Stephen Brancati

Comedian Bill Burr shocks audience with savage attack on billionaires Comedian Bill Burr drew controversy on his Monday Morning Podcast, declaring that billionaires should be 'put down like f***ing rabid dogs' for their role in economic inequality.

Can't say I disagree with him. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

What Trump’s Finger-Pointing Reveals Words, including the words of presidents, matter so very much.

“The way our leaders speak can shape our civic sentiments, and we are in a moment when our leader is inclined to make those harder and colder rather than softer and warmer, which just isn’t what we ought to want,” Peter Wehner writes:

10 years ago, my employer The @nytimes.com called me for a reaction to the Charlie Hebdo massacre. For hours, this cartoon was featured at the top of the home page - a first in the paper's history. 4 years later, the same NYTimes dropped all editorial cartoons. Times change... 👇

EM: 🤔Hmm... Bluesky isn't going away... Threads isn't going away... What to do?

What I Learned Reporting in Cities That Take Belongings From Homeless People Some cities take people’s belongings — ignoring their own policies and court orders — and then fail to store them. Our reporting shows there are more effective and compassionate ways to deal with…

Unhoused people told us they already feel like they’re seen as problems to be solved, not people to be helped.

In reporting on the issue, we wanted to help ProPublica’s readers recognize the humanity of the people we had met and talked to.

By @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social

Manhattan Medicare Murder Mystery Only about 50 million customers of America’s reigning medical monopoly might have a motive to exact revenge upon the UnitedHealthcare CEO.

Millions

Why "we" want insurance executives dead No, that does not mean people should murder them. But if you've watched a loved one suffer and die from insurance denial, it's normal to wish the people responsible would suffer the same fate.

The media wants you to be outraged at bad Twitter jokes and random heated comments. They want you to direct your anger at random people on Twitter who "took things too far," rather than question the system that led to these conditions in the first place.

Re: Meta’s new TOS. Using your images for AI training or giving Meta a free license to use your work isn't new. But now, there are plenty of platforms that don’t have these policies. So, why stick with Meta?

Are IG and Threads really all that great?