The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits. So, who stands to win? Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵

Visualization of monopolization of the publishing houses. almossawi.com/big-five-pub...

To put this in context: Consistently, about 13 percent of Americans believe in Bigfoot. So war with Iran polls slightly better than Bigfoot.

Sorry, you can’t have healthcare or supportive housing or anything because 50 billion dollars have been set aside to ensure ample munitions for Operation Vanquished Toddler

🍊🤡: The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost, but it is a sacrifice I am willing to make…

Gonna photoshop the Philly phanatic pounding a kitchen knife into trump

I swear to Christ I think I would vote for a candidate who just used capitalization correctly

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com you may have walking pneumonia but I have cringe who’s winning if not both of us

“I Audited $2.1 Billion in Epstein Financial Records. Here's Every Name the Money Touched.”: randallscott25-star.github.io/epstein-fore...

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Time is a flat circle

You sound like an unhinged person if you in plain words describe what’s happening, but the Trump admin demanded Anthropic’s AI be able to kill things for it w/out human approval and also do mass surveillance. Anthropic said no, and now the admin is trying to destroy the company in retaliation.

Claude😂

Making pancakes in the moonlight

“None of us pay our taxes to fund the killing of children anywhere,” El-Sayed tells Detroit Metro Times. “But that’s what our tax dollars were used for in Gaza.”

This reminds me of the old adage, "Never work for Jack Dorsey under any circumstances"

"Friends" is a beloved American sitcom that aired from 1994 to 2004, following six young adults—Rachel, Ross, Monica, Chandler, Joey, and Phoebe—living in New York City. The show explores their friendships, romances, careers, and personal growth over ten seasons.

worth reading the whole story for all the awful details - including literal bounties for other people to rat out trans people using the “wrong” bathroom

It’s hard to formulate a rougher burn than positing that your opposition has a podcast

Clench your jaw. Unfurl your spine. Clutch your eggs.

A sign about @maureenjohnsonbooks.com at sea

Dreamt I was on @maureenjohnsonbooks.com’s couch watching Taskmaster. She didn’t seem to understand how I had gotten in again, but she nonetheless proceeded to offer me a ginger ale and some curry.

Selfie

Not enough # Moon Discourse on my timeline

Don’t fuck with the ocean unless you want to die in a weird, slow way, chosen by the untold horrors of its depths. But do fuck with the Moon.

Dearly beloved We are gathered here today to post on this thing called web

Dreamt @maureenjohnsonbooks.com was famous for her alternative freewheeling counterculture humor perfectly fit for a Hunter S. Thompson book. She exclusively wore baggy pants and large, flopping hats. She had 12 cats. They were her companions.

How can we use each other's differences in our common battles for a livable future? - Audre Lorde

Don’t let your dreams be dreams. Let them be posts on Bluesky with zero interactions.

@maureenjohnsonbooks.com is the offer still valid

What if it happened today

An Olympic announcer just said “it works just like a horse. It’s smooth in one direction and grabs you in the other.” You know. Horse.

Literally just posting this everywhere. youtu.be/wKueZ_5dOnM?...

Thought leader, music mogul, and enchanted murder mystery novelist @maureenjohnsonbooks.com wrote for love of the game when she said “Fear can’t hurt you.”

There should be a bonus medal for dropping a perfect f-bomb faster than the NBC censors can catch it

ALYSA LIU

“That’s what I’m f—ing talking about!”
 Alysa Liu as she leaves the ice 🔥

New: Military veterans sue Trump over his planned 250-ft arch, saying it will damage views from Arlington National Cemetery. They want to halt the project until it gets congressional approval and meets other requirements.

I will never unknow this.

Do you like Derry Girls as much as I do? Do you want to see the Derry Girls as adults solving a murder mystery (in a show written and created by Lisa McGee, who made the aforementioned Derry Girls)? Yes, you do. How to Get to Heaven from Belfast is IT. WATCH IT. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6flC...

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So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

I have been waiting and posting about this album needing to be remastered and re-released for a decade. It’s so hard to find and I want people to have it.

Representation matters

ICE agents crashed directly into a 19-year-old refugee's car, pulled him out from the wreck, threw him on the ground, then rushed him off to detention before he could locate the immigration papers in his car that proved he's here lawfully. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...