"From Congo to Gaza, Sudan to West Papua, the same logic of resource-driven exploitation." "[E]ntire peoples are sacrificed so corporations and states can gorge on what lies beneath their land." #DRC #Gaza #Palestine #Sudan #WestPapua #Israel #EU #USA #Genocide #Mining #Forests #Climate #Military

According to the Lancet, vibrio infections have broken records the last three years in a row. They also degrade ecosystems & cause mass die-offs, including commercial marine species & coral reefs. Experts say the cost of Vibrio is already in the billions & expected to increase with climate change.

Since Trump returned to office, the Education Department’s civil rights office has not resolved a single racial harassment investigation. It sends a message that “people impacted by racial discrimination ... don’t matter,” one attorney said.

Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.

"especially on health care" MAGA on passive income for investors.

It's what our entire political system is built on.

The best thing about evangelical forgiveness is that you can completely avoid any introspection and guilt

And, if there's a blue wave in 2026, Democrats will still wear the bipartisan mantle.

Congo’s devastation is not a local failure, but the logical outcome of a global economic system that profits from extraction, militarization, and silence. The world may be watching Congo more than before, but it still refuses to see itself in the story.

Cars are the opposite of freedom. Auto loan debt is a bubble that will burst catastrophically. 🚗 Avg price of a new car is now >$50k 🚗 Avg monthly payments are >$750 🚗 Loan length have been extended to 100 months 🚗 US car debt is $1.66Trillion, the largest consumer category outside of mortgages.

This is complete bullshit. Just totally made up racist lying.

The smear campaign against Mustapha Kharbouch -- falsely accused of the Brown shooting and MIT murder by powerful politicians, pundits and plutocrats -- is a prime example of how pervasive racism has become. It's also a story largely ignored by the mainstream media www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Selling my watch and donating the proceeds to the Democratic party knowing that they'll make this a Christmas to remember not some ironic useless gesture.

Never defer when you're old.

"Israel🇮🇱 creates conditions of life that are sufficiently unsuitable to life so that it will force the 2 million Palestinians🇵🇸 in Gaza to flee to Egypt." Dr. Kenneth Roth, the former long-time executive director of Human Rights Watch.

When you've lost the Heritage Center ...

The fact that this government gives billions to ranchers and farmers is another reason why it's an insult that this government is also reducing the wages of farm workers to put more money in the pockets of ranchers and not in the pockets of farm workers. #WeFeedYou

Now, more than ever, America needs Barry Manilow's help.

Israel has approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, a move that further entrenches illegal occupation and fuels deadly Israeli military raids and escalating settler attacks across Palestinian communities.

🎶 Got a letter just this mornin' it was postmarked Omaha It was typed and neatly written offerin' me this better job Better job at higher wages, expenses paid and a car But I'm on TV here locally and I can't quit, I'm a star 🎶

The amazing part of this story is that Trump's aides can't get him to stop bragging that he passed a test for dementia. They obviously are scared of him, which is very scary. We also don't know Trump actually passed, since he lies about everything.

Remember, nothing is free. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Backpfeifengesicht -- America has a face for every German word.

The economy has lost even more manufacturing jobs under Trump than the monthly jobs data indicate deanbaker22.substack.com/p/how-many-m...

"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."— Rebecca West (born today, 1892 London)

Washington challenging the challenge.

A web of trained “legal observers” has formed to rush to ICE activity and film how agents carry out arrests amid “Operation Metro Surge.”

The Island of Dr. Moreau's Misfit Toys.

I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

Lamest person to have ever formed a cult of personality. Heaven's Gate dupes had more sense than MAGA.

Why we can't have nice things.

Yes. Yes. Yes. It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

There's an over-specification in the force.

I keep seeing these same NFL football teams every week.

No one respects Trump, but the entire Republican party is willing to sell out the American public for personal gain.

The silver lining is that everything that the Trump admin is doing and has done is an extension of much of ongoing U.S. policy. To undo it requires rolling back decades of U.S. detrimental actions domestically and internationally.

In America, the two party system has been inculcated as deeply as religion. 30-50% of the public will be intractably wedded to inarticulate selfishness. Our best hope is for an asteroid strike.

#ResistanceUnited Almost 550,000 American workers are over 80. It's one of the fastest-growing demographics in the workforce. Many were unable to save enough to retire, or had a health emergency, or had to care for adult children. Many barely get by. www.businessinsider.com/working-at-8...

What an astonishingly dishonest piece of propaganda for the fossil fuel industry, including its citing of Obama's extremely outdated energy policies and its misrepresentation of Norwegian public opinion.

Today I received FOUR death notifications for people in ICE custody. That's 30 deaths since Trump took office. It's appalling & unacceptable.   ICE is required—by law—to ensure detainees are safe & their basic needs are met. It's clear this isn't the case. We NEED answers.

Honestly creeped out by this guy. Also, the line he says after this is weird too: "Children innocent. And they need our protection." Yeah, from you dude.

A new Shakespeare production scheduled at the Donald J. Shithead Center for the Performing Arts.

I'd say it's also about rare earths, but they're evil but not geniuses.

PBS could raise needed cash by publicly disowning this schmuck.

My fellow Americans [puts index finger across lips] BLBLBLBLBLBLBL

There really aren't enough covers of "Begin the Beguine."

this was, basically, the driver of the Anglo-American coup against Mossadegh in Iran in 1952. The president didn't just tweet it out though.

He's thinking of Cuba and banana oil.

The world's greatest debilitative body.