SemiSocialSurrealism

Outrageous.

Starbucks is closing stores and cutting 900 jobs in a restructuring move.

1,100 jobs were slashed earlier this year.

Reminder that Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024.

This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500.

The Bible We Inherited: A Story of Power, Politics, and Fear Let he with knowledge discern…

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Jon Stewart in 2022 received The Kennedy Center, err... Melania Trump Center, Mark Twain, err...Charlie Kirk Award for American Humor.

The World History Textbook They Forgot to Print How the world existed before westernized civilization.

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How Empires Colonized the Classroom (and Our Brains) with sarcasm, wit, and a few uncomfortable receipts

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When you’re finally getting paid to write as a self-published journalist…

Why did we give these parasites a tax cut again?

⭐️🇺🇦 Today Kharkiv celebrates City Day! In honor of this, for the first time since 2022, Sumska Street was opened and the starry sky was “lit up” 🤩

If you’re a parent who’s trying to ban “inappropriate” books from the school library but you let your kids listen to the current President unsupervised you’re doing it wrong

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” ― Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism

Way to go, San Francisco!! 👏👏

If the fossil fuel industry didn’t have our president and corporate America by the throat, we could have nice things like this too.

Justice Dept. Sent Congress Epstein Files That Were Already Public, Democrats Say

Turns out the Justice Department sent Congress the Epstein files, but they were the same ones already made public.

The Lives and Loves of James Baldwin An older generation dismissed him as passé; a newer one has recast him as a secular saint. But Baldwin’s true message remains more unsettling than either camp recognizes.

James Baldwin’s message was simple: we’re afraid of love, because we’re afraid of exposing our true selves.

Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"

He’s wanted to declare martial law from day one.

Bypass all checks and rule as a tyrant.

Many have speculated how he’d do it.

Now his gambit is clear.

DC was a test.

He’s using manufactured crime stats to send troops into blue states & cities.

This is not a drill.

Democracy is at defcon 1.

Scientists found the missing nutrients bees need — Colonies grew 15-fold Scientists have developed a breakthrough food supplement that could help save honeybees from devastating declines. By engineering yeast to produce six essential sterols found in pollen, researchers pr...

This feels like a spot of good news

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I see these people and all I see are weak cowards unable to cope in a time with record low crime.

"Republican-controlled states have higher murder rates"

Crimes per 1M trips
* NYC: 1.3
* Dallas: 38.0

"Texans 17% more likely to be murdered than Californians"

"being within California’s borders 40% less gun violence"

"Liberal policies, like California’s, keep blue-state residents living longer"

Democrats like JB Pritzker are fighting against billionaire media and algorithms

"got working whites to hate the people that want them more pay, clean air, water, healthcare and power to fight back against big banks & big corps"

"Murdoch’s role in destabilizing democracy in North America, Europe":

Donald Trump is attempting to manufacture a crisis, politicize Americans who serve in uniform, and continue abusing his power to distract from the pain he's causing families.

We'll continue to follow the law, stand up for the sovereignty of our state, and protect Illinoisans.

By deputizing CBP officers, Burgum is effectively expanding their powers so they can legally enforce laws and operate as police inside national parks, monuments, and other federal lands.

officers to bolster crime prevention efforts on park grounds. In practice, this means Border Patrol agents are being given temporary authority to act as law enforcement officers within the National Park Service system, a role typically reserved for park rangers and the U.S. Park Police.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced on social media(X) that federal border agents will be assigned to NPS sites as part of the broader federal law enforcement push in DC. He said the Interior Department had authorized a “service-wide deputization” of Customs and Border Protection

Supreme Court lets Trump administration cut $783 million of research funding in anti-DEI push The Supreme Court is allowing the Trump administration to slash hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of research funding in its push to cut federal diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.

The Supreme Court ruled today to allow the Trump administration’s reductions to National Institutes of Health funding, a move tied to the federal government’s broader effort to attack diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives.

It’s just like, WTF? Why? And of course, we know why cruelty is the point. The removal came at the direction of Trump’s hand-picked Transportation Secretary, Sean Duffy, who on July 1 sent a letter ordering states to wipe out “non-standard road designs”under his so-called Safe Roads Initiative.