RawrTigerlily
@rawrtigerlily.bsky.social
Progressive living in Georgia, but always Minnesota Nice until you push me.
I have a kid, a husband, and a cat.
Can we make this a better place?
I'm trying.
I have a kid, a husband, and a cat.
Can we make this a better place?
I'm trying.
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RawrTigerlily
@rawrtigerlily.bsky.social
· Nov 15
Hey Molls. Here are a couple of things I read recently, which you may find helpful. I don't think there's an easy playbook of "just do this," but a toolkit of principles:
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...
wagingnonviolence.org/2024/11/10-t...
10 ways to be prepared and grounded now that Trump has won
The key to taking effective action if Trump wins is to avoid perpetuating his goals of fear, isolation, exhaustion and disorientation.
wagingnonviolence.org
Just reupping this on my main page so I can make it my new pin. For everyone who is ready to move past grief & into the rightful anger that will power us to stand against the worst to come in meaningful ways:
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"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
Opinion | The Billionaires Have Gone Full Louis XV
www.nytimes.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:02 PM
"According to the…annual Harris Poll, for the 1st time, a majority of Americans believe billionaires are a threat to democracy. A remarkable 71% believe there should be a wealth tax. A majority believe there should be a cap on how much wealth a person can accumulate." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/o...
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this laughably bad article has zero balance or dissenting voices in an *obviously* contentious issue. it also has explicit permission from ice for their guys to talk on the record, which sort of gives away the game eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Exclusive: A father and his three kids work for ICE. Why they do it
A father, daughter and twin sons are all ICE agents. They see themselves as crime fighters. Others see them as something far worse.
eu.usatoday.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:23 PM
this laughably bad article has zero balance or dissenting voices in an *obviously* contentious issue. it also has explicit permission from ice for their guys to talk on the record, which sort of gives away the game eu.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
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pre-emptive congratulations to Elon Musk for defeating the considerable competition here
🚨 THE BATTLE BEGINS 🚨
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
Your favorite year-end contest is back. It’s time to choose who will be this year’s Worst Person In Tech for 2025!
Each day of this week new matchups will drop until we choose the winner on Friday.
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/worst-person...
December 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
pre-emptive congratulations to Elon Musk for defeating the considerable competition here
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UBI isn't meant to replace the income from all jobs, and we aren't going to lose all jobs, especially if we have UBI to maintain spending. What UBI excels at is functioning as a floor and a dividend to make sure everyone gets a rightful share and a cushion to prevent the worst + enable new pursuits.
December 15, 2025 at 2:27 PM
UBI isn't meant to replace the income from all jobs, and we aren't going to lose all jobs, especially if we have UBI to maintain spending. What UBI excels at is functioning as a floor and a dividend to make sure everyone gets a rightful share and a cushion to prevent the worst + enable new pursuits.
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Rob Reiner had one of the most wide-ranging audiences of any American filmmaker. People rewatch his films with nostalgia and joy. They quote them with parents and pass them down to children.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
December 15, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Rob Reiner had one of the most wide-ranging audiences of any American filmmaker. People rewatch his films with nostalgia and joy. They quote them with parents and pass them down to children.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
Ignore the other one's commentary. It's like a black hole commenting on the sun.
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thanks brett kavanaugh!
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
thanks brett kavanaugh!
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If anything should push people to recognize we need Universal Healthcare in America THIS should. Stop paying these predatory for profit insurance companies.
Only in America do folks have to beg on GoFundMe for help with medical bills and their countryfolk ACCEPT IT! Shameful!
Only in America do folks have to beg on GoFundMe for help with medical bills and their countryfolk ACCEPT IT! Shameful!
December 13, 2025 at 6:06 PM
If anything should push people to recognize we need Universal Healthcare in America THIS should. Stop paying these predatory for profit insurance companies.
Only in America do folks have to beg on GoFundMe for help with medical bills and their countryfolk ACCEPT IT! Shameful!
Only in America do folks have to beg on GoFundMe for help with medical bills and their countryfolk ACCEPT IT! Shameful!
So, despite Trump giving some lazy lip service to "affordability" his FTC tried to suppress a case of price collusion and market influence by PepsiCo and Walmart to raise prices for PepsiCo products at all of Walmart's competitors...
open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
Secret Documents Show Pepsi and Walmart Colluded to Raise Food Prices Across the Economy
The Trump FTC tried to hide a complaint showing Pepsi forced shoppers to pay higher prices everywhere but Walmart. But now it's unsealed. And the politics of affordability are explosive.
open.substack.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:56 PM
So, despite Trump giving some lazy lip service to "affordability" his FTC tried to suppress a case of price collusion and market influence by PepsiCo and Walmart to raise prices for PepsiCo products at all of Walmart's competitors...
open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
open.substack.com/pub/mattstol...
So, my check engine light came on yesterday. The free diagnostic code report from a normally reputable auto parts store seems to indicate it’s the fuel gauge sensor in the tank which I already knew from direct observation has been broken for at least 6 months.
December 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
So, my check engine light came on yesterday. The free diagnostic code report from a normally reputable auto parts store seems to indicate it’s the fuel gauge sensor in the tank which I already knew from direct observation has been broken for at least 6 months.
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Absolutely fantastic investigative reporting on Instacart's AI price gouging scheme: youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo?...
We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
youtu.be
December 11, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Absolutely fantastic investigative reporting on Instacart's AI price gouging scheme: youtu.be/osxr7xSxsGo?...
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I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I read a book on making money in ancient Athens recently (by Michael Leese, it's great), and the Greeks absolutely believed that the endless pursuit of wealth was a serious moral defect and personality issue no different than being a drunk or sexual deviant.
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♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
December 8, 2025 at 5:28 PM
♥️ “ICE looked at that school, saw a community standing up for families, and decided it wasn’t worth it.”
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The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The first paragraph of Judge Breyer‘s opinion granting an injunction in the California National Guard case is a banger.
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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.
If you didn't learn about the UK post office scandal already, PBS is running the miniseries "Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office." And it's good glimpse into the microcosm of the dysfunction, ass covering, & incompetence happening at most modern software enterprises & in dealing with their clients.
December 9, 2025 at 7:56 PM
If you didn't learn about the UK post office scandal already, PBS is running the miniseries "Mr. Bates vs. The Post Office." And it's good glimpse into the microcosm of the dysfunction, ass covering, & incompetence happening at most modern software enterprises & in dealing with their clients.
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Learned helplessness has another avenue into our lives would be another way to put it. Or maybe it's weaponized incompetence. And yeah, he also has a lack of shame.
December 9, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Learned helplessness has another avenue into our lives would be another way to put it. Or maybe it's weaponized incompetence. And yeah, he also has a lack of shame.
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For what possible reason are they using torture on people arrested for immigration offenses?
In Abu Ghraib, they tried to say they were after information about future terrorist attacks. Stupid and monstrous, but they had a purported 'reason'.
What the fuck is this supposed to be for?
In Abu Ghraib, they tried to say they were after information about future terrorist attacks. Stupid and monstrous, but they had a purported 'reason'.
What the fuck is this supposed to be for?
December 8, 2025 at 10:02 PM
For what possible reason are they using torture on people arrested for immigration offenses?
In Abu Ghraib, they tried to say they were after information about future terrorist attacks. Stupid and monstrous, but they had a purported 'reason'.
What the fuck is this supposed to be for?
In Abu Ghraib, they tried to say they were after information about future terrorist attacks. Stupid and monstrous, but they had a purported 'reason'.
What the fuck is this supposed to be for?
So, its not sucking me in quite as hard as Silo so far (Im on episode 4), but Pluribus has definitely given my partner and I a bunch of stuff to talk about. Spoopy sci-fi mystery stuff, existential quandaries, and an endless commentary on what we’d each be doing differently than Carol. 😀
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
So, its not sucking me in quite as hard as Silo so far (Im on episode 4), but Pluribus has definitely given my partner and I a bunch of stuff to talk about. Spoopy sci-fi mystery stuff, existential quandaries, and an endless commentary on what we’d each be doing differently than Carol. 😀
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the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
December 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
the idea that a handful of conservative legal scholars have an understanding that should supersede a settlement affirmed my generations of american is astoundingly arrogant, and the idea that trump — or any president — can unilaterally overturn that settlement is just despotism
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Being a billionaire needs to be in the DSM 6
December 7, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Being a billionaire needs to be in the DSM 6
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Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
Elon Musk is against the European Union being the European Union —he posted this after X (fka Twitter) was fined for violations of the EU’s Digital Services Act.
December 6, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Elon Musk is worse at hiding it but this is the problem with all billionaires: they are a threat to democratic governance. They have an insatiable need to own and control everything. If you want to be free you have to curb their power, and demand political leaders who understand that
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Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
Minneapolis police chief warns officers: Stop unlawful force by ICE or lose your job
Chief Brian O’Hara says he’ll fire city police officers if they don’t intervene when immigration agents use unlawful force.
www.ms.now
December 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara issued a stern warning to his officers on Thursday: Intervene when you see Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents using unlawful force or lose your job.
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This stage of capitalism in a nutshell
The issue with Neoliberalism isn't that it doesn't work, it's that it only works once. You can sell the family silver once, you can strip the copper out of the walls once, you can burn the furniture to keep warm once. But then you have to come up with something else!
December 6, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This stage of capitalism in a nutshell
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Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life
“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.”
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida.
It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID.
Free link ⤵️
www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Exclusive: Woman detained by feds in Keys says she was following agents’ orders
“This is not the America that I grew up in, and this is not the America that we represent.”
www.miamiherald.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life