Tom Seiple

Lisa, spend less time on the internet. It’ll be good for you. Promise.

“Gullible” doesn’t even begin to explain how clueless this man is.

This is, sadly, exactly as Neil Postman warned us. We are amused to death.

i think jesse jackson was one of the most important american political figures of the post-war era and i think that his 1984 and 1988 campaigns for the democratic nomination still have a great deal to teach about forging a path to a more egalitarian world. RIP.

1. I would vote for anyone who could win a Democratic primary in 2028
2. I will vote for the most credible left candidate in the primary
3. The two-party system is bad and we should replace it with proportional representation
4. The presidency is bad and we should replace it with a Prime Minister

Medicare for All would save $450B a year.

Every dollar spent on food stamps generates $1.50-$1.80 in economic activity.

Each dollar going to low-wage workers adds $1.20 to the economy overall.

It’s not about what this country can or can’t afford.

It’s about priorities.

Bullshit Jobs, David Graeber:
There are “Flunkies” and “Goons”. They exist only to make others feel important and as a show of force.

No Stephen Miller. Even they don’t want to hang out with that creep.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Here's how the Olympics are used by local governments to expand policing and militarization long after the closing ceremony.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

Trump suggests federal control of elections in ‘some areas’ In a lengthy interview with NBC, the president said he will accept the results of the midterm elections if they are “honest.”

This is an authoritarian power grab, full stop.

Nationalizing elections would put the executive branch in control of who votes and how. That’s how dictators rig outcomes, crush opposition, and assault democratic self-government.

This should alarm everyone: www.ms.now/news/trump-s...

“Y’all hearing this too?”

Not disagreeing with you here, but it would probably also help if the house wasn’t filled with a bunch of do-nothing clowns as well. Politics aside, too many are there purely to enrich themselves and work on the pitch for their next campaign.

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers.

Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024.

And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary.

The system is rigged.

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.”

The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

Needless to say that Renee Good and Alex Pretti will go down as heroes here in Minnesota and nationally, their names synonymous with sacrifice and caring for vulnerable neighbors even at the risk of your own life. And hopefully no more innocent lives are lost.

Remembering the Boston Massacre as Minneapolis Writhes Under Occupation Opposition to garrisoning soldiers in civilian towns was a cornerstone of the...

"Many struggle w/ the pretext that ICE/CBP are in Mpls to enforce immigration law. Bondi’s letter makes vividly clear the real purpose is to compel opposition states — Free States if you will — through violence, to surrender sovereignty to brutal outside rule which treats them as a conquered people"

Line chart titled "Reported polio cases in the United States". The y-axis represents the number of reported cases, ranging from 0 to 60,000. The x-axis represents the years, from 1910 to 2022. The chart shows a significant spike in polio cases in the late 1940s and early 1950s, peaking around 1952 with nearly 60,000 reported cases. After the introduction of the first polio vaccine in 1955, the number of cases declined sharply. By 1961, with over 85% of children under ten vaccinated, the cases were significantly reduced. The chart indicates that by 1980, wild polio had been eliminated from the US, with reported cases remaining near zero from that point onwards. The data includes both wild- and vaccine-derived poliovirus infections.

In the first half of the 20th century, tens of thousands of people (mostly children) suffered paralysis from polio. The first vaccine was introduced in the USA in 1955. Notice the trend afterwards.

(by @ourworldindata)

DON'T MAKE ME TAP THE SIGN. "It is the heart of US policy, ladies and gentlemen, to use fascism to preserve capitalism while claiming to be saving democracy from communism." - Michael Parenti

This.

screenshot of visualization from a weather site of projected snow and ice quantities. The ranges around 30 inches of snow and 0.5 inches of ice cover the same colors.

I love how this graphic is totally unhelpful for determining whether you're going to get 30 inches of snow or half an inch of ice.

If people don't actually use the shitty AI we keep violently thrusting at them, the bubble will pop, and our wasteful investments into water guzzling, anti-human infrastructure will bankrupt us. Despite spouting shit about free markets/consumer first, we have decided you WILL use our slopgorithms.

Felon47 made more money last year, (2025), than he's made his entire miserable life...
Tell me again how he's not taking a paycheck... He's robbing Americans.

Republicans: Police State👮 ❤️
Democrats: Police State 👮 🌈✨☮️🏳️‍⚧️

Screenshot of tweet by Lindsey Graham on May 3, 2016: "If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it."

I think--a lot--about that one time when Lindsey Graham was correct.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

www.instagram.com/reel/DTjf3V-...

I found this very interesting perspective thread on FB.

Side note, any friend of @danklyn.bsky.social is a friend of mine! 😇

We also have to do what prior administrations could not: prosecute and punish. Big fan of what @tadstoermer.bsky.social has to say about the reconstruction era and how badly we missed the window to punish treason. We got Jim Crow as a result.

Sad another way, radial reform as a form of revolution.