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One big change from the great depression is that soup lines are illegal in around 39 cities now, to punish the unhoused.

Ultimately this all again brings me back to the Bannon quote that keeps haunting me:

"I want to see babies starving in the streets of the United States, their bloated bellies there for everyone to see. If we get there, the American people will allow us to do ANYTHING."

I think it's actually really key that Kendrick embarrassed Drake for being a pedophile right now. . .

when pedophiles are running the country.

It's good for people to reaffirm "this is bad," on multiple levels, in multiple ways,right now

Infrastructure is expensive up front, but worth it in the long run.

The further disrepair it is is in, the more expensive it is to fix.

If it breaks, it is exponentially more expensive on all fronts.

But folks tend not to think of infrastructure till it breaks....

A screenshot of the Steam store page for the game spirit swap, cropped to focus on the user rating (95% positive, 203 reviews) and a frame of the game.

I missed the 200 moment but Spirit Swap crossed this personal milestone today?! Very Positive 95% of 203 Steam reviews!✨ Thank you all so much!!!

store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/...

Letitia James is a former public defender and public advocate. She's spent most of her career on the side of the marginalized and underprivileged. And let's be honest: Trump is attacking her because he doesn't want Black women in positions of authority in this country.

UPDATE: While it shouldn't have taken this long for the Senate to look into Trump’s egregious abuse of our military, I have secured a hearing to investigate his deployments of troops into our cities—

And I’ll be asking tough questions of the Trump Administration when it happens.

I feel like a broken record, but I have to keep saying it over and over again: a farmer bailout won’t do much of anything because the market is gone. There will be no incentive to plant next year.

The bailout will help payoff farmer debt to the banks. That’s all.

I also think a lot of people are confused about what the Farm Bureau is. It’s an insurance company.

They don’t represent small farmers. They represent wealthy interests.

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I'm not sure who uses Microsoft 365 and needs to hear this, but the recent price increase from $69.99 to $99.99 is for the added functionality of CoPilot, their AI tool. If you choose Microsoft 365 without CoPilot, you can retain the $69.99/year subscription price.

That is a man whose entire career is wrapped in taking credit for other people's work and being called a genius for it.

IIRC his war on Wikipedia began simply because Wikipedia refuses to - accurately - call him the founder of Tesla. He didn't found the company and he's mad at not being credited

Family says Joshua Francis Saulteaux missing after winning lottery The family of Joshua Francis Saulteaux say 25 year old went missing shortly after winning $1 million Alberta lottery.

The RV where the 25-year-old lived was empty and there was blood all over the trailer, says the family.

Yeah, still not collecting data, I’m afraid. Just processing the existing September data.

The decision appears to be connected to the annual Social Security cost-of-living adjustment, which is based on consumer price data from the third quarter (which includes September). If the CPI report is delayed, that could lead in a delay in the COLA announcement.

SCOOP: The Bureau of Labor Statistics is preparing to release the September C.P.I. report despite the shutdown. (Exact date still unclear -- almost certainly not the original Oct. 15 date.) #EconSky #NumbersDay

Something I didn't remember is the shut down ended last time when air traffic control stopped turning up.

USDOT will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule The U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday that it will not enforce key provisions of a Biden administration rule issued in December requiring new consumer protections for disabled passengers using wheelchairs.

the gov't just said it's ok for private, billion dollar corporations to break a person's lifeline -- a custom device often costing 10s or 100s of thousands of $$ -- with impunity. www.reuters.com/world/usdot-...

US DOT is putting another transit project on hold—the Red Line Extension in Chicago—because the transit authority pursued Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) goals as part of the project, which the DOT claims are discriminatory.

The thing is, US DOT & Congress put DBE in place.

Large fire erupts at Los Angeles County refinery The Los Angeles County Fire Department said the original report came from the intersection of Aviation and Rosecrans.

Looming over what would otherwise be a beautiful stretch of pacific coastline, this facility represents about 1.5% of the US’s refining capacity. www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

Google Calls ICE Agents a Vulnerable Group, Removes ICE-Spotting App ‘Red Dot’ The move comes as Apple removed ICEBlock after direct pressure from U.S. Department of Justice officials and signals a broader crackdown on ICE-spotting apps.

New from 404 Media: Google removed an ICE-spotting app too. Called Red Dot, an immigration support group on the ground in Chicago told me it was using it. Google now removed, just like Apple did with ICEBlock after DOJ pressure. Google calls ICE vulnerable group
www.404media.co/google-calls...

Inside real estate fight that led to South Shore immigration raid City of Chicago inspected the troubled 130-unit apartment complex two weeks before massive federal operation on Chicago’s South Side.

Sorry: foreclosure.

I really miss having coffee to wake me up.

Not just any environmental lawsuit, but a lawsuit in part by a local Indigenous nation, the Miccosukee Tribe, about their sovereignty over the land.

This was a (very small) step toward Land Back, which is in fact sexy as hell.

Yes, the way we teach this stuff makes it seem like we can win by memes & PR stunts. I only recently learned the peace activists burning draft records weren't just making a symbolic statement. The draft board didn't have copies - every file destroyed was a man who'd never be called up to war.

I also think part of the problem is we're taught the telegenic shit but not how it's in service to larger political or economic gains. Like we don't really talk about how the Montgomery Bus Boycott was specifically about forcing the bus company to choose btwn integration or bankruptcy

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Flying cars are the perfect example of a point solution: trying to solve a systemic problem (traffic) with an individual product (fly over the traffic).

But traffic is not a technology problem; it's a social problem. Remote work, congestion fees, and dense transit-connected housing solve it better.

These 20 Apps Are Watching You—And You Probably Use Them Every Day You might use these apps every day, but have no idea what they collect. These 20 apps are quietly harvesting your location, contacts, photos, and more—here's what you can do about it.

A lot of the apps on your phone are tracking your physical location and selling that information to other companies. Here's a fantastic explainer from @pcmag.com about 20 of the most common apps that spy on you. Service journalism at its finest. www.pcmag.com/explainers/t...

This story is absolutely bonkers.

“There is a “crazy hole in our food safety system” that prevents the FDA from entering Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) to sample for pathogens that have caused an outbreak in people”.
Let the stewards of the land poison us galore.

I am once again asking why these data centers are all fucking SECRETS

"A controversial plan to build a 2.2-million-square-foot data center on farmland may still happen. A rural community... is looking to settle a lawsuit recently filed by a development firm working for an unidentified tech giant."