unpopular opinion guy
i think it is actually totally fine if urban areas with their higher density populations and higher levels of education have a proportionally greater say in national politics than less-dense and less-educated rural areas
Let's call this policy what this is.
It's socialism. It's Leftism. And it's curing actual ills. Righting institutional wrongs.
It's not coming from someone who is infallible, or someone who is always correct.
It's coming from someone who promised to help and is trying to keep those promises.
I believe it would be beneficial to American if we were to take away the lifetime healthcare and pensions for elected representatives and made them find healthcare and benefits just like their constituents
We have created lifetime of benefits for a job that was not meant to be a career
Term limits!
Also Oracle employees always said things ran better when Ellison was on his boat, I bet Facebook employees would say the same. On demand Zuck making all the decisions is IDK what the word is for that …
Liberty Scouts 2 (1356)
Description from the museum: “Guangzhou, formerly known as Canton, is located on the Pearl River and has for centuries been a center of trade and commerce. The photographer emphasizes the energy and bustle of this street of shops and businesses through the blurred figure in motion at bottom left. Other men peer out to watch the photographer—not a common sight in those days—as he captures their image on film.”
Early street photography by Chinese photographer Lai Fong (Afong Studio) (ca.1839–1890), “A Commercial Street in Guangzhou,” ca. 1880, albumen print, this print in the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art. #photography #streetphotography #vintagephotography #photographyhistory
“Strait of Hormuz”
— Political artwork by and opinion of Michael de Adder.
Mamdani talks about things in a manner that are epochal in their difference from how ~95% of all dem politicians have talked for the last 3 decades. That he talks so differently while still talking about party platform issues to the point they achieve a new cadence is the whole rub. That’s it.
"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging
This whole system needs to be overhauled
What a stupid time to be alive
Permanent seats on the Court was hugely stupid
Then he won a statewide election with nearly 8 MILLION votes to become CA AG where he sued the Trump Admin over 120 times, and WON!
He was then tapped to be HHS Secretary and served honorably under President Biden getting Covid under control, reducing drug prices for millions of Americans...
They learned the way the Bay Area drives. They do a little anticipatory creep when the light is about to change. They still stop for pedestrians though, unlike other Bay Area drivers.
HOW EMBARASSING! Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon. 🤣🤣
"The masters of war pretend not to know that it takes only a moment to destroy, yet a lifetime is often not enough to rebuild. They turn a blind eye to the fact that billions of dollars are spent on killing and devastation, yet the resources needed for healing, education and restoration are nowhere to be found." -Pope Leo XIV
I am entirely serious that any Democratic contender for the presidency must commit to tearing down this, the ballroom, and anything else he manages to inflict on DC before his brain deliquesces entirely
🎨 David Hockney
While death and destruction rained down on Iran during the war’s first month, the world’s 100 biggest oil and gas companies brought in an extra $30 million per HOUR in windfall profits.
Yes, $30 million per HOUR.
All because of the deadly and reckless decision making of one man.
🤦♂️
TMZ setting up in DC to follow politicians around is FINALLY the appropriate lowbrow "news" coverage this administration has merited all along.
Uber is an awful lot of being in cars you can't afford driven by people who deserve benefits and a union and a living wage that they don't receive.
It's long overdue .. (cartoon Dave Granlund) #2547now
This is culturally really dangerous. Functioning societies depend on most people mostly following the rules even when they could probably get away with not doing so. That breaks down very fast once a critical mass decide that makes them saps and suckers.
this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional
NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.
'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:
Peter Magyar confirmed that Szijjarto, Orbán's FM, has barricaded himself with some of his closest colleagues and is shredding documents related to the sanctions on Russia any other evidence of treason.
JACK LEMMON totally has one of the best gravestones.
Jack died of cancer in 2001 and is buried in Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in California near the grave of his buddy and ‘Odd Couple’ co-star Walter Matthau.
Magyar: “No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.”
