In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.
A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich
In 1994, I took a lot of heat for this speech warning that the American middle class was in danger. That was 29 years ag
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Happy 9th anniversary of people who claim to cherish the Declaration of Independence getting extremely angry when they encountered its text in the wild. PRRI poll: Competing Visions of America at 250: Politics, Religion, and American Identity prri.org/research/com...
Spelledw1n@spelledw1n.bsky.social · last yr.Happy 8th anniversary to people getting PO'd at NPR because they didn't recognize or agree with the Declaration of Independence when it was tweeted out line by line. apnews.com/general-news...
This is, to put it mildly, a double standard. This guy was part of a government that encouraged online social media figures to engage in routine harassment of government employees to the point that many were fired or went into hiding. Some of it was done by Elon Musk, this guy's boss.
Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 5mo agoBreaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...
Economists call this (essentially) first degree price discrimination: seller set prices to perfectly fit consumers' willing to pay, so the joint gains from trade ("consumer surplus" and "producer surplus") go entirely to the seller. I took it as a thought experiment when I was in grad school.
Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 6mo agoUrge your reps to ban Surveillance Pricing and boycott any business that uses it. If it’s allowed to take root, you will be robbed for the rest of your lives.
The reality is America is a huge multicultural multilingual country, not a white ethnostate, and venomous white supremacist MAGA crybabies lose it whenever that reality becomes unignorable. We should always seek to increase, not decrease, their discomfort. www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...
Hating the Game
The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.
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Next Superbowl halftime should include a recreation of the confederate surrender at Appomattox while Jefferson Davis flees the scene dressed as an old lady.
it’s amazing how these rich and powerful men’s core problems, their central complaint about the world, is “someone called me a mean name and it made my tummy hurt”
Jonathan Howard@joho.bsky.social · 7mo agoYep. Censor Jay is celebrating the arrest of journalists who hurt his feelings.
Instead of everyone reviewing that Melania film to talk about how bad it is, since it’s not really a movie more than it is a bribe, how about writing about some of the great films this year that people may have missed? I don’t think we need 100 of the same reviews about a non-movie.
Let me give you a thought experiment: Imagine not just a ban on qualified immunity for authority, but a reversal; a new legal framework, under which authority bears greater responsibility than civilians in matters involving force—as it should. www.the-reframe.com/absolute-imm...
Absolute Immunity
Alignment with supremacy is a vile choice. Raising the natural costs for those who make that choice by putting first things first.
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"If you're not paying for the product, then you are the product." No we can commodify each other, too.
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 8mo agoI‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why. I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
"One party only needs 44% of the national popular vote to maintain control over the legislature" sure is a statement about the state of American democracy
Emily Badger@emmbadger.bsky.social · 10mo agoIf Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act falls, Democrats might need to win the national popular vote by 5 to 6 points to take control of the House, via Nate Cohn www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...
AI shows ingroup bias towards AI content! If we deploy LLMs in decision-making roles (e.g., purchasing goods, selecting academic submissions) they will favor LLM agents over ordinary humans www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
I know multiple people who reported their cars stolen just to have the cops accuse them of trying to commit insurance fraud so they didn't have to bother investigating. Then the victims had to fight w their insurance companies for months bc of this. See also: Mike Birbiglia's car accident story.
Claire Zagorski, PhD, MSc, EMT-P@clairezagorski.bsky.social · last yr.Cannot emphasize this enough. On the whole, police don’t solve crimes for shit, and they don’t prevent crimes for shit. They are actively bad at both. The average Law & Order fan would be stunned to tears after following around real cops for a day.
Multiple times yesterday, Trump attacked decisions he made himself - because he can’t remember his first term. He then told a Unabomber story as his own, when it was actually a story Jeffrey Epstein used to tell. Mainstream media remains silent on his debilitating illness.
I'm about to do it. I'm about to say "imagine if Biden did this." I don't want to but I must, because it'd be very funny. Imagine if Biden said his uncle told him how brilliant the Unabomber was a decade before he was identified. Imagine the very funny NYT push notification you'd get on your phone.
This is amazing. Yesterday Trump claimed he talked to his uncle about how brilliant the Unabomber was when the Unabomber was a student of his at MIT. The Unabomber never went to MIT, he was identified in 1996, and his uncle died in 1985.
Miles Klee 🦉@milesklee.bsky.social · last yr.you genuinely have to admire his brain. getting hammered 24/7 on Epstein? better fabricate a personal link to the Unabomber, specifically mentioning one of the prestigious universities where Epstein peddled his influence
Tapping the sign that says “NSF, NIH, and public investment into basic research are the real engines of US innovation”
Adam Gurri@adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com · last yr.Silicon Valley VCs sit atop a system where federal and state governments spent more on basic research of all kinds than most other countries in the world combined, and then take the ideas that come out of that and take it the last mile. An important function, but they disproportionately benefit.
This is one of those examples where, if the flood hadn’t happened and a camp director was telling you about this story it would be a perfect example of red tape, bureaucracy, the hassle of regulation etc. And yet. apnews.com/article/texa...
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before rushing ...
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Senator @marshablackburn : no town halls since 2017 @senatorhagerty : no town halls.. ever What are y’all so afraid of? You must really not like your answers. @RepTimBurchett @repandyogles @RepChuck @RepDavidKustoff @DesJarlaisTN04 RepJohnRose RepHarshbarger
Happy 8th anniversary to people getting PO'd at NPR because they didn't recognize or agree with the Declaration of Independence when it was tweeted out line by line. apnews.com/general-news...
NPR's Declaration of Independence tweetstorm confuses some
National Public Radio marked the Fourth of July by tweeting the entire Declaration of Independence, but it seems some Twitter users didn't recognize what they were reading.
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3. Corporations that publicly endorsed Trump's megabill: 3M Altria AT&T Charter Communications Chevron Cisco Comcast Delta Airlines Door Dash Great Clips Hair Cuttery T-Mobile Uber United Airlines UPS Verizon
The math on preventative health care for all is so blindingly obvious that everyone sees it except us. So we just keep paying the most money per capita for the worst outcomes and the most suffering, while for-profit health care manages its quarterly earnings.
Ryan Marino, MD@ryanmarino.bsky.social · last yr.This is how you know insurance companies are evil. The ROI on every single vaccine is orders of magnitude more than up front cost (think prevented cirrhosis, cancer, surgeries, hospitalizations, etc). The only reason they wouldn’t cover vaccines is if they don’t plan to cover the consequences either
Say what you will about Trump threatening to strip citizenship from his critics and have immigrants put into concentration camps in a swamp, but he never did anything truly power-mad like forgive student loans.
confident that if Biden were blackmailing Corporate Media into giving him $16 million in cash, Corporate Media would call him out for blackmail AND how that weakens freedom of speech, democracy, and our economy. instead, Corporate Media normalizes Trump Family corruption by treating it as business.
shauna@goldengateblond.bsky.social · last yr.we’ve totally normalized that he’ll interfere with private business if he’s not paid off. every legal expert said this suit was meritless.
every person involved in this needs to be in prison
Jenny Cohn@jennycohn.bsky.social · last yr.“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
“America is deeply unprofitable” it’s a country not a B2B startup you fucking dweeb
Musk states "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy". Charles Darwin, who actually researched this stuff, showed it was empathy, specifically, that enabled humanity to flourish.
Government AI, defending DOGE and more: Takeaways from Elon Musk’s three-hour interview with Joe Rogan
The wide-ranging interview between the two prominent Trump supporters comes as Musk remakes the federal government.
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Thought I'd write something about how Elon Musk has access to every expert he could possibly need to understand stuff, and yet appears to simply believe any random chud on ExTwitter spewing utter nonsense. And why journalists should ask him about that. www.techdirt.com/2025/02/13/s...
Some Follow Up Questions For Elon Musk, After He Admits He Gets Stuff Wrong Sometimes
Here’s a story about being wrong. Not just regular wrong — we’re all wrong sometimes! — but spectacularly, publicly, “I’m going to double down again and again and again on t…
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Lutheran Social Services is one of the largest employers in South Dakota, operating senior living facilities across the state. Republicans are shutting it down Perhaps more concerning is Mike Flynn, known foreign asset, having access to this data?
