Picture of a firefighter vehicle with reflections of a fire while a firefighter discusses with member of the public. Taken in Acton Vale during an exercise.
Picture of a firefighter vehicle with reflections of a fire while a firefighter discusses with member of the public. Taken in Acton Vale during an exercise.
Photo of the night #photography
the basic conclusion i have at this point is that nothing is actually real and i am gonna live in the woods.
Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart Basically the entire Iran war selloff has been erased Image 9:31 AM · Apr 14, 2026 · 167K Views https://x.com/TheStalwart/status/2044045804596346931
truly president trump was right: it can only good happen
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They don’t want to impeach him, they don’t want to remove him or even get close to it.
Trump is an asset to their reelection and want him to stay, but also they want to show to their base that they’re doing something. Betting on their base to not understand what it all means.
(And in all honesty it started before, but the civil war was a moment of reckoning. When this moral corruption was pushed back to some degree, but far from enough as the reconstruction was cut short of what it should have been)
conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences
I know I know, but I’m continuously baffled by how the US was able to survive for a century pass the 30s before there was any sort of reckoning due to the institutionalizations of moral corruption that started after the Civil War more than 150 years ago.
Truly FDR was a Machiavellian great man.
I study racism for a living and can still manage to be shocked by how institutionalized it is. What do you mean they were giving tax-breaks to white supremacists celebrating treason?
just a wild country
Julian Crowley • @julian _fels • 14h No one is claiming it was a real delivery. It was clearly and obviously a planned event to mark a new policy starting. To claim Sharon is a prop, plant or an actor is totally wrong and off base. She is a Dasher and she participated to support the policy that benefits her @ 155 1730 © 10 Ill 11K Julian Crowley @ @julian_fels-14h Ofc we would speak to Sharon about what to expect before she appeared before the media and with the President. But, Sharon spoke for herself and in support of No Tax on Tips. To call someone a prop for saying they support a policy that benefits them - and many others - isn't fair
Julian Crowley & @julian _fels Public Affairs at @DoorDash 24 • Seattle E Joined April 2011 >
DoorDash PR speaks out
Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”.
This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.
I keep thinking about how diverged these series are. And every oil analyst being like "hahaha what the fuck"
CBC projects that Canada’s Liberal Party, led by PM Mark Carney, will secure a majority government. https://t.co/tC1fruCpFj
Genuinely depressing to me that your partner has to Doordash to raise money for your cancer treatment when you get old. What happens if you don't have a partner? Are we just working to pay a landlord and save up for a medical emergency when we're elderly?
Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?
Corruption trickles down. A society where corruption at the highest levels is blatant, normalized, and winked at tends to become a society in which ordinary people are not only dishonest, but view honesty as a trait of saps and fools too dimwitted to see how the world works.
One thing numerous friends in academia have independently told me is that they see international students from countries with very high levels of corruption cheating at just astronomically higher rates, because the background assumption is that the system of rules is a kind of game to be beaten.
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 really is a significant blow to the global far right. Hungary under Orban was more than a financier and place to host events: it was a proof of concept
I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."
Photo of the day #photography
And only if you’re very rich are you able to offload all that added work to someone else (or are so rich that it’s irrelevant)
Yeah we have a lot more to manage that is completely abstract to our day to day lives, but that if we don’t manage correctly will ruins us and/or ruin our kids’ life (figuratively and/or literally).
A lot of this is also downstream of a 1980s change that nobody likes talking about, which is that people stopped dropping dead of heart attacks at age 70 like they did throughout human history. The world is still not set up to handle ~25 years of retirement by a large chunk of the public.
Most people are not MBAs, nor do they have a background in economics. The fact that technically speaking you can customize your 401(k) portfolio and get a better return than a 1970s Sears pension plan is irrelevant to them.
It's like saying "everyone should be running Ubuntu." No they shouldn't.
It's an odd change that ultimately doesn't make sense for people aren't in finance, but the people running the US, Europe, and Japan from roughly 1980-2012 *were* bankers and thought that everyone wanted to trade government-managed security for (very poorly-defined) "economic freedom."
But for both this was not a worry. If they would have worked longer they would have made more and had more for their retirement sure. But they already had enough to live a good life and didn’t had to worry about how far their money would let them go.
Yeah both my grandfather took their retirement between 55 and 60. For one it was by half by choice (he was a union man and the company hated him and he was tired of having them on his back so he took a deal with them) the other had medical problems and was forced to take it early because of that.
my grandfather lived to be 97 and his employer (the federal public service) paid his pension for 30+ years, till the end.
my mom is now retired and enjoys lifelong pensions from both a crown corporation and the federal public service. she earns more from her pensions than I do from full-time work.
i genuinely think something both the Labour Party and the NDP here share is the fact that they genuinely do not understand that you can not post your way into political viability