I want one that gives us universal healthcare and a guarantees a livable wage

I couldn’t care less about statues

So fucking tired of people who say they're passionate about democracy...

If your dumbass was passionate about democracy, maybe you'd notice we don't live in one and haven't for a long time if ever. Shut the fuck up, blue maga shitheads

IT WAS A FUCKING JOKE OH MY GOD

hey, stop using populism as a euphemism for naziism! it not only sanitizes naziism, but implies that most people like it! that's wrong! shut the fuck up!

ChatGPT is down? Huh. Crazy how that doesn't affect my life in literally any way at all

California governor pushes back against criticism of fast food minimum wage law California Gov. Gavin Newsom is denying a news report that he pushed for an exception to the state's fast food minimum wage law that benefits a donor.

The Democratic Party is so blatantly corrupt that the guy who's supposed to be a possible contender for the next president just allowed a campaign donor to get an exception to the minimum wage increase just for his businesses. Like tailored for the donor. Fuck the dems.

apnews.com/article/cali...

I hate to break this to some of you but I have a sneaking suspicion Liz Cheney isnt a good person despite all the anti Trump grandstanding...

Biden declared COVID over and his strategy is "just get the booster!"

Great outreach there, man. What percentage of Americans get yearly boosters (like the flu shot) in the first place?

LIBERALS: Voting is the only tool we have! It's the only thing that matters, so vote wisely!

MICHIGAN VOTERS: /use vote to pressure a politician into adopting a widely popular and morally correct position

LIBERALS: Not like that

What exactly are US special forces doing in Israel? Secrecy is the name of the game when it comes to the Biden administration’s support for the offensive in Gaza.

Aaron Bushnell said U.S. troops are there. I believe him.

Bluesky post byTaylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social: I wish I could send this entire app to journalism school

This is so funny, man. Where do you think most of the terrible reporting habits in our news ecosystem begin?

NTV: 20 days of absence per employee Study: Record sickness rates led to recession January 26, 2024, 2:11 a.m

Last year, workers took 20 sick days as Germany's economy shrank by 0.3%. A study suggests with less sick leave, the economy would have grown by 0.5%.

This is why the US wants to weaken COVID guidance despite no change in science. They want to risk worker health for the economy.

Air Canada must honor refund policy invented by airline’s chatbot Air Canada appears to have quietly killed its costly chatbot support.

"Air Canada essentially argued that 'the chatbot is a separate legal entity that is responsible for its own actions,' a court order said."

Airlines will try anything to avoid refunding their customers.

‘They lied’: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds

You were told for years that it was on YOU to save the planet. YOU had to recycle. The power is YOURS!

... well turns out they were lying. You can't recycle plastic at scale. You never could.

WE are not the ones destroying the world.

Duke is one of the wealthiest universities in the world, with an $11.6 billion endowment. Their head basketball coach was on a $12.5 million salary. But the Biology department can’t afford to maintain a herbarium.

I still don't think people are truly prepared for what happens when a corrupt supreme court and a handful of petulant billionaires turn all safety, consumer protection, labor, and environmental protection regulators into the policy equivalent of decorative gourds

An oil painting portrait of a male red-bellied woodpecker. He's shown from the chest up, looking to the left, and is overall cream colored underneath with a brilliant red cap and neck, a black beak, a red eye, and black and white barring on his back. Strong warm light illuminates him, casting a shadow from his beak across his upper chest. The painting is done in a realistic style with painterly brush strokes visible in the simple background. Artist note: our household calls many wild birds by the sounds they make, as if they were pokemon; this individual often calls "chuff, chuff!". The artist watermark reads: Copyright 2020 Jennifer Miller featherdust.com

"Mr. Chuff Chuff" Red-Bellied Woodpecker, 5"x7" oil painting, 2020.

The Great Backyard Bird Count is happening now 2/16, through Monday 2/19; anyone worldwide can count any wild birds (yes, even common ones like city pigeons!), and the data helps bird science a lot! 🪶 www.birdcount.org/participate/

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Also, homeless people aren't stupid and may realize there's no permanent affordable housing at the end of the shelter system. That means if they take a shelter offer, in a couple months they may be back on the street, only this time without any belongings. Why would anyone agree to that?

COVID and flu surge could strain hospitals as JN.1 variant grows, CDC warns "COVID-19 hospitalizations are rising quickly," the CDC said, and the new variant JN.1 is making up an increasing share of cases.

Well, this is terrible. US hospitals may soon be too overloaded to treat everyone:

"Hospitals and ERs could be forced to ration care by the end of this month [as] recent trends in COVID-19 and influenza are now on track to again strain America's health care system"

www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-v...

I mean yeah trump was bad but Biden doubled down and did everything worse

Debunking the idea viruses always evolve to become less virulent The concept can be traced back to a theory from the late 1800s.

It's interesting that viruses become less virulent as an argument still exists. It's been debunked.
abcnews.go.com/Health/debun...

Some points about this 12% homelessness increase:

- Every $100 increase in rent increases homelessness by 9% (endhomelessness.org/blog/rising-...)

- California has 30% of the US homeless pop (apnews.com/article/home...)

- IMO reducing CA rents would do the most to reduce overall US homelessness

You can say Substack should host Nazis, but don't pretend there's some "free speech" principle to it. Substack has a strict ban on pornography. Welcoming Nazis while banning sex workers isn't a principled stand, it's a choice, an expression that you like the former and dislike the latter.

The idea that I or literally anyone in the West would be more likely to be exposed to Hamas or Iranian or even Russian propaganda instead of the constant US propaganda that is in sports, the movies, the news, TV etc etc