Daniel Foster

I am once again urging the tech workers of America to form a union

I keep looking at history for tips about how we might make it through this era, but all it is doing is solidifying a bleak and hopeless outlook.

It is worth noting that looking at history paints those who “condemn political violence”, but do nothing to correct its causes, in a very ugly color.

“Republicons” is a good one.

Democrats really need to get on board with misnaming the Republican Party the same way Republicans keep misnaming the Democratic Party.

Since the news has decided to quote Republicans calling it the “Democrat Party” without writing “[sic]”, I think Democrats should start calling it the Republicant Party, and if I see even one correction I’m going to be pissed.

Decided to scroll my Twitter (“Following”) feed for a few minutes this morning so I could see who is still posting over there and judge them.

I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.

In sci-fi, “the singularity” has occasionally been misused to refer to the invention of artificial intelligence, but in real world computer science it refers to when computer chip switches reach the size of one atom. If a “tech reporter” confuses those two things, that reporter is not trustworthy.

I see economists discussing/explaining the fact that tariffs are a tax on manufacturers and consumers, but not politicians. If I were the Democrats I’d brand it as the latest Republican attempt to impose a national sales tax, with tax rates that are much higher than the (once laughed at) 9-9-9 plan.

“The President says workers who provide healthcare and cybersecurity to all Americans are part of “Democrat[ic] agencies” because Republicans want you to be unhealthy, hacked, and scammed and Democrats don’t.”

- Not the propaganda-less Democrats, that’s for sure

Please ask one of the data firms your campaign pays way too much money to what the probability is that a 60 year old couple in Bent County, making $80k a year, who receives ACA subsidies votes for you or any Democrat. Then, ask yourself: is this really a good issue to be fighting for?

Less than 10% of Americans receive ACA healthcare subsidies, and more than 50% of that group vote for Republicans. The fact that this is the hill that Democrats choose to die on, rather than any issue that impacts a majority of Americans, or at least a majority of Democrats, is why they keep losing.

What do Democrats believe in?

Halting the construction of 60 new prisons per State?

Ending the military occupation of areas that oppose Republicans?

Impeaching officials that take bribes?

Protecting career service workers from politics?

Or, just preserving the world’s most expensive healthcare?

Trump defends use of U.S. military against 'enemy within' Earlier, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the purpose of the department would exclusively be "war fighting."

Am I the enemy as a journalist? A Coloradan? A gay man? I was cautioned to beware of leaders who tell you only they can spot the enemy.

“… it's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control," Trump said… "It won't get out of control once you're involved..."

US Military commanders received some scary orders today.

Don’t let propaganda quoted by US news fool you.

Republicans want to invade areas of domestic opposition with military force, and that’s only their “training ground”. If they succeed, they’ll use force to “control” Canada and Greenland too.

Monopolists tell the lie that you can “vote with your dollars” because they know that your dollars don’t actually have a choice.

It was good for me to come here this week. I think, living in New York, with a relatively reasonable governor, I’m constantly like “fight fight fight.”

Here, connecting with a bunch of black folks from red states in different situations, the message is “survive, survive, survive.”

“I hate my opponents, and I don’t want what’s best for them.”

- Donald Trump

How do you feel about living in a country where politicians and their appointees, including the President and Supreme Court Justices, solicit and take bribes, information showing the negative the impact of their corruption is modified or hidden, and the national news repeats ruling party propaganda?

I think a huge part of this is that conservatism is so predicated on an absence of empathy that its adherents are unlikely to have an accurate view of their opposition — something which requires empathy.

Instead, they just see us as a mirror of themselves. Every accusation truly is a confession.

You should be able to mute just someone’s sports posts

Over and over again I’ve watched our country pretend that a violent individual’s motivations matter, but they don’t. It may be a comfort to think that an individual just made the wrong choices, but looking at an individual’s motivations will never provide us with any meaningful reasons or answers.

Violence, like poverty, is not an individual’s choice - despite what a majority of Americans might think. We don’t have more violence or poverty than other countries because individuals in the US are making worse choices. We choose to have violence and poverty as a culture, not as individuals.

I don’t know a single person who thinks the Democrats are in touch with the issues facing our country or world, much less who are enthusiastic about the Democratic Party, do you?

I miss the days when the stock market rallied on good economic news and fell on bad economic news, rather than rallying on bad news and falling on good news.

The way things are right now feels fundamentally broken.

If politicians actually condemned violence after every shooting, or even every mass shooting, they’d be condemning violence every day. When they choose to condemn “political violence”, but not other types of violence, they are selfishly condemning only the violence which impacts themselves.

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Don’t give up! Even if you think your work is bad, even if you think no one wants to hear it, keep going!

No one can contribute what you can contribute.

Democrats really need to move beyond just generically opposing Trump. At this point, opposing Trump is a boring, meaningless gesture. If opposing Trump was a winning strategy, it would have worked by now. Instead, it has a 10 year history of failing to win elections. It’s time for something better.

Am I the only one that thinks an 8PM concert will not, in fact, get this guy home at a reasonable time?

A US President threatening to use the military against civilians in an American city is not normal and journalists who choose to ignore or normalize this should explain their choice to the communities they serve.

The @apnews.com has labelled their puff piece painting a once-disgraced, ultra right-wing, authoritarian enforcer in a positive light as this weekend’s “one must-read”, bringing further shame and disrepute to a once reliable source of US news.