Oh my god that would be bananas if they doxxed his phone number! Imagine everyone on like Reddit or Bluesky just calling it. I would 100% give that number to the Hickenlooper reelection campaign ha ha ha

If I'm in charge later, we will have Billionaire Hunger Paintball Games. The top 16 richest people play paintball, and get stripped of their wealth in order: first one shot loses 99.999%, next loses 99.998% and so forth. The winner only loses 99%. Wealth goes to socialist programs.

Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that

LOL

Tidal gave me the wrap-up for my 2025 listening and I am proud of my top 2 for sure

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years. Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.

I believe it, because people are people, but it seems crazy to me that people at a convention would make an effort to tell an author that they dislike their book. You paid money to go to this convention, go see the authors you like!

I think a lot of people still aren't used to the idea of a federal government that lies openly, nakedly and as a matter of course.

Reminder about Jan 6: it really happened It was a horror 140+ police were injured A range of violent weapons were used by attackers Chants to hang Mike Pence were heard There was a gallows and guns Pipe bombs diverted police as mob approached

A picture is worth a 1000 words. The birth dose of hepatitis B vaccines in the USA eliminated perinatally acquired hepatitis B infection from over 20,000 cases a year before the vaccine was introduced to <20 cases a year. The gaslighting by the current members ACIP is obscene, unethical and cruel.

Department of Defense Law of War Manual, Sec. 18.3.2.1 states the "requirement" to refuse illegal orders. What’s its key example? Wait for it . . . It’s "orders to fire upon the shipwrecked."

Interesting how Brainworm Bobby is supposedly "making America healthy again" when a pound of broccoli at the grocery store costs more than a gallon of gas

No ceiling, only floor

"Strong floor, no ceiling" describes a parking lot or a street. In other words, a place where people with nowhere else to go have to sleep

Scientists studied thousands of children born March 2020-May 2021. Out of 800+ mothers diagnosed with COVID-19, 16.3% of their babies received a neurodevelopmental diagnosis by 3 years old, compared with 9.7% who weren’t exposed to COVID-19 in utero.

Baristas at 95 Starbucks stores in 65 cities are currently on OPEN-ENDED STRIKE over unfair labor practices. It's day 13 of the strike. This is the longest ULP strike in the company's history. Workers are asking customers everywhere to show solidarity by boycotting Starbucks.

Apple is anti-union. Tesla is anti-union. Amazon is anti-union. McDonald's is anti-union. Starbucks is anti-union. Google is anti-union. Walmart is anti-union. These mega-corporations aren’t on workers’ side and their actions make it painfully clear.

Wondering if a Campbell's deep dive would be more appropriate for Maintenance Phase or Behind the Bastards

2001: dot-com bust 2008: real estate loan bust 2026: ¯⁠\⁠_⁠ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ⁠_⁠/⁠¯

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

The issue isn’t cost. It’s that the entire infrastructure in this country has been put into cars. Parking lots everywhere and bus stations nowhere. Light rail that comes every half an hour and isn’t synchronized so it takes forever if you have to switch lines.

Dipshit is smashing out a car window with his gun, barrel first. Just rogue, cowboy stiff. There were two US citizens in the car. They were apprehended and detained for “obstructing” ICE by honking their horn to let people know ICE was in the neighborhood.

Socialism won! Join DSA: dsausa.us/join-zohran 🌹

For US folks heading into holiday with family season, here's a nice cheat sheet for this question!

Is Alanis Morissette on here? She needs to do an updated version of "Ironic"

Teenage girls get raped by rich, powerful men or by their classmates, and neither type of man faces much in the way of consequences in our society.

Corporations to workers who actually interact with customers and fix issues: you should be happy with a [less than inflation rate] raise, some people are getting laid off! Corporations to C-suite dorks who are actively enshittifying our world:

Most of us grow up with no idea what the pelvic floor really does, or how much stress, pain, pregnancy, posture, breath, and everyday life can quietly collect there. www.wired.com/story/the-pe...

Stupid, but also a marker of wealth bracket. Middle class kids had junky cars or their friends did, and had to fix stuff themselves, thus knew where to get items like zip ties

the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know

If this gets hugh speed rail across the nation, it will have been worth it.

There are coincidences, and there are trends, and then there's this. This is erasure.

There it is. The Dem tic of "bipartisanship". Like, it's great this bill passed but anyone who might care about the breakdown of the vote would be able to understand that both Dems and Repubs voted for it. They all do this and I don't get it.

The billionaire class needs gas

they're going after holocaust survivors

Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.

Just when you think they can't get any more slimy, they do shit like this. Everyone will now have to reapply for SNAP. Don't think for a second that the USDA is going to be able to process 42 million applications in a timely fashion. That's the whole point.

Watched Frankenstein this evening and kept thinking about all the lessons that story should have had for people like Dario

Bsky hasn’t heard the story about the time that I was giving a virtual colloquium to the Aspen Center for Physics in September 2020 and Lawrence Krauss, Geoff Marcy, Christian Ott all attended as a group ACP now has a policy that would prevent this from happening, because of that incident 🔭

The Only Two Teams That Matter cn child rape www.patreon.com/posts/143621...

Everyone wanted to assure me that the government healthcare cuts wouldn’t impact employer health insurance, only those on medicaid. Only for my new job to get rid of their great healthcare plan because their rates are doubling as a result of our governments actions. 🤡

Starbucks workers are striking for Red Cup Day. Starbucks has refused to negotiate with the 12,000 workers who voted to unionize. Instead, it writes off union-busting efforts on its taxes and paid its CEO $96 MILLION in his first year. I stand with striking Starbucks workers.

It is 1998. I am at the kitchen table writing Batman fanfic but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal It is 2025. I am at the kitchen table writing a canonical Bat-book but I keep getting distracted by breaking news about a Bill Clinton sex scandal

Feel like putting on the show La Casa de las Flores to get a taste of low-scandal, not-terribly-corrupt people in contrast to US news.

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

On the plus side, it's easy and definitely possible to report the deptofwar's skeet here. Illegal and urgent

*says nothing that could catch me a ban regarding justice and the US health insurance system*

Bluesky trying to imitate Senate Democrats by being overly paternalistic just when they were obviously gaining ground in the zeitgeist