Ides? 🤷🏻♂️
111 Years Ago Today: The Onion February 19, 1915 Frontpage
OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit
An internet and telephone blackout is underway across Iran after a week of protests over the deteriorating economy. Some demonstrations have escalated into riots, and other movements have joined in and pile unto the mountain of grievances against the regime. #IranProtests
Hark Iran
From 2019-2024, Lowe's spent $46.6 BILLION on stock buybacks.
That's enough to give each of its 273k employees a $28k bonus for the next six years.
Instead, it paid its CEO 659x what it paid median employees.
And we STILL think corporate tax breaks will magically trickle down?
Solidarity to everyone in Budapest today.
Three of the best journalistic entities that are covering all this nonsense right are a parody newspaper, a teen mag, and a magazine for nerds, and I am grateful for them
(The Onion, Teen Vogue, and Wired)
say it again:
4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities
ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x
demolishing higher education is economic sabotage
The Sopranos is probably the Rosetta Stone of modern American reaction: it consists of people who bemoan the loss of an imagined past they mainly got from movies, claim victimization based on identity but hate when others do it, and view the people who build the society they prey on as suckers.
I love Baltimore man
even with all of the ways this shitshow administration is going to go down in history it's hard to imagine anyone coming out of it as more utterly a chump than marco rubio
The aggressiveness of the foreshadowing by both Musk and Trump on Fort Knox makes me thing there is some sort of crypto-for-gold scheme in the offing.
look what arrived today! It’s @reproutopia.bsky.social ‘s new book!
Same was true in Poland
youtube.com/watch?v=ORRo...
Oh hey check out a Canadian actor portraying a very pissed off Austrian who does not want to be annexed into a fascist regime. A few of my favorite things…
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.
If a 19-year-old Canadian who calls himself Big Balls marches into your federal agency and demands access to your system, telling him to fuck right off should be the mildest reaction you have.
We Canadians are usually proud of being nice. Americans are going to find out how self-righteous, petty, and belligerent we can be when threatened. Don’t fuck with beavers.
only appropriate political response here is to demand the white house explain how its actions aren’t responsible www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...
Was literally talking to the union representing federal air traffic controllers earlier today about how there’s already a major shortage of air traffic controllers and the resignation offers they all just got from OPM could seriously endanger public safety.
