If you're scared of protesting or a general strike because you could lose your job, healthcare, and housing, or even go to jail, now you understand why the US has no universal healthcare or housing and no guaranteed parental leave, but DOES have the largest prison and police system on planet Earth.
The tweet is fake, but the issue is certainly real - there's really nothing stopping the company from deciding to brick your car at any moment they choose.
Millennial here begging companies to leave us alone. I bought the thing. You got your money. I donβt want to be on a customer journey. This isnβt a relationship. Itβs a transaction. And itβs over.
The question I get more than any other as a trial lawyer is "how can they do that? Isn't that illegal?"
How can the cop lie under oath? How can the landlord evict me for my religion or race? How can my job fire me for being queer? Isn't that illegal?
I love Econ-positng. Dan Habsmith of Guttermeyer Associates posts the most confusing chart you've ever seen and says "Quite surprising VARG numbers, SPLG index showing movement" and you get the context by one of his mutuals quoting it with "Buy a fucking gun and head for the hills. Right now."
The thing about the US is it couldn't possibly be more self suicidal or insane and yet no alternative has emerged that anyone trusts to suck less.
A handful of Republicans in Congress & Supreme Court can end this nightmare any time they choose, and history will remember them as saviors of the republic, no matter what terrible things they did to US in last 10 years: insane we cannot find a few volunteers for this plum deal!
The existence of Fox News is incompatible with our democracy
my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy:
1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden
2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough
3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes
I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.
This insistence that we cannot talk about what Kamala did wrong is deeply counterproductive if your goal is winning in the future, a thing I hope we all agree on.
@socialistdogmom.bsky.social Molly Conger's most recent episode of Weird Little Guys is one of the best essays on the topic of racism in America ever written. It should be a required part of every high school curriculum. I am not exaggerating. Listen: it'll be the best thing you do today.
This is a far bigger fuel, fertilizer, food crisis for Asia and Europe than it is for the US.
US dependence on Persian Gulf oil has almost never been lower
A thread by @sstapczynski.bsky.social on how Asia is alreaddy within days facing a destabilizing.
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So there's a "don't trust ProtonMail" news article going around. It's a little... er, misleading.
This woman, US citizen living in Skokie, was detained at Ohare yesterday, taken to Broadview, then transferred to a detention facility in Wisconsin, now released. We know all this not because of DHS, who repeatedly denied that they even had her, but because her phone was pinging in those locations.
Photos of all the school children killed by a US strike in Minab, Ireland
The United States killed all these children last Saturday.
170 of them.
Every. Single. One.
the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year
the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter
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Kat is setting the gold standard for what a leader should be doing. ANY Democrat who wants to be elected ever fucking again had better get off their asses and do stuff like this.
Of course, I hope Trump is removed from power via the impeachment process. It could be done in a week if the political will were there. Any member of Congress not working toward it is betraying their oath of office.
Weird, this guy has a replica of Graham Platner's tattoo on his jacket.
it's sparkling conflict you fool, it's only called a war if it originates in the Department of Wa- hold on, my producer is gesticulating violently and handing me a note
You have to survive. There are graves to piss on that haven't been dug yet.
That calm little half-smile really sells it.
No more excuses for incrementalism. Not a one. Join the GOP otherwise. Same with you voters. Get out of the party if that's how you want to do business. We can replace you with one of the many independent voters who think we shouldn't have a Gestapo at all. I want a smaller tent. No dipshits
Letβs talk about Graham Platnerβs Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/
I know all my Canadian ancestors, but have no idea how to go about getting the "official" copies of everything I need. And so I just fill up with neurodivergent dread and avoid facing it, which is a good and healthy way of coping with everything
To appreciate trans existence you have to face the horrifying reality that trans adults were not cis kids.
If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kΔkΔpΕ chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!
This is absolutely horrifying.
Telling Jesus he'll never make it if he keeps being so hostile to wealth. Advising him to moderate his message to appeal to the Galilee suburbs
