Still a centrist with a garbage perspective on rights and justice.

If you called her "the goat," I think you'd get one of the most withering staredowns in history. But the truth is the truth. Happy 94th to Elaine May. Long may she reign!

That is a different argument. You are moving the goalposts. Yes, there is no opposition to fascism within the Legislative Branch is different from "why didn't the President do this thing he both doesn't do and the people who would couldn't?"

Blue wave liberals can take a long walk off a short pier. But so can willfully ignorant complainers who can't even figure out where to direct their ire.

Look there are a lot of things Biden didn't do that they could, including making sure the AG would act fast to investigate and prosecute Trump.

You picked two things they absolutely couldn't do. One, because Congress, not the Executive Branch does them; and two, the filibuster exists.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

If You Want To Crack Down on $32 Trillion in Offshore Tax Havens, Lower Taxes For the Ultra-Rich A recent study by a so-called tax-evading watchdog group suggests that there is $32 trillion in offshore tax havens which have evaded being taxed. But why will increasing tax rates capture that lost...

Thinking of the amazing book by journalist/researcher Brooke Harrington - Capital without Borders: Wealth Managers and the One Percent. She investigaged the "respected" profession of wealth managers, of which Epstein was one and how their job is to help rich people break laws. And we just accept it.

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

One of the Sandy Hook families lives in hiding 1500 mi away from their baby’s grave due to people stalking them.

The graves of multiple children have been defaced.

One of the fathers had to submit DNA evidence to prove his son was a REAL HUMAN BEING after Alex Jones’ book said he never existed.

A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

at last, under new management, infowars will achieve its destiny as the true number one source for bullshit on the internet

I hear you, but they do not have the reach of audiochuck or morbid. I promise you. They are not usually criticized more except by certain online folks who knew of Karen before the podcast. The other two are huge industries now with network connections at Discovery, etc.

I am not saying don't criticize MfM! Go for it! It's just odd to see this level of vitriol and blame for something that is not one of the bigger problems in the genre.

The primary podcasts on those networks - which the networks were formed around - are two of the most popular true crime podcasts for a decade running. MfM is mid tier. They are much more reckless, bloodthirty, and dangerous to society.

I no longer listen, but as I recall one of the hosts is anti-death penalty.

It's strange to see so much vitriol for this podcast when audiochuck, morbid, and the like exist. They are mid on the scale of bloodthirst and lack of care.

If you think only office jobs are noble, and working with your hands must be shitty the only problem here is your attitude.

Some people work so they can do the thing they love, and still will even with UBI, and some love the work they do. It will always be that way. Whatever the work is. Assuming is the only problem here.

And yet you still implied manual labor is not skilled labor and will all be taken over by robots. Office jobs are much more likely to go. You assumed no one would want to work with their hands. Internalized classism is still classism.

Harris lost because more than half of the majority demo that votes voted for Trump.

Stop blaming people who didn't vote when you have no idea why that is, and start blaming the actual people who took action and did the thing.

The desperation to let white people off the hook is sad. Focus.

It is. Most industry unions are, including WGA. Except SAG-AFTRA. Who have a whole faction within the union bc the protectionists still don't see the value in full solidarity.

Heck, I know the story of why programmers aren't unionized bc my mom was involved in one of the last efforts. It's not easy

Okay. I'm a film and video editor in an industry that has a union. Well, a guild within IATSE. I will never be able to join. I even had the "points" at one time. The fees are high, and it only covers one tiny facet of the work. It's a status org not interested in protecting most of us.

A picture of a rather dilapidated copy of "The picture of Dorian Gray" There is visible water damage to the cover and the plastic cover is yellowing. Obviously, not evident from the picture but there is a truly foul musty smell emanating from it!

Last week, a gentleman returned this rather dilapidated copy of this famous book to us after 50 years. He had found it in his attic!
Presumably this means there is a pristine copy somewhere in our libraries....

Pennsylvania's motor-voter system effectively screens non-citizens from voter registration • Pennsylvania Capital-Star The audit also revealed problems with PennDOT’s data security protocols and recommended tighter internal controls.

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.

They found one. One.

And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

So, surveillance devices? Since all new US cars are also surveillance devices I guess that's fair play. Btw, you don't want to drive a computer. Especially one with active wifi capabilities. What cars don't need are malware, spyware, or ransomware.

I do think it's funny that rather than pass privacy laws that would restrict both the Chinese gov't and US corps from surveilling us they decided to ban a mobile company so US corps could keep mining us.

Yes. At least for the last year or so.

Yeah cause it’s the kind of thing you propose building to appease the ego of a narcissistic leader whose army just got its asked kicked by a Black military general (Touissant L’Overture) and Black enslaved people who ran your troops off their island.

It’s a monument to ego and defeat. Perfect.

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?