For some context, we could have made the monthly child tax credit that cut child poverty by 40% permanent for $100 billion a year. The return on investment would have been $15 per $1.

Why are the loudest Vets the ones who barely served at all? Dude with his “Let’s Go Brandon” bumper sticker right next to the Marine Corps emblem and a single chevron (PFC) sticker was loud with it. Like, that was maybe 6 years of his life, yet it’s his whole identity. Just feels inauthentic.

I wonder if my lefty buds have considered that the version of religion rampant at this memorial was only able to swell up because we gave away the ground. Maybe if we participated in religious spaces, we could set the terms for what legitimate religious dialogue looks like? youtu.be/L0D2dxr09fE?...

It’ll be funny if there never really was anything valuable in the files and this was all a big misdirect.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

My theory is that anything corporations willingly do to humor whatever political agenda is going on is never going to be an actual threat to their bottom line. Removing artificial colors will probably be as costly to their profits as creating DEI initiatives was under the last administration.

Oh no. Someone alert RFK Jr.

Sometimes, I can recognize when I’m feeling the urge to eat my feelings. It’s the feelings part that’s hard to pin down. Like, why am I feeling so much on a Wednesday morning that I want to bankrupt Golden Coral?

oh you know if you wanna throw $5 a month into helping me grow the channel that'd be cool but if not i totally get it. www.patreon.com/MichaelBurns...

Why TF is cheese so great? Pretty sure dairy bothers my toddler’s tummy but the only thing she eats consistently lately (and we give tons of options) is the cheese off of pizzas and Mac n Cheese. Thing is, I don’t blame her. I’d probably do the same in her shoes, and I’m capable of complex thoughts.

I’ve never eaten kale and I don’t have autism, so clearly kale causes autism.

This is just a reminder that anything publicly deemed “woke” is a target that those in power wish to control or manipulate to do their bidding. “Woke AI” means prevent regulation and ethical guardrails. “BlueSky is woke” means no no decentralized platforms. open.substack.com/pub/theameri...

how did derrick henry fumble the helmet slam

Steelers-Ravens this year is gonna be so sturdy. Derrick Henry will have 300 yards, three fumbles, and an interception. Game ends tied at 18 (six Boswell field goals vs three touchdowns with a missed extra point and two failed 2-point tries)

Maybe I’m doing it wrong, but BlueSky is really feeling like a non-stop torrent of catastrophe lately. Like, I get it, everything is fucked. But, does literally everyone on here feel the need to remark on it? Do you have nothing more interesting or critical to say? Just gets boring.

I believe the whole point of the current regime’s economic policy is to devalue the US dollar to open the way path to legitimizing crypto and decentralized currencies. It’s a libertarian wet dream.

in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement against-a-i.com www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Watching the Steelers-Patriots game with the subtitles on is too funny right now. Boutte (pronounced BOOTY) is a name that closed captioning wasn’t prepared for. I know… I’m a child.

If the group you identify with or thing you like has a “style”, then it’s probably been subsumed by the system that the group or thing exists allegedly in opposition to. I’m thinking about goth in my youth and maybe artist aesthetic now. This just perpetuates the system that makes you angsty.

You ever stop and think, “Why do we all like the same shit?” I feel like we collectively have this shitty 80’s era image of things imbedded in our brains. Beaches are boring. Disney World is stressful and not worth the money. Two and a half kids with a dog means it’s hard to enjoy your life.

I’m not saying we should all go join a church, but I am concerned that the boom in angry atheism (which I participated in) may have been a PSYOP to fragment collective power in the US. Faith based orgs were centers for liberation movements during the Civil Rights movement. They still could be.

Restricting access pushes people into a few algorithmic platforms whose opaque feeds can be steered by aligned interests, intentionally or not. This subtly distorts reality for casual users. Even if framed as safety, the centralization of gatekeeping power increases the risk of narrative control.

I can't recommend this essay enough: "Ultimately, thinking historically is about asking better, more probing questions. It is a disciplined curiosity that fosters an appreciation for the complex interplay of individual agency, structural forces and pure chance." www.noemamag.com/the-lost-art...

I think the worst part of it all is that existing support systems are there to help you cope so you can keep operating within the system that is crushing your soul and making you need the support system, so you use the support system, cope, & get back to work, as if the overall system is just okay.

This dog led an officer to his leash while being rescued from his burning home. 14/10 for all (IG: aurorapoliceil)

A solid intro for baby Leftists: someone asked this Marxist content creator, “What’s the difference between Marxism and Communism?” and he breaks it down clearly. Sharing for anyone who’s just starting to explore socialism and wants the basics explained without jargon.

reminder that I'm doing a LIVE EVENT with CJ the X and Dr. Fatima in San Francisco on October 10th. more info and tickets at the link below.

“‘Oh, you wanna cry in a Toyota? Or you wanna cry in a Rolls-Royce?’ I don't wanna cry at all, how 'bout that one? I don't wanna shed a tear no matter what car I'm driving If I'm on a bus, a train, a trolley, a bike I-I don't wanna cry” open.spotify.com/track/3yOKjq...

I don’t think people understand where we’re at. These guys are playing with a different set of rules. They view the left as enemies, like literally, as in lefty deaths are victories. That goober on Jubilee in Medhi’s episode gave away the game. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Con...

I have little faith the algorithm will allow anyone to see this, but if you see this post, watch this & think about it. And maybe resist the urge to snarkily reply - realize that the algorithms have trained your brain to seek that negative engagement rather than just meditating on the topic.

a Portuguese interview celebrating publication of the Portuguese translation of Immediacy! thanks @boitempo.bsky.social ! the first in print of a number of translations coming this fall; more soon!

Here’s how the attention economy works: the more you react and post about something, the more money someone makes. There are no consequences for the content that pissed you off. You are rewarding the people that piss you off by talking about it. He died. Let’s make him obscure and move on.

A photon checks into a hotel. "Do you need any help with your luggage, sir?" "No, I'm travelling light"

Words are funny. Federalist in the American revolutionary context refers to someone who wanted more centralized power. Federalist in the French revolutionary context refers to someone who wanted more decentralized power. Imagine thinking vocabulary was consistent across time and culture.

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

Probably safe to assume we get something akin to the Committee of Public Safety soon. www.britannica.com/topic/Commit...

“Life is too short to not say exactly what you mean… all the time.” youtu.be/oZVr4pxqVpc?...

I believe art is one of our strongest tools for pushing against dominant systems of power. IMO, the best art comes from people who truly feel deeply. As such, I fully expect most art to be counter cultural bc we all should be feeling the weight of this oppressive system. youtu.be/j2fHYQX6Auc?...

a lot of us are more complicit in the online brain rot culture than we would like to admit and hopefully we can acknowledge it and build something better because this shit is turning the whole world into a pile of emotionally detached trash.

NEW VIDEO OUT NOW Ms Rachel's Radical Existentialism youtu.be/0oWEaookx3M

Well, it light of the news of the shooter being right of the victim, Corday’s story feels so incredibly relevant. In her mind, Marat and the Jacobins weren’t revolutionary enough. Her actions took the French Revolution from a movement focused on individual liberty to authoritarian Terror.

i'm just saying i would never snitch on my child

“Marat's death marks a turning point in the Revolution but at the antipodes of that expected by Charlotte Corday. Barely two months after his crime, the Terror put on the agenda on September 5, 1793 accelerated and generalized the massacres in France.” www.justice.gouv.fr/actualites/a...

Capitalism will always seek to minimize labor costs to maximize profits. So, my 5:30am theory is that the focus on forcing unwanted children to be born is an attempt to increase our cheap labor pool within the confines of our citizenry. They know these kids likely have no future. Numbers don’t lie.

At what point do anti-trust laws kick in? I don’t much about this, but all of this consolidation feels horizontal (maybe even vertical when you factor in press as advertising) integration adjacent, and my grade school understanding of monopolies tell me this is bad, but again, I don’t know.

Jules, this is Brian. Listen, I'm on an airplane that's been hijacked. If things don't go well, and it's not looking good, I just want you to know I absolutely love you. I want you to do good, go have good times. Same to my parents and everybody, and I just totally love you, and I'll see you when ..

Gun violence and inflammatory, algorithmically prioritized rhetoric share a common root cause. Both are the downstream effects of a system that prioritizes the maximization of shareholder value over stakeholder dignity. In fact, I’m willing to bet there’s a correlation with these & 401K dominance.