USPS Privatization Would Cost Rural America More Than Mail Rural postal workers don’t just deliver mail. They put out fires, help elderly people who’ve fallen, and ensure veterans receive medication during storms. Trump’s proposed USPS privatization threatens...

Rural postal workers don’t just deliver mail.

They put out fires, help elderly people who’ve fallen, and ensure veterans receive medication during storms.

Trump’s proposed USPS privatization threatens these care networks in areas already lacking services.

"The point of this chaotic blitz is to demoralize their opponents,” says author Cory Doctorow, about Elon Musk’s shakeup of the federal government.

"Efficiency" for billionaires always just means "less money for the poor".

They making their businesses more "efficient" by cutting salaries. They are going to make social security more "efficient" by paying out less. They are going to make medicare more "efficient" by covering less. It never ends.

Fact. Dunning-Kruger effect.

Qatar was FIFA showing the world it didn’t give a fuck about human rights. Saudi is FIFA actively trolling anyone who does.

I'm done with FIFA and the Copa. Didn't watch the last one in Qatar for the first time since 1992 and I won't be watching any more of them.

Israel’s former defense chief Yoav Gallant met with Biden’s Middle East envoy, Brett McGurk, at the White House on Tuesday. Their meeting came just weeks after the ICC issued an arrest warrant against Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Gaza. https://buff.ly/3ZvVJYT

"The system is rigged."

Jordan Neely's father called for change after his son's killer, Daniel Penny, was acquitted of homicide on Monday.
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/10/headlines/new_york_jury_acquits_subway_vigilante_who_killed_distressed_street_performer_jordan_neely

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

Jan. 6 investigators say Trump trying to ‘send a message’ with calls for their imprisonment Members of the special committee that investigated the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are hitting back at President-elect Trump after he called for their imprisonment, saying the criminal…

Honestly, it would heal the party and its voters if some Democrat reacted to Trump's threats by saying, "Oh, shut the fuck up already, you fucking rapist."
thehill.com/homenews/hou...

Sabotage as a Tool of Solidarity Workplace sabotage has historically been a powerful organizing tactic. Is the time ripe again?

Workplace sabotage has historically been a powerful organizing tactic, especially in times when labor laws are failing workers. In this new piece, @shaunrichman.org asks: is the time ripe again?
inthesetimes.com/article/when...

Romania's top court annuls first round of presidential vote won by far-right candidate A top Romanian court has annulled the first round of the country’s presidential election, days after declassified intelligence alleged Russia ran a coordinated online campaign to promote the far-right...

Every other democracy on Earth is doing s better job facing down the existential threat posed by Russian election interference, disinformation, and the far right authoritarianism than the US. Why are we so uniquely bad at this? apnews.com/article/roma...

The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight.

The class wars.

Why is Israel such a center of digital espionage tools like Pegasus, the powerful spyware used against journalists and activists around the world? @RonanFarrow.bsky.social says many believe that "Israel essentially uses the Palestinian populations as a laboratory for this technology."

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett Challenges "Dismantle DEI" Bill In Viral Video Rep. Jasmine Crockett passionately defended diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs during a contentious House committee meeting on the proposed "Dismantle DEI" bill. The legislation, introduc...

U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett Challenges "Dismantle DEI" Bill In Viral Video

Link: ow.ly/Z92q50UlkpH

"Israelis don’t get the news that everyone else in the world is getting" about atrocities committed in Gaza, says @haggaim.bsky.social. "That is not being shown on Israeli television, in Israeli newspapers."
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/12/3/haggai_matar_israel_palestine_gaza_972mag