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Equal parts progressive politics, explicit nerdity, and reckless shitposting.
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Walmart sells 11-ounce bags of Chex Cheesy Pizza Snack Mix for less than $4. In North Carolina prisons, a 4.25-ounce bag of that same product costs $8.75.
That's less than half the product for 2x the price.
Carceral greed at its finest.
That's less than half the product for 2x the price.
Carceral greed at its finest.
North Carolina Prison Officials Raise Prices for Those Who Can Least Afford It
An increased markup on canteen goods adds to the financial burden on incarcerated people and their families, highlighting how prison systems squeeze them for revenue.
boltsmag.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Walmart sells 11-ounce bags of Chex Cheesy Pizza Snack Mix for less than $4. In North Carolina prisons, a 4.25-ounce bag of that same product costs $8.75.
That's less than half the product for 2x the price.
Carceral greed at its finest.
That's less than half the product for 2x the price.
Carceral greed at its finest.
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If the SCOTUS overturns Wong Kim Ark, we will officially be more racist than the USA was toward Chinese immigrants in 1898.
December 5, 2025 at 8:09 PM
If the SCOTUS overturns Wong Kim Ark, we will officially be more racist than the USA was toward Chinese immigrants in 1898.
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the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession
September 30, 2025 at 5:17 PM
the law is real until it gets to SCOTUS at which point it becomes fake, which doesn't bother the six reactionaries at the top but does undermine literally everyone else in the profession
I don't know what "Chinese and Venezuelan food" is, but I aim to find out.
December 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I don't know what "Chinese and Venezuelan food" is, but I aim to find out.
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The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
December 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service
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The company that decades ago used to send you movies in the mail and then put movie rental places out of business with its online platform now owns the company that made a lot of those movies.
December 5, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The company that decades ago used to send you movies in the mail and then put movie rental places out of business with its online platform now owns the company that made a lot of those movies.
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It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
Exclusive: Amazon has long been USPS’s top customer, providing over $6 billion in annual revenue in 2025.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
But Amazon may give up its long-standing partnership with USPS to deliver packages itself, which could spell disaster for the mail agency.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.
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It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:30 PM
It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.
I need Trump and his border walls to fuck off so far away that I get to see more wild cats in New Mexico. Just seeing a puma here or there isn't going to cut it.
December 5, 2025 at 6:59 AM
I need Trump and his border walls to fuck off so far away that I get to see more wild cats in New Mexico. Just seeing a puma here or there isn't going to cut it.
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Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me
December 5, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Oh okay this video just did a Mortal Kombat Fatality on me
Steam's Big Picture Mode is so obnoxious. Every time I click on it by accident, it's like finding a bug in my drink. Then I have to remember how to get out of it. #steam #bpm #bigpicturemode
December 4, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Steam's Big Picture Mode is so obnoxious. Every time I click on it by accident, it's like finding a bug in my drink. Then I have to remember how to get out of it. #steam #bpm #bigpicturemode
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New face of GOP healthcare is senator linked to largest Medicare fraud scheme in history
www.alternet.org
New face of GOP healthcare is senator linked to largest Medicare fraud scheme in history
twp.ai
December 4, 2025 at 7:59 AM
New face of GOP healthcare is senator linked to largest Medicare fraud scheme in history
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“Effective immediately, 100 will now be 5,100 and—I’m reading off the official statistics from my people—500 will be 25,500,” said Trump
Trump Announces 5,000% Increase In All Numbers
WASHINGTON—Touting his latest executive order as a historic win for the U.S. economy, President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was mandating a 5,000% increase in all numbers nationwide. “Effect...
theonion.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:30 AM
“Effective immediately, 100 will now be 5,100 and—I’m reading off the official statistics from my people—500 will be 25,500,” said Trump
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"The female incarceration rate has ballooned by more than 700% since 1980 ... The cycle of incarceration and subjugation is driven by scarcity and by limiting our communities' access to the fundamental building block of an economy: money. We see a basic income guarantee as a key tool for helping."
The Community Love Fund is a guaranteed income program built and run by abolitionist women.
This Program Gives Direct Cash Support to Incarcerated Women
The Community Love Fund is a guaranteed income program built and run by abolitionist women.
buff.ly
November 30, 2025 at 9:49 PM
"The female incarceration rate has ballooned by more than 700% since 1980 ... The cycle of incarceration and subjugation is driven by scarcity and by limiting our communities' access to the fundamental building block of an economy: money. We see a basic income guarantee as a key tool for helping."
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Okay now that it is seemingly confirmed via datamine stuff and not just folks posting on Twitter:
If/when Harry Potter stuff comes to Fortnite if you are still playing that game I Will Be Judging You. Fortnite is fun. I've enjoyed playing it over the years.
An HP collab is a Hard Out. Don't do it
If/when Harry Potter stuff comes to Fortnite if you are still playing that game I Will Be Judging You. Fortnite is fun. I've enjoyed playing it over the years.
An HP collab is a Hard Out. Don't do it
November 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Okay now that it is seemingly confirmed via datamine stuff and not just folks posting on Twitter:
If/when Harry Potter stuff comes to Fortnite if you are still playing that game I Will Be Judging You. Fortnite is fun. I've enjoyed playing it over the years.
An HP collab is a Hard Out. Don't do it
If/when Harry Potter stuff comes to Fortnite if you are still playing that game I Will Be Judging You. Fortnite is fun. I've enjoyed playing it over the years.
An HP collab is a Hard Out. Don't do it
Never take your marching orders
from software that thinks
arithmetic is a matter of opinion
what if a computer could be held accountable?
It would tell you what you want to hear.
from software that thinks
arithmetic is a matter of opinion
what if a computer could be held accountable?
It would tell you what you want to hear.
November 30, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Never take your marching orders
from software that thinks
arithmetic is a matter of opinion
what if a computer could be held accountable?
It would tell you what you want to hear.
from software that thinks
arithmetic is a matter of opinion
what if a computer could be held accountable?
It would tell you what you want to hear.
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I was asked if the star on my back was real...
Then asked why I got a giant black star.
Yes it is real. I laughed and took no breaks the two and a half or more hours it took.
Because I wanted it.
Then asked why I got a giant black star.
Yes it is real. I laughed and took no breaks the two and a half or more hours it took.
Because I wanted it.
November 30, 2025 at 5:10 PM
I was asked if the star on my back was real...
Then asked why I got a giant black star.
Yes it is real. I laughed and took no breaks the two and a half or more hours it took.
Because I wanted it.
Then asked why I got a giant black star.
Yes it is real. I laughed and took no breaks the two and a half or more hours it took.
Because I wanted it.
My ideal government: a strong democracy with guarantees of individual rights, support for the common good, and just a hint of moral aristocratic republicanism.
What we have:
What we have:
November 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
My ideal government: a strong democracy with guarantees of individual rights, support for the common good, and just a hint of moral aristocratic republicanism.
What we have:
What we have:
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For legal reasons, I cannot disclose more than the following:
An invoice amounting to $300 has not been paid to me, despite contacting the contractor multiple times. This is also the case for several other creators.
This is not the first time creators like me have been neglected. 🧵
An invoice amounting to $300 has not been paid to me, despite contacting the contractor multiple times. This is also the case for several other creators.
This is not the first time creators like me have been neglected. 🧵
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
For legal reasons, I cannot disclose more than the following:
An invoice amounting to $300 has not been paid to me, despite contacting the contractor multiple times. This is also the case for several other creators.
This is not the first time creators like me have been neglected. 🧵
An invoice amounting to $300 has not been paid to me, despite contacting the contractor multiple times. This is also the case for several other creators.
This is not the first time creators like me have been neglected. 🧵
I'm not dark-skinned, but I'm not very White-skinned either, and I have perpetual problems with pointer thermometers, fingerprint readers, and even in 2025, the occasional automatic door.
November 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I'm not dark-skinned, but I'm not very White-skinned either, and I have perpetual problems with pointer thermometers, fingerprint readers, and even in 2025, the occasional automatic door.
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"Assaults against ICE up 1,153% in 11 months" news article today
Missing, the percentage of Assaults citizens take from ICE, and how much they increased by.
When I see reporting like this, all I can think of is
This is a damn Hometown Referee calling things.
Missing, the percentage of Assaults citizens take from ICE, and how much they increased by.
When I see reporting like this, all I can think of is
This is a damn Hometown Referee calling things.
November 29, 2025 at 10:19 AM
"Assaults against ICE up 1,153% in 11 months" news article today
Missing, the percentage of Assaults citizens take from ICE, and how much they increased by.
When I see reporting like this, all I can think of is
This is a damn Hometown Referee calling things.
Missing, the percentage of Assaults citizens take from ICE, and how much they increased by.
When I see reporting like this, all I can think of is
This is a damn Hometown Referee calling things.