RIP to Jesse Jackson. His funeral is today. I wanted to share this clip from his appearance on Sesame Street in 1971. His important words ring just as true today as they did back then.
Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs
These are the 4 things AI can do well:
•Clean up your email inbox (badly)
•Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party
•Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself
•Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday
You can see why we need to base our economy around it
(Excitedly) I make a wishing11!!!! Cat on lawn next to dandelion seeds
"I feel liberated," said a top banker. "We can say 'retard' and 'pussy' withtout the fear of getting cancelled... its a new dawn"
We should never ever forget why they did it
So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.
That's roughly $1 billion per day.
$41,666,667 per hour.
$11,574 per second.
People do not want this.
They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.
Thou shalt arrest Kristi Noem and put her in a detention center indefinitely so she can “await processing.”
Torpedoing an unarmed ship, then leaving survivors to die, violates the Geneva Conventions, UNCLOS, the UN Charter, and the Rome Statute. All at once. The Trump regime claims no war exists, which makes this even more illegal. Calling it an 'operation' doesn't make it legal.
“Suppose I accidentally got my shit together
Would I get a medal
Or a pat on the back and a little feather
I could stick in my cap or pin it to my shirt
Go out in the yard and poke it in the dirt…”
music.youtube.com/watch?v=dw1N...
Just to recap from my soda-straw perspective:
My government started a war of choice that led to my home being bombarded by missiles and drones depleting our air defenses which they refuse to resupply while telling us to evacuate after our airspace was shut because their war put us in danger
46 years ago today
The Clash at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium during the '16 Tons Tour,' March 3, 1980.
Photo by Jenny Lens
#punk #punks #punkrock #oldschoolpunk #punklegends #theclash #history #punkrockhistory #otd
What’s it called when you’re a people pleaser, but you also hate people? I’m that.
people love to say "you should read conservative opinion pieces too" and every conservative opinion piece is like "corporations should have the right to vote but minorities shouldn't. source: I made it up"
The war on Iran likely brings a new oil price shock and windfall profits.
So, who stands to win?
Our research shows: Last time around (2022), the US reaped the largest fossil fuel profits of any country ($377bn). 50% went to the top 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵
hey guys it’s #spiralsunday don’t forget to #crashout #online today !
the incentives here are so obscenely terrible that the entire thing should be illegal by default
“I am sabotaging negotiations because I stand to make piles of money on Polymarket” is absolutely in play, what a horrifying clusterfuck
Just your regularly scheduled share of this masterpiece by @tomgauld.bsky.social
Cop: do you know why i pulled you over?
Me: idk, were you just fuckin bored
Cop: yeah, kinda
ICE "should be abolished, but also it should be prosecuted" - Democratic Rep. @sethmoulton.bsky.social, from the centrist wing of the party, tells me he wants his party leadership to go further than just reforming ICE. Doing that is "no longer believable."
Full interview: zeteo.com/p/moulton-ic...
this is what they said it would be like under socialism
Multiple CBS News staffers who were not authorized to speak to the media resorted to curse words after reading the news. "Fuck, fuck, fuck," said one producer at the network. "Well, fuck," said another CBS News staffer.
mood
#lifegoals
For real.
Have you heard his new one? The verses are almost interesting, but the chorus is such a retread of old songs. I would never have, but npr stations are determined to bludgeon me with it.
the bsky vacation of your dreams (your bed in a pitch black room)
Amazon is allegedly driving up prices by blocking vendors from selling their products at lower prices elsewhere, according to the California Attorney General.
This is exactly what state leaders should be doing to take on corporate lawbreaking while Trump lets them off the hook.
