Gonna put that Streisand Effect to the test yet again
14.03.2026 03:44
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Gonna put that Streisand Effect to the test yet again
If dems don’t break up the maga media conglomerates as soon as they can they have no sense of self preservation bsky.app/profile/atru...
The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit
Let's save tax breaks for things that offer a societal good.
Republicans, when talking about war and absolutely nothing else.
Thanks. So it seems US forces don't have a sufficient counter to the threat of sea drones or mini subs to convince shipping companies it's safe to proceed through.
(Setting aside that the entire conflict is abominable...) What is it that allows Iran to maintain control of and mine the strait if their navy is effectively gone and two American carrier groups are in the region?
PROVIDENCE: Mayor Smiley's spox tells me the city is in an indefinite essential spending freeze in response to unexpected costs -- $3,815,268.43 -- on snow clean-up following February's historic blizzard.
January's storm also cost big bucks👇
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Lives disrupted, fewer hours, harder to find a job, can't use the bus to go out for something fun. RIPTA cuts are "sometimes isolating, often debilitating." All to save .03% of the state's budget. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUCt...
Of course.
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
Dire.
Over and over
RI mentioned x2
McKee will be interesting test case. Can a governor whine his way to single-digit approval?
Honest question, are there major recent examples of that on the left, outside of the guy who had a stroke?
(I've also seen a few accounts of locals saying "yeah he is that kind of dude" and yet to see any saying "nah he's just an owner, not the guy he makes himself out to be")
Fair enough. If so, Platner not working class. Small business owner, who does blue collar work himself. I think the average voter's definitions are wider, though. I don't think it unreasonable - or the result of deception - if they think of him as working class.
I can see this definition if there's an "ownership / capital yet modest income blue collar bucket." But I think I'd always struggle with "brain surgeon is working class but quahogger is capital"!
Yes the selling to mom's restaurant thing is noteworthy.
I guess jobs like loberstermen, owner-operator trucker, dairy farmer who owns their land *not* being working class isn't something I've thought about before.
I think we don't envision a downward class trajectory for a child often, but probably should these days.
Non-college, enlisted (not officer), and works a physical job...that's working class / blue collar, to me, even if parents were college / white collar.
Sunlight travels 93 million miles to reach the earth
None of them through the Strait of Hormuz
billmckibben.substack.com/p/sunlight-t...
*too, not tix
I think it's also wise to have a dose of skepticism about any argument that begins with a confident premise that AI is going to change everything and lots of jobs will be lost. We actually don't know that. And the "leaders" she refers to are absolutely caught up in a hype/investment bubble tix
Alternate headline: "Learn to Code" Proponent Now Confidently Recommending Something Else
That tracks.
Maybe the guy in charge of that for 11 years wasn't good.
Not sure the party apparatus are any better at ensuring candidates more attached to them are of high character though.
