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This morning, I was hit in the face by a baton.

I’m going to have a pretty gnarly bruise but we need to remember why this is happening: Trump and ICE are rounding up our neighbors, treating them as subhuman, and shipping them off to labor camps in foreign countries. It has to end.

Cops led us into the street as the new “protest zone” and then beat us repeatedly.

Got hit in the face with a baton. Leaving to pick up my friends who were arrested.

Stay safe out there.

The hostage release is a reminder of how bad the Dems are at politics. Not only did Biden refuse to force this deal on Netanyahu & thereby help Harris win, but most people aren’t even aware that Biden got way more Israeli hostages (over 100) released with his 2023 ceasefire than Trump did with his.

Looks like true end runs don't do this boss, so I guess it only helps for 100% runs.

Did I just find some silksong speedrun tech? I think I hit the ceiling right as it broke, and got up to Crust King Kahn faster.

Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.

Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

Four giants control 80% of meat processing.

A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

I just tried to c-dash stall on a wall in Silksong. I've been playing almost exclusively silk song for 2 weeks, and haven't played hollow knight in over a year, but I still tried to c-dash stall. Sheesh.

Trump says he’s designating Antifa as a terrorist organization | CNN Politics President Donald Trump said he is designating the far-left anti-fascism movement Antifa as a terrorist organization, announcing the move on his Truth Social platform in the early hours of Thursday mor...

Trump just designated “Antifa” as a terrorist organization, on par with ISIS and Al Qaeda. As a reminder, “antifa” is short for “antifascist”.

They will use this lie to surveil, imprison, and kill Americans on the left.

This may be our Reichstag Fire moment. Wake up.

www.cnn.com/2025/09/17/p...

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

healthcare should NOT be a profits based industry

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By the way, the pokemon official channel changed their banner and profile picture to Malamar. Its hypnotic abilities apparently go across dimensions when mega evolved or something like that.

My friend Malamar! My friend Malamar!

Wages of unionized workers are 13% higher than their nonunion counterparts.

But unions also set a higher pay standard that all workers enjoy.

In high-union-density states, median household income is $12,000 higher than in low-union-density states.

This is why unions are vital.

Schools
Theaters
Concerts
Malls
Churches
Synagogues
Mosques
Parks
Nightclubs
Offices
Festivals
Stores
Military Bases
Bars
Post Offices
Yoga Studios
Super Bowl parades

Nowhere is safe from the scourge of gun violence in America. You can't tell me we must simply accept it.

"Robots" is a buckwild animated movie because it will be like "haha the Robin Williams robot does the armpit farts" and then every character will stop and look directly at the audience and say "corporatism wants to turn undesirables into raw material and the only way to stop it is violence"

94% of teachers have had to dip into their own pockets to buy school supplies. An estimated 1 in 6 have second jobs during the school year to make ends meet.

The average Wall Street employee got a record $244,700 bonus last year.

Something has gone terribly wrong.

We’ve sunk so far into the redistricting mess that politicians are basically saying, “Oh, you made your state less democratic? Fine, I’ll do the same in mine.” And we clap, because we’ve been trained to see power only as leaders gaming the system—not as something we could actually hold ourselves.

@briantylercohen.bsky.social: The concern with having American troops in American cities that are answerable to the commander in chief, who has been proven to abuse his powers? Mark Esper, Trump's own secretary of defense in his first term, had to deny Trump's request to shoot protesters in the leg.

The slow but real progression into fascism as charted by the évolution of the lego police officier Lego police officier looking meaner and meaner.

Good morning Bluesky !

Yeah, I'm at 355 hours, and probably about 50 of those were playing Side Order.

Dang, you've played WAY more than I have. I think I'm level 40 something.

Mark Cuban posts: Want to use rich people like me to your advantage? Incent us to help those who need it the most. Lower corp taxes for comps that pay a min of $25 per hour. Lower corp taxes if employees get stock at the same pct as the CEO. Bottom up incentives work. Dems never innovate. They bitch marthapearce55.bsky.social replies: You have more money than God. But you want incentives to do good, moral things?

Mark Cuban getting ratiod by a complete rando

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all:

“If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.”

Israel just killed him.

conservative voters are better at politics than liberal voters because they just vote for what they want and don't try to act smart about it. i don't recall much "nooo you can't undermine the tories by switching to UKIP" they just did it & got given exactly what they wanted for it

Headline from nyt of Cuomo resigning from office.

This day in history, an abuser resigned in disgrace. He will never hold such power again. We won’t let him.

Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.

The vicious cycle of monopolization:

1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market.
2) Use their monopoly power to gouge consumers.
3) Take a portion of their profits to make political donations.
4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement.
5) Repeat.

Serebii Update: The Pokémon Scarlet & Violet Shiny Wo-Chien Tera Raid Battle event has been defeated over 3.5 million times. Shiny Wo-Chien will be distributed on August 8th 2025

www.serebii.net

NICOLE!!!!!!!!!! One of my favorite characters by far!!!!