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CNN Partners With a Gambling App That Lets You Wager on Starvation in Gaza The app company’s two biggest investors are also heavily invested in the Israeli military.

"Soon, CNN will run live odds on world events where its viewers can gamble on them in real time on their smartphones."

Sleepy

Jesus it was an insane choice to premiere a brand new full length show in December. It's gonna be great and also, what is sleep?

Yeah yeah, that’s your gender. What’s your subclass?

I hope so too! I should round up some pups…

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Because you all respond to pics, buy a ticket to the premiere of our new show, Double InDUMBnity on Dec 20 at Green Room 42! Our last NYC show for a while as we head to Puerto Vallarta with it all Jan/most of Feb!

Cartoon by David Horsey, copyright 2009 An ocean night scene of a massive iceberg with the words CLIMATE CHANGE and a titanic ship labeled WORLD LEADERS headed towards it. The speech bubble above the ship says IT'S SETTLED... WE AGREE TO SIGN A PLEDGE TO HOLD ANOTHER MEETING TO CONSIDER CHANGING COURSE AT A DATE YET TO BE DETERMINED. It’s 2025 and they are still doing this.

This cartoon is from 2009. 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️ #SameAsItEverWas

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Coming to our show Double InDUMBnity at Green Room 42 on December 20th? All tix are HALF OFF today for Cyber Monday with the discount code CYBER! Snag one and then bring a friend!

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Today marks my 7 year anniversary of being in NYC, which means in a month and a half or so, I'll have lived here longer than anywhere else, save my childhood home.

Makes me reflective about the next 7 and where I see myself going.

Gilded Age political cartoon titled "the protectors of our industries" A mass of workers strain under the weight of supporting a boat containing rich top-hatted monocle wearing capitalists sitting atop huge sacks of cash

"Strong floor, no ceiling" is very literally the basis of like every Gilded Age political cartoon

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Less than 3 weeks until we premiere our new show, Double InDUMBnity at Green Room 42! More info/tix:

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Heather Steffen, in “Adjunct”: 38 University Keywords Neoliberalism is a concept that recurs throughout this book because many observers name the current era in US higher education the moment of the "neoliberal university," In one basic definition, neoliberalism names the set of economic, political, social, and cultural processes through which free markets have come to serve as our dominant model for social relations and institutional organization: • Social relationships become defined primarily through their economic facets. Students are regarded by their educational institutions as customers rather than learners, and, as Childress writes, "College has become a form of indispensable employment insurance, available for purchase on the open market at protection levels from community college bronze to Ivy League platinum" (2019, 48). • Public goods and services become privatized. Formerly public enterprises are now run by for-profit entities (e.g., for-profit charter schools; private prisons; privately held patents on the results of publicly funded research). • Individuals behave like entrepreneurs, and organizations behave like businesses: we imagine ourselves as mini-enterprises trying to grow our capital in the world's marketplace (e.g., the concept of human cap. ital, resume building for high schoolers). Organizations and institutions like nonprofits, universities, government agencies, and NGOs function on the model of for-profit businesses, despite their not-for-profit tax designation. Public institutions that have not formally been privatized become neoliberalized in that they behave like businesses. • Responsibility and risk are individualized. Rather than viewing the responsibility to employ, feed, clothe, and house everyone as society's responsibility, our society views it as each person's responsibility to fend for themselves (eg, the transition from welfare to workfare, drastic wealth/income inequalities). Similarly, we expect risks to be borne by individu…

Adjunct, Continued: working lives, often shifting careers several times. Employers extract cost savings through tactics like automated scheduling, keeping workers just under the number of hours needed to gain benefits, falsely defining workers as "contractors" or "consultants," outsourcing, and speed-up (being tasked with more work but not more time to do it in).

Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏

I mean, I don't understand how you could kiss me and I would remain unkissed

You, a dangerous radical: We have to change the system so cartoon villains can't wreck the country again

Me, a wise pragmatist: What if we simply rebranded the system? Welcome to America Premium+

As a centrist, I think Donald Trump is bad, but the political and economic conditions that enabled him to become president twice are good

... of being called a Good Boy.

Remember- in the video game of life, kissing me restores hearts.

Convincing evidence Israel backed aid convoy looters in Gaza, historian says Account of visit to Gaza by French professor describes Israeli military attacks on security personnel protecting convoys

“It was one night and I was … a few hundred metres away. And it was very clear that Israeli quadcopters were supporting the looters in attacking the local security [teams]”

The Israeli military killed “two local notables as they sat in their car, armed and ready to protect the convoy”

Happy birthday, handsome!

Friendly reminder; anyone not treating climate collapse as an immediate threat of unimaginable scale and violence should be ignored, fired and/or voted out.

The creeps and duds who occupy our government, corp news media and boardrooms need to go FAST.

Cops Used Flock to Monitor No Kings Protests Around the Country A massive cache of Flock lookups collated by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) shows as many as 50 federal, state, and local agencies used Flock during protests over the last year.

New: cops used Flock AI-enabled cameras to monitor No Kings protests around the country. Also monitored No Hands protests and protests against DOGE.

"Should serve as a warning of how it may be used in the future to suppress dissent."

www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...

Jesus is the weirdest parasocial relationship because he hasn’t posted any new content since before my parents were born. It’s like weirder than crushing on one of the Beatles at this point.

So it’s worse than we thought

Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered.

The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.

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I refuse to believe that RFK isn't really claymation

Nail this to a whole lot of doors, Martin Luther style

Happy birthday!

In the future, we’ll have our bodies, but private equity will rent them out