my read on terfs has always been that this has been about personal grievances within workplaces like universities and charities, where older self-identified radicals have felt undermined and their positions threatened by a younger, queerer generation
We asked people who lived in homeless encampments that were cleared out in city “sweeps” to write about what object was the hardest for them to lose.
“They took my baby pictures and my moms obituaries,” a man in California wrote.
(Published Dec. 2024)
It's not UBI if you make it contingent on ANYTHING. Real UBI is just money to live, basic wealth distribution like peasants have done for millennia because it's BASIC.
their core job was always to protect the property of the wealthy, break strikes and demonstrations, catch slaves and harass non-whites and immigrants generally. They have never had an obligation to anything else.
They've got DNA tests, they've got drones, they've got qualified immunity, they've got paramilitary kit, they've got 60% of the municipal budget, and they're worse at their core job than ever before. And it's always someone else's fault. It's pathetic.
It's one of those cases where the more you throw resources without oversight at an institution, the worse it gets at its core mission.
www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1...
2x I called the NYPD for theft, a third time bc of threats & intimidation by a crazy person. The cops literally laughed at me & mocked the idea they'd do anything about it. The only other interaction I personally had was when THEY threatened & intimidated me bc they MISTAKENLY thought I evaded fare.
Eight headlines tracing Tucker Carlson’s journey from hating Trump to loving Trump to calling him the antichrist to being attacked by Trump to apologizing for helping elect him
A story in eight ineptly collaged headlines
My grandma lived a long life but she had a heart condition she had to be careful about after getting rubella as a kid.
My kids have been reading 1984 & it shocks me how my own HS memories (during the Cold War) places it so firmly as a critique of "totalitarianism" when it is explicit ab being post-totalitarian and a regime that creates a tiny elite out of perpetual war. Like we've seen everywhere since the Cold War.
Very good: “This confederacy of goons think that their wealth and whiteness and maleness conveys automatic competence, so they never bothered to learn anything about anything, and they fired everyone who knew anything about anything, and dismantled all the programs that helped make anything work ….”
feel like if they sent out covid stimulus checks they can send out tariff refund checks
I think we've all imagined how it feels to be a doctor & listen to vaccine denial. Now imagine what it's like to be a historian & listen to ppl talking about government, society, culture, and almost any concept related to public life.
We have a massive ignorance crisis bc the GOP killed education.
"I would've won Vietnam very quickly" is as good a psychopath test as any
Crucial from @davidsirota.com: If Dems win House, they must use power of the purse to stop Trump. Dems can't fear the politics of defunding. Trump is weak and this is an opening to reassert "congressional authority in a real way."
On the pod David explains this well:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
But they're idiots for not knowing what they'd get. I remember a student in 2016 saying his Latino friend voted for Trump not bc he's racist, but bc he thought a billionaire business man would make everybody rich. That's just too stupid for words.
heres tucker talking privately about trump after january 6, this lying grifter knew the whole time
if he means this hed slink away, never to be heard from again…he doesnt mean it, he just sees which way the winds blowing
“Is this the Democrats’ Tea Party moment?” No, the Tea Party was an astroturf campaign bankrolled by the Koch brothers, you’re thinking of something else I guess
The only A.I. I support is Abolish ICE.
without context I'm just imagining a ballot measure that says "SAVE YOUR COUNTRY" and republicans angrily voting "NO"
First, stop it. We are <constantly> looking in the mirror & if you haven’t done any of the trainings or gone to any of the talks/meeting about that, I can’t help you.
Second, we don’t have time. We’re constantly meeting about how to survive as 25% of our budget is illegally cut off by the fascists.
The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.
Funny how it’s never bad to fuck over black voters or cities when the much worse overall and much more prolific republican gerrymanders are passed
Additional counterpoint: tell that to TX, FL, TN, MO, and every other state with a super-gerrymander the GOP put in place over the last 20 years, kicking off this race to the bottom. The GOP project is voter suppression and gerrymandering. High time Dems fight back.
#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.
Yes! And making a quick sneaky left in front of traffic when you don't have a turn light. And 4-way stops & roundabouts are apparently a complete mystery with no rules.
It’s important to remember that these people, though dangerous, are also stupider than dirt
PV providing 589 watts, 345 baseload usage, battery charging at 244 watts.
By 8:15am today solar was generating 70% more than our baseload usage.
On a cloudy day, in England, in April!
I've always noticed it because I hate cars and have an anxiety disorder, and it's always been bad, but since covid it's actually unhinged we let half of these people on the road at all.