Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

💥 BOOM 🖕🧊✈️ “When we’re talking about the values of our city, and we stand up here and we say time after time that we support our immigrant community and that we are a welcoming city — I cannot support a corporation that does not prescribe to that,” Council member Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez said.

Good thing there are a lot of older people and we vote.

the point isn't profit as much as it is the shakedown it's abusive daddy mentality nothing's worth anything to them unless they've made someone suffer for it it's why Trump hates trade and loves tariffs trade means BOTH sides get what they want, which is ABHORRENT to this mindset

We stand with Senator Mark Kelly. He did nothing wrong and everyone participating in this clown show to appease the spoiled toddler king by smearing a national hero can go fuck themselves.

This entire weekend

We have forgotten what it's like to hold a child paralyzed with polio or comfort a mom who has lost her child from measles. It wasn’t that many generations ago. And I don‘t want to see us go backward. They protect children. They are our best defense against these terrible illnesses.

Old here who remembers: I had to get my newspaper-publisher boss to sign for my first credit card in 1975.

What an absolute clown show.

*Literally all investigations of firms with ties to Trump crypto businesses or involving Trump donors have been dropped. *The pattern of non-enforcement for crypto is different from other SEC cases

No, thanks. Those in power who bestow prayers do have the ability to enact direct action— that is the crux of my argument. In this instance that is all that is done.

Are you on drugs? Americans don’t completely clean their car of snow and when you point it out they have a thousand excuses. “I can’t reach the roof” ma’am you live in Arlington you don’t need a Tahoe to drive 4 miles to the pentagon by yourself.

The other part of this clip brings the conversation to why trucks are built in such a way that limits visibility of pedestrians in front of the truck.

Parts of the country have seen accumulating snowfall in recent days. For fucks sake, clean your car off completely before driving. Besides reduced visibility, have you ever seen ice/snow flying off one vehicle striking another? Fucking terrifying. CLEAN YOUR VEHICLES COMPLETELY BEFORE DRIVING

Oh, totally GoodReads is just ridiculous

From Elon Musk’s Grok declaring itself "MechaHitler" to ChatGPT users spiraling into dangerous delusions, artificial intelligence wreaked havoc with humanity on an unprecedented scale in 2025. Read: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Starbucks workers are striking across 130+ cities—fighting for fair pay, sane schedules, real protections & justice on every unfair labor practice. Show solidarity: skip Starbucks until they settle. No coffee, no compromise. Workers make the magic—back them or brew your own! #ProudBlue

We have $ for a dozen ICE agents to hang around for hours trying to arrest 2 roofers working in MN. Meanwhile, the agency that investigates and prosecutes violations of Americans' right to organize is shedding staff again. Now down to like 1 agency staff per 145,000 workers.

He has been profiting off his contrarianism since before the pandemic. It was a wise investment, as it secured him his current position as FDA Commissioner bsky.app/profile/save...

Give it a year, I reckon, and one of THE major societal divides, nudging countless friendships to an end, is going to be the one between people who post awful AI shit on the internet and people who don't because they realise it's a dishonest, ecologically ruinous evil fast-tracking us to apocalypse.

This is so funny. How will AI come up with something it hasn't seen before? By mashing up things that it's seen before? That's not an "idea."

You can't cure stupid. MAHA is just a disgusting organization of zero brain cells. Science could have cured measles but no... Mr. Brainworm is all about getting children sick. They should go to prison for this. Don't come to my city hospitals idiots. Ride this one out old school at home.

U.S. farmer Chris Gibbs accurately describes what the farmer's bailout is actually doing.

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Feel free to boost this if you'd like. I lived through the mass shooting at UVA three years ago and am more than happy to talk to anyone at Brown who wants to talk to someone that understands what y'all are going through tonight.

I literally have so many ideas I have to write them down to get them out of my head so I can focus on stuff like laundry. Ideas aren't the problem.

Please help if you can 💔

blood needed in Rhode Island

Women can be just as equally vile as men take cos play Barbie as #1example puppy 🐶 killer goat 🐐 killer So advancing to brutally treating other people as less than isn’t much of a stretch

And as I’ve often pointed out, too many just spew tired idiomatic expressions and cliches gleaned from too much TV or social media. Most them aren’t “stupid.” They’re just empty. 4/10

Tyler Bowyer, Turning Point Action USA COO, was one of 11 fake electors who were indicted in Arizona, then pardoned by Trump. Heritage Action is the group that tweeted threats to Indiana state senators. Indiana Republican state senators did not cave to extortion-type tactics.

This isn't even parody anymore.

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

That's basically what Charlie Kirk was doing.

Erika Kirk looks like someone that would enterprise off the death of her own husband. Oh, huh

erika kirk looks like the type who would scream WITCH at a random person on the street

CBS News has already turned fully propaganda and sold its soul. Bari didnt take long to ruin the prestige CBS News held.

This is why I know there’s no Time Machine.

Steve Bannon’s close relationship with Jeffrey Epstein deserves even more scrutiny. Every day. Bannon has manipulated press coverage for years, even while being a superspreader for rightwing extremism and idiotic conspiracy theories. Reporting every day. Bannon + Epstein.

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this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

A+ trolling from Zelenskyy

So the GOP unveiled a healthcare plan with no ACA extensions. Then GOP moderates rebelled, calling getting rid of the extensions “political shocked” and now they’re apparently going to vote on the new health plan *and* ACA extensions next week. We’ll see.

I came with a cowbell and rubber chicken.

It's clear from the article that ICE is *miserable* here. They're freezing their asses off and being harassed everywhere they go. Property managers aren't allowing them access to rental properties and people know their rights and aren't letting them in. KEEP IT UP.

Also, it sounds like people have figured out which hotel the ICE agents are staying at and are giving them a lovely overnight musical performance with drums and vuvuzelas and so on. www.startribune.com/minneapolis-...

On this page you'll find nine clearly AI James Gandolfini biographies that were published after mine. It's absolute madness and authors have no power. Don't buy books from Amazon. Buy them from @mzspress.bsky.social or @bookshop.org or your local bookstore or even fucking B&N but not goddamn Amazon