“It sounds crazy to say that Republicans are making children go hungry to protect pedophiles, but it’s actually a reasonable interpretation of the situation.” @pkrugman.bsky.social

"Hey dudes, what happens to a consumer economy when people stop buying stuff? Anyone know?"

The most evil, sadistic presidential administration in US history.

these guys have been clearly, openly warning you about a bubble (they created) that's going to cause mass economic upheaval next year they're getting lean not because AI is so great, they're getting lean because they know the check is coming due for their bad choices across AI and authoritarianism

I "enjoy" this disconnect between tech titans claiming that AI will have us all eating pastries and working two days a week and the reality of firing people en masse while simultaneously supporting fascists who oppose universal basic income and are actively destroying the social safety net

Bubble rated ★★★★★★★★ out of ★★★★★★★★. Would not recommend.

Baseball organists like, "Let's do the Star Wars theme... Ready or Not by the Fugees... Seven Nation Army... some kind of sea chanty... bit of Bohemian Rhapsody... the first six notes of Sledgehammer... Star Wars theme again"

This is brutal, and Amazon is making *$86 BILLION* this year — with $20 billion of that in profit. This may well be the first domino that reveals what so many already know, which is that everyone but the wealthy are already in a recession. www.reuters.com/business/wor...

What we're witnessing with #Melissa is ultra rare in the history of known hurricanes in the Atlantic. This level of sustained intensity and feasting on every joule of ocean heat content without any real disruption is incredible. Not hyperbole: Jamaica is facing a generational catastrophic event.

My dad sent me this

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

Yellow ran so cyan could walk

When Trump denied disaster aid to Maryland, he apparently thought he was punishing a blue state. But the afflicted areas are Garrett and Allegany counties. Western Maryland is Appalachia. Those counties are deep in Trump country. Details on pod w/ @stevebenen.com: newrepublic.com/article/2022...

there are a lot of dudes whose dreams of a class revolt against capital and big business have been shattered by the reality that racial and social resentments cut deeper than class, and consistently respond to that reality by looking for ways to ignore, rationalize, or dismiss those resentments

I think Krasnov has more than one!!!

Suggesting SNAP be replaced with food banks is a proposal of equivalent seriousness to that anarchist thread a few years back suggesting that global insulin supply chains could be replaced by supporting “rural doctors and healers”

Every reactionary, racist and/or fascist movement ever, there: a collection of the most piffling, ridiculous grievances piled up, mounting ever higher until e.g. a degenerate painting in the gallery is a towering, operatic insult to god, nation and volk.

It has been said before, but it bears repeating: the elderly who’ve worked their entire lives to get $800 a month on Social Security aren’t bankrupting America. It’s tax-evading billionaires like Trump who are bleeding this country dry.

AOC: There was a day before his presidency, and there will be a day after — and it belongs to us.

I think about this in how the guy who ran MySpace sold his company and then traveled the world doing photography, while the guy who runs Facebook never let it go and has gone out of his way to destroy democracy in order to gain more power.

darling.....

Who can forget the now 30 year old anime, Neon Genesis Evangelion?

The trick 'r treaters are getting something special this year.

I'm kind of freaked out at how quickly the present became the past. Was this world ever real, did it exist? Imagine being in the year 2055 and becoming addicted to 20th-century relic television. That will be someone's fate.

Whenever people complain about the number of folks relying on food stamps, it is worth reminding them that SNAP is, by too large of a degree, a subsidy for corporations that refuse to pay a living wage and their political allies who reject public policy prescriptions to reduce income inequality.

My friend used AI to create Hibachi Ahsoka. This technology exists

To quote Jimmy Kimmel, "isn't it past his jail time"?

Trump policy seems to have caused an economic contraction in Iowa (6.1% drop in GDP) that is substantially bigger in magnitude than that of the Great Recession www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...

One of my favorite cartoonists here is now missing. Here is his last cartoon that I could find. Pat Byrnes. Thanks for your work. We miss you. I wonder what happened?

The view from 2039 “America remains vast, inventive, and rich in resources. It will most likely endure in some form. But the era in which it underwrote the world’s peace, prosperity, and ideals is over. The ‘indispensable nation’ has become dispensable.” michaelwood627.substack.com/p/debt-and-t...

He got the Speaker he wanted - a cuck who will sit in the corner and let him do whatever he pleases whenever he wants.

Oh god yes.... coolness, cloudiness. Being able to just throw the back door open and enjoy the autumnal chill. I've waited so long for this. FALL.

Russia is amassing nuclear weapons and attack submarines in the Arctic Circle as it prepares for war with Nato,Norway’s defence minister has warned,the Telegraph reports. ▪️"Russia is building up on the Kola peninsula ...where one of the largest arsenals of nuclear warheads in the world is located.⤵️

When it finally gets cool outside in autumn

Still no healthcare plan, or even concepts of a plan, after they gave Lesley Stahl an empty book. And people STILL believe a single word coming out of trump's mouth? Absolutely ridiculous.

Lmao

Character of the Day: Asajj Ventress

More of this common sense justification please

I really think that we need to talk more about the fact that Republicans have basically quietly abolished the House of Representatives

Congress basically doesn’t exist at this point

Animations by Italian artist Margherita Premuroso. www.margheritapremuroso.com

The Great Crypto Grift: How Trump & the Broligarchy Are Scamming America Trump & the broligarchy are grifting America through a corrupt Crypto scheme that has made them billions of dollars but threatens to destabilize financial markets & crash the economy. thelefthook.substack.com/p/the-great-...

“They cheated on a commercial” - a totally sane person definitely fit for the Presidency

Americans still don't realize how bad it has gotten and how much worse it is going to get. Immense destruction, pain and suffering, and we're not even at the tip of it.

mood: SKREEE

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