Public goods, held in common, distributed to everyone is good.

I legit don't understand why BC remains a part of Canada. BC always gets sacrificed by the Canadian state. British Columbia should become its own country.

Exhibit 9,158,934,207 in "the law has never been applied equally." There used to be the occasional demonstration of equality so as not to give up the game. Even that's out the window these days.

Lease the air space above/around the stations to property developers. Heck, lease the floor space within stations to vendors. Japanese & Chinese metros have all sorts of shops and stores inside their stations.

Did you know congresspeople will live 14 years longer than you, eat food you do not, have doctors you can only dream of, have real educations... Did you know it costs us $900,000 to $2,000,000 per year to support a congressperson's way of life? They are too corrupt to protect us.

An entire generation of feminists were thrown in jail for distributing pamphlets on birth control, which violated Comstock, incl. Emma Goldman, who was eventually deported from the US (not the only reason, but one of them) Birth control, abortion access—all a right we with uteruses are entitled to

Ironically something Sound Transit doesn't understand, is that if we committed to building all of ST3 within the next five years, that alone would create so many construction jobs that it would keep the local economy afloat through the remainder of the Trump years.

My first Demi Lovato concert tonight :)

Sound Transit Projects Light Rail System Completion at End of Cenozoic Era: tinyurl.com/ypn8mc2u

Will never not be convinced this whole data center/ignoring climate change thing is a long term manufactured consent thing Based on making outside as unenjoyable as possible for decades by eliminating third spaces, doing anti homeless architecture, and telling ppl where their food comes from

Yup. Also, a war time economy but for building HEPA filters/Corsi boxes/far UVC lamps combined with real time C02 level monitoring in all indoor spaces, would nip this in the bud (and end covid once and for all). Clean the indoor air and we never have another airborne pandemic ever again, ever.

Not to defend AOC, but in terms of experience: she's already been in Congress longer than both Obama & Hillary had been prior to their 2008 runs for president. She's been in Congress longer than Kamala Harris was prior to her 2020 run. I could go on but experience is NOT something she lacks.

The people who are the most right about things have the least power and those who are wrong about everything rule the world.

The real millennial song is JG WENTWORTH 877 CASH NOW

And surveillance, like policing and prisons, creates massive foregone wealth effects. Surveillance makes communities poorer.

Black people have been the Democratic party's most loyal constituency for the past 60 years. Does it appear that the party is acting as though it is experiencing an existential crisis?

Mamdani out here rightfully praising teachers for all the work they do but ignoring how key to education are well-funded public libraries. Again, will Mamdani ever talk about public libraries again?

"Fight oligarchy" Meanwhile pushes policies that are climate change denialism that enriches the oligarchy of fossil fuels.

Powerful reporting on how security forces in Israel use rape and sexual abuse as a form of torture against Palestinian men, women, and children (CW: This piece includes graphic details of sexual trauma.) By @nickkristof.bsky.social Gift link:

Capitalism is a right wing ideology. This should not be controversial to say.

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hey so surely using an alt account to circumvent people who've blocked your account so you can screencap and post about them so your followers can harass them violates ToS right?

Children = taking politicians at their own word. Take your petty beef up with Obama himself. He said it, not me.

Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.

@prisonculture.bsky.social welp, another slight frustration of Mamdani is giving credence to the idea that abolition is just not viable as a platform to genuinely run on. The mockery of abolition.

It's already outrageous and offensive that people with unimaginable wealth view themselves as the victims, but the fact they feel comfortable saying it in public takes it to another level. Their brains are broken, simultaneous delusions of grandeur and victimhood wrapped in malice and shamelessness.

You never have to hand it to the Butcher of Cascadia, Bonnie Henry. It was Sars Cov 2, a BSL 3 airborne pathogen that depletes the immune system in a way similar to HIV/AIDS

Along Kenya's northern coast, over 14 million mangroves now stand where there were none – planted by hand, seedling by seedling, with the communities who live alongside the creeks and estuaries. www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/projects/saving-habitats

I don't only want fully funded libraries but I want fully funded parks, public education, FREE HEALTHCARE, actual affordable housing etc... these are ALL CONNECTED.

The political project of Will Stancil is to sell white male grievance to the Democratic base. He's in the same boat in that regard as Matt Yglesias, Zaid Jilani & others. The claim of parasocial sadism is projection on his part. He is merely being shunned for his own sadism, racism, misogyny etc

Will Stancil sounds just like a MAGA Republican.

Working class British taxpayers paid for this compensation to enslavers, and so abolition became a moment of redistribution of wealth to the propertied class.

Pushing Laurelhurst into the lake > California falling into the ocean due to San Andreas. While we're at it...shhhh...hey Bellevue, annex Medina. Put some skyscrapers there.

Thank god that Obama is, to the extent of my knowledge, NOT into video games, otherwise his fledging film studio probably would have tried a video game to movie adaptation of Mass Effect as a monument to himself (I've never played the game but know of its popularity in the gaming world)

And he straight up referred to himself as a Reagan Republican, while he was president! Not a Reagan Democrat, no no no. He called himself a Reagan Republican.

What I wanna know is why did Sound Transit wait until it was $34 billion short in order to begin searching ways to cut costs? Why wasn't keeping costs down a priority from the get go? So inefficient & wasteful of money for ten years.

Seattle should be granted a ten year exemption for paying taxes towards Sound Transit, as compensation for Ballard & West Seattle not having shovels in the ground ten years after ST3 passed.

Welp. I'm the only person left in my family who does NOT use AI in any circumstances whatsoever. My own little personal Butlerian Jihad or whatever it's called in Dune.

I listened to a podcast and comrades with whom I agree on 85% really misunderstand that policing will actually make most of what they want to see impossible.

People believe in things that fundamentally don't exist to give their lives a larger meaning. The idea that 300,000 years of homo sapiens is an evolutionary fluke within the vastness of the universe is difficult, I know, but it is what it is.

All you have to do to understand the actual purpose of prisons in this country is to look at the aftermath of Jan 6. I will leave it there.

Yeah, so this will absolutely kill people, if it goes forward.

It's Astonishing how little attention the full scale reintroduce of Jim Crow white supremacist voter suppression through anti-Black gerrymandering is getting both on here and generally Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Multiple women serving sentences for nonviolent crimes at the minimum security prison where Ghislaine Maxwell is now serving time were punished for speaking to reporters about the special treatment Maxwell receives. At least two women were transferred to higher security facilities as punishment.

People in this country have ZERO idea about the criminal punishment system. I see it daily. Just no clue.

he is a threat in much the same way a potential mass shooter is a threat - this is direct threatening language to people with diseases or chronic conditions. he want you to die. if you have asthma, if you have a weakened immune system, whatever. he wants you to be killed.

When Lynnwood & Federal Way opened, I was like "huh there's no construction cranes, this is the first time under Sound Transit with no active construction of the next expansion, this is it for system expansion for the next 5+ years"

There is no legitimate reason for wanting a right-wing party to exist, let alone be strong. Right-wing ideology is an existential threat to humanity itself, and anyone advocating for its right to exist is inherently suspect.

Orange face German dude lies like normal people breathe oxygen. If orange face German dude says no damage done, that means there is significant damage to the U.S naval vessels.

when democrats say they want a strong republican party this is what they mean