Just some casual eugenics is all…

Starbucks CEO makes $50,000 an hour —more than double what some baristas make in a whole year. Tis the season to side with Bob Cratchit, NOT Ebinezer Scrooge. DON’T BUY STARBUCKS (including gift cards!) while workers are on strike for unfair labor practices!

If this gets you angry, then you should know: our country is doing this to undocumented children every day & has been for years. We take toddlers, feed them dirty water, & put them in places where the lights never go out. We take teenagers and house them in crowded, too cold or too hot rooms.

I put a very powerful but slow-acting curse on 60 Minutes when they ran their Satanic Panic episode back in the 80s, and here we are.

Can we keep the waymos off?

The Iliad — Alice and Martin Provensen, 1956

The Muni bus on my street that runs on Hetch Hetchy hydro power kept running. Waymos that need both electricity and cell service bricked and blocked emergency vehicles

I haven’t seen mentioned in the power outage discourse that there was also a huge Comcast outage yesterday, no doubt related to the PG&E outage. Yet our mayor and emergency services posted all their updates on social media. If this is the City’s plan for the Big One, we are screwed

I really thought I had thought about all the ways waymos are fucking dumb, but I had not thought about power outages

Singing anti-ice carols in a Home Depot parking lot with 75 or so neighbors in the rain last night was…not sure of the word I want, but I’m glad I was there. I don’t want my neighbors terrorized, deported, or made to live in fear by anyone, especially our government. I want them all here thriving

Rick Vandendolder, 73: "My dad was with the Dutch resistance, and he helped hide Jews and others who were fleeing Nazi persecution," he said. "I met some of the people that he saved, and I never dreamt that I'd be seeing the same thing going on in this country."

“Gantchev suffered from type 2 diabetes and told his wife no diet accommodations were made for him. She and Anna said the small amount of food that is given to people detained at North Lake was not enough for maintaining Gantchev's blood sugar levels.”

RFK has a desire to outright murder children. He wants dead children. He is a murderer. And he must be held accountable for murder.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

These two absolute clowns are going to cause even more harm to peoples lives. Shameful, embarrassing, and tragic. Also puberty blockers are safe, and have been widely used since the 1970s, mostly by cis kids. All kids deserve to feel safe as they explore who they are and want to be in this world.

Criticizing men broadly is unforgivable, because there are SOME men who don’t do the things you’re criticizing, but using rhetoric that demeans ALL women gets a pass because it’s completely normalized and actually rewarded

I think it’s interesting how if you describe gendered expectations backed by significant data you will be demeaned as a man-hater but if you regularly do stuff like casually using sexist language toward women you’re just considered normal

Super interesting / useful

Okay guess I’m leaving Mozilla/firefox. Browser recs?

Primary them all and block anybody who comes with the “at this crucial juncture the most important thing is that we win.” if they believed that they wouldn’t do this and with friends like them nobody needs enemies

Outnumbering your enemy is not enough. *Strength* in numbers requires a shared sense of purpose. That must be cultivated. Understanding and relationships must be built. This is the work most people don't want to do. To turn moments into lasting movements, we need organization.

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Nothing wrong with having help for childcare, I wish everyone could. Definitely something wrong with being a billionaire snake oil salesman and pretending that the human help you rely on for childcare is actually done by your snake oil

Satellite images reveal the Martabe gold mine in northern Sumatra has begun expanding toward key habitat used by the critically endangered Tapanuli orangutan. Campaigners say the mine's expansion could push the ape to extinction. My latest for @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Join DSA SF and @jackiefielder.bsky.social at city hall Monday at 12 to rally for a Muni measure that grows service while protecting tenants! The MuniForever proposal: - expands service by 10% - prohibits tax pass-throughs to rent-controlled tenants - shifts tax burden onto corporations and mansions

I'm starting to wonder how much "the male loneliness epidemic" is just straight and bisexual women identifying low-effort, mean, and incompetent men and choosing not to date, marry, and tolerate them anymore

The White House’s insistence on using Sabrina Carpenter’s work and image to promote their crimes against humanity is also them appealing to their base, which already uses technology to try and humiliate and puppeteer the likenesses of women who have autonomy, success, and visibility in public

Sec. Kennedy must appear before the HELP Committee to explain why his vaccine advisory committee, in strong disagreement with the medical & scientific community, voted to end a decades-long recommendation that newborns receive the hepatitis B vaccine. This vaccine saves lives.

THESE MOD KIDS WILL DANCE TO ANYTHING

If you support billionaires, fascist ideologues and throwing trans people and their rights under a bus all while claiming “we need a bigger tent” and only include far right and literal fascist members all so you can lose an election you’re not a serious candidate you’re a far right threat.

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Over a third of animals lost in test deep sea mining - scientists

People cry about campism and illiberalism and then turn around and vote for candidates who support Israel and the UAE to the hilt and people cry about how we need a democratic road to socialism and then go and associate with those who think Russia's conquests are somehow acceptable, what a shocker.

No other city department gets its own opinion about how much staff it should have constantly laundered through press as fact. Muni, Public Works, Dept. of Public Health, and many others have a much stronger case for *actually* being short-staffed relative to quality of services SFans deserve

Our mayor is using a loophole to let them on downtown Market St, which we made car-free for safety and transit priority. For folks in SF, public comment opportunity on this tomorrow: luma.com/hdp3chzn or email [email protected] and ask them to close the loophole. More info: keepmarketstmoving.org

You’ll never guess how the IDF decided to talk about killing these two kids, 8 and 11 years old, in its official statement

⚡️Ukraine returns 1,859 abducted children, Zelenska says in Paris. According to Ukraine’s national "Children of War" database, at least 19,546 Ukrainian children have been abducted from Russian-occupied territories and taken to Russia or Russian-controlled areas since February 2022.

Good afternoon

Great thread

I grew up just before the nancy raygun DARE program started (my brothers got it full force) and it didn’t work, but these absolute dorks? Might have made drugs seem like the most uncool ever. This is so embarrassing I’ll probably delete this post just so I can pretend I never even heard about it

I hope people are starting to figure out Daniel Lurie has never had a real job, has no idea what he's doing, and is only our mayor for two reasons: 1. his mom spent $9m to buy him frontrunner status, 2. voters disliked the other candidates more

ICE is kidnapping people on Thanksgiving. If you think they can be reformed, ask your family how they would feel if they never saw you today.

Report: It Pretty Incredible That Americans Entrusted With Driving Cars https://theonion.com/report-it-pretty-incredible-that-americans-entrusted-w-1819574734/

one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.

#OtD 25 Nov 1960 the three Mirabal sisters (Patria, Minerva and María Teresa) were murdered for opposing US-backed Dominican dictator, Rafael Trujillo. The UN later set 25 Nov as International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women #IDEVAW stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9779...

Today is the feast day of Santa Cecilia, patron saint of music and musicians, portrayed here by Guido Reni in a 1606 painting in the collection of the Norton Simon Museum.

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.

High Country News consistently has fantastic Indigenous reporting! Here's a lovely read on heavy metal on the Blackfeet reservation.