I would do this, but I can't yell.

A lot of people think "third world" is/was synonymous with "developing" or "Global South" or similar. It's not.

Funny how @zackpolanski.bsky.social suggesting a raft of policies to try and improve the lives of the vast majority is ‘fantasy economics’, but when Brexiteers were allowed to indulge their lunatic fantasies about leaving the EU it somehow became ‘The Will of the People’. 🦄🤔

2014: “I admire Putin as an operator” 2010-14: Appeared on Russia today 17 times 2017: Knighted by a 7 year old girl on RT 2022: blames EU for Russian invasion 2024: “We provoked this war … of course it’s his fault – he’s used what we’ve done as an excuse” Is this not dodgy?

31 years ago this month, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

I propose a Tethering law. A CEO's total compensation may not be more than 50x the total compensation of the organization's lowest-paid full-time employee. CEO makes $400M? Janitor makes $8M. Wanna keep janitor to $40K? Keep CEO at $200K. (Use interstate commerce legal rationale.)

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

🎙️@lalshareef on IG (Loay Alshareef) dispels the myth that Israel has stood in the way of a Palestinian state.

What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

If you think it's expensive now, you haven't seen anything yet. Coffee and chocolate are going to become luxury goods as a result of climate change.

To be clear, the FBI paid nearly $1M in overtime over a FIVE DAY PERIOD last March. And yes, part of it was to find and redact Trump's name. I spoke to sources who reviewed the files for the FBI and DOJ and wrote about it here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-epstei...

Today is the day #HappyThanksgiving #WKRP #LesNessman

Cognetti: We don’t want Joe Rogan or OAN talking about this district because we have a congressman who has become one of the most prolific stock traders—someone who dumped six figures’ worth of Medicaid provider stock a week before he trashed a trillion dollars of Medicaid.

Israel is committing the only "genocide" in human history where the population allegedly being exterminated is actually GROWING year on year. Stop believing the propaganda,even when it has a supposedly reputable name on it.

GRI-PEN! GRI-PEN! GRI-PEN! GRI-PEN!

Weird.

Christmas is an invasive holiday it keeps encroaching on other days it is not native to.

Quiet part, meet out loud.

Globalization has been an economic buzzword for decades, but what does it actually mean? Here's what I tell my students.

The "Department of Government Efficiency" has disbanded eight months early. DOGE sowed chaos throughout the government and disrupted services relied upon by millions, while finding hardly any savings. Here's what you should know about damage that DOGE leaves behind.

Just an absolutely gutting essay by Tatiana Schlossberg, a writer, mother of two young children, and cousin of RFK Jr who is dying of leukemia. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Finland uses “Russia-gauge” rails. They are going to move to European compatible rail gauge for their own resilience. This is what we should be thinking about for moving to open social away from American platforms: it should come with significant spending commitments & is absolutely necessary.

Ian Miles Cheong: Everyone must go back to the country where they are born. Please don't tell people I'm living in Malaysia, where I was born, but spend my entire life complaining about America. Ian Miles Cheong: *has been secretly living in Dubai this whole time*

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Beware anyone who loudly labels themselves a "truth-teller."

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

The UK is a strongly pro-choice country with 86% of Britons wanting abortion to be legal in all or most cases. But the US anti-choice movement has been investing heavily into campaigns in Britain, and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party seems to be support the interference.

For the last time, people, "Epstein" is the name of the criminal. The president is "Epstein's monster."

Is it just me or do other Long Covid suffers read headlines like this one and think: “No shit Sherlock! Welcome to the party. We’ve been telling you this for yearsssss.” Followed immediately by gratitude for scientists investigating Long Covid to someday lead to treatments.

This is lunacy. Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is, at best, an environmental lawyer. He has no experience or degree in medicine or science. This is tantamount to me, an English major, giving NASA a Post-It outlining how they should revise their entire approach to the astrophysics of dark energy.

#ICE isn't "deporting" immigrants, it is kidnapping them. #DOGE isn't "fixing" the government, it is dismantling it. #Trump isn't "helping" Americans, he is retaliating against them. #PamBondi isn't "upholding" the Constitution, she is ignoring it. #CivilRights @aclu.org @acluwa.bsky.social

"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." -FDR, 1937

Ridiculousness.

Science PSA: Never abbreviate “analysis” as “anal”. Ever.

Elizabeth Warren on Colbert's show: "We don't think one corporation or one man named David Ellison should be able to buy up all the shows and buy up all the sports and buy up all the news and decide who watches what and I'm gonna stay in that fight."

It would have been more surprising if it had been me...

Kelly: "I never expected after serving 25 years in the Navy flying combat missions over Iraq and Kuwait, flying the Space Shuttle, that now I've got to worry about my personal safety and that of my wife, Gabby Giffords, who was already nearly assassinated, because of something the president said."

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

"If you're smart and a fascist, you're not honest. If you're honest and a fascist, you're not smart. If you're smart and honest, you're not a fascist." -Italian WW2 proverb

If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground. At least three weeks

I think the universities didn’t convey clearly enough to Larry Summers and Laurence Krauss that they were expected to get sexual harassment PREVENTION training

This should alarm everyone. On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.” It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025. THIS IS INDOCTRINATION

Stalking a 19-year-old David Hogg, who had just survived a school shooting, berating him, calling him names, and accusing him of being a liar isn't "toxic politics." It's being a crude, unhinged sociopath. www.cnn.com/2021/01/27/p...

The Epstein Survivors confirm Trump killed a Biden-era investigation into Epstein's co-conspirators, fired the prosecutors, then stole the files. I'll discuss today at Noon PT/3 PM ET www.youtube.com/live/49HUqKI...

Joe Biden: "You probably think living rent-free in Trump's head is a good deal. You have no idea how ugly it is in here."

Youll never hear about AI “replacing” C-suite jobs

According to Fox News, if you are a racist Young Republican you are still a "kid" when you are 34, but if you are an Epstein victim, you are an adult when you're 15.