"Ultimately, if the threatened jobs massacre actually happens, the Labour tradition will need to look once again at a policy it’s been avoiding for decades: embracing the severance of work from wages and providing a universal basic income, alongside universal basic services…"
Let's do both anyway.
For the record: The Washington Post can go fuck itself.
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Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.
Germany unveils strategy for becoming Europe’s strongest military by 2039 www.defensenews.com/global/europ...
‘Staggering’ number of people believe unproven claims about vaccines, raw milk and more
Survey results suggest a rise in questioning of scientific evidence.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"overabundance of conflicting information, from social media, news and peers in real life"
Duolingo is opening up its advanced language learning content offering to free users, allowing them to acquire skills that were previously reserved to paid subscribers.
Mysterious rings around Uranus point to hidden moons orbiting the ice giant www.space.com/astronomy/ur...
Jay Bhattacharya has ordered that a paper showing the effectiveness of COVID19 vaccines in preventing severe disease and hospitalization be suppressed and hidden.
This man has been crying nonstop about political censorship for 6 years.
But he’s the one who is actually doing it.
First (but *not* last) ruling from #SCOTUS is in Enbridge Energy v. Nessel.
For a unanimous Court, Justice Sotomayor holds that there's no equitable tolling of the deadline for removing certain cases from state court to federal court, and so the removal here was untimely:
Second (and *last*) ruling from #SCOTUS is in Hencely.
For a 6-3 majority (with the Chief Justice, Justice Alito, and Justice Kavanaugh dissenting), Justice Thomas holds that the Boyle contractor defense does not bar state-law tort claims arising out of a suicide bombing by a contractor's employee:
Here’s the very simple truth. We should ban all Gerrymandering.
Until then, to unilaterally disarm is political suicide and malpractice.
ICE in Chicago this morning at Elston and Kennicott—a masked agent tells a witness (on the sidewalk) not to get in front of his car.
Feds are continuing kidnappings across the city & burbs after increased activity this month.
No flashy CBP caravans, just a steady stream of covert ICE arrests.
Both solar and wind power now produce more of the world's electricity than nuclear.
More importantly, they're the growth engines, ready to finally make a dent in the amounts of coal and gas used for electricity. And in the emissions arising from that!
Timeless El Capitan!
I took this pic April 11, 2026 in Yosemite Valley, CA.
#TimelessTuesday #RockinTuesday #NationalParks #yosemite #scape #landscapes #landscapephotography #ForestFriday #WestCoastPhotography #AdventureDoesNotWait #PhotographersUnited #photography
Anyone looking to adopt, don’t walk past the skinny ones, the ones with skin problems, the shy ones of the old ones. With a little love and care you will see the gems that are under the dirt and fear. Look at Sienna! That girl shines bright now
Not only is her recovery complete.
Soon Sienna will be heading off to her very own family.
After years on the streets and endless puppies taken from her she will get the life she always deserved!
Sen. Jack Reed to Warsh as he dodges questions about divesting his assets: "Excuse me. I must commend you on the way you can circularly go around questions and not answer them. It's a skill. Unfortunately it's not a good skill for the chairman of the Fed."
Big news to the organizers of CPAC Hungary during the Biden era
Yeah…so there’s this easily queried piece of info…
He was confirmed by Republican senators. The Republican Party has set back healthcare in this country by decades.
“For hundreds of years Germany was good enough to receive these elements, although they possessed nothing except infectious political and physical diseases”.
-Hitler, speaking of the Jewish population in a speech to the Reichstag, January 30, 1930.
RFK Jr. just said that immigration is to blame for the outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases in the U.S., not him.
It’s amazing to have an Energy Secretary who died 15 years ago.
Will the buggy whip factories open by then also?
Energy Secretary Chris Wright: "I'm pretty confident coal will lead the world in global electricity production when I die"
Crackers.
The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.
It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.
These are actually two gods together: Pitao Cozobi, the Zapotec god of corn and abundance, and Pitao Cocijo, the god of rain and lightning. They are often depicted together because Zapotecs understood rainfall was essential for corn to grow.
An ancient stone carving of the god of corn with a magnificent headdress.
Pitao Cozobi, the Zapotec god of thunder, water, and therefore corn (which you can see in his headdress). From Mexico’s treasure trove of marvelous ancient creativity, the anthropological museum.
