Instead of No Kings, I hope the next protest is No Caves that gets 7 million people to surround their offices Primary every one. No $$$ for them or any committee that funds them. Boo them in airports. Make their existence hell on earth

Did ChatGPT tell the Democratic Party to kill itself??

You know what to do. Let them know what you think of their failure to lead.

Time to replace this old fool who clearly can not control his own party! 8 Dems voted with Republicans to open the government and got nothing in return but a handshake promise from the party that lies to all.

We got rid of Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema. We don’t need ten replacements for those traitors. We need hardline fighters, not spineless capitulators.

I’m shocked. Spoiled nepo baby goes to the head of the line despite objectively marginal talent. This is precisely how privilege works.

daytrading U.S. Congressman Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) has introduced groundbreaking legislation aimed at curbing potential conflicts of interest in government by prohibiting the President, members of Congress, and their immediate family members from owning, trading, or creating cryptocurrencies.

Never forget who sold us out: Hassan King Cortez-Masto Shaheen Kaine Fetterman Durbin Rosen

Dick Durbin can room with Merrick Garland in the Neville Chamberlain Retirement Home.

Woke up feeling like Michael Douglas had the right idea in Falling Down.

As I said yesterday, the privileged class knows that no real consequences will ever attach to their behavior. To punish them effectively there are only two options: deprivation of all wealth or deprivation of life. They can defeat any other punishment.

Interesting how illiteracy, infant and maternal mortality, anti-union, anti-science, and pro-theocracy politics don’t add up to affluence.

I tired of these impotent, detached old men who pretend they’re dealing with other normal human beings instead of a cult comprised of sycophants, sociopaths, and the criminally stupid. THE OLD RULES DON’T APPLY. Act like it. No compromise. No capitulation.

I’ve said before that I want Trump buried at sea just like bin Laden. Let us make no shrines to this monster.

As the owner of an F-150 (as well as a pair of very fuel efficient hybrids), this post presumes a lot about purpose, intent, and motivations. Do I drive it much in the city? No, but it’s very useful (and necessary) to pull things, haul materials and carry humans. Broad brushes = big errors.

Reductions in Force not required by shutdowns, have never happened in any previous shutdown, and a judge has ruled they are illegal. The shutdown is an excuse, not a reason, for them to do what they wanted to do: destroy government.

Alternate Fox headline: Duffy goes full Star Wars tells pilots to use the force.

In Finland, kindergartens are exposing children to more mud, wild plants and moss - and finding changes to their health that show how crucial biodiversity is to wellbeing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

For perspective. The 50 year mortgage means this: if you bought a house in 1975, you’d pay it off this year.

I’ll say. 😩🫨

This is an idea we need to import. It’s not like the children of wealthy families won’t have lives of insulated privilege anyway.

This headline from CNN shows just how far they’ll go to alibi this monster’s behavior. He doesn’t “appear” to close his eyes. His eyes are obviously, factually closed. Grow a spine, cowards.

I’m open to this arrangement. I’ve even got a good start on a Southern Gothic novel.

The Republican Party.

That’s like having your parachute tell you to land somewhere soft.

Now do overall gun violence.

Insofar as I can tell, guillotines still work the same way. The oligarchy can only be punished by one of two ways: deprivation of wealth or deprivation of life. Nothing else works - ever.

We can’t disincentivize greed, but we could sure tax the living hell out of it. Get money out of politics and back in the hands of those who actually earned it.

Because corporations are people for the purpose of buying elections but they are not people for the purpose of liability or accountability.

Let the prosecutions begin . . .

Do you remember when the White House had good taste? Back when the art had meaning, the rooms had soul, and the President had both.

For the thousandth time, until we have taxes that preclude the existence of billionaires and centimillionaires, this will be our world. Wealth hoarding predicts nation failure. Across millennia this pattern holds.

Don’t threaten me with a good time.

#90sTop30 #MusicChallenge #25/30: Just one of the craziest beats of all time from the Beastie Boys’ 90’s hot streak. Beastie Boys - Intergalactic

Yes, this is the neoliberal “run government like a business” garbage coming home to roost. Stripped of their humanity, people become objects to be processed. It’s just as bad in higher ed.

I propose a new mascot for the Democratic Party: a startled opossum. Watching Schumer, et al., grovel it became clear. Democrats when cornered show their teeth and become immediately paralyzed.

#OtD 7 Nov 1917 the October revolution, one of the most momentous events in world history, began in Russia when revolutionaries overthrew the provisional govt and stormed the Winter Palace stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1073...

Citizens United + Unhinged billionaires = the end of democracy How much money do you think was spent, in total, for the 2024 election (Congress + POTUS)? $14.8B. Add in Musk’s Twitter buy and it’s $62.8B. Musk is worth $500B, was $334B on Election Day. They are stealing our democracy for profit.

So, where are all the billionaires stepping in to stock food banks? How many Fortune 500 CEOs have pledged their bonuses to curb starvation? Until the American public understands these people as their mortal enemies, we’ll be at their mercy.

Alex Karp and Peter Thiel are two of the worst people on this planet running one of the most evil companies to ever exist—we should do whatever we can to make Palantir go bankrupt.

This goes to a broader point: there’s not one Southern accent. People from the Ozark Mountains don’t sound like folks from Louisiana or South Carolina. People from Southern cities don’t sound like people from rural areas. “Southern” is too often shorthand for stupid.

Setting aside the liabilities of the participants and venue, my fellow Arkansan is right. It’s still completely acceptable to be publicly derisive of and prejudiced against Southerners. Like “everybody knows that.” I faced it a lot when I lived in NY. #Arkansas #Southern #Southerners

If we lived in a moral society we would tax the wealthy at a rate such that a minimum basic income and a living minimum wage would obviate the need for programs like SNAP.