I think a lot of people would be legitimately shocked to learn what a typical House staffer gets paid. And these are the people actually running the government

I want to note a statistic I often find quoted online, and what I believe to be the source: “Prior non-fatal strangulation was associated with […] over seven-fold odds (OR 7.48, 95% CI 4.53–12.35) of becoming a completed homicide.” pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

what kind of country is this, where dangerous radicals can throw sandwiches at our brave secret masked torture police with impunity

sleepy boi

Wireless internet with the Motorola MicroTAC and HP 100LX

WHAT IF WE JUST INVESTED IN ARTISTS AND AUTHORS LIKE MANY OTHER COUNTRIES

new hall of shame entrant. Feeling better all the time for not attending an ivy

Honestly we get there by making their own criminal liability take each other out.

i guess i am joining the people's revolution after all

Visited a recreation of Cybersyn — the Chilean socialist internet that predates the web. It had programs to communicate with a decentralized network of telex machines at factories (Cybernet), economic simulators (CHECO & Cyberstride), and this control room Goal was to control the economy with clicks

Elon and Marco are genocidaires and I hope they are one day tried in chains at the Hague.

actual communism

omg ...

Wild for Helen Andrews to hand-wave this stuff as "half-clad pin-ups": - Outright porn posted on the walls at multiple worksites - Penthouses and Playboys shared publicly to be read at work - Management allowed nude women calendars but barred political ones It's good that this is now unacceptable!

While the NYT's asks if feminism ruined the workplace, the Washington Post gives us a look into a workplace without feminism

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

#GildedAge 🥇

the question nobody with a soul is asking, answered by people nobody wants to hear from

lol

Do not look away.

Today, OpenAI’s CFO said the US government should guarantee the debt the company takes on to finance its infrastructure build. Not a sign of a sustainable business model that can stand on its own. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...

TOMORROW BELONGS TO US

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

one of my spicy takes, for example, is that limits on strikes are unconstitutional under the 13th Amendment, because if we have a right to be free from forced labor, we must necessarily have a right to stop working and negotiate the conditions of our labor

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

"Not as classy as Curtis Sliwa" is quite a legacy.

There will be accountability

Hate gets stale faster than folks typically realize

If the wine importer wins at SCOTUS today, it means Trump will have to pay back all the tariffs they paid. So now people are suing to line up to get paid back ASAP. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Does someone have a list of all the people who promised to leave NYC so we can put them on free buses to Florida?

“.. Nearly half of young men have an active gambling account. .. Less than 5% of gamblers withdraw more money from their apps than they deposit. “.. as the NBA’s dustup shows, this experiment is turning out to be a terrible bet.” @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

LOCAL ELECTION RESULT: Let me congratulate @zysaidso.bsky.social for her election to the Charlottesville School Board. For those wondering: Zyahna Bryant was a student organizer who led the successful fight in removing two confederate statues from downtown Charlottesville.

Page One in Kentucky. @kentucky.com #SNAP

The guy who almost got actual children at a pizza joint killed by making up wild conspiracy theories about Democrats would like you to know he's opposed to inflammatory speech.

There will now be 10,000 new ICE agents & 100,000 new detention beds--and few safeguards protecting people from constitutional violations by the feds. Time for states to pass laws allowing people to sue fed agents. Read about it these "converse-1983" statutes here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

K-Shaped Economy for Firms Since earlier this year, earnings expectations have increased for the Magnificent Seven and declined for the S&P 493 Torsten at Apollo

for a muslim american to become mayor of new york city on the same day that dick cheney died... sometimes the purple prose for future dadbook histories of The American Experiment just writes itself.

let this be a lesson that sexual predators can eat shit. we do not forget.

Buying a copy tomorrow to frame it

i guess we will never know if they were ICE or not

Accurate headline

Play it again, Sam

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

NEW: Even the FBI thinks unidentified masked ICE agents is a bad idea. @dell.bsky.social and @carolinehaskins.bsky.social with the scoop. No paywall bc FOIA: www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty. “They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”

Mike Schur's satirical NY Billionaire couldn't be more on the nose: