unplanned-obsolescence

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i dont know how anybody could think this picture doesn't look awesome

Meanwhile, and bear with me here, there is a simple solution to paying for Social Security indefinitely: Taxes.

All workers pay payroll taxes, but if you're a very high earning your utmost dollars are actually *not* taxed. Isn't that a bad idea? Raise the payroll tax cap and viola you've fixed it.

Fox’s Maria Bartiromo embraces raising the retirement age for Social Security

Fox Business anchor and MAGA loyalist Maria Bartiromo is back on her horse advocating to cut Social Security by raising the retirement age.

These are the usual suspects but a trained eye (cc: @deanbaker13.bsky.social) will notice a clever head fake here. www.mediamatters.org/social-secur...

no one ever pushes back on this issue specifically to anyone and on trump on ANYTHING. it is infuriating and has been going on for decades with the media

The GOP justices are highly intentional operators. Their approach of total solicitousness to Trump on procedural motions, while punting merits rulings for years, will allow them to time rulings to tie Democrats’ hands, if they see partisan winds shifting. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

The Supreme Court's Dastardly Plan Makes Court Reform Obligatory If Democrats can't avoid the trap Republican justices are setting, we'll never recover from the Trump fiasco.

Any Project 2029-style rebuilding project that tables confrontation with the Supreme Court will doom itself. www.offmessage.net/p/the-suprem...

Warn everyone you know that CBS News is fucking dead. Cancel your Paramount subscription if you have one.

The clown show is about to begin.

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Exclusive | CBS News taps Adam Rubenstein — once ostracized at NY Times for liking Chick-fil-A — as new deputy editor Sources expect Rubenstein will effectively run the Free Press now that Weiss will be busy steering the editorial direction of shows like “60 Minutes,” “Face The Nation” and …

crazy that one of the most storied institutions in american journalism is going to be run by two people with basically no experience to do it

OMB deletes reference to law guaranteeing backpay to furloughed feds from shutdown guidance An Office of Management and Budget FAQ document now states that only excepted employees forced to work without pay are guaranteed backpay at the conclusion of a lapse in appropriations.

If you didn't realize this earlier, this latest action by the Administration amply demonstrates it does not have the back of federal workers.

www.govexec.com/pay-benefits...

THE CHICKENS ARE FINALLY COMING HOME TO ROOST

Ryan Walters is out & the investigation floodgates just opened. The Oklahoma AG launched a full audit of Walters’ entire tenure as Superintendent, and it’s about damn time.

Also the education dept website’s being scrubbed of his culture-war nonsense.
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disbarred / imprisoned - potato, potato

Is that right…

John Oliver: "If ICE can bother some guys at a roofing job, bystanders can bother ICE at their state-sanctioned kidnapping job."

A demonstrator dressed in an inflatable frog costume stands infront of law enforcement officers during a protest outside of the ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) headquarters in south Portland, Oregon, U.S., October 3, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria

This photo from Portland by @reuters.com's Carlos Barria 👌

Police Said They Surveilled Woman Who Had an Abortion for Her 'Safety.' Court Records Show They Considered Charging Her With a Crime Court records show that the narrative Flock and a Texas Sheriff's Office has told the public isn't the whole story, and that police were conducting a 'death investigation' into the abortion.

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety"

Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime

www.404media.co/police-said-...

The good thing is ICE are totally untrained so they are fricken useless.

The scary thing is ICE are totally untrained so they are fricken dangerous to anyone.

Disappearing people, disappearing morals – how two years has changed Gaza and Israel | Orly Noy There can be no healing until the world stares into and acknowledges the void torn open by this conflict, says Israeli journalist Orly Noy

"It feels as if everything has vanished. Not only the tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza erased without graves, without records, as if they had never existed – so many other things have been hollowed out: basic conceptions of morality, decency, compassion, humanity, hope, future."

“.. Lower population growth as the president presses ahead with mass deportations will knock between 0.5 and one percentage points off America’s GDP growth between mid-2025 and mid-2026, according to S&P Global Ratings.”

@telegraphnews.bsky.social
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This is how ICE detains individuals without any warrants, even in the presence of a lawyer making requests.

I’m sorry but the fact that this is not everywhere is kind of malpractice

Offsets can't cut carbon *even in theory*

The whole point of offsets is to create permission to *not* cut carbon.

So when they don't even live up to their own standard, they are so much worse.

Carbon offsets fail to cut global heating due to ‘intractable’ systemic problems, study says Analysis of 25 years of evidence shows most schemes are poor quality and fail to lower emissions

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

When you drag a woman by the hair, beat her and force her to kiss your flag, that’s how you tell the world you are the Good Guys

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

Completely unprecedented!

This is what happens when you increase the global greenhouse gas forcing by 4.1 W/m² while simultaneously cooling parts of the planet inhomogeneously in time and space and then largely mitigate cooling aerosols, while continuing with record high greenhouse gas emissions:

Again, I know the main answer is "There's A Fascism Going On," but the current National Conversation™️ about inflation & how it is The Fault Of The Guy In The White House is <nothing> like it was in 2022-4, even once inflation had returned closer to target than almost ever:

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US doctors in Gaza find evidence that kids are being targeted by the Israeli military American doctors volunteering in Gaza report a disturbing pattern of children shot by Israeli forces. Now they’re pushing for accountability.

Evidence collected by the medical community shows Israeli soldiers are *systematically* shooting and killing children in Gaza. revealnews.org/podcast/gaza...