Isn’t it interesting that the middle class is becoming economically marginalized and thereby in the near future access to things we took for granted will become exceptions? Coming to the conclusion the entire ruling class got us to vote against our interests

When things were better pre-pandemic there were some of us who believed in reducing marginalization in the form of inclusion but y’all let a bunch of bought politicians convince you we were the enemy. Now we’ll all be marginalized. The irony is rich

You know I knew that Door Dash woman looked familiar

Canada is now locked into austerity neroliberal hell until 2029, all done with unethical aisle crossings with culture war monsters. We are so so fucked. The Conservative-Liberal merger is complete and now all we can do is sit back to find out what our Grenville fire is going to be.

This was a good plan until we started pushing them to the left and they said no, you’re interfering with the money 😡

checkmate, fellow terrorists

For more than a week, Amazon has managed to keep a death at its Troutdale, Oregon, facility out of public view. Workers I spoke to are pissed.

Defund the Police is a good slogan, actually.

A whole lot of my generation never thought far enough to realize that contrarian and counter culture are not the same thing. They also bought into the libertarian idea that there was no difference between the Moral Majority and people angry about institutional injustices. Reagan fucked us.

The good news is, my generation is WAY smaller than Millenials or Gen Z. Part of that “whatever” attitude in Gen X has always been realistic. Statistically, we’ve had less access to the levers of power than Bookers or Millenials, as a result. So, the rest of you outnumber us, by a lot.

Maddow: All the people who came out to protest at Stonewall when the Trump administration pulled down the pride flag, "today you won."

Hungary's prime minister elect announcing that Orbán was funding CPAC and other Trump-related political activities (also Heritage Foundation's Project 2025), and this will now end.

omg the GenX conspiracy theories tonight! my 2¢: 1) maybe it was the fact that we grew up during the Regan-Gingrich rightward turn (that Boomers voted in) that shaped this generation's views rather than lead poisoning? 2) GenX is relatively tiny. Boomers have had total control of gov't since the 90s

I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…

I didn’t know this, did you? Amazing!

Still hilarious that four of the six media outlets pictured are owned by the same company.

Must be hard for Democrats in Maine having only Platner to vote for. There’s just no other person. No one at all!

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

The best of us were thrown to the wolves with AIDS, lack of access to health care, depression without treatment, etc...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_the... cool ones died

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

Onion joke? Or every LinkedIn post I see? 😡

Many of my favourite writers are on Substack but I’ve been unable to subscribe because of the platform’s pro-Nazi skew and my firm “don’t give your money to assholes” rule. With this, however, my patience has ended. Writers! Get. The. Fuck. Off. Substack.

Truth is, Orbán is just the latest in long list of authoritarians to be defeated by anti-corruption politics. A Democratic landslide is possible if they can credibly take up the anti-corruption mantle. But that can’t happen if voters see them as corrupt and beholden to wealthy donors.

A cousin of mine died today from cancer. Haven’t seen that side of the family in a long while but I’m told he went out slowly and terribly. I feel awful for my aunt. No point to this post other than to say FUCK CANCER and please give to research if you can 🌼

Every word in this thread is true and I don’t understand who is even arguing with Chad here 👇🏼

Living in the perceptual world of the wealthy and the material world of a regular person is stressful. It is *meant* to make you feel like you’re falling behind even if you’re not. That’s how demand is induced. This is just one element but I think economists miss it (among other things).

Rich Republicans don't feel special if everyone is prospering.

I wrote a memo to US ambassador Pete Hoekstra on this very matter in today’s @hilltimes.com

I can personally attest to all this and having my job whittled away by AI is a big factor as well. I consider myself an optimist but I’ve ZERO reason to be 😡

A simply world-class joke from @theonion.com 😂

The country's descent into fascism cannot be understood without interrogating U.S. policing. But folks across the political spectrum are allergic to this so here we are.

I was raised on conspiracy thrillers in which brave reporters, backed by their tough-but-righteous editors, risked bodily harm to unearth terrible crimes against citizens. Justice! But in our world these reporters just get quietly fired for telling truths no one cares to hear and the public shrugs.

AI turns garbage into *eerie* garbage and a copy of a copy of a copy will make this world a trash heap 😬

Ontario had the opportunity in 2018 to get out ahead of this and lead the world but nope, we elected Doug Ford 🫤

“the islamic republican of iran is flanking the united states on friendly relations with the papacy” i giggle to my twin sister as we stumble down a lost highway towards the white lights. she’s not real. but then, what is?

We’ve known all this since the Bush era and I *beg* American Christians to finally catch up 😡

Hillary Clinton called universal health care a pony and didn’t pay for one of her top staffers cancer treatment. They had to do a go fund me

Read a book on Zionism yesterday to see if I might learn something reasonable about Netanyahu’s point of view. NOPE. And now another day of *absolute ghouls* making everything worse 😡

Alarmingly accurate 😂

In 2012 the RNC commissioned the company that did hologram Tupac at Coachella to do a hologram Reagan to give a speech endorsing Romney, but pulled the plug at the last minute when they realized hologram Reagan would simply upstage Romney.

Just checked and this is real - Scottish Labour’s manifesto refers to trans people using slurs and commits to a policy of explicit segregation in public life

In medieval times you never had to know that your deposed lord married a hearty wench and went the festival!

💯 As an Irish-American Citizen now living in Ireland, it’s my personal view (& also, right out of Steve Bannon’s own mouth) that the international authoritarian movement is making 🇮🇪 its next target. Fuel protests & flags & anti-immigrant riots are part of it. Y’all still have time to stop it.

For the average person if you want to experience car culture: walk into a coffee shop or fast food restaurant with a drive thru and see how many drivers get served before you do.

Spotted near Varsity Arena: a pigeon brought lunch from home 😃

“Hit back???” And is that the Pope’s naval fleet in the photo? Go home, AP, you’re drunk 🫤

Didn’t expect SHAUN OF THE DEAD and STAR TREK star Simon Pegg to be *bringing the heat* this morning but wow 😮👍🏼

First the White House went for Venezuela, because it wanted the monopoly on oil. Then it went for Greenland, because it wanted the monopoly on oil. Then it went for Iran, because it wanted the monopoly on oil. Then it went for the Vatican, because it wanted the monopoly on paedophiles.