The US economy is designed to reward people disproportionately for owning things, rather than doing things.
“When Citizens United was decided in 2010, billionaires had spent $18 million on the 2000 election, $13M 2004 and $16M in 2008. Then came the deluge. In 2012 it was $231M, and nearly doubled again in next three election cycles —to $682M in 2016, $1.2 billion in 2020 and $2.6 billion in 2024.” Gift:
This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.
Ring’s national expansion closely tracked Amazon’s own established growth strategy: ignoring near term profit to secure platform dominance. It did this by subsidizing the devices through police-driven distribution (literally free giveaways for people willing to download its neighborhood snitch app)
Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.
CONFIRMED FROM EXPERIENCE: This works! They might give you some stonewalling, but ultimately they let me return my doorbell, which I bought in 2021, and two other cameras, bought in 2024.
"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.
"Yeah, everyone just go ahead and delete TikTok now if you haven't already."
Just initiated my return. When they told me the return window closed, I typed what this person typed and the return got approved.
Clinton's victory in 1992 is the canonical example that supposedly proves Dems win by moving to the center. There's only one problem: The data disagrees. Voters saw Clinton as more liberal than Dukakis, & simulations show even a solid progressive would have won www.gelliottmorris.com/p/what-the-d...
Any way please spend a few minutes calling your reps and yelling at them today
Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.
After latest release country should move on to Epstein trials.
Same-sex marriage is under attack again. The Christian nationalist right has launched a new campaign, and, unsurprisingly, it’s using children’s safety as a pretext to roll back equality.
This is a deeply important piece. "A tool meant to make D.M.V. data sharing frictionless for law enforcement agencies also acts like a privacy Trojan horse, because agencies don’t need just cause or a warrant to look at it."
Call your reps and say how unacceptable this is - these are all things DHS is *already supposed to be doing*
Call your reps, tell them it’s defund abolish and prosecute and nothing less.
Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.
The streaming platform that produced like 80 stand up comedy specials called "Cancelled" or "Dangerous" or "Fuck Dem Trans People" is now too woke.
Hahaha the stupid, secret police may just fall apart because DJT fucks everyone over all the time....
Literally, you can count on it.
This makes me think of the forthcoming TRACE ELEMENTS, a collection of non fiction essays by @adapalmer.bsky.social and @bluejo.bsky.social where they talk about genre expectations in one of the essays...
America doesn’t protect children.
It protects money.
this is up to 5,335,376. wow.
One of the most interesting things here is how short-sighted the big companies have been. They have stopped trying to be useful and so people are now actively looking for alternatives they wouldn't have even considered 6 months ago.
One way to think through the victory in Tarrant County, given that Rehmet ran in labor issues, is that the voters were offered two competing theories of solidarity and chose collective bargaining over white supremacy as their mode
This shift is possible and important to aim for
Just gonna say, now is a great time to join your local Democratic Committee and see what you can do to support local candidates, especially if you live in a "safe" red district. Republicans wasted millions of dollars on this race. Make them waste that much money everywhere.
As Operation Metro Surge continues, community-led mutual aid efforts are feeding and housing Minnesotans in need—but there’s a lot of work yet to be done.
1400 manuscripts, 5 shared with a second editor, 1 on its way to the editorial meeting
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