This entire administration is, at the core, all about bilking average Americans to give more money to the ultra-wealthy. I wondered if they would try to disguise it but it’s just the most visible the oligarchy has ever been

These fuckers aren’t gonna learn the lesson peacefully at this point, are they?

I’m currently college faculty in a state that, while heavily white, is not going to resist the Trump admin on this. If ICE enters my classroom or even my building, I’m putting myself in between them and the students

This country is about to have a huge brain drain.

Who had the front row at Trump's inauguration? Billionaire tech CEOs. Every decision he makes, this is who he has in mind. Bought and sold.

Even though my political and social awareness was still very incomplete as a college student, I considered an insurance career until I realized that something seemed very wrong about running algorithms to determine who would and would not get coverage. The whole industry is a scam against humanity

Double revelation here. First that the right-wing partisans who claim everyone to their left is a socialist or communist know they’re lying; second, even when they think they’re being fair-minded or literal, they don’t know what a socialist or communist is. cc @rickperlstein.bsky.social

The gerontocracy gives us one last cringe before 2025:

this is the biggest obstacle to making the information environment better for left-wing politics - the right wing is simply much better funded and, of course, any funding from billionaires for ostensibly left-wing projects is unlikely to support messages like "there shouldn't be billionaires"

Nintendo announces that due to a release date error 2025 will be the official year of Luigi

when we first made this Vivek Ramaswamy episode of This Fuckin' Guy, I was worried it would lose relevance fast because he's too annoying to remain in the public eye for long. Glad to be wrong. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BJe...

I thought my eyes were open then I started reading Binding Chaos by @heathermarsh.bsky.social Thanks to @youranoncentral.bsky.social for shouting about this book. If you claim to be on the left you have to read it. #PromoteGreatWork

‼️⁉️Holy f#cking sh#t. Per Forbes, Marc Andreessen—a MAJOR Tech Bro & Elon Musk ally who advises “DOGE” & supports the Network State movement—is invested in New Founding, an organization founded by Nate Fischer. This is Nate Fischer. (See post 2 for article. I’m gobsmacked) @raskin.house.gov 1/

My state’s governor is an absolutely shameless bootlicker

🚨 Jimmy Carter now eligible for congressional leadership position

“Some employers said they hired H-1B workers in part because these workers would often accept lower salaries than similarly qualified U.S. workers." — Government Accountability Office The government admitted what the program is used for https://buff.ly/3ZO7UR2

My problem with the H-1B visa system is not that it allows tech workers express entry into the U.S. It's that it puts those workers in a position where they are subject to abusive treatment while simultaneously depressing benefits for all workers. Here's a quick recap of how this works. …

And this is before I get to Manufacturing data from major cities around the country. There are no new orders coming in and their backlogs from Covid are completely gone. Layoffs on that level are imminent as well. Not a SINGLE place have I seen reporting this.

After a 20-month investigation, Senate Democrats have found that Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose an additional two trips from conservative megadonor Harlan Crow. Although Thomas knew he was legally required to report these trips... 1/ 🎁 NYT Article www.nytimes.com/2024/12/21/u...

Finland gave every homeless person a house and within 6 months 85% had a job and were financially independent. Less crime, less hospital visits, less suffering and even including the cost of the house, LESS COST than the UK/USA method of abandoning them on the streets.

To see who they value, pay attention to their words. School massacres are labeled "mass shootings. Street executions are described as "officer-involved shootings." But the killing of a CEO is immediately called "terrorism."

If the government shuts down Saturday, the richest man in the world will be largely to blame. You may not get access to services you depend on just before the holidays because an unelected billionaire shadow president wanted it that way. If this isn’t oligarchy, I don’t know what is.

Across this country, working people are fed up with CEOs and corporations working us to death so they can continue to get richer. We’re with Starbucks & Amazon workers demanding a fair contract now & an end to all unfair labor practices! #NoContractNoCoffee #SolidaritySeason

BREAKING: Starbucks Workers United is going on strike. Tomorrow unionized Starbucks workers are walking out in multiple key cities. And @sbworkersunited.org's rolling strike will grow in the coming days. 537 stores and 10,000+ workers are in the union and could potentially strike.

Luigi did his job, but man where’s Mario when you need him?

A truly appalling consequence of the ways we allow women and the unhoused to be treated… wow

Good! Hope Amazon workers get a real win out of this

Some of you working in politics can’t say anything bc you’re worried about the threat of retribution & your career so let me handle this for you: 1. This is absurd. 2. It does nothing to help the party 3. Nancy Pelosi was selfish. 4. Establishment Dems need to go. 5. This is why democrats lose.

If the guy charged with the murder of the insurance CEO is charged with terrorism, why isn’t every school shooter charged with terrorism? They are both meant to send a message and terrorize the public.

Exactly this. A quick internet search only brings up one case of a school shooter from Michigan in 2022 who received terrorism charges. In any case, it’s clearly exceptional to apply such charges to any kind of MASS shooting. How many ordinary lives equal one bastard CEO’s life?

FFS - what the hell has happened to people?!? It's terrorism because ... he's rich? Has a school shooter been charged with terrorism? How about any shooter? Your brain is corrupted by your elite status.

Why Americans hate Health Insurance.

“Just got off a two-hour call with Blue Cross Blue Shield fighting for them to cover my newborn son’s hospital stay. He had to say at Children’s Hospital for five days to receive life-saving care when he was two weeks old. And man I understand why that lady ended up in jail. Man, I get it.”

So they’re just rubbing the two-tier justice system in our faces as egregiously as possible?! Terrorism charges are hardly ever given to SCHOOL SHOOTERS let alone single-target killers. Fucking wild

At this point almost nothing the Democratic Party does makes any damned sense. They are hanging onto their gerontocracy and consultant class at the expense of their most loyal voters. And let's just be clear, they'll be fine while our communities pay the price.

More people are finally waking up to how rotten so many companies propping up today’s stock market are. Luigi provided the catalyst and the next market crash will create an explosion of anger that’s gonna make the response to the ‘08 financial crisis look tame

These corporate propagandists really think that we’re all completely braindead

Remember, corporations steal more through wage theft than every thief in America put together.

If you’re interested in understanding the (massive) problems with the tech industry, @edzitron.com is an essential voice to follow

We are getting presented with a false binary: do we support violence or do we support nonviolence? The choice here is more about a reality that people have only begun contending with. Revolution is coming. The question is whether we will be participants and if so how. My latest.

Seems to me that a very quick way to radicalize the many, many people expressing their deep frustration with the healthcare system is to just repeatedly, shrilly assert that they're all monstrous supporters of domestic terrorism

Hochul is really keeping up that record of being arguably the most pathetic Dem governor in the country right now

That’s a pretty solid (or wet?) alternative to violence!

After the shooting, someone said a lot of the CEO’s are afraid to return to work. Read that and now think about how our school-aged kids feel!

Seeming like those shots were really heard ‘round the world