What the fuck? What the fucking fuck? The man direting murder squads to lynch Americans and residents of America says Trans people should be killed??!!? Hi! I support trans people and their right to live as they choose and to speak out about their lived experience. Also, I’m _anti-fa_scist.

Set aside, for a second, whether any of these guys have used their titanic profits to deliberately make your life harder. How many of them actually provide a service that you need or use? Not many, I bet!

It's been a collective and community effort to press the Mayor to honor his campaign promise to public libraries. We're still not there yet. Please follow @nycplan.org if you live in NYC for next steps in the ongoing process to actually fully fund public libraries in our great city.

Counterpoint: no one can "earn" a billion dollars, but even setting that aside, "anyone can be rich" and "everyone can be rich" are very different statements that generations of propaganda have trained our society to conflate.

You can't "earn" a billion dollars and none of their examples did. Michael Jordan earned $93m playing basketball. He's worth $3.5b today because of our meticulously-engineered legal, economic, and tax structures that prioritize accumulated capital and property over everything else.

I find myself daily more and more resolute in the conclusion that Border Patrol, ICE, and Homeland Security agents should be tried with cold justice before human rights tribunals.

They weren't misinformed, they weren't lazy. They all knew and supported this shit

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

I had to take a break from watching Ken Burns’ American Revolution because we got to this part where the colonists destroyed all the food sources for a Native American group - including their orchards, even though one colonist begged them to leave it. Fucking hell.

destroying the trees themselves instead of the peaches is where this goes from unmitigated greed into actual evil

#JoyScrolling An oldie but goldie: Christopher Rice tap dancing to Anna Kendrick's "Cups"

people that study apartheid (made by @viewfromargus.bsky.social ) go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

I need to boost “apophany” again

The law is not some kind of magical, moral omnipresence floating around in the ether. The law is exactly what those with the will and the power to enforce it say it is. Law is politics. And like all politics, it's kept in check only by the practical limits of human behavior and societal pushback.

“Both Russian and pro-Trump U.S. actors are amplifying and spreading misinformation about Alberta separatism in the hope of fraying Canadian unity and sowing distrust.” An overt attack on Canadian sovereignty, meant specifically to manipulate Canadians. That’s what’s fuelling Alberta separation.

Apparently laws passed after decades of pushing to make the environment marginally more livable and less toxic can be handwaived away. What even are laws anyway if you have enough money to access a corrupt white house & congress?

Update: Thank you to all who shared and replied to my post yesterday about the assholes in Laurelhurst, one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Seattle, who "hate" noise. Read Nathalie’s full article at TheStranger.com www.thestranger.com/news/laurelh...

So, even rich people don't like it when everyone hates them. Good to know. For future reference.

The mic drop phase of the global energy landscape. IRENA’s latest report shows the transition crossed another threshold: 24/7 solar, wind & batteries are now cost competitive with fossil generation across most regions. Not “sometime later.” Now. #Bettrification #SWB www.irena.org/Publications...

We'll be breathing in the corpses this man creates for decades. #BetterDems The American system is optimized to create sociopaths and reward them with power. We should fix that.

the best part of post-tenure academia has been having the career space to slow down. the damage done by the contraction of tenure track positions + poor security/working conditions of non tenure track faculty + quantification of academic contributions is incalculable

A reminder of why the fascist oligarchs are buying social media sites to ruin them. Timely knowledge transfer and organizing are the real value in “online town squares”. Also for finding your people when you’re a cygnet hatched by ducks.

The violence of white supremacy is not only in what it does to people, but in what it does to truth. It silences the oppressed, rewrites the crime scene and calls it history.

My mom has a great nose and highly developed situational awareness. Back in the day, at a mall food court, it took her 5 minutes of urging her friend to take her Orange Julius and leave the mall when she smelled fire. Not until the fire alarm sounded in the furthest anchor store did they budge.

But some miners became attached to their sentinel friends. They would whistle to their canary, cared for it. So someone had to invent this device. A canary cage with built-in resuscitator. Should the bird fall, a door could be closed, and an oxygen tank opened, reviving it & keeping it safe.

Horse racey tit for tat fun and games coverage like this is why I tried to be very clear, in my article about the Virginia Supreme Court redistricting decision, that this is not just a blow to Democrats -- it's a blow to DEMOCRACY ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

You’d think if they understand it in this use case, they would do the same for things like the Postal Service, but oh wait, the USPS actually benefits the entire country so that doesn’t count

Right wing propagandist outlets should be viewed less as money losing endeavors than investments that pay dividends in other ways.

People don’t like it because it’s not just a ballroom. It’s a palace. A chateau. A Versailles. The ostentatiousness is over-the-top outrageous and embarrassing. The USA itself came into being as a counterpoint to that kind of shit. And people know this.

I have seen so much analysis of Heated Rivalry and these ladies still had new-to-me observations. Hang it in the Louvre, indeed youtu.be/xp76hDH9pNo?...

I just learned such a great word for our times. An epiphany is sudden true understanding. An *apophany* is a false understanding based on seeing a relationship in data or perception that doesn't actually exist. Pareidolia (seeing faces in things) is a subtype of apophenia.

How many dozens of people has ICE killed just this year already? Every one a needless death.

Clinton didn't look back at Bush's crimes Obama didn't look back at Bush II's crimes Biden didn't look back at Trump's crimes Republican administrations get away with all the criming they want. Look where we are now.

At this point, it's the leopards eating people's faces vs the jackals slinking in behind to gnaw on the bones of democracy. Respectability would be focused on upstream action to preserve and improve. They'd be rallying people for a better world, not simply pointing out how bloodthirsty the GOP is.

I cannot stop thinking about this!!

The theater that had red velvet seats

Immediately post-slavery, during reconstruction, Black people were HUGELY successful in taking political & economic power. A centuries-long project of lynching, Jim Crow, Red-Lining, Divestment, drug epidemics, Voter disenfranchisement (again & again) - that's the ongoing work of white supremacy.

The first order error is “We can maintain the infrastructure for AI indefinitely despite it costing a third of the American economy to run and maintain while generating less than $10 billion in revenue. Training kids to be reliant on that, despite documented learning loss, is a huge gamble.

MnDOT is on point May the 4th be with you!

ah ha! this is great musical editing youtube.com/shorts/7uByY...

I’m pretty sure i went to a party in Boston that played all this music at some point.

It’ll never not be hilarious that every single time Trump supporters find a way for him to not mean the obvious thing, he then comes out and says that he meant what he said. We are ten years into this nightmare and they will never learn.

Two nights ago, I said Trump had been using our troops as pirates in Iran and a Republican got mad. Well… the president just admitted it. He literally bragged about doing piracy.

youtube.com/shorts/qb9TC... Some inspiration for not letting ungainly first drafts wreck your desire to create. iirc I made 127 variously shaped & sized loaves of sourdough in a toaster oven &/or microwave &/or air fryer between 2020 & 2024, inclusive.

Stopping people on food assistance from buying nourishment that grocery stores _intentionally sell at a loss_ is harebrained stuff. I'm all for using legislation to fix this, tout de suite.

This, but for education, too!

And that the first problem of cooling can be solved with a sealed coolant system and a heat pump, but you chucklefucks are so goddam cheap and so entirely don’t believe in your own product enough to invest an extra $100K per facility in cooling capacity.

as someone who studies a lot of disasters, natural and accidental, this is horrifying just from a safety perspective.If there's an emergency that requires evac every one of those people is dead.

Sorry, they are too busy r̶a̶c̶i̶n̶g̶ c̶a̶r̶s̶ jousting

When Jimmy Carter was President he installed solar panels on the WH roof... when Reagan stole that election he had them removed.... Carter was a nuclear scientist, imagine if we followed his lead instead of being led by the $$$$ of the petrochemical industries???