Communicating why a 50 year mortgage costs more, overall, than a 30 year mortgage should not be a hard task. The problem is the average American is both functionally illiterate and innumerate, as a deliberate result of decades of the policies made by the very people pushing for 50 year mortgages.

Today we remember the Hay Market martyrs, executed on this day in 1887. Their sacrifice reminds us of the importance of the struggle for workers’ rights and free speech.

just listened to gen-x Margaritaville for the first time (the vengabus)

Business rent is way too high on Mag (not Miracle) Mile so companies are just shuffling around. H&M moved two blocks down the road to save cash. He's blaming "murder and crime" in one of the safest parts of the city because the real problem is "landlords." Almost like that's the whole gambit.

The River that runs just after your back and just before the Eye of Agamotto… Moisturize it!

It is obscene that British media, and her own mother, have fully obscured that Brianna Ghey was murdered. They've just glossed right over it, smoothly turning it into a narrative about suicide as if that is what happened.

Today marks the 40th anniversary of the 7th episode of Dirty Pair, "愛こそすべて命賭けます逃避行!!" or "Love Is Everything, Betting Their Lives on Elopement", one of the most overtly trans-positive episodes of anime of its era. This was the future they predicted for us in 1985. We can still get there.

FWIW, it was a lot of years ago now that he wrote that effusive praise of Moldbug's wedding, which he attended as bestie of the bride. To me, it's always seemed like engaging w Smith is more indicative of twitter-poisoning than anything Smith gets up to. He's just the median cryptofash blogger.

No better day than today to head down to your local VFW and get a bunch of old unstable guys w unregistered arsenals riled up about the State of Things.

Can we get like at least 5 more seasons of The Vince Staples show?

@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social has provided absolutely vital reporting on Trump’s deportation campaign. Here’s another can’t-miss story:

a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

This is very cool but if you aren’t starting to get the early 1930s Germany vibes right now it’s either because you never learned about it in the first place or you aren’t paying attention.

Been in touch with a medical provider in Gaza who says “this ceasefire is even less of a ceasefire than the last ceasefire” — nothing’s getting in, no one’s getting out, people are still being killed and badly injured every day

anyway if dems think I'm gonna forget this shit in 5 months, they're wrong. if they think I'm gonna forget it in 5 years, they're wrong. they have fully convinced me that purging the party of these inept losers in the senate is more important than retaking the senate in the next election cycle

It is very hard to dismiss the fact that senate democrats caving was an intentional gift to Donald Trump. He went to the Supreme Court trying to starve 42 million Americans and we all saw it. And as people fought that, they caved. They are not merely collaborators but wolves in sheep’s clothing.

Remember when Macklemore said "limited edition? Let's do some simple addition / 50 dollars for a tshirt, that's just some ignorant b* shit / I call that getting swindled and pimped shit / I call that getting tricked by a business" and the entire universe of brand name sponsored rap deemed him cringe

It’s Flytrap Tuesday, and I have thoughts about boobs the-flytrap.ghost.io/amid-fierce-...

A decade ago, “topless protest and #FreeTheNipple advocacy were having a global moment, one that not coincidentally overlapped with the then vaunted but now largely memory-holed ‘transgender tipping point’ in the United States. In retrospect, it was the end of a more hopeful era”

construction today sounds uncannily like pyramid head skulking thru a runescape mine

I can't believe how quickly they broke the system. WIC was funded by the USDA, so it's disabled people and the elderly who are targets. So far. SNAP benefits update: Court provides new timeline for November payments - Newsweek share.google/SjZLCUngYmFh...

“We are at a moment right now where people are asking themselves why can’t the Democratic Party defend this assault on democracy . . . and I would submit to you that if you can’t draw the line at genocide, you probably can’t draw the line at democracy.” -Ta-Nehisi Coates

Brianna Ghey was the target of brutal bullying and assault that cumulated in her violent murder because she was trans. Any 'solution' to her death that isn't focused on the culture of transphobia that made a group of children think her life was worth less is a distraction from this fact.

Anyone waiting on the Democrats to be an opposition shouldn't expect much. Don't be surprised if or when the Democrats (starting with the high-level establishment) start joining the Republicans outright and pushing this society toward a more openly one-party state.

Now that it's another Monday morning where Dems pissed everyone off "capitulating," can we all recognize neoliberals as fascists w soft hands yet?

Altman has been quite clear about his strategy. From the 2008 crash he learned that if you bind enough of the economy to your business you can do whatever you like; government will decide the rules no longer apply. What he's selling is unaccountabilty.

Seriously, if you have a Sikh gurdwara in your area please let people know about this. We have at least one here in Detroit Metro that I know of. Bonus is that Sikhs are, on the whole, extremely rad people.

Never forget that a Democratic US Attorney’s decision to prosecute Aaron Swartz for downloading JSTOR PDFs contributed to his suicide but AI firms’ decision to download everything ever will be a justification for hundreds of billions of dollars of taxpayer bailouts and legal exemptions.

Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.

For months, I’ve been following a Canadian ostrich farm ordered to cull its flock after a bird flu outbreak. It was a cause célèbre for MAHA activists, a MAGA billionaire, and, of course, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The trucker convoy with birds ended last night. They lost. www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

This is one of the best explainers on the ongoing saga out of BC. Too few mainstream news articles touch on the connections to the Convoy, or the fact that it’s really the same movement, with ostriches. The farmers are saying this is just starting. it’ll be interesting to see where it goes now.

“The Fox News guy texted the Road Rules guy to talk about half-baked solutions for keeping all our planes from crashing” is a cool sentence to have to say in 2025

After lots of well-guided speculation, we now have proof that far-right propagandists in Portland have been directly coordinating—through at least text message—with ICE agents. In this case, Chelly got permission from a "Travis D." inside to stand on a half-wall off limits to protesters.

Year after year and coast to coast, fascist thugs and propagandists coordinate with law enforcement.

DICK CHENEY IS STILL DEAD

There’s a viral claim that no Moms for Liberty–endorsed candidates won “contested” school-board races this week. That claim is false. Not many wins, but not zero. A short 🧵 on how selective wording can turn misinformation into something that sounds true.

Because of course... NBC - Former Jan. 6 defendant arrested on kidnapping and aggravated assault charges John Banuelos was previously charged with firing a gun outside the Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

It is honestly painful to listen to most of these conversations. Eagerly, openly evil by their own damn definition of evil.

Pretty much every church with a mostly white congregation and leadership structure said no, bye. Her handle is nikalie.monroe over there and the recordings of the calls are something else.

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

November 8th marks Intersex Day of Remembrance. Intersex Day of Remembrance is a day to remember those who are no longer with us and highlight issues that the Intersex community face. We stand in solidarity with our Intersex siblings, team members and supporters! #IntersexDayOfRemembrance

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Criminal organization attempting to conceal evidence bsky.app/profile/brad...

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

Cuban hotels in the late 40s/early 50s vs the Havana Hilton in 1959

God that's a great photo