What I hate most about this vacant head replacing ICE Barbie is just having to see his face more.
I know what a kakistocracy is. What do we call government run by complete assholes? It’s more than just incompetance.
My favorite book of 2025
Enshittification is the gift that keeps on giving. Cory Doctorow is the perfect messenger for this critical dynamic of modern life. Once you understand it, you see it EV-UH-RY-WHERE. Devour this book and gift it copiously.
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#Booksky
My favorite book of 2024
I learned so much on a subject I thought I knew everything about (🙄). DIY made me laugh out loud over and over and over. Sprankle is brilliant, hilarious, and surprisingly heartwarming here. Get it and read it.
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He was elected, in part, because he’s an asshole. in 2022, it seemed like a breath of authenticity for Pennsylvanians against Dr. Oz. Problem was, he authentically IS an asshole.
Another problem is the American electorate demonstrating a taste for electing obvious assholes, which is non-partisan.
Marie Gluesenkamp Perez comes to mind
I’ve said it before
Annual wage increases that don’t match or exceed the CPI are effective pay reductions
It amazes me how few American employees understand that and how many employers exploit that ignorance
We feel poorer because we ARE poorer
Several tables are set with individuals behind them waiting to be served. The tables have signs — Education, Sciences, Arts, Healthcare… no one is serving them. All of the servers are delivering piles of money to the table where WAR is sitting. Political cartoon is from the 1950s Nothing has changed.
It has been this way since time immemorial.
Spending a billion a day on a ‘not’ war.
Meanwhile, all you suckers can starve, die because you can’t afford healthcare or find new treatments for disease. And who the fuck needs education and arts?
We aren’t mad enough!!
Interesting. I can think of a couple of #WashingtonState legislators who might want to take note…
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It is shocking, but also exactly how social media works. I like and value the work of @atrupar.com but brief summaries are often all readers ingest or react to. Modern social media consumers thrive in a space of no-context hot takes, not baseline, much less deep, understanding of what they see.
There are some people on this site who see Trump as a reason to hate their country. But I hate Trump because I love my country.
Most Americans trust leaders of all stripes too much or don’t have the knowledge and resources to protect their own rights. The degradation of unions is not only about a single job or sector, it’s about stopping The People from using our collective power, just one more way that power is sucked away.
Companies rely on workers not being prepared for wrongful termination. They assume (correctly) that workers haven’t documented the facts, and will act out of a state of shock and fear when pressured to sign documents that waive their rights. They bank on our ignorance and cultivated vulnerability.
Today, I learned that my 2018 layoff from Starbucks included a severance agreement which I was pressured to sign under what appears to have been legal duress. Had I consulted with a lawyer immediately after signing, I could have had time to possibly rescind the agreement and sue the company.
🎯
Wow. Right on, Jamelle
me, poking at the second trump presidency: "want to see a (soon to be) dead body?" youtu.be/ozvWGx_Re9A
Unless the device was an autopen, don’t expect much action from federal investigators
Does this dynamic apply only to authoritarian leaders or to the authoritarian followers as well? Always curious about the mindset of authoritarianism as it manifests in populations.
Irritation is so subjective
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio meets with Secretary Rubio
Enrique Tarrio and other Proud Boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy. Trump pardoned them.
Tarrio and his men planned the storming of the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Tarrio even claimed credit for it, messaging others: “Make no mistake…We did this…”
Now he’s meeting with Sec. Rubio.
@lawyeroyer.com gives specific action to take here. Don’t throw up your hands and choose to believe we can do nothing. Whatever we can do, we should do.
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We wanted to know what will happen next in Iran. So we talked to three Joe Rogan fans at an Arby's in Harrisburg.
Why is this so frequently the answer?
Who wants to tell Jon about the horse having left the barn, the toothpaste having left the tube, the egg having been scrambled, and the genie having left the bottle months ago? “Take steps ‘now’” is rather late… now. @jonatomic.bsky.social
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eat up the slop you've been given, you dumbfucks
Seriously: If this piece of shit is allowed to be unbothered at the thought of our deaths then we're allowed to be unbothered at the thought of his.
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HUH-LARIOUS
I do not love the sudden incursion of Polymarket into my feeds
This is not a step in the right direction
