it's worth noting that the economic stagflation of the 70s was basically caused by the war machine sucking up most of the Steel in the US market, which hurt the US auto and manufacturing sectors and led to... Reaganomics, neoliberalism and an end to Keynes and the New Deal

So we've reached the absurd point in the story arc when the court says he can't unilaterally issue tariffs and his response to that is to say nuh-uh and proclaim that he is issuing new tariffs and nothing happens

This dude @rokhanna.bsky.social is out here making sense

For the 'build baby build' people on housing: consider, if you will, there's roughly 46 vacant homes for every homeless person in the USA and our housing market is failing spectacularly to allocate homes to their highest utility usafacts.org/articles/how...

“She’s not from here.”

Republicans are still trying to pass the SAVE Act—a bill that would make it harder to vote and disenfranchise millions of Americans. Join @redistrictingaction.org and tell your member of Congress to vote no: act.redistrictingaction.org/a/natl-saveact-cte

Watching football has become more enjoyable since I got an autism d/x; when my feels got too intense watching the game today I'd announce a 'tactical panic' and go distract myself elsewhere to just chill a bit. Before I knew, I didn't realize self-care like that could be so helpful

Finneas is better at political messaging than 99% of the Democratic consultants in DC.

Now that most of the country wants to abolish ICE, get ready for the goalposts to shift, so that abolish ICE becomes "reform ICE" as we get closer to the election. We have to continue pressure to make sure we really mean abolish, when we say it, otherwise we will be sold out.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

An essence of fascist ideology is its base of support recognizes that it is fundamentally tyrannical, but they believe themselves to be the protected in-group

The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll

This needs to happen at the very least

This is why they're constantly asking WHO'S BANKROLLING THIS. They can't imagine having actual principles.

Powerful truth

Them: Gun rights, free speech are sacred, shall not be infringed *protesters get murdered* Also them: They should have complied At this point, it's safe to conclude that they don't believe in inviolable rights and their 'they should have xxx' talk is entirely in bad faith

It occurs to me that we're where we are (in a collapse driven by wrathful people that ended up feeling like the system is rigged against them) because our system creates more losers than winners. If you have any interest in sustainability, the system has to be worth it for majorities, folks

To all the people complaining that it's unfair the very poor get benefits and they don't: It's understandable that you're feeling squeezed and poorer than you used to, but the folks poorer than you are victims of the same squeeze, not the cause of your problems. Don't blame them!

To all the people pointing out that Social Security is under-funded relative to its mandate: That's what you get when you suppress wages for 50 years, and 'borrow' from the program and don't pay it back. Fix those things and Social Security will be fine

To all the people complaining about the people using SNAP or other benefits: You do realize that a lot of SNAP recipients are full-time workers, right? A higher minimum wage and an end to wage suppression would turn most of these recipients into funders of these programs

Kids don't always want to be on screens, they just need spaces and places to live, grow and play independently.

Perhaps the saddest irony, to me, is that the folks campaigning on a 'make America great again' promise are also the ones responsible for its decline; their only trick is to get actually suffering people angry at someone else based on lies. It's the oligarchs that suppressed your wages, folks

Watching as new disclosures from Epstein's Op paint a broader picture: our elites are bullies blackmailing each other over shameful things they enable and cover up. The problem isn't bad apples, it's that wealthy terrible people face no accountability

Trump said he’d be “honored” to release SNAP funds with guidance from the courts. Today, he got that guidance from Judge John McConnell in Rhode Island, FOR THE SECOND TIME. And he immediately appealed.

If you're a centrist because you believe the path to civility is to be found in compromise between that of the left and the right, consider that compromising on matters of human rights isn't a neutral position majorities want, and nobody but corporate interests want unrestrained corporate power

Imagine if the trash took itself out

The tiniest but of saffron sprouting

Do you like Reddit for the content but not like that the ownership are shitty? lemmy.world is one of many federated lemmy instances that function like reddit but aren't beholden to venture capital or enshittifying themselves in service of AI

To the people making arguments that SNAP should only cover meat, vegetables and un-extravagant food because it's 'not fair' to people that are working and can't afford fancy food:

Boy, North Carolina Republicans sure don't want the attached story to circulate. I sure hope that this stupid threat from their spokesperson doesn't boomerang on them and have a lot more people read and share the story, which once again, is conveniently attached below. That would be a shame.

The US is building slave labour camps. Dachau and Auschwitz are being rebuilt on American soil. The US is committing genocide. All methods of self or community defense against genocide are justified and valid. All actions against the people committing genocide are self defense.

"Tzefardea Tzedek" (Frog of Righteousness) As soon as the Portland Frog became a meme, Jewish social media blew up with jokes about the 2nd Passover plague - tzefarde'a (frogs) - and the Rabbinical commentary around it. I knew I had to make a calligraphy piece encompassing all of it. (more in alt.)

When watching the debates, a tip: The candidate who knows his program won't appeal to majorities will invariably attempt to convince majorities that they need to sacrifice yet more deeply in order to compensate for the failures caused by his unpopular program, like serving the rich at your expense

It should go without saying that funding government operations with private capital during a shutdown to avoid having to negotiate terms to end the shutdown wildly exceeds executive authority, folks

Let this be your periodic reminder that every day is No Kings Day

The “you can’t trust the government or the media” crowd voted to give full control of the federal government to an administration that lies shamelessly to them nonstop through media outlets and platforms slavishly beholden to the party, and the “you can’t trust…” crowd appears to be loving it.

#NoKings Miami!

Getting lots of 'what do I have to say to convince you to give me money?' messaging from establishment Dems right now. Show me, don't tell me, that you have actual beliefs you're willing to stand by that aren't 'we need money to win'. Stop funding Israel, stand up for marginal groups, tax the rich

What movie do you consider perfect?

Dear gestapo trash:

What they call their 'heritage' and are desperate to defend is the propaganda that painted their movements as valorous or justified What scares them to shitting themselves is any revelation of truth that shows it wasn't

what I'm learning from the fact that every one of these decisions has a "huge merger waiting to be approved" factor is that we should no longer allow mergers sorry, you can't buy any other companies anymore, too dangerous to civil society only antitrust breakups allowed

"If you want to win elections, you must rid yourself of your few remaining redeeming virtues. We are very smart."

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Let this be your periodic reminder that arguments like <we should condemn political violence> offered to stoke outrage at violence against one side but not the other are 100% offered in bad faith. Don't let your agreement that civility ought to matter trick you to accept uncivil double-standards

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