NO KINGS, ONLY TRAINS

I’m a WFT fan.

Jalen is like Brady imo. He’s a better leader than his arrogant coach and is exactly as talented as he needs to be to win.

People put way too much stock on aesthetics and theoretical upside.

Not to mention that grocery stores rely on snap for some not insignificant portion of their revenue. So they’ll be either raising prices or laying people off to deal with that (or both, probably both).

My brother (adult, disabled) relies on snap. Now my mom and I will need to make up the difference, but she’s retired on a fixed income and grocery prices are already super high and climbing.

So this is a triple whammy for families that will cascade.

My disgust with these people is visceral.

I love the ACA for what it does for normal people, but it also enabled insurance companies to continue to exist with these depraved practices.

Our economic system is beyond bandaid fixes.

I dislike the Dems as a party as much as anyone, but blaming them for the shutdown is delusional.

satire isn't dead, it's just no longer satire

It's not a "debunked lie" it's literally just gutter racism.

The next time I'm engaged in something that embarrassingly lasts 3 minutes, I'm going to say that, oopsie, looks like someone "had a katie porter moment."

"the lefty host" 🥴

Finally, a beer that is not woke

Image of an elderly Helder Camara wearing a dark beret. Text: “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” Helder Camara, Catholic Archbishop of Olinda and Recife 1964-85

Been thinking about this quote a lot since it became clear that the Republican Party was more interested in starving poor Americans than spending the available funds to make sure everyone has enough to eat.

Oh ya, I didn’t think YOU thought that, just surprised others did

thinking KMFDM is nazi shit boggles my mind.

(I don't know Rammstein's politics)

This is most of the concept of 'economies of scale' and is a pretty standard part of business operations. If you want a special order, you have to pay for it because it costs more at all of the steps along the way.

The alternative to them charging more is they "don't offer less common sizes."

They *do* cost less. Pricing tends to be done in a manner to simplify the general customer experience, so they "average" the cost for the most common sizes. For more boutique sizes, retailers may charge more because those are less common, use more labor, and consumer more materials.

These people aren't born stupid or divested or narcissistic: The American voter is curated to be that way. Our failures as an electorate are the consequences of our political system and its unbridled subservience to capital, not the cause of it.

FWIW I voted for Harris despite reservations because I understand how things work. At the same time, I'm not going to blame the median voter for being "narcissistic" because that doesn't solve anything and isn't distinguishable from the narcissistic self-indulgence that I'd be bemoaning in them.

A nation can't have 75+ years of lesser evil voting due to the post FDR re-capture of all levels of politics by moneyed interests, progressively tacking away from "good things can happen" toward "vote for this or else", without losing motivation and connection within the electorate.

That's like saying the cause of death was "blood loss" after someone was stabbed to death by their spouse.

This attitude and practice doesn't happen in a vacuum, but is the result of people feeling totally disconnected from elections beyond their appeal as a personality contest.

In this time of racial division and threats to our nation's core values, voting Yes on Prop 50 is critical to farm workers and our communities. Be the voice for those who need it the most. #YesOnProp50

"ICE is using the app in ways CBP never intended"

this is why you don't build the fucking torment nexus in the first place.

All these things that Democrats didn't do because they weren't sure how popular they were and they didn't think they *really needed to* (like codifying abortion or ratifying the CTBT or ending the executive branch's assassination program) really seem to be biting us in the ass.

oh well! 🤷‍♀️

The easier solution is to defund them and redirect that money fully into social services. But you know, let’s do the maximally punitive thing instead rather than rethinking anything.

Joel Embiid, not Shohei or Wemby, should be the official athlete of Bluesky:

•alt. annoying/funny asl
•great at job
•doesn’t like work
•when working, will give 110%. Usually.
•will def complain about working
•no one understands his sarcasm
•bad at proportional responses
•30-something Philadelphian

I dislike putting the word "wannabe" in front of "dictator". It's a juvenile insult that makes it seem like the material consequences of their shitty rule aren't yet real because the leader hasn't quite hit a threshold on the authoritarianism meter.

All the kids are glooning now.

Yes--under oath in their trials as to why they let it happen.

“Why doesn’t anyone work anymore” asks wealthy man whose job adds zero value to society

I suppose “Deciding to win” is a better title than “deciding who to throw under the bus as we keep losing”