I am sick of working weekends I am sick of working I am sick of work

It's funny seeing Dems scream about how Trump doesn't understand how health insurance works--he doesn't--and completely miss the point that the way insurance works IS the problem. We have a for-profit corporate middleman making everything more expensive. We need a single payer system, not Obamacare.

“I know you can’t afford things but we also cannot afford things” will be, I predict, a losing message. The world’s first trillionaire is on the horizon. “We can’t afford transportation, healthcare, food and shelter” will no longer cut it for the “progressive” party.

All of these societal demands for better "health" have nothing to do with improving and lengthening the lives of ordinary people. Rather, they are all about maximizing profit, enhancing cost-savings, and enabling capitalists to extract as much as humanly possible from workers.

Itʻs unreal that weʻre talking about introducing 50-year mortgages when the richest man in the world is getting a $1 trillion salary. The level of wealth inequality is so astronomical that weʻre reaching a societal breaking point.

Good riddance.

Likely Reichstag fire shit, but this is the logical reaction to the state declaring war on its people.

Thatʻs just it: Theyʻre all John Fetterman. We have yet to see a DemSoc not fully morph into a standard neoliberal Democrat upon getting into office.

It says a lot that people are upset about this now because ICE kidnappings are so public, yet mass deportations have been quietly happening in record numbers under Obama, Trump, and Biden. All the folks that are "haunted" now didnʻt give a shit--and supported the politicians doing the deporting!

USDA hasn’t released its data for 2024 yet, but the number of people experiencing food insecurity almost certainly increased again. And will increase yet again in 2025, which is why Trump canceled the food security reports after this year. www.stephensemler.com/p/a-couple-c...

At least one study has shown that having to smile and perform happiness for patrons and customers shreds your mental health and leads to higher rates of drinking and substance abuse. What does it say about the fragility of Americans that everyone must smile at them constantly?

Maybe schools should be asking why students are so distressed in the first place? Big Tech creates a problem, then sells schools the "solution" to address it. Schools know what they do to students, but refuse to take concrete steps toward addressing it. Instead, they license monitoring software.

We're at the point where people are taking out 30-year mortgages that they're almost certainly going to pass on to their kids.

The irony of this is that "affordability" is a weasel word developed by neoliberals to frame things within a capitalist context and individualize things that society should be providing to everyone for FREE. Having housing, food, and healthcare shouldn't be contingent on your ability to "afford" it.

For more fresh information about what Biden officials knew about Gaza/Israel & their choice not to act even as they knew they would be handing power to Trump, an open skeptic of international law + human rights standards, read my latest: www.huffpost.com/entry/biden-...

Yeah, I've seen this kind of thing before. I swear, Bioshock really had libertarianism nailed down to a tee.

Why the fuck is anyone still listening to the Supreme Court? The entire goddamn system is illegitimate, and the fakest institution that exists in this society is the SCOTUS.

New — While some states have received SNAP benefits for November and USDA is supposedly pushing through all federal payments soon, that doesn’t erase the psychological terror of the last few weeks. I spoke with 20+ SNAP recipients in 16 states about preparing for a possible future with no food:

Indefensible to argue this belongs in schools.

Getting really sick of people associating socialism with everything EXCEPT workers owning the means of production. It's almost like there's been a deliberate attempt to conflate social democracy with socialism by capitalists 🤔

"On Monday, almost 600 pounds of food was donated to us. ... And that sounds great, except that we gave out almost 1,000 pounds of food," Finke says. "This is not sustainable."

It's impossible to see Schumer's incompetence and not think he's working for Trump and the GOP. Only demanding one year of subsidies for Obamacare to end the shutdown is a fucking joke.

Good god, the New York Times DIDN'T fix it. As a climate scientist just reminded me, temperature increase has NOT "curved downward over the past 10 years" as this revision claims. In fact THE RATE OF INCREASE IN GLOBAL WARMING HAS GONE UP 😩 yaleclimateconnections.org/2025/09/clim...

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Accurate.

Philanthropy is influence peddling, the buying of public institutions, and agenda-setting under a different name. None of this serves the public good, it only advances the economic interests of the billionaire class.

Seems bad!

Your cat when you're choking to death in your apartment

Disgusting. This is what national "leaders" pursue, and it's usually in stark opposition to what the people want.

At some point in the not too distant future, it's likely that commercial air travel will either be greatly reduced or not exist in its current form due to climate change. I don't know how you maintain a global network like this when the world destabilizes and we're forced to rapidly reduce emissions

It's almost like everyone looking at the data knows that no one has any money...

New dystopian horrors every day.

RFK sprints away, Trump stands there vaguely rocking and watching in stunned silence. These are basically the two reactions children have to unexpected or startling shit happening.

You can't play nice when it comes to dealing with an occupying military force. That goes for both ICE and the NYPD. The only way to break the stranglehold police departments have on cities is to effectively go to war with them, taking risks and engaging in self-sacrifice to defund and abolish.

Oh my god, shut up. These are not the same consumer bases. It's an illustration of how bad wealth inequality is. This is a bifurcated economy with haves and have nots. The haves are buying Coach bags, while the have nots can't even afford Chipotle. The vast majority of us belong to the latter.

This is how you end up with even buggier, broken, unplayable games at release. Players are the QA testers now 😓

You can't shame the Gestapo. They brag about being fascists.

This is like how Republicans can't win fairly, so they need to resort to fuckery and disenfranchising people to get their desired outcome.

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

It's amazing how resistant people are to the idea that the system and institutions they rely on are the problem. Every day, I see so many liberals arguing that the master's tools WILL dismantle the master's house. This denial of basic reality is one of the reasons why humanity isn't going to make it

Only decades too late. Plus, you know that she has a hand-picked successor lined up.

Dispatch really is like peak Telltale, huh? I'm not even playing it myself--just watching playthroughs for the story and different options--but the writing is just so fresh. We'll see if they stick the landing next week for the finale, but every batch of episodes has been phenomenal so far.

AI is destroying small communities all across the country.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Aviation Administration announced Wednesday that it will reduce air traffic by 10% across 40 “high-volume” markets beginning Friday morning to maintain safety during the ongoing government shutdown.

That's why it's fascism NOW, as compared to last year when anti-genocide protesters were enduring the same treatment by the pigs, and normie white liberals were perfectly fine with it and excusing *checks notes* GENOCIDE.

Remember when 75 Dems voted for a resolution expressing gratitude to ICE earlier this year?

Meanwhile, everyone else is getting laid off.

I like that this announcement is going to freak out the Dem megadonors on Wall Street, especially Reid Hoffman, who lobbied Kamala Harris to get Lina Khan fired from the FTC.