Breaking: Trump just tried to illegally “freeze” Obamacare. He said starting immediately there will be no more money for insurance companies. No more subsidies. No more Affordable Care Act. First they came for the immigrants, then food assistance, now healthcare.

Likely Reichstag fire shit, but this is the logical reaction to the state declaring war on its people.

Itʻs much like how Cornell installed suicide nets under bridges, because their students kept jumping off them. Never once did they bother interrogating how they could make things better so that students would stop doing that, they just installed nets to prevent the bad publicity.

Maybe schools should be asking why students are so distressed in the first place? Big Tech creates a problem, then sells schools the "solution" to address it. Schools know what they do to students, but refuse to take concrete steps toward addressing it. Instead, they license monitoring software.

Meanwhile, my school is actually ENCOURAGING us to use it. They want me to use it for lesson planning. They want me to use it for WRITING NARRATIVE COMMENTS on report cards! How insulting that I would use the cheatbot because I can't reflect on my students' progress and provide individual feedback.

Generative AI is ruining my motivation to teach. It is not a bold new era of information that I'm excited to see my students explore. It's a cheat that prevents them from thinking. It lets them avoid even a moment of confusion and struggle, necessary to process new ideas.

Wild to pull the whole “victims of communism” nonsense while you’re actively petitioning for the right to starve your citizens

Musk and Trump and the other oligarchs are miserable people and their endless cruelty masks that misery. It’s more obvious now than ever that capitalism is an unfair and poisonous system. We must look at them and recognize the lies we were sold. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/money-cant...

Also, this is one of the most late-stage capitalism things I've ever heard. The idea that a businessman whose business is grocery stores, one of the most location-dependent businesses in history, thinks "I'll just take my toys and move cross country"? Economists would study the result for decades.

The oligarchs are so fucking greedy they are happy to starve and kill you to make an extra cent. Fucking fight back and shut down this evil system.

History: "There are two things you must never fuck with; infrastructure and food." Trump admin: "Something about fuck with their infrastructure and food. Got it."

Remember: when cops strike, crime rates drop. Abolition is the way!

Is bluesky moderating into invisibility American fundraising links the way they did to people in Gaza? At what point will they?

Consider how Bluesky admins treated Gaza gofundmes, and the precedent that sets for, say, Americans trying to crowdfund for their kids' food due to nazis shutting shit down. The imperial boomerang will *always* return.

It's the same as "access." We don't need access to healthcare, we just need actual healthcare. These terms are deliberately inserted into the framing of the debate to reinforce the centrality of the market and the need to adhere to the rules of capitalism.

The irony of this is that "affordability" is a weasel word developed by neoliberals to frame things within a capitalist context and individualize things that society should be providing to everyone for FREE. Having housing, food, and healthcare shouldn't be contingent on your ability to "afford" it.

My local branch library created a list of food pantries in Manhattan. I wonder what would be possible if 25 businesses in Manhattan each adopted one pantry.

Spotify is crashing HARD because of the boycott. Their stock dropped 11% in value over the last month. Let’s keep this going! Tell everyone you know to boycott Spotify. There are plenty of alternatives that don’t run ICE advertisements and screw over artists. We made it easy at boycottspotify.com.

The “winners” of capitalism are lonely, unhappy, and destructive. They can’t even perform faux-happiness. That’s what fascism brings to the forefront. Capitalism is annihilation and it steals everything human and good and juices it of all its worth. These assholes are instructive, cautionary tales.

We should be infinitely grateful that Trump and Musk and all these fascist oligarchs are so transparently miserable and pathetic. It shatters the fantasy that has kept capitalism humming and makes it undeniable that things have to change.

If the endpoint of capitalism is to be a self-destructive and miserable asshole, it gives the game away and depowers the incentive. And every one of these oligarch dickriders, with their infinite scams and cringe self-promotion and transparent boasts, only fuels the realization.

Notice how people are using this about Elon's trillion dollar deal, which happens in 10 years IFF: - The ai bubble doesn't pop - He makes an army of 1 million robots - He octuples Tesla's value - He doesn't die Etc It's very much subjunctive, very much future tense. And yet.

I’ve read Kim Kelly’s work on labor for years. She’s treated her readers, teenagers and professors, with respect, while breaking it all down so it made sense. Thank you. A travesty to end the very thing, writing on politics and labor, that set Teen Vogue apart from all the others.

In case you’re wondering how bad things are, we are getting calls from food pantries on military bases asking if we have any food we can share because they’re hungry.

Vulnerable ppl are always told not to complain. Always.

The shutdown is an excuse; not a reason. The shutdown is an excuse for Trump to fire employees, pay some employees but not others when no fund exists, cut federal projects in blue states, and to defund SNAP. None of these actions are required by the law. In some cases they are illegal.

there's no point analyzing Trump's 'health plan' because it is the disordered babbling of a demented nursing home resident- like nearly everything he says it's buzzwords and sentiments from Fox news run through a blender, there is nothing else involved

Back in April "A little-known firm with investors linked to JD Vance, Elon Musk and Trump could get a piece of the federal expense card system — and its hundreds of millions in fees." Could this be used to drain SNAPS monthly pipe treasury?

As a 15 yr veteran of Retail Hell; There's no quicker way to destroy the morale, quality, and ability for your employees to do their job effectively than to force superfluous interactions. This is Retail Management brain incarnate; believing that a wide net of interactions inherently boosts sales.

Reminder, ANTI-MASKING is a project 2025 goal literally written on page 475

One encouraging parallel to our “second Gilded Age” is that the first one ended partly because the corporations controlling critical infrastructure overextended themselves, investing heavily in technology they were certain would produce future profits, and then collapsed and enraged everyone

“At Protect RP we always remind people that everyone can do something, and that something will matter.” 💯 Do one more thing. 👇

They tried this in Trump 1 w/ Social Security. The plan was to offer every American on Social Security the option to take a $10k check on the spot rather than receive any more annuities. They want to try and get Americans primed to sell out the rest of their safety net for pennies on the dollar.

If liberals were serious about justice, and not just grossly offended by Trump’s disdain for the polite mask, then Trump never would have gotten elected POTUS in the first place, much less oozed back into a second term. (Bonus point: we went through this before, with Obama embracing Dubya’s crimes.)

Just want to point out that these women didn’t just start talking after Trump’s latest inauguration. If Biden had wanted to, he could’ve torn Trump to shreds and given these women some justice. This is why I find a lot of this Epstein discourse as disingenuous as much of the rest of anti-Trump talk.

Gentle reminder that the idea that SCOTUS and appellate judges can only follow what the law is and not what the law should be is conservative propaganda from the 1970s and 1980s created by the Federalist Society in response to the civil rights decisions of the Warren Court.

The ChatGPT suicide hotline is a hotline that talks you into committing suicide. Doesn't seem like a service that should be legal.

I know people with full time jobs who can’t even get ahead and they’re almost 60. They’re leaving nothing for their kids. America completely failed them, some even think it would be “better to kill myself than leave my family with all these bills.” That’s the real America.

Palantir must be destroyed if humanity is to survive.

The evil figures currently pushing AI into our lives are the same evil figures who have been pushing Covid-19 into our lives throughout the ongoing pandemic. #AI #COVID19

One of the coolest things about our president is that he honestly just doesn’t understand how anything works

it's the only way we can make sense of some of the economic stuff that is predicated on a demonstration to the public that capitalism is all made up. it feels like they have flipped the "money doesn't exist" coin and there's no stopping it. it's feudalism or anarchism and all we're leaning in.

anyone else feel like the oligarchs saw that the gap between modern life an a return to straight-up feudalism was closer than it ever would be, and we're all stuck in a Dukes of Hazard freeze frame? we've got fascism and nazism as the ramp but, it looks like they believe they can clear the ravine

dismantle education, disappear as many people as possible, crack down on dissent, erase history, intentionally ruin healthcare access worse than it already is, destroy access to support systems, or just destroy the systems this isn't about capitalism anymore. they think they can clear the jump.

the supreme court justices who just denied hungry people food all have home addresses

"For procedural reasons Justice Jackson had to issue the stay, I'm sure her legal reasoning was sound...." PEOPLE. ARE. STARVING. Can they eat the rules of procedure? No? THEN FEED THEM. The purpose of a system is what it does. And if the rules of procedure allow people to starve, they're wrong.

I actually do understand the legal reasoning behind Justice Jackson's stay order. My point is that when people have no food, unless they can eat your legal reasoning, it's irrelevant. Feed. Them.

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