Ah, but that's just it: the oligarchs don't want more innovation. They want the current wealth & power structure to be frozen in place for as long as possible, and they think that removing a building's structural support is the best way to preserve your spot on the top floor.

This from @jdcivicscience.bsky.social nails why small town, red America is not turning on Trump.

Weird* how all those people who said we NEEDED an armed society to prevent tyranny even though our kids were dying barricaded behind desks are now all in favor of tyranny.

*extremely predictable

We must demand better. Not Gavin Newsom, who snatches the belongings of unhoused folks and plays paddy cake with Steve Fucking Bannon. Not Rahm Emanuel, who covered up a murder, closed 50 schools, and shuttered half of Chicago's publicly funded mental health clinics. We need new and better politics.

Shouldn’t Elon have to actually produce the autonomous driving he’s promised for a decade before tackling the US government?

This is the way.

It's called the wilderness for a reason. Americans should be free to take bison selfies. Better yet, go pet a moose calf.

Democrats basically just want everyone to get along. To fit in and be liked. Republicans want to crush you under their boot and steal all your work and money.

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

PSA: The reason Medicaid & food stamps are on the chopping block to pave the way for more GOP tax cuts for the rich is because poor people don’t have better lobbyists.

We have to accept that our beloved is dead in order to ask ourselves how to move forward.

Democrats are the opposition through a profound constitutional crisis, the first time since the Civil War that the continued existence of the United States as a republic is genuinely threatened, with 100 subordinate crises happening simultaneously, and they’re like “What’s our message, though?”

📌LISTEN TO ME: When United States congresspeople are denied entry to a United States government building, it is coup.

Stop saying DEI.

Stop fighting these people on the rhetorical battleground of their choosing.

Stop letting ghouls like Rufo set the terms of all discussions and reality itself.

Stop walking right into the hands of think-tanks and institutes that have set this up for the benefit of the wealthy.

People keep saying Trump’s supporters will turn on him when the economy craters or diseases spread. But that misses the point.

Part of the reason they’re killing these agencies is to hide all that. And the true believers will just bite on whatever conspiracy theory blames it on their enemies.

This is heartening to see! The resistance is beginning.

I know we are tired. I know we are fearful. But we will make ourselves heard and reclaim this country from the grip of MAGA fascism.

I’ve seen the inside of barbed wire prison camps in America. We came back from that and shall overcome this.

FDR set a minimum wage because capitalists would never…

They say it might cost 100 billion to rebuild LA. But money won’t be enough. They’re gonna need something else: Mexicans.
Can not do it without them. And yeah, most will be undocumented.
That’s who rebuilt NOLA after Katrina. They get it done. Heroes. Cement crews, framers…fuck, roofers! The best.

Reminder - it's easy to judge a situation from afar. You have to bring the safety home. How much do you know about your fire department? Do you know its average response time? Its capacity for responding to a natural disaster? Does your local gov have a plan for that kind of response? Is it public?

That is a great idea!

This is a BIG DEAL. "Outside of the collapse of US manufacturing, few economic forces have done as much damage to the American landscape in the past 50 years." Enforcement of the Robinson-Patman Act would reshape the hollowed out economy.

"What trillion-dollar problem is AI trying to solve?"

Wages. They're trying to use it to solve having to pay wages.

Reactionary tech owners and the racist right armwrestling over the legal fate of H1B workers is exactly why you need assertive white-collar unions.

Elon Musk is a living and breathing argument for a 90% top tax bracket

A long thread, but a must-read.

My mom and stepdad were both union members. Most of my parents siblings were union members. A union job in the 70s was enough for one person to afford a house and feed a family. My HS GF mom was union and had a house, car, and raised 3 kids on her own. Same job today couldn’t rent a 1 room apt.

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