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Assata Shakur, Fred Hampton, etc. were Baby Boomers

There are a fuckton of millennial sellouts — who fought the war on terror? Millennials and Gen X

Chalking it all up to generations when it’s class and power really misses the point

China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity

This a big deal: "China’s carbon dioxide emissions have been flat or falling for 18 months"

China's economy has grown by ~5% in the last year, so this comprehensively debunks the idea (again) that emissions are tied to growth. So yes, faster progress needed, but this is how you turn the corner.

What has lightened my mood this Monday is also imagining Musk repeatedly coming back to that Oates post; reading and re-reading it, and knowing that he is just exactly who she describes: an amorphous lump of wealthy flesh, incapable of joy, connection or meaning

depsidase: cubosh: realization: the asteroid that ended the dinosaurs was technically the highest ratio of killing birds to one stone in earths history 1800oxycodone: "average rock kiss 2 birds" factoid actually just statistical error. average rock kills 0 birds. chixulub georg, which killed 3/4 of all life, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

we've reached this weird point with masking and science that like sure I still don't know what's going on with my immune system and my own autoimmune disorder but I'm more masking because I don't want a disease that will ya know wipe out the immune memory and fuck with my T cells

It's not amnesia. It's reality avoidance and, in many cases, willful ignorance

“The Democrats held the codification of Roe vs. Wade over our heads for votes during the last midterm election and we STILL LOST ROE. They’re doing the same thing now with healthcare.” - Imani Barbarin

The delusion that things will be okay if the Democrats come back in power is insane.

'Genocide stopped only in media': Gaza endures daily bombings a month into truce Palestinians say that Israel's war continues amid daily killings, home demolitions, threatening drone broadcasts, and a ban on essential supplies

“The genocide has only stopped in the media,” said Jendiya. “They’ve stopped talking about it, but for us, it’s still ongoing.”

Delta's CEO asked the CDC for a 5-day isolation. Some flight attendants feel at risk Some workers are concerned about new guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that shortens the isolation period for COVID-19 cases.

A refresher. To be clear there was no indication that people stopped being contagious it was literally just wishful thinking. From 10 days to 5 then from 5 to zero.

Same as they did to force people to go back to work while still sick and contagious with covid

People were saying Covid was the litmus test and this country failed. HARD.

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

COVID was/is the beginning of the American genocide on poor and disabled people, the genocide in Palestine is the one we do abroad and both times people were prioritizing their “mental health” over people’s LIVES. Now, the politicians you were cheering in the street for, are doing the same to us.

This Day in Labor History: November 10, 1933. Workers at the Hormel plant in Austin, Minnesota sat down on the job. The win these workers achieved helped set up the labor militancy of the New Deal era that revolutionized the lives of American labor!!!!

COVID was the ruling classes experiment to see if people would give up on the social contract to prioritize themselves, once they saw people were willing to let disabled, elderly and poor people die for their own convenience, they have slowly taken the mask fully off day by day and now we are here.

Never forget that the airlines were instrumental in reducing the Covid isolation requirements and paid time off.

Why? It was hurting their profits.

They were about to lose money again due to the shutdown… so the Dems caved.

Medicaid & ACA will be gone to keep airlines happy.

Profit over people.

This is all confirming that TikTok theory that they are using the shutdown to run cover for the fact that the AI bubble already burst and they used the snap budget to start bailing companies out since the America is so in debt.

This pretty much sums up the entire ideological dispute between the two American political parties.

What they are arguing about, on almost all issues, is either methodology or magnitude. That is literally it.

The party of We Will Kill You vs the party of We Will Let You Die.

I feel more like this with every passing year.

We need a party that is committed to preserving, protecting & improving life. We don’t need people intent on endlessly negotiating how much humanity we deserve or if we deserve any at all.

We don’t need a society built around manufactured scarcity.

Once again I am begging people to stop attributing this to cowardice. It's not.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

Do y'all not know what a rotating villain is? Dems have been employing this strategy for decades, and you keep falling for it.

All of this was coordinated and calculated. Dems are the Washington Generals. They lose on purpose. They don't work for you. They work for their donors.

Probably the most effective lobbying effort by the US airline industry since COVID

The status quo delivered us to this moment of fascist acceleration. As Democratic elites in Washington keep proving, they have nothing to offer but behavior that abets and fosters more of the same. Their trajectory is as fixed as the right's.

Delayed air travel is probably the only element of the government shutdown that actually inconvenienced dems in Congress, unsurprising that they folded basically immediately

In a healthy democracy, these party leaders would have been out on their asses 20+ years ago instead of just forcing us to watch as they physically rot into decrepitude

In a normal democracy, a total collapse of party leadership would result in an no-confidence vote and immediate snap elections to find leaders who can lead

They caved in March so they could get a better deal now. They’re caving now so they can get a better deal in some indeterminate future. The better deal is always just beyond their reach, but continuing to cave will get them there. And if you don’t agree with that, you don’t understand Politics,

a couple of red british trolleys crashing into a couple of big bens 9/11 style

OI GUV’NA 🫨

“individual employees asked to change behavior in response to catastrophic mistakes made by their high-level leadership over the past 3-7 years” really feels like the overarching story of the current times