the astonishing thing about this wave of denialism is that we have more or less decidedly hit the point where clean energy is the *cheaper* option by some distance

One reason among many to break up monopolies like Google's stranglehold on online search and SEO advertising since the early 2000s is you avoid creating stifling monocultures that spread destructive effects throughout every industry they touch. Fruit of the poisoned tree.

one function of capitalism is to funnel these types into positions of power, because if competent & kind people get into power they start taking from the rich and giving to the poor. capitalist leaders must be either evil or ignorant or both, only by mistake does anyone else get near power

"Wile E. Coyote running off the cliff"-ass country.

what's wild is we're not even really seeing the impact of the complete and total evisceration of corporate oversight, consumer protection, and the social safety net yet our regulators genuinely no longer function and the press, politicians, and even policy people also haven't noticed yet

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

They're trying to destroy this country and its people. We cannot let them succeed.

Reposting with alt text bc omfg and they claimed shortages to drive up prices on top of this shit.

hey remember how that one big tech ceo was on a panel in like 2021/22 where someone asked him about how remote work gave a lot more power to the workers and he chuckled and said “yeah well a little recession will take care of that” I think about that often.

Dear God Maybe this occurred to everyone else already, but I just realized that the tech bigwigs sided with Trump because they had become so Roko's Basilisk-brained They treated Trump like their imagined future malevolent A.I., and now we're all fucked

Yawns are weird. You're tired? Why don't you open your mouth really big about it? What's that? You're not tired, but you saw someone else open their mouth big? Well, guess what.

A motivation-biz guy came through our office in the '90s who famously only slept 4 hours a night because life was too beautiful and amazing to sleep through it. But it turned out to just be cocaine.

I hope if nothing else it opens people's eyes to what's going on. I used to consistently hear "the media just wants clicks/ratings." If they wanted that they would be doggedly pursuing the Epstein story. But what they actually want is to help Trump rule us and ultimately enslave us

Not very often you see a new product that feels like major religions should issue edicts specifically forbidding it

It’s embarrassing that anyone actually believed the rich people would actually leave their nice elite enclaves in highly-developed states

I say it over and over again: when you have that much money, you want to live where you want to live and you are simply not going to relocate because of marginal tax rates Alan Dershowitz will never leave Martha’s Vineyard and they won’t even sell him a pierogi

They should all have to personally pay to change this back when this is all over.

They're literally trying to ban shame because shame works. Give them nothing. Mock them and shame them relentlessly. Feel bad, fuckers!

I like being handy. Why spend $80 on a post driver when there's scrap enough lying around and I've got the tools and know-how to make my own?

this is the policy side of the impunity some elites enjoy in their personal lives btw

Make Police Cops Again

I simply refuse to accept that police ever have to look like this. this is just pure cosplay. it should be illegal for cops to be dressed like soldiers going to war.

Made a sign for the gang's coop, officially known as The Hideout. They are villains, after all. #ducks

NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find: - NONE of the arrested were criminally charged - NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists." - ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.

I'm embarrassed for all of us, being beholden to this cyclic vaudeville act, being here on their service where we have to witness it. Every tweet I see reposted from this account is like walking in on two rodeo clowns fucking in a gas station restroom

"This woke Me-Too bullshit has gone too far," said the former Harvard President and Secretary of the U.S. Treasury to the billionaire pedophile sex trafficker in a private email that the Justice Department under both parties kept secret for years

As @flyingrodent.bsky.social has pointed out repeatedly, the Harvey Weinstein scandal directly challenged the elite impunity and degeneracy that Jeffrey Epstein typified, and the response was a deranged, all-channels backlash to make clear such uppity behaviour wouldn’t be tolerated from the plebs.

More broadly, when all these clowns said Tyrannical Wokeness Has Gone Too Far, they specifically meant e.g. effective mass campaigns against elite impunity for sexual offending; the police murdering citizens in broad daylight, and allied governments being overthrown in the Arab Spring.

the only thing democrats should be saying today is “the entire republican party is engaged in a coverup of the most notorious child sex trafficking ring in world history”

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

i'm like actually losing my mind over this. they were aware! company email accounts were used!! a decade's worth of evidence of some of the most inhumane bullshit lived on their serves. but someone saw a tranny once and it made them feel some type of way so that's what they focused on. ghouls.

So basically, we are a country with every single one of our institutions demonstrably corrupt. The rich, elites, billionaires, politicians, all of them are in a deep informal conspiracy against the American people to enrich themselves. That's about when you need a real actual revolution, right?

As all this disgusting Epstein shit starts surfacing more and more, I hope we don't lose sight of the fact that apparently every major media outlet knew everything and instead spent their time money and energy attacking the trans community.

All the traitors in prison. Now.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Hard for Mace to find a way to do even more damage on this subject. Since they were never going to "release" anything, regardless, nothing could make it clearer that Republicans know Trump is guilty.

the president raped children and his entire political party continues to actively cover it up even if we can't throw him in jail for it he should resign in disgrace and so should all of them

The tribunals will not accept "just following orders."

People will get online and just post anything. "I have to watch the new Harry Potter TV show for emotional reasons." No you don't. Grow up.

Anyone know why Sarah Kendzior got suspended?

I think that if you are a human being with an intact conscience, you are obligated to think that it matters, morally, whether the President of the United States raped children, and I think if you write about politics or crime or corruption for a living, you are obligated to say so to your readers.

”We have to compromise. I trust the good faith of-“ *grabs mic* “THE PRESIDENT FUCKS KIDS AND I HAVE PROOF.“

The virgin Senate moderate versus the Chad House resistlib.

The pedophile president must immediately resign or be removed via invocation of the 25th Amendment or impeachment & face prosecution for his crimes. There is no acceptable alternative. #Epstein

Hey @jay.bsky.team! Unsuspend @sarahkendzior.bsky.social! Now! And then, stop throttling her account!

Sarah Kendzior was named by Foreign Policy as one of the “100 people you should be following on Twitter to make sense of global events.”¹ Why do you suppose @jay.bsky.team would choose to censor the Bluesky social media environment by throttling and suspending a vital, pro-democracy voice? 1/

What the f_ck

“You hate Boomers! You hate us! You’re ageist!” My mother is 75 years old. Im fully aware it isnt “all Boomers.” The FACT is that a septuagenarian government is BAD and Boomers have collectively as a generation used their power to fuck over every generation after them socioeconomically & legally

Apparently it's fine to blow billions on data centres and simultaneously impossible to spend money on ending child poverty.

If only someone could have foreseen this...