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its cool that weve reached the point in oral arguments where liberal justices are asking their colleagues whether they will apply the law fairly and theyre just like “oh, no. we plan to contradict ourselves next week. this is all a charade.“

I think the thing that makes Kamala most likely to win is if she was the nominee for longer than 100 days and if she was allowed to more meaningfully separate herself from the incumbent on multiple fronts (or better yet if she was the incumbent)

"You're a big account, so you have a duty to ..."

Look, at some level, I get that.

But also ... I didn't run for the office of Big Account with a promise to you, the Bluesky voter, to deliver on certain issues.

I just logged onto the same site you did, made some posts, and people followed me.

One thing about climate change: it disproves the capitalist ideology that poor people's suffering is their own fault.

Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.

This is inequality, and it is evil.

One of the most disturbing things about the U.S. government getting themselves into the anti-vaccine game is that it is a time-release poison pill.

It will take a few years before the worst of the harm is visible to enough people that they will truly understand what has been done to them.

When it all comes crashing down: The aftermath of the AI boom AI has buoyed the stock market and a struggling US economy but warning signs indicate a bubble that everyone will pay for when it bursts.

Silicon Valley has placed a trillion-dollar bet that gen AI can transform the global economy and pave the way for AGI. But warning signs show the marketing hype has vastly overrated what current AI tech can achieve, creating a bubble with growing costs when it pops, writes @jeremyhsu.bsky.social.

“What I see as a labor economist is we have starved everything to feed one mouth,” says Ron Hetrick, Principal Economist at Lightcast. “These are now three years that we have foregone development in so many industries as we shove food into a mouth that’s already so full.”

The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com 7 Voters on What They Love About America Jul 4, 2025 — 'It's honestly sort of beautiful that we have the freedom to make our own stupid choices.' Charles Vaughters, 24,... @ The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com 6 Republican Voters on U.S. Strikes on Boats Suspected ... 3 days ago - Charles Vaughters, 25, Laramie, Wyo. Image. Charles Vaughters, wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt,... @ The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com 7 Americans Tell Us Whom They Blame for the Shutdown Oct 3, 2025 - Charles Vaughters, a college student and Marine veteran who voted for Q nytimes "charles vaughters"

The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com 6 Trump Voters React to the U.S.'s Bombing of Nuclear... Jun 25, 2025 - Charles Vaughters. When Charles Vaughters, a college student and Marine veteran, heard the news of the... The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com After Kirk Killing, Americans Agree on One Thing:... Sep 12, 2025 - At the University of Wyoming, Charles Vaughters, 25, who served in the Marines before enrolling in... * The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com What Voters Think of Trump's White House Ballroom Oct 26, 2025 - When Charles Vaughters, a history major at the University of Wyoming who served in the Marines, heard about t... Q nytimes "charles vaughters"

I love how the Times keeps going back to the same callous, racist down-home folks to seek their sanction for this administration’s cruelty and incompetence. This week: what do you think of the boat strikes?

I knew I’d seen this Charles Vaughters — Marine vet, college student — before.

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

What I always hear: “We can’t afford to pay our workers more than $15 an hour.”

What I never hear: “We can’t afford to pay our CEO millions of dollars a year.”

Funny how that works.

Again, you can engage with the actual point being made rather than whatever argument you think im making

Ya know, actually acknowledging the point im making rather than whatever bullshit you want me to be saying

Or you can engage with the following two posts

So that's 21% up between 2019 and 2024, then a 9% increase from 2024 to mid 2025.

That isn't a "small increase" to pay workers more. It's a corporation sucking every last penny they can from the public because they want infinite growth and will never accept losing money or even less profit

According to a fact sheet that McDonald's released in 2024, the price of Big Macs increased 21% between 2019 and 2024, jumping from $4.39 to $5.29. with that said, between the end of 2024 in March 2025 $5.79 price tag, the price of a Big Mac has already increased by over 9%. Because of this increase as official state it is due to increased operational cost with labor and ingredients the price of this burger steadily increasing of lots of 25 years it stands to reason it will only continue to do so.

If the fast food workers are not being paid more, then I'm pissed my burger costs $10 just so the execs can show better revenue.

That's not even the biggest thing which is the proportion of the increase.

See this section from this article earlier this year.

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While that's true, it doesn't address my point. You're implying a thing is causative when it isn't.

If Bob the construction worker starts getting paid more, but Jim the McDonald's worker doesn't then on avg there was a wage increase.

Not only is ICE snatching hard working people who are trying to earn a living, they’re taking their money too?

A witness recorded ICE agents taking a cash box from a taco stand in La Puente during an operation where four people were arrested.

Brooke Rollins: "Eggs are down. Really everything is coming down. But listen, we're not tone deaf. We know that a lot of Americans are like, 'Well, we're still not feeling the relief.' The relief is coming ... it really is a golden age just right around the corner."

The cable, sent to all U.S. missions on December 2, orders U.S. consular officers to review resumes or LinkedIn profiles of H-1B applicants - and family members who would be traveling with them - to see if they have worked in areas that include activities such as misinformation, disinformation, content moderation, fact-checking, compliance and online safety, among others.

Holy shit.

Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.

www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Is there anything that shows those price increases are attributable to wage increases though?

People are angry about the price increases but they aren't small increases and (to my knowledge) not passed on to workers.

I'll gladly pay more so someone has a living wage, but not for some execs yacht

Reporter: “Are you committed to releasing the full video?”

Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”

Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”

Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”

THIS IS THEM VOTING FOR A DIFFERENT SYSTEM!!!!

Intensely funny because it seems like the vast majority of people at that event were convinced it was fully autonomous and Musk has repeatedly recently claimed they're not tele-operated

www.reddit.com/r/robotics/c...

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🔴 Top Israeli Ministers Proudly Adorn a Global Symbol of Racial Terror Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir and allies were photographed wearing gold noose pins in public to signal support for executing Palestinian detainees. Also visible in the image is Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu, whose ministry oversees settlement expansion and displacement in the occupied West Bank. For Americans and many in former settler colonies, the noose is inseparable from the history of racial terror and lynching, making its public display an endorsement of extrajudicial killing and violent intimidation. Israeli military courts that try Palestinians convict more than 99% of defendants. Over half of the nearly 9,500 Palestinians imprisoned by Israel are held without charge or trial.

See new posts Conversation jasper nathaniel @infinite_jaz Ben Gvir and friends wearing a noose to signal their support for executing detainees, clearly designed to look like a yellow hostage ribbon at first glance. That’s heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu on the right, who oversees the ethnic cleansing of Sebastia.

🔴 Top Israeli Ministers Proudly Adorn a Global Symbol of Racial Terror

Israeli Nat'l Security Min. Itamar Ben-Gvir & allies were photographed wearing gold noose pins in public to signal support for executing Palestinian detainees. Also visible in the image is Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu...

The Troubling Defense of the Second Strike Even absent an order to “kill everybody,” the Trump administration’s actions—like its broader military campaign—raise serious legal concerns that demand further scrutiny.

@sranderson.bsky.social and @nkorpett.bsky.social analyze the legality of the Trump admin's airstrikes and find that, even if you accept its flawed in'l legal justification for the broader campaign, Pete Hegseth's alleged order to "kill them all" and the resulting second strike are unlawful.

Scoop: U.S. discussing potential Sisi-Netanyahu summit They haven't spoken since before the Gaza war.

It is telling that to even secure the possibility of a summit between an Israeli Prime Minister and the Egyptian president, Israel has to bend over backwards to offer economic incentives. If not for the constant American intervention and patronage, Camp David would not be sustainable.

Can speed cameras make streets safer? Quasi-experimental evidence from New York City | PNAS Each year, approximately 40,000 people die in vehicle collisions in the United States, generating $340 billion in economic costs. To make roads saf...

Our new study provides rare causal evidence about NYC’s speed camera program. We find large reductions in collisions (30%) and injuries (16%) near intersections with cameras. www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1... @astagoff.bsky.social ky.social @brendenbeck.bsky.social nbeck.bsky.social 🧪

This is a perfect example as to why we need AI regulation yesterday.

AI cannot be the arbiter of whether human beings can live or die. This is an excuse for insurance companies to fire human workers and make our healthcare system even more nightmarish for a quick buck.