Agape

it's awesome how much money grocery chains are willing to spend on Theft Deterring Infrastructure like chest high traffic gates and "AI"-augmented cameras and riot-geared rentacops, but they absolutely refuse to pay for more than one cashier to man their four dusty checkout lanes at any given time.

stores have no idea how much shoplifting takes place, they only know when stock doesn't match records. how much is due to human error, incorrect shipments, breakage, and theft is a guess. literally cannot know if shoplifting is on the rise.

this was a radicalizing discovery for me.

Jeffries: "Article 1 of the Constitution provides Congress with the sole authority to declare war. Framers made that decision b/c they were concerned about kings plunging their people into unnecessary wars to pillage resources of others for the benefit of a tyrant and his family. Sound familiar?"

A step further, if you look around at the world today and think "kids don't get enough messaging that being trans is bad and wrong and something they should hope to avoid," you're a stupid person whose opinion wouldn't be published in a major media outlet if the "problem" you're describing existed.

Judge Orders Government to Begin Refunding More than $130 Billion in Tariffs Over 2,000 lawsuits have been filed by companies in the court seeking to recoup their money after the Supreme Court invalidated tariffs last month.

A federal trade-court judge ordered the Trump administration to start refunding the more than $130 billion it collected in the global tariffs invalidated by the Supreme Court last month. on.wsj.com/4d3ggwh

It failed 47-53, with Rand Paul voting with the D’s & the oh so disappointing John Fetterman voting with the R’s

Unreal to find they’re quite OK with POTUS starting a war that he can’t seem able to give a reason for…

AP: Senate Republicans voted down an effort Wednesday to halt President Trump’s war against Iran, demonstrating early support for a conflict that has rapidly spread across the Middle East with no clear U.S. exit strategy.

BREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked our bipartisan War Powers Resolution to rein in Trump's illegal war of choice against Iran.

They chose fealty to Trump over our troops' lives.

Too bad there's no opposition party that could run a 48 hour Youtube telethon program with 48 elected officials each programming one hour to point out the awfulness of the war on Iran. That would definitely not get any media or other attention.

Perhaps the guests could include former enlisted military members pointing out the bullshit. Perhaps folks trapped in countries across the world because the State Dept cannot plan could be asked to call in... Perhaps Iranians who oppose the war could be featured...

It's not like 60% of the country doesn't already oppose this war. It's way too hard to persuade in such a difficult environment where the vast majority is AGAINST THE WAR.

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

Doesn't quite work when the regular police have such a reputation for brutality and shooting minorities that there was an entire social movement based around it.

A democratic candidate just won in the *checks notes*

Arkansas state house special election.

Flip from R to D.

That it happens to align perfectly with how trans people have been dismissed by medical establishments for decades is simply part of the deal.

Loudly profess your belief in a thing that straight up does not happen, that you have all the tools to verify doesn't happen, and reap the reward that other people who espouse the same beliefs now consider you a Voice Of Reason.

At some point you just have to recognise all these "they're transing the gay away" articles as a vice signalling performance where the purpose is for the writers to tell each other "we don't know shit about trans people and are actively refusing to learn"

This is full on economic panic shit brought upon by the realization that holy fuck this American fascist dipshit just blew up the world's access to oil to murder Iranian school children

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

People have not noticed it here at all but the Asian markets are a 5 alarm fire right now we're talking Korean and Thai circuit breakers tripped we're talking the rupee collapsing we're talking the Taiwan index and the NIKKEI only down 4 is the Good news

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

A minor league hockey team had a wiener dog race. Zero thoughts, just vibes and absolute chaos. A thing of beauty

Is AIPAC money in politics bad? Yes. But the Christian Right's money, power, and influence is far bigger, and they just can't wait to get Armageddon going

I told you so

forward.com/opinion/4316...

religiondispatches.org/2019/09/23/t...

Grew up Evangelical, can attest that there was very much a vibe of "we need the Jews back there so the end of the world can happen."

People at my church were usually too polite to say what they expected to happen to the Jews at that point out loud but...we all understood...

I was so happy to see that the author FINALLY got the rights back after being screwed out of royalties for decades.

Global economy must stop pandering to ‘frivolous desires of ultra-rich’, says UN expert Olivier De Schutter says new economic agenda needed to tackle crises of rising inequality and ecological collapse

“Scarce resources we have should be used for basic needs of people in poverty and to create what is of societal value rather than serve frivolous desires of ultra-rich ...consider universal basic income, job guarantees, debt cancellation, extreme wealth tax” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

A handful of Republicans could end all of this. And there are quite a few who hate this war, masked terrorists in our cities, flouting of Congress, corruption, etc.

But unless they prove otherwise they’re all cowards.

once again I reiterate that I have never found a more effective barometer for "is this space safe for my fat cis body" than "show me your specific policies for creating a safe space for trans bodies"

it has a 100% success rate everywhere from doctors to waxing to clothing-optional soaking pools

Add in a fourth primary in NC:

Michael Wray, a former North Carolina Democratic lawmaker who helped the GOP override a bunch of Governor Cooper's vetoes before losing in 2024 to progressive challenger Rodney Pierce, was trying a comeback. He is down 62% to 38% so far.

Wow: In the early vote, it's a blow-out *so far*.

Rodney Sadler, the progessive pastor and activist, leads state Representative Carla Cunningham 75% to 18%.

(Stay tuned as we see how the Election Day vote compares, but that's an ominous start for the incumbent.)

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