nowhere you get a vaccine ahead of schedule. meanwhile we're knocking out HIV and diabetes and goddamned pancreatic cancer on the side.

Ghislaine Maxwell is eligible to file a claim with Trump’s $1.8 billion theft of taxpayer dollars. 5 appointees of Trump’s former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche would then decide if she should get some of your money. This is the Republican Party.