Truly excellent video--let's remember that all the "culture war" stuff is being sowed by the richest among us in order to keep us emotionally disregulated (while the $$ stuff gets more dire) and incapable of seeing the real villains here: the billionaire class.
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I wrote about the seeming contradiction in two new survey findings: 71 percent of Americans fear AI will take their job; and 95 percent of AI tests at companies are failing to generate money. www.platformer.news/ai-job-loss-...
Definitely prefer local bookstores, but it's so comforting that Barnes & Noble is adding more stores as a response to an increase in traffic. Let's let Amazon (Kindles) go.
Apparently, speech should only be free if it's in support of whatever Republicans want to say...
For anyone who needs a break from the 24/7 news cycle, read Lapham's Quarterly (on hiatus, but planning to come back later this year--you can access their past issues, though): www.laphamsquarterly.org/energy/power...
Again, for all my fellow liberals that sat this one out, you weren't just casting a protest vote. You were allowing this to happen.
Maybe if Chicago police, our city government, and work crews took their jobs seriously, we'd find money in the budget to be able to afford things like better public transit/waste removal & recycling services...better schools? Anything.
Pam Bondi is disbanding the Foreign Influence Task Force - the FBI team that is charged with combatting foreign meddling in US elections.
Worth asking how this makes us more safe in any way, shape, or form.
This is supremely fucked up. I mean, I read about this earlier, but to see it in writing is devastating.
It's ILLEGAL for special government employees to do government work that affects their own financial interests!
Musk's companies got $3.3 BILLION in US government contracts in 2024, and now he's deciding who gets federal funding.
House Judiciary Dems are calling on the DOJ to investigate NOW.
I am really frustrated that the press is discussing the destruction of USAID as something that has happened rather than an illegal action that will likely be undone in two weeks when courts tell the world that it was illegal.
I mean, these should be "no" across the board. All he had to do was read 1/4 of these peoples' wikipedia pages to know to vote like a real Democrat, that's how easy it is to spot these frauds.
Yes, but even beyond that, and I say this as someone who doesn't really love t swift...the president literally said that he hated her, broadcasting that to the whole world. Is this "good boyfriend material"? I don't really think so...
I paid $9 + tax for TWELVE EGGS yesterday... Something tells me the Republicans are not going to make things like this better... Can't say for sure, just a hunch.
How are things defamatory if they're true? If someone died or got worse waiting for healthcare because of UHC's AI denial bots, then how is that defamatory?
The working-class MAGA crowd and the "liberal" crowd that stayed at home because Harris is an establishment Dem must be really proud of themselves for this one (and allll the ones that we've been seeing these last couple of weeks).
Disheartening to see this...some working class hero. Hopefully we'll get someone who fights for us better in 2028.
NEW: Documents and interviews reveal how the now-disgraced political firm Cambridge Analytica targeted potential voters by combining its cache of confidential consumer data with information secretly collected from millions of gun buyers, sporting goods shoppers and others.
It was time to de-Google five years ago. Honestly, I'm thinking about paying for a good online email/calendar set up to make sure they keep their paws off my data. I encourage others who can afford to do so think about it as well.
Thank you @jasmineforus.bsky.social. THIS is the energy we need from the opposition party during an attack on democracy.
Ayanna Pressley: "Elon Musk is a Nazi nepo baby."
I guess we can add this to the list. 👍
Brighter evenings ahead ☀️
The sun will set after 5 p.m. starting tomorrow. https://buff.ly/4jDB8eD
Squash this at every possible turn. Left-leaning people need to care about a lot of things, but this one might be the biggest: do we want the most super-charged military in the world to also be a right-wing dictatorship? I would venture a guess and say...no.
Lol I get you, and I'm sorry if I came across as rude myself.
super-charged country to an authoritarian government. That's the practical effect of their stance. (Side note: who are we to decide which people matter more? People will die here when he gets rid of healthcare coverage for millions, when he sends families at the border home. There is no moral vote.)
simultaneously claiming you have the moral high ground does nothing for the conversation, does nothing for the people in Gaza or those trying to come here from South and Central America. Those who abstained thought they were doing something big, when they just handed over the most militarily
rip apart families at the border, and deport 1 million 'illegals' the second I get into office, and obliterate Palestine" and another candidate is saying "I'm going to stay in line with current policy," who do you think is "better"? Using this particular election as a protest vote while
not choosing Harris *meant* choosing Trump. There is no sugar-coating this. There's absolutely no room for interpretation. Trump, who has high-profile supporters that signed bullets with "Go get 'em!" to send over to Israel vs. Harris's vague commitments. Also, one candidate is saying "I'm going to
