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A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
September 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.
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Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Zero tolerance for doomerism. Stop lazily accepting that everything is screwed forever. Stop normalising low expectations. That’s part of the problem & it’s what the bastards want. It’s also a product of privilege. People in more desperate situations don’t have the option to just sit back & shrug.
The US did not grow because first pilgrims made a lot of babies, it grew because immigrants kept arriving. If we stop this dynamic, we stop believing in growth and I don’t think the country is ready for such a pivot.
"Immigration is good, actually" could be a very easy message to land in an environment where Americans increasingly just look at Trump and think "what the fuck is wrong with this guy's whole deal?"
I think immigration makes this country great and I don't care what anyone else thinks.
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 AM
The US did not grow because first pilgrims made a lot of babies, it grew because immigrants kept arriving. If we stop this dynamic, we stop believing in growth and I don’t think the country is ready for such a pivot.
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"Immigration is good, actually" could be a very easy message to land in an environment where Americans increasingly just look at Trump and think "what the fuck is wrong with this guy's whole deal?"
I think immigration makes this country great and I don't care what anyone else thinks.
This is also a place being rhetorically pro-immigration could be good. "I think immigration makes this country great and I don't care what anyone else thinks."
November 25, 2025 at 10:44 PM
"Immigration is good, actually" could be a very easy message to land in an environment where Americans increasingly just look at Trump and think "what the fuck is wrong with this guy's whole deal?"
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Urban farms and gardens ease food insecurity, boost mental health, and create communities.
A surprisingly powerful tool to make cities more livable
Urban farms and gardens ease food insecurity, boost mental health, and create communities.
www.motherjones.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Urban farms and gardens ease food insecurity, boost mental health, and create communities.
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Cop30 live: ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells summit
Cop30 live: ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells summit
Brazilian president underlines need to reduce emissions as Turkey set to host next year’s summit
On Wednesday evening I joined a crowd of journalists, including my colleague Fiona Harvey, veteran of many Cops, to wait outside a plenary room in the artificially Baltic surroundings of the Cop30 conference centre.
Rumour had it that the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who had earlier arrived at the UN climate summit, would soon emerge to speak to journalists. What exactly we would do if he did emerge was unclear. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Cop30 live: ‘We need to think about how to live without fossil fuels’ Brazilian president Lula tells summit
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To understand any sort of inequality, we have to ask ourselves: What do we owe each other as members of the same society?
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 PM
To understand any sort of inequality, we have to ask ourselves: What do we owe each other as members of the same society?
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Biden vs. Trump price check - Month Nine. Trump promised to get grocery prices down on day one of his administration. So far prices for basic grocery items continue to increase since he was sworn in. All of these prices are from FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data.
October 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Biden vs. Trump price check - Month Nine. Trump promised to get grocery prices down on day one of his administration. So far prices for basic grocery items continue to increase since he was sworn in. All of these prices are from FRED - Federal Reserve Economic Data.
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Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.
bit.ly
October 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.
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So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.
October 7, 2025 at 2:03 PM
So the American taxpayer eats it twice, once on tariffs and again on a second farm bailout. I’m glad farmers are getting help, no one should lose their farm, but it’s remarkable how fast “socialism” stops being a dirty word when the checks clear in red counties.
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Just…unbelievably and grossly negligent.
September 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Just…unbelievably and grossly negligent.
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Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements program spent two times as much on administrative costs as on health care costs — while preventing thousands of eligible Georgians from accessing health care.
Say it with me: Medicaid work requirements don’t work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMqYttKv1c
Say it with me: Medicaid work requirements don’t work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMqYttKv1c
Medicaid Work Requirements, Debunked
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Georgia’s Medicaid work requirements program spent two times as much on administrative costs as on health care costs — while preventing thousands of eligible Georgians from accessing health care.
Say it with me: Medicaid work requirements don’t work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMqYttKv1c
Say it with me: Medicaid work requirements don’t work. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzMqYttKv1c
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For 10s of millions of Americans, politics is just "shopping with your vote for people who will play pretend & act as if your preferred conspiracy theory is real."
The fantasy could be "immigrants are taking our jobs" or "random chemical causes all our problems"--the process is the same.
The fantasy could be "immigrants are taking our jobs" or "random chemical causes all our problems"--the process is the same.
Antivaxxers are big mad about the pending autism announcement.
September 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
For 10s of millions of Americans, politics is just "shopping with your vote for people who will play pretend & act as if your preferred conspiracy theory is real."
The fantasy could be "immigrants are taking our jobs" or "random chemical causes all our problems"--the process is the same.
The fantasy could be "immigrants are taking our jobs" or "random chemical causes all our problems"--the process is the same.
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Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
We live in socialism for the wealthy with harsh austerity for everyone else.
Privatise the profits, socialise the losses.
The only solution is a working class revolution.
Eat the rich asap obvsly 💪
#antifascist #antibillionaire #classconsciousness #anticapitalism
Privatise the profits, socialise the losses.
The only solution is a working class revolution.
Eat the rich asap obvsly 💪
#antifascist #antibillionaire #classconsciousness #anticapitalism
August 29, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Corporations socialize their losses and privatize their gains.
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They’re detaining wildfire fighters while on the job. Insanity.
August 29, 2025 at 8:36 PM
They’re detaining wildfire fighters while on the job. Insanity.
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Convicted felon, Donald Trump, is on a crusade to hurt Americans because there isn’t any other reason to explain why he is making immigration checks of firefighters who are IN THE MIDST OF BATTLING WILDFIRES a priority.
Trump makes America less safe everyday.
Trump makes America less safe everyday.
August 29, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Convicted felon, Donald Trump, is on a crusade to hurt Americans because there isn’t any other reason to explain why he is making immigration checks of firefighters who are IN THE MIDST OF BATTLING WILDFIRES a priority.
Trump makes America less safe everyday.
Trump makes America less safe everyday.
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On a rare occasion there are announcements which happen over the air that almost no one hears. These things usually don't make news. Happy 50th birthday @PghEMS
August 26, 2025 at 11:27 AM
On a rare occasion there are announcements which happen over the air that almost no one hears. These things usually don't make news. Happy 50th birthday @PghEMS
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What is it called when government owns the means of production again?
August 24, 2025 at 9:49 AM
What is it called when government owns the means of production again?
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An estimated 93,000 will die a premature death due to the loss of SNAP between now and 2039.
The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ party would rather people sink deeper into poverty and food insecurity than get the essential assistance they need to buy groceries.
The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ party would rather people sink deeper into poverty and food insecurity than get the essential assistance they need to buy groceries.
August 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
An estimated 93,000 will die a premature death due to the loss of SNAP between now and 2039.
The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ party would rather people sink deeper into poverty and food insecurity than get the essential assistance they need to buy groceries.
The ‘Make America Healthy Again’ party would rather people sink deeper into poverty and food insecurity than get the essential assistance they need to buy groceries.
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“Amazon dieback” is just one grim example of what scientists refer to as a tipping point: a threshold after which self-sustaining feedback loops irreversibly change a part of Earth’s climate system. How close is the world to crossing them?
Earth’s climate is approaching irreversible tipping points
Scientists are racing to work out just how close they might be
econ.st
August 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
“Amazon dieback” is just one grim example of what scientists refer to as a tipping point: a threshold after which self-sustaining feedback loops irreversibly change a part of Earth’s climate system. How close is the world to crossing them?
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The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.
BREAKING: President Trump fires the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics hours after weak jobs report.
Trump fires labor statistics boss hours after weak jobs report
The president implied that the BLS commissioner, long-time federal employee Erika McEntarfer, manipulated the data "for political purposes."
nbcnews.to
August 2, 2025 at 12:26 AM
The President sees a bad jobs report, and responds by getting rid of the person in charge of the statistics. This is how America becomes a third-rate country.
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After being released from Salvadoran prison CECOT, Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra says he was relieved to be home with his family but felt traumatized.
“There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.”
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
“There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.”
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
He Was Asked About His Tattoos and a TikTok Video in Court. Five Days Later, He Was in a Salvadoran Prison.
Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra was one of more than 230 Venezuelan immigrants the Trump administration sent to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. After his release, he says he wants the world to…
www.propublica.org
August 1, 2025 at 3:00 AM
After being released from Salvadoran prison CECOT, Albert Jesús Rodríguez Parra says he was relieved to be home with his family but felt traumatized.
“There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.”
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
“There is no reason for what I went through,” he said. “I didn’t deserve that.”
By @melissa-sanchez.bsky.social
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NEW: As #txlege weighs disaster policies, experts say they're is overlooking part of what made the July floods so devastating: unregulated development in flood-prone areas.
Our interactive map shows some impacted sites in the Austin area were directly in floodways. www.statesman.com/story/news/l...
Our interactive map shows some impacted sites in the Austin area were directly in floodways. www.statesman.com/story/news/l...
Experts say Texas is ignoring root cause of deadly July floods: unregulated development
Our analysis of FEMA flood maps in the Austin area show many homes devastated by July floods were in high-risk areas. Experts say the state must …
www.statesman.com
July 31, 2025 at 2:34 PM
NEW: As #txlege weighs disaster policies, experts say they're is overlooking part of what made the July floods so devastating: unregulated development in flood-prone areas.
Our interactive map shows some impacted sites in the Austin area were directly in floodways. www.statesman.com/story/news/l...
Our interactive map shows some impacted sites in the Austin area were directly in floodways. www.statesman.com/story/news/l...
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Victims of the Texas floods are still dealing with the wreckage and waiting on more assistance from the state government.
What have Texas Republicans been prioritizing?
Gerrymandering the state's U.S. Congressional maps ahead of schedule because Trump asked them to.
Hello?
What have Texas Republicans been prioritizing?
Gerrymandering the state's U.S. Congressional maps ahead of schedule because Trump asked them to.
Hello?
July 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Victims of the Texas floods are still dealing with the wreckage and waiting on more assistance from the state government.
What have Texas Republicans been prioritizing?
Gerrymandering the state's U.S. Congressional maps ahead of schedule because Trump asked them to.
Hello?
What have Texas Republicans been prioritizing?
Gerrymandering the state's U.S. Congressional maps ahead of schedule because Trump asked them to.
Hello?