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This is a story about how your phone makes you crazy when it starts to replace normal social relationships
The rise of DoorDash is emblematic of the post-COVID societal shift: we are eating out more than ever, we are spending more money than ever to eat out, and we are doing it in order to eat alone.
Material wealth hand-in-hand with social poverty.
The analogy that is quickly forming in my head is how opioids replace normal endorphins and your brain stops making them, making you dependent on the opioid and subject to its many negative side effects.
That’s the relationship that online socialization has to traditional socialization.
17 years without a recession in the US is crazy. A whole generation without any experience of a shrinking economy!
900lb crates full of onions in a field
The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026
Rent is too damn high, Illinois.
We've got a plan for that — the BUILD plan is designed to lower housing costs and increase housing supply.
Daniel Goldman: Every single organization in America would fire Mike Johnson if he were their CEO. The American people will fire him in November.
Trump: "The SAVE America is so good. You have to born in the United States to vote. We have no transgender mutilization of our children."
Tesla. Disney. CVS Health. United Airlines. PayPal. Billions in profits. $0 in federal corporate income taxes.
That money should be funding schools, healthcare, and public services.
This is why people are mad as hell.
The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history
The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.
mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally
Here’s the thing—especially on April 15: cutting the IRS isn't some abstract budget trim. It's a tax cut delivered through weaker enforcement. And it mostly goes to people with the most scope to hide income.
Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”
What a thread!
ALL experiences that could be classified as economic are mediated by socially conditioned expectations, assumptions, & aspirations. All experiences period, really, but especially something as complex & culturally freighted as the category "economic." There are no "direct," unmediated experiences ...
NEWS: Huge first win for Mayor Mamdani’s tax-the-rich plans in NYC.
Mamdani just secured a deal with Gov. Hochul to create the state’s first-ever tax on $5 million+ second homes owned by ultrawealthy out-of-state residents.
Y'all, I'm a dumbass, I published a tweet with a year-old story saying that solar power was going to grow 17% this summer. It did in fact do that, last summer.
*This* summer, it's expected to grow 22%. 😎
For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩🚀🚀💕
*All four astronauts went to public schools!
Why aren’t Republicans demanding investigations into the numerous sexual assault allegations that have been made against Trump?
Claims and ideas which happen to favour the ruling class don't dominate public life by accident. They're paid for by oligarchs and corporations then promoted by media outlets other oligarchs and corporations own. Once they've been drummed into our ears enough, they're internalised as "common sense".
Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social.
BREAKING: Republican Rep. Tony Gonzales just announced he will file his "retirement from office" tomorrow.
... but perhaps it would have been apropos to mention somewhere that the current US administration is dramatically slashing back research on curing cancers exactly like Sasse's. Neither of these conservatives want to wrestle wth that?
