The Top 1% of U.S. earners now have more wealth than the entire middle class

Heading to Mitch McConnell’s hospital right now

I’m sure Nolan will do a fine job adapting Oddyssey, But I would LOVE to see SS Rajamouli adapt it

Elon Musk asked for a name of a person he has killed. He got a list.

Cartoons about hot dogs that are grilled to perfection. www.newyorker.com/gallery/lets...

Fulfilling the purpose for which it was built almost 2000 years ago, football fans packed the Roman Theatre of Amman to watch the Jordan v Algeria World Cup match. What a sight. [kottke.org]

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

jesus

this is so insane

bookmarking this for use anytime someone asks how we can afford social safety nets.

Parade. Thursday. Manhattan.

How teams/delegations are received in Mexico versus the US

Here's a thread of ICE agents dragging people out of their cars to assault and beat them down:

Screwworms eradicated in the US in 1966. Measles eradicated in the US in 2000. Both are back because of this science denying administration.

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

i may have lost my mind

Alex Bores, a Democratic assemblyman in New York, announced plans for a bill called the Anti-Insurrectionist Act, which would tax any New Yorker who receives compensation from Trump's slush fund. "If you storm the Capitol and you take from this slush fund, too bad, we're taking it."

Boots Riley’s remarkably easy confidence and visual flair in "I Love Boosters" is a tonic in an era of boring CGI slop. He’s one of the most compelling filmmakers working today.

the president is raiding the treasury to put your tax dollars into this mans personal checking account as a reward for what hes doing in this picture

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Feeling overwhelmed with all of this. LISTEN. Another Louisiana resident (Marshawn is the only name we have) testifies against the state’s racial gerrymander, speaking truth to power up and down the hearing room and predicts how this story will end. Speak your truth, fight and believe.

hey man the music in here just switched from extradiegetic to diegetic. are you about to embark on an emotional journey. you gotta tell me if your fucking movie is starting dude

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

I’m writing a thing about this and the oblivious rich keep giving me more material. They keep saying it out loud. It’s amazing.

Have you heard of this thing called “the Internet”? I don’t think it’s very good. Will probably cause a lot of harm

All debates about health aside, this is just a heartbreaking waste of someone's life.

this is what they elected trump to do. rising low-end wages threatened bosses' power over workers and they were more than willing to slow down the economy if it meant crushing the labor market

I realized that iluvatar rhymes with car and guitar, and now I’m trying to work some kind of lord of the rings parody to Before He Cheats because I have nothing else going on at work today

this is a major reason why the ultra-rich used their control of media to promulgate stories about how bad the Biden economy was and to help Trump win the 2024 election:

These jets are why we have student loan debt and don’t have health care. But it turns out, in an actual war, they’re not very good.

Boy, what a terrible headline. We *need* the wealthy to participate in public services. If only poor people ride the bus, then rich people won't wield their power in support of public transit or, worse, will wield their power *against* it.

biggest technological revolution of our lifetimes. by electing trump we chose building more Ford Raptors over being part of it.

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

Hey, it cost hundreds of billions of dollars to run and made no money, but at least it made smug egg heads on linked in happy

Well one of them is lying, probably the guy who has 10s of thousands of documented lies

I analyzed over 10 years of anti-trans legislation. Over 330 bills have passed, with ~300 of them in just the last 5 years. There is no precedent in American history for so many bills to target one particular minority group like this in such a short timeframe. www.thedissident.news/the-ratchet/

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

Spain's renewables build-out has structurally decoupled its electricity prices from gas markets. Gas now sets the price in only 15% of hours, compared to 90% in Italy. Countries that invested early in clean power are far less exposed to fossil fuel price shocks. Those that didn't now pay the price.

Two headlines. One day apart.

disturbing reports that donald trumps economic policies are just as goddam disastrous as anyone who knows anything about anything said they would be

I forgot how funny the chyrons on Tucker's Fox show would be sometimes

sometimes I wonder why everyone on here is so on edge all the time and then I remember that we are all living with a constant stream of horrors going by too fast for any of us to process

Kristi Noem's DHS killed Americans, stole their property, deported the wrong people, siphoned taxpayer money to her political allies, defied court orders, and ferried her aide/lover on taxpayer-funded jets. To bring America together, Democrats must pledge to never prosecute her for any of this.

What does it mean for me? Mass layoffs for the industry I work in, higher prices for the consumer from corporate consolidation into less competion, less overall media produced, and what is produced will reflect the views of its billionaire pedophile owner

this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here

Starting to think our government and a large segment of our population might be evil

50 children died

Even if the AI labs don't give in, "it’s insane that such questions as 'how much killing will we let the killer robots do on their own' are being hashed out as back-room handshakes between the military and its AI contractors in the first place."