Benjamin Raber

elon has really gone all out in proving the whole gain the world / lose soul thing its pretty impressive

Law & order is not the same as justice.

Law & order can be used to further an agenda, oppress a group, advantage others, and protect corruption.

Justice is to insure that all wrongs are addressed with repair and restoration.

They may coincide, but they are not the same.⚖️

I'm wondering how a decline in reading has contributed to decline of democracy and the state of politics of right now....

AirBnBs interface is still much stronger than VRBOs.

"Extracting funds from various organs of the state resulted in funds being diverted from essential public services like health, education, and infrastructure maintenance."

The narrative spun by those in power? The undeserving are feeding off the state.

Who actually does so? Multi-nat'l corps.

Hey, remember when the Panama Papers were released and they showed how basically every wealthy person on the planet was avoiding taxes by offshoring their money and nothing was done about it except the reporter who broke the story was murdered with a car bomb?

I bought new Fire and CO alarms just today too! Wish I had thought to check WireCutter.

Oh snap! I see you Miqueas!

Charlie Kirk blames 'DEI fire chief' for Texas flood deaths The right-wing pundit shared conspiracies about Austin's Joel G. Baker on a recent podcast.

Lacking Black officials to blame in Kerr County, and too timid to criticize Republicans for anything, Charlie Kirk spins a conspiracy theory to implicate the closest Black official he can find — the fire chief in Austin, more than a hundred miles away.

www.chron.com/politics/art...

open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

"If our most powerful elites are now essentially beyond the reach of accountability, as they increasingly seem to be, then why suppose that our polity qualifies as a democratic republic at all? It appears to function, rather, as a plutocracy."

- Jeff Stout, _Blessed are the Organized_, xv.

From Jen Rubin at the Contrarian. Where we are -- straight up.

What happens if you cross Trump? I combed through 53k of his tweets and found 30 Republican members of congress King Donald has feuded with

10 stood down
9 were primaried (3 won)
7 reconciled (4 resumed)
3 are unresolved
And John McCain died

www.economist.com/united-state...

This worshiping of money has left so much wreckage

Oh yes, I remember Liberty, In God We Trust, and E Pluribus Unum in both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution! 🙄 Apparently you can make this stuff up!

“If the land is truly holy, then why do they bomb it?”

A non-religious friend to me this week.

Immigrants with no criminal convictions represent sharpest growth in ICE detention population The number of people in ICE detention without criminal convictions nearly doubled in the last month — a significant increase compared to detainees who have been convicted of crimes.

The number of people in ICE detention without criminal convictions nearly doubled in the last month — a significant increase compared to detainees who have been convicted of crimes.

Love the labels. Thank you.

It's not lost on me that Congress passes a bill to fund violence and theft just hours before Independence Day.

America's freedoms have always been for the privileged few.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

James said this: "Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." Pure religion: compassion for the needy. Refusal to bend to the ways of "world." Amen?

This Republican megabill is a moral disgrace.

-Tax breaks for the rich.
-More money for the military industrial complex and ICE.
-Cuts to Medicaid, SNAP, and clean energy, with billions stripped from the most vulnerable.

Yet empire & greed are fully funded.

Jesus flipped tables for way less.

Love it. So good!

We should talk more about the fact that ICE appears to be engaging in such blatant racial profiling that it rivals or even surpasses the most notorious periods of discriminatory policing in U.S. history.

Today a VP of a successful manufacturing company who was born in Honduras told me that our government is functioning like a third world corrupt government with a dictator. He came to the U. S., during the Honduran civil war and said he observed the same kind of behavior during that civil war.