A pound of ground beef is more than the federal minimum wage. Read that again.

What a disgrace. Says it all, really. 😕🇺🇸

I think constantly making Star Trek shows that are 'dark' can indicate a creative weakness. Frankly, its easier to write dystopias than utopias; I do it myself. The tropes are ingrained, and violence is easier to make at least superficially engaging than exploration. We should challenge ourselves.

“The beautiful thing is the children y’all have made and the people that’s younger than y’all don’t support none of this racism that y’all want. The MAGA is the last breath of the confederacy, and I’ll be happy to see millennials and Gen Z bury y’all.”

I just found out my 20-something nieces are recording conversations with their 94yo dementia-suffering grandmother for yuks on TikTok. So I’m planning to return the favor by recording THEM drunk at the next family wedding and sharing it on social media. 😒

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

why is it lawful for SC members to state false facts in their decisions...it would seem we need to address this as more than just an ethics violation....

you know what the real data center is. the human mind. thank you,

How can he possibly stay safe without a ballroom?

Always found this to be inspirational. 🦋🦋🇺🇦🇺🇦📎📎⚓️⚓️

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The election of Donald Trump is going to go down as one of the most disastrous, calamitous own goals by a nation in the history of humanity. We’re really speedrunning through the consequences at this point.

The extremely rare catcopus.

also dont feed ducks bread

I'm so fucking sick of being in the worst time loop ever.

My favorite quote

This is our 🌎 Why are we destroying it? #WarOnNature #Metacrisis

No amount of budgeting or avoiding eating out can make up for the fact that we don't earn enough anymore.

There has been a suicide at both of our kids’ schools this year. People often say, “The kids are alright.” But I actually don’t think it’s true. I think a lot of kids are struggling mightily. I am worried about our kids & devastated for the families who have experienced the ultimate tragedy. 💔

I left Northern Ireland to come here to play soccer in 1981. It was at the height of the troubles. When I left my mates called me a lucky bastard for getting to go live in America. Last month I was home in Ireland for a wedding. The same people told me how sorry they were for me having to live here.

Do we need a new word for when two warring parties agree to stop shooting at each other? Because the word "ceasefire" apparently now means "unceased fire and ongoing acts of war, but not as much as there was recently."

It happened again. The most corrupt administration in history.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Launches Crackdown on Fake Safety Labels Used to Push Dangerous Foreign Products into U.S. Homes Learn more: www.cpsc.gov/Newsroom/New...

horrible. this country’s turn away from science based medicine in the name of “wellness” is killing children and will kill a lot more. www.propublica.org/article/more...

Trump is temporary. The damage he’s doing is permanent.

What is this dystopian world cbsaustin.com/news/local/l...

Feeling pretty defeated right now

This is very good by @boesch.bsky.social. Modern propaganda is about saturation more than argumentation. You aren't meant to be convinced, you're meant to feel what authorities want you to.

This robot installs 80 panels/hour. One every 45 sec. 1,920/day ≈ 0.0008 GW/day per line. Sounds small. It’s not. Scale this across thousands of lines and #solar becomes manufacturing, not construction. 👉 10,000 lines = 8 GW/day. That’s HOW China is winning the energy game.

Texas voters just sent the book banners packing. Not in California. Not in New York. In Texas. Across the state, voters went to the polls and threw out right-wing school board members who built their local political brands on book bans, anti-LGBTQ policies and Christian nationalist culture-war panic

He is making good on his promise. He’s running the country like a business. It’s just that countries shouldn’t be run like businesses and now he will be the best historical example of such.

*taps earpiece*

This is them tee-ing it up for consultants and insiders to get fat federal grant money. Especially him. The consequences of next wave of larceny will put what’s left of the American dream out of reach for most citizens.

Quite a move as more and more data is showing that the past decade+ of schools giving kids laptops and using iPads in classrooms has had a negative impact on learning. Hey @schiff.senate.gov what kids need is media literacy training so they don’t grow up to be senators who fall for AI lobbyist hype.

You pieces of dogshit conceded ground on public school funding for decades which put our kids behind and now you want to line your pockets with AI cash? Now you can find the money for the kids? You worthless asshole.

Elon Musk was paid $158 billion by Tesla last year. That is double the entire budget of the U.S. Department of Education.

Casey Means is no longer the nominee for Surgeon General. apnews.com/article/trum...

Bruh lol.

Hm, would ya look at that. It appears the U.S. is actually racist.

This new art exhibit featuring Boston Dynamic robot dogs with the heads of Musk, Zuckerberg, Bezos, Warhol, Picasso, and others is incredibly striking and disturbing. How much did artists ever shape public opinion compared to today's Second Gilded Age billionaires? apnews.com/article/germ...

3/ When students leave a rural school for a voucher, costs for everyone else go way up. Keeping the lights on and buses running stays expensive, even with fewer kids. In Ohio, this costs remaining students an extra 520 dollars each. The math just does not work. www.epi.org/blog/voucher...

The Supreme Court's decision in First Choice v. Davenport (formerly First Choice v. Platkin), while technically confined to a boring procedural issue, greenlights CPCs' broader strategy of using federal courts to fight state attempts to regulate them. Here's the opinion:

Post-Dobbs, "blue" states attempted to use laws against false advertising and deceptive business practices to regulate CPCs. The anti-abortion legal movement deftly turned these attempts against them, using Trumpified federal courts to win protections for CPCs to spread medical disinformation.

NEW: The Supreme Court has ruled unanimously in favor of First Choice Women's Resource Centers, the crisis pregnancy center chain that sued to avoid answering a subpoena from former NJ Attorney General Matt Platkin.

Republican in New Hampshire legislature pushed to have Holocaust denier added to state's genocide education committee www.npr.org/2026/04/29/n...

Thankfully everyone who warned Democrats about the need to pack the court has been rewarded with the types of policy, campaign and media jobs that will virtually ensure the next president supports such an effort.

Sarcasm aside it really shouldn’t take non-stop agitation from your own base to pass the My Loathsome Opponents Must Stop Kicking Me in the Dick Act.

thank you to a student for sharing this bookmark from the campus library, which attributes a point made by Herbert Simon in the 1970s to Mr. Beast