What maximizes “shareholder value?” One theory: Doing what’s best for the customer and product and employees, because that’s the best possible company, which in turn is the most valuable company. Other theories may or may not be better, but I like this one.

Honest question… because my anxiety is reaching critical mass… What happens when judges rule “no you can’t do this” and Trump tells them to go in anyway. Who stops them? Judges don’t have forces of their own to stop a rogue executive. You know his minions in congress wont step in. What happens

Describe your Bluesky account in one image

Ditto

I want a new Halloweentown sequel where Sophie is this highly accomplished witch as an adult, Marnie is selling cheap parlor tricks to mortals once a year and Dylan is an accountant

If Joe Biden’s “spiritual advisor” had pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a 12 year old girl, Fox would be playing that shit on a loop 24/7.

@karaswisher.bsky.social back out here with more accurate takes

David Cross folks.

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Age yourself with a film you saw in cinemas as a kid

CEO pay is up 1,094% since 1978, while worker pay is up just 26%. Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

Do it again! Do it again! 🤪😆

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Yet another solid skeet from our favorite @thejacko.bsky.social. Immediately made my mind jump to:

Pants on fire you tiresome chode

Please Tylenol - for the love of all that is good and holy - PLEASE sue the ever living FUCK out of this administration and win 😂 it’s an open and shut case

In a moment like this, when tensions are high, part of the job of the president is to remind us of the ties that bind us together.

TikTok has gotten a green light to spin off an American version of the app in the United States that will be partially owned by a consortium of Trump-allied investors.

Here’s an idea. The west has held about $300 billion in Russian assets. They should release 2 billion a day to Ukraine until Russia stops the war, or they disperse it all. Then Russia will have to accept the war has an additional real cost per day

That was fast. This is also why you don’t surrender to autocrats - you fight them and beat them.

This is who is advising the president of the United States

STEWART: “Comedy doesn’t change the world, but it’s a bellwether— we’re the banana peel in the coal mine… authoritarians are the threat to comedy, music, art, thought… progress.” Nailed it.

Exactly this

find somebody who will stand up for you as fiercely as Brendon has stood up for Rachel this week 🥹

I'll never be ready, but I guess I am ready. #BB27

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SCOTUS is a political arm of the MAGA GOP.

"The accumulation of great wealth is, in many instances, the effect of paying too little for the labor that produced it, the consequence of which is that the working people perish in old age and the employer abounds in affluence." Thomas Paine

Why would any foreign country invest in a nation that did this?

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Now please pay to go see them, dammit. Don’t wait for Disney+ or else we’ll only get 5 sequels to beauty and the beast for the next 10 years

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Sen. Patty Murray is calling for RFK Jr. to be fired. "We cannot let RFK Jr. burn what's left of the CDC and our other critical health agencies to the ground—he must be fired." "I hope my Republican colleagues who have come to regret their vote to confirm RFK Jr. will join me."

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

We are in very dark times. It’ll take an entire political/social movement, an overwhelming rebuke at the polls, and a new vision of governance to unstick this country from whatever this collapse is.

Graham Platner: "Susan Collins has been in the Senate for almost 30 years... People know that she's a self-interested politician who has tried to play this charade for many years about how she tries to be a moderate... Everybody sees this for what it is."

Are you fucking kidding me? The deadliest terrorist attack in the United States since 9/11 and THIS is really the hill Ron DeSanctimonious wants to die on? Really?? You can’t even leave this one thing alone??? I’m fed up man. I’ve BEEN fed up, but I’m ready for a fight now, you whiny little bitch.

Awwww mannnn. Are they seriously forcing us all to watch this BB Unlocked nonsense? 😆😆🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ #bb27

Trump has purchased at least $103 million worth of corporate and municipal bonds since he took office again, according to new filings from the Office of Government Ethics.   Trump made about 690 purchases from Jan. 21 through Aug. 1.   The active trading by a president of the U.S. is unprecedented.

If this Wall Comp doesn’t start in 5 minutes I’m going to bed 😆 What’s the point of doing a live comp if you’re gonna make us wait like this? #bb27 it’s not like it’s a Friday night and we don’t have to work tomorrow or anything 🤦‍♂️

I'm still waiting... #BB27

Read the BANNED BOOKS first....

I feel like a lot of artists just chase singles instead of putting out full bodied albums anymore. I don’t know if it’s a symptom of the streaming age, or the hope that individual songs go viral on social media or something? Beyonce said something like this a few years ago youtu.be/gwJTBlCS3Jw?...

Truly.

Don’t let up everybody!

A pleasant “Fuck you” to Jake Tapper, honestly.😒 Lol