Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
You guys have public transportation?
Hear that train a comin?
Three yards and a mushroom cloud of dust.
New York Attorney General Letitia James is investigating the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a Blind Rohingya refugee who died in the cold streets of Buffalo days after Border Patrol dumped him without coordinating with his family or lawyers.
"The Lebanese health ministry said 217 people have been killed in Israeli attacks since Monday, according to Reuters news agency.
A further 798 people have been injured, the ministry said."
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Social welfare for the rich, rugged individualism for the poor
Tens of millions of poor and middle class can't have their student loan debt forgiven, even if it crashes the economy, but I fucking guarantee you these big tech firns will get a bailout when the AI bubble bursts.
That's America, baby!
We can bail out the rich and big corporations, but not small businesses or the poor. We can forgive debts and loans to the rich and corporations, but not for small businesses or the poor. That's the America way, at least in my lifetime.
let them eat yellowcake
Antizionism isn't antisemitism. The very old notion that Israel secretly controls the U.S. *is.* White supremacists call it "ZOG," "Zionist Occupation Gov't." It's *not* antizionism. Such tired bigotry is most useful to the fascist Israeli regime, which uses it to deflect from its real crimes.
What MAGA sees vs. what the rest of the world sees
Of course, while the planters were playing their courtly games and taking their Grand Tours of Europe and such, their genteel lives were being funded with cotton money. And that money was being generated (and therefore should have belonged to) the enslaved Black people who did everything from harvesting the planters’ crops to cooking their food to warming their beds, all against their will and with no benefit to themselves. Our era’s aristocrats are playing games of their own while ordinary working people earn them unprecedented amounts of money. They’re injecting human growth hormone to more closely resemble the muscle-bound gods they see themselves as; they’re buying themselves cameos in their favorite TV shows because it makes them seem fun and creative. Elon Musk in particular is notorious for even paying ringers to boost his video game scores by playing as him. Our particular “planters” don’t pose as Arthurian knights, but as MMA fighters with a sideline in content production. One wonders whether the pose was as ridiculous to workers 150 years ago as it is to us today.
i reread gone with the wind and it made me hate the billionaire class even more than before
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SUPPORT THE PRAIRIELAND DEFENDANTS DFW Support Committee @dfwsupportcommittee@mas.to Towards the end of the day, the cops came to harass the rally outside the courthouse. They pressured people to remove anything from the ground on the public sidewalk, including chairs for disabled court supporters. We will not be deterred. We will be outside the courthouse every day to show our continued support for the defendants and our commitment to the movement against ICE. 1
Police harassed protesters this afternoon at the Prairieland trial regarding ICE in Texas.
Outdoor fruit stand with huge pyramid of oranges and tall round banana display.
they’re just begging for a car chase
The only thing that's really different in 2026 is that the government makes meme videos now. Other than that, it's all the same assholes from 25 years ago.
And by “algorithmic filter bubble,” Dorsey means *we* get to decide whose posts we see instead of him. That’s a feature, my bro. Not a bug.
Few things on this: Maine (and some other New England states like Vermont) treat private school differently. In many towns you can go to private school free, paid for by the town, because the towns are too small to have public high schools. But yeah, it appears Platner was at least middle class, maybe upper middle class with a lawyer dad and architect grandad. Yet since high school his work experience is the military, bartending (he was actually my bartender at the Tune Inn), and oystering. To dismiss the latter because he "owns an oyster farming business" misses the fact that he is out on the water every day working it. When he launched his campaign, friends in Maine reached out and said holy shit the guy we buy oysters from is running for Senate. He kept oystering through this summer, they told me. They've been buying from him for years. This is not a hobby, it's his work. At minimum, if you don't want to grant him the "working class" title, he has been working with working class people since graduating high school, which basically nobody in the Senate can say. (He never graduated college.)
For posterity:
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Did you know that Graham Platner was Ryan Grim's bartender back at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill, a fact that Ryan Grim acknowledged on X?
Why are you looking at me like that? It's elven food, Denise! I brought it back from Rivendale.
The fuck you mean? Put the money in the bag.
Mutual Aid Request
Hi everybody! I got my rent paid today. I am grateful to everyone who helped with that. I have a small request today. In honor of World Book Day can someone send $30 so I can go to a library a bit out of my way? 💕💸 V: Annaleigh-Watts CA: $annaleighmaria PP: AnaleeWatts
Republicans: Supporting worker's rights anywhere is an attack on ending worker's rights everywhere.
Omg I forgot about that lol
Tell my family Lupita murdered me. 🙏
*wheezing noises*
*ribs cracking sounds*
8chan owner Jim Watkins says Epik, the site's domain registrar & web hosting company, has suspended Watkins' sites (including 8chan) from using Epik for violating its rules on animal cruelty content.
