Nick Rattray

Amazon just announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.

UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.

Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.

This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.

New 20 just dropped to commemorate the Trump presidency

Yet Trump ignored every step, acting unilaterally through executive order, bypassing oversight, and ordering demolition as if he were a monarch. The result: the people’s house, altered without the people’s consent.

This is what No Kings Day felt like 🐸🐔🦄🐿️✨
“Tʜɪs ɪs ᴡʜᴀᴛ Dᴇᴍᴏᴄʀᴀᴄʏ ʟᴏᴏᴋs ʟɪᴋᴇ!“ 🗣️✨

This country belongs to the people.

#StandTALL 🚀🗣️

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This is what solidarity looks like. Together, we will win.

The war zone in Portland is out of control.

No Kings, Indianapolis!

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

wizard frog is insane

Democrats Must Embrace War Mindset We have exited a long period of peace and entered into a struggle not unlike war, in which all the old certainties have gone malleable and the future of the republic is at stake.

this piece has been in the works a while but honestly i could not have asked for a better foil than ezra klein's interview with ta-nehisi coates. klein longs for peacetime--but you don't get to decide when you're in a fight.

www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-mu...

"The ambiguity is calculated. They never said, “We are declaring a dictatorship.” Instead, they spoke in terms elastic enough to give cover." poignant point, Dr. Greenberg

Remember that this is what the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill was all about. It's Robin Hood in reverse.

Why would any Democrat vote for a continuing resolution that greenlights this regime's cruelty?

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Einsteins theory has been proven.

Veterans’ Care at Risk Under Trump as Hundreds of Doctors and Nurses Reject Working at VA Hospitals Amid concerns about the stability of the agency, records show nearly 40% of the doctors offered jobs at the VA from January through March of this year turned them down — quadruple the rate of rejectio...

The VA is down 600 doctors and about 1,900 nurses so far this year, the first time the agency has seen net losses in years.

At several facilities, more than a third of the positions for doctors are unfilled.

By @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social @vernalcoleman.bsky.social @ericumansky.bsky.social

An excellent piece for deeper understanding of autism and the danger of false theories

Viewing political violence as infrastructural: "Kirk’s death cannot be dismissed as the act of a lone individual. It is the culmination of a political ecosystem that cultivates hostility long before blood is spilled."

Why Civil Resistance Works Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan. Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of Nonviolent Conflict (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, August 2011). ~Winner of the 2013 Grawemeyer A…

And non-violence works, from @chenoweth.bsky.social: "between 1900 and 2006, campaigns of nonviolent resistance were more than twice as effective as their violent counterparts." "Violent insurgency is rarely justifiable on strategic grounds." 5/ www.ericachenoweth.com/research/wcrw

Minnesota lawmaker Melissa Hortman remembered as funny, savvy and 'a true leader' Friends and colleagues remembered her as grounded, kind and compassionate.

This is a Melissa Hortman appreciation account for the next 24 hours.

Jack White is a badass.

Greenberg: "America belongs to all of us—not just the powerful, the wealthy, or the loudest voice in the room. For too long, the rules have been rigged by those who want you to believe government is the problem—so they can sell it off, piece by piece, to their donors and cronies." #PoliticalEcology

"MAGA leaders aren’t revolutionaries. They are opportunists in patriotic drag. They rage against elites while cashing donor checks, dodge taxes while preaching sacrifice, and stoke chaos to consolidate control."

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

What they aren’t showing on Fox News

Yeah, stick to football, bro. 🤣🤣

Everything that’s happened over the past six months has been a response to an imaginary crisis. There is no immigrant invasion. No trade crisis. No scientific or governance crisis. Just people completely high off their own supply trying to fundamentally reorder society. None of this had to happen.

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"state power doesn’t only reside in laws or institutions. It lives in classification systems—in who gets counted, how they’re labeled, and what those labels allow or deny. ... It anticipates risk, assigns suspicion, and creates a framework in which dissent becomes deviance."

Bondi was a registered lobbyist for Qatar, earning $115,000 a month. #corruption

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism