Feels like US leaders/elites were once better at talking about/diagnosing this “differentiated affluence” dynamic, which has bad downstream social effects even if it’s not bad in the same way poverty or hunger is. Now coverage would be a little too tied up with pro- or anti-market fundamentalism.

The whole recent dynamic of consumer-facing businesses that exist due to capturing a large % of rich consumer spending and then offer some capacity and a worse experience to non-rich consumers leads to a lot of societal tension.

Lmao

Curt Cignetti: "I'm really not thinking about the next game, I'm thinking about cracking open a beer"

curt cignetti just rolled his eyes and furiously scribbled something with like 27 seconds left in a game where his team is up by 34 points. he’s a monster and i love him?

Ohio St and Oregon are Nos. 2 and 3 in SP+. They went a combined 25-1 against teams that weren't Indiana. The Hoosiers went 3-0 against OSU and UO, w/ all 3 games away from Bloomington. If Indiana beats Miami they are indisputably one of the greatest college football teams of all-time. What?

I started this brand because Indiana lost the Pinstripe Bowl. Indiana Football is going to the National Championship.

oregon has been desperately trying to scrape and claw their way to a seat at the big boy table for like 25 years only to be completely eclipsed by a school that decided to give a shit about football 18 months ago bc they hired a scary guy

Forcing “coal-fired power plants to stay open—even if the utilities that own them, the states in which they operate, & the grid operators responsible” don’t want them. Central planning of the US economy, via the carbon oligarchs at the federal Department of Energy. What can go wrong? 🔌💡

ohhh buddy, this is a rout

HOOSIERS

You do not need to watch the new footage -- I'm about to go brain scrub for five minutes, let's put it that way -- but you have got to be literally deranged with misogyny to think this makes the shooter look justified. Which explains why the Vice-President of the United States shared it.

Underemployment rate for recent college graduates rose to 41.8%, per New York Fed.

"No 10 condemns ‘insulting’ move by X to restrict Grok AI image tool. Spokesperson says limiting access to paying subscribers just makes ability to generate unlawful images a premium service" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

One reason the GOP is repeatedly terrible at managing the economy is that they believe public sector jobs aren’t real jobs, & they demonize/defund the govt - at both the state & federal levels - every time they hold power. Only difference this time is how wildly illegally they’ve done it via DOGE.

Social media sleuths are doxxing ICE officer Jonathan Ross, but as usual, posting everything from data broker sites, getting lots of things wrong, and encouraging harassment of people with no ties to Ross. Anyway, Kenny from El Paso would like me to ask you to stop emailing him.

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per my point about the mercator projection being the root of this whole thing

Another image that sums up the protest.

the replies to this post are a fantastic example of what i call “bluesky derangement syndrome”

it also lays bare that these people know nothing about leadership, it’s like hegseth going to do PT or noem flying down to CECOT for content, none of these people actually want to work, they all just want to be on tv

Seeing some folks circulating fliers in New York with an AI generated face of the agent who shot Renee Good. AI cannot unmask people — the face it generates is an arbitrary guess. Remember the lesson of white Obama!

i know we're all busy but i just overheard a plumber say "parlez-vous français ? non ? you motherfuckers don't even speak french, do you" to a pair of french bulldogs

I have been saying since I was politically aware that the overriding animus of white conservatism was the fear that if whites ever became a minority others would treat us the way we have treated other minorities. The closer society gets to that, the worse these guys will get.

this is a good argument for burner phones IF you know how to use them correctly (pay for them in cash, don't ever use them at your residence, don't use them to log into sm accounts you use elsewhere, etc) www.wired.com/story/how-to...

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

This is the only correct position, and the inevitable response from knee-jerk centrist reactionaries of "it won't work" is not a valid objection. Every member of Congress has a duty to say that what Noem has been doing is not acceptable.

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

Using imagery online of the shooting by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, we’ve created an animated sequence which highlights the approximate positioning of officers and vehicles at the scene. The red dot represents the agent who fired the shots. Yellow dots are other agents who arrived at the scene.

important message to all bluesky users

literally anybody whose *actual job* involves having to watch atrocity videos will tell you it's hugely psychologically self-destructive and not something you should voluntarily put yourself through on a daily basis.

Any oil major considering an investment in Venezuela under illegal, coercive conditions knows that Trump will not be President by the time the investment is complete & they will not be liked by locals at that point. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Nobody wants to admit to caring about the climate anymore, and yet clean tech financing is booming, making a mint for investors. Trump is betting the future on a shrinking pot. The smart money is going green. Gift link to my column for @opinion.bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

NEW from me: The US is losing blue-collar jobs for the first time since early COVID or the Great Recession—the country has lost 65k jobs over the last year as manufacturing, transport, & mining employment decline, while growth in construction has nearly zeroed out www.apricitas.io/p/america-is...

omg Trump looks fucking gold (like.... spray-painted gold) on this BBC video feed 💀

Excellent point here from an expert in international relations. Trump’s brand of authoritarianism is, at its core, an aesthetic. He does not seek to achieve policy goals—he seeks a global reputation for appearing powerful.

Lol

This kinda imperial hubris is just fascinating. It's obvs not true (the Taliban are back in power, the communists still run Vietnam, etc) but more than that I find it baffling to want it to be true. The status "citizen of a country that does war crimes with impunity" is imo a bizarre thing to crave.

This is basically the view of the world that Plato sets out to refute in the Republic. One of the core questions asked therein is: why do powerful people think the mere fact of them exercising dominion makes it good for them to do so? Sure, you *can* get away with stuff if you're powerful - so what?

I don't know why patriot Charlie Kirk deleted this patriotic tweet about patriotic buses busing patriots to DC on Jan 6th, but the Internet never forgets. web.archive.org/web/20210107...

“The sky is blue, the Earth is round, and Jan. 6 was a historically violent day that will forever be a stain on this country’s history. Political convenience does not change the facts.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Will "non-interventionist" MAGA go along? Yup. A new WaPo poll finds only 40% overall approve of the Maduro capture and only 37% say this was appropriate without Congress. But 80% of Trump voters support the capture and 78% are fine with not going to Congress. 6/ newrepublic.com/article/2049...

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Something way more people need to internalize and help their friends understand is that the *only* politics and culture that you can reproduce using pile-ons, networked harassment, doxxing, death threats and the like is a fascist one. It doesn’t matter what you think your motivations or politics are

more people should watch non-US news sources, tbh

Exhausting levels of discourse about "can Bsky grow" and "this is why Bsky can't grow" and I'm just going to say I have never been seriously dogpiled on here because every time I see someone posting something deranged I block them, same thing I used to do with Twitter. It makes for a nice time!

Everyone with ADHD knows how fast you ignore a reminder, whether digital or actual sticky note, after seeing it a few times. Your mind will glance right past it, almost immediately. Todo list apps completely forget that this happens.

"I just wanted to learn about strength training on the internet, and now I’m pretty sure I’m in some kind of neo-fascist radicalization pipeline."

lmaooooooo