so they had the press secretary fire the labor secretary via tweet but the labor secretary is now like fuck off Oddjob, I'm staying and has lawyered up, just another day in the golden age of America

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Before every post, I pause and think to myself "how is this going to benefit The West?" And if I don't think that the bit I've crafted about the Mets grounding out all the time is helpful in that way, I don't post it.

An underrated 21st century skill is knowing what level of digital friendship you should have with somebody. Getting that Instagram request and being able to say, "no, LinkedIn mutuals is right for us." Tough when you realize belatedly that you don't actually want to know what your gym trainer thinks

bring back shame

I think our society really is grossly underestimating how important visible accountability is for social cohesion. May we re-learn this lesson.

US elites decided, like a school of fish, that climate concern is old, boring, "woke," square, not hip & popular any more. As usual, it was based almost entirely on internal elite dynamics. It had nothing to do with the actual public, which is more concerned than ever.

Very cool: Rivian sends old batteries to Redwood, who hooks them all up via its special sauce, and now the batteries are helping power a Rivian manufacturing plant! Closed loop starting to come into sight ...

Again: young people might not realize that this kind of repugnant racism was unacceptable to express publicly, *not that long ago*.

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them. The graves of multiple children have been defaced. One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

The group, “Veterans Against Fascism”, was arrested after staging a protest inside the U.S. Capitol against Trump’s & Israel’s illegal war with Iran

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online

you guys, there is an italian bakery IN MY VILLAGE that people come out from brooklyn to visit and i am NEVER able to go when it was open finally, driving back from JFK, i thought the stars were aligned for me and sfingi and it's closed mondays :( (mario's, babylon)

A US army sergeant with 27 years of military service – including deployment to Afghanistan – has said that federal immigration agents recently arrested his wife during an appointment at an El Paso, Texas, immigration office.

yes and i would add following from the context of the labor market trended toward higher wages and a labor shortage in 2021, and there was a coordinated "no one wants to work" propaganda campaign, and capital was S E E T H I N G that workers had the gall to ask for more so much propaganda

During the peak of COVID, a number of parents learned or re-learned that teaching is difficult. But this has had no lasting impact. Hasn't translated to calls to increase teacher pay, for example.

We need to stop them immediately

Excited that InfoWars has switched sides in the infowars

this is wonderful, and every part of our coast downstate is beautiful and people deserve access to it <3

if you respond like this to people 6 years later expressing that the social isolation of peak Covid was hard for them, congratulations: you are a huge asshole

just earlier i was thinking i hope it's well established no democrat position about ICE other than "abolish it" is viable before the "no asks before an election" bullshit starts

BREAKING: Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer has resigned.

FUCK IT, WE'LL DO IT DEAD

did we have airport discourse? weirdly i never leave the house but i legiterally just got back from dropping the baby* off at JFK * she's 23 * i took ocean parkway (my own personal SSP bypass) home and it is still beautiful and my favorite road on earth and there are no good pics of the 2-side view

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

We must carry His spirit. It is time

people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser

and I helped

the two positions i hold simultaneously based on my mood optimist: things can't continue in politics like this doomer: things can't continue in politics like this

Anti-Data Center organizing is really ramping up especially in the South.

Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.

New, from me: Take the Palantir manifesto seriously, if not literally. It reveals that our tech philosopher kings want public money, but without public accountability. This creates a dilemma for governments unaligned with its techno-fascist vision. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

ghoulish

The CEO of Palantir posted a fascist manifesto on X. I pointed out that it was fascist—which resulted in a permanent suspension from X (my second time!). So, when you hear the tweeters complaining that BlueSky is intolerant, remember why many of us came here in the first place.

What is one concrete, realistic step that should be taken now to protect the midterms? We reached out to non-partisan voting experts with this simple but urgent question. Here are their suggestions 👇

this would be shocking at any time in the past 40 years. it's fucking terrifying to hear/see

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all. Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy. This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

Posting this in the hopes it can be manifested: Palantir's greatest source of profit comes from underpaying its so-called "forward-deployed engineers." They are paid well, but only a fraction of their value to the company. They should be encouraged to unionize.

the penne opticon

watching big mistakes and my grandma did the funeral banning thing! i did not know this was a thing!

I've been thinking about the backlash Marie Kondo got and I think part of it was not just that she was saying "buy less shit" she was explicitly say "only buy what actually makes you happy" and in a nation of conspicuous consumption it pissed people off.

boosting because it is so rare long island shows up like this in the news at least

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

💯 and we need to prosecute the execs, strip their assets, and make the concept terrifying forever

This is as good as everyone's saying it is. The anti-corruption message is a good one, imo