Christine Quinones

Two of the most counterproductive political system choices you can make, which increase corruption but sound good, are:
1) low salaries for elected office holders and bureaucrats
2) term limits for legislators

Rich people who threaten to leave a place if you tax them more never leave because other places would also tax them and anywhere that doesn’t tax you is somewhere you wouldn’t want to live because they don’t have revenue to do anything to make it livable. Anyone willing to deal with that already has

Kaye @kaye@cathode.church Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. A vital shift is underway in juicing. The Juicero is no longer optional. It's tomorrow's future, today. 40% of jobs are impacted by the Juicero. The Juicero isn't the future, it's a present necessity. Nobody hand-juices anymore. To hand-juice is like an impairment. Everyone must now focus on the delegation and the verification of a juice. We become less juice producers and more juice enablers. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. We are burning every forest and poisoning every river to produce more Juiceros. You will become obsolete if you don't get on the Juicero bandwagon. Students must not be taught how to hand-juice. 80% of jobs will be lost to the Juicero. Students must be taught to exclusively focus on how to collaborate with the Juicero. Education must focus on orchestrating agentic Juicero systems. The Juicero is inevitable. Adopt the Juicero or be left behind. Adapt or risk becoming obsolete. As the Juicero rapidly advances toward automating up to 90% of juicing, the skills that will matter most include juice design, Juicero fluency, juice delegation, and juice quality assurance. 110% of jobs have been replaced by the Juicero.

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There is something really wrong with people who need workers to be not just competent, but slavishly fake-happy. "Slavishly" used on purpose, bc that's where this grotesquerie comes from.

Hi, Felix! 👋

He looks as happy as a Felix ought to look.

A majority of the days the government has ever been shut down, Donald Trump was president. www.howtoreadthisch.art/red-versus-b...

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

"Beneath its humdrum requests, every email said more or less the same thing: Can you explain how reading certain things can turn a person into a socialist—and, possibly, a terrorist-sympathizing antisemite?" lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Elections in democracies determine who administers the government; they do not alter whom the government is for. Under any administration, Republican or Democratic, the United States government exists to serve the people of the United States, regardless of their partisan affiliation. Besides, Americans are not as easily divided as Trump might think. Millions of Republican voters live in New York, just as millions of Democrats live in Texas. He cannot tell whom he is punishing by glancing at an electoral map. But even if he could, Trump’s acts of extortion have no place in a democracy. They belong in a protection racket: If you support Trump, you are protected; if you do not, you are vulnerable. If you donate enough cash to Trump, you may receive favorable treatment, including immunity from the law. If you oppose Trump, you may be prosecuted.

This is not how a representative government works. It is how the Mafia works.

Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

One thing that researching this really drove home is that NYC mayors have always been weird, weird guys.

Side by side photos of Jonathan Greenblatt and Stephen Miller.

Pictured below: ADL director Jonathan Greenblatt. I forget whether he's the one on the left or right.

ANYway ... here is something from @remas.bsky.social, titled "The ADL Is Having A Mamdani Meltdown".

And here is a gift article link:

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One thing that strikes me is just how fake all of our problems related to government are

The filibuster isn't in the Constitution, and every single Framer would be apoplectic that it exists.

The government shutdown was invented in 1980

The 9-justices limit was invented to stop the New Deal

here's something cool: the son of the letter carrier on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (McFeely) is a real letter carrier for the USPS and he's our letter carrier and he's awesome

Claim: My uncle says Mamdani will abolish the entire NYPD. True: Your uncle does say that.

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Harsh.

warner brothers trickster figures explained

This is your daily reminder that if something is written in Project 2025 it cannot be a distraction from the Epstein files.

Please use your heads.

Hands Off NYC Zine and Poster Fun in Brooklyn with local comics creators! · Indivisible Brooklyn Join New York comic creators to fold zines and make posters to push back against ICE in our city! Stay to fold and color a while or just swing by to pick up zines and posters to distribute in your nei...

Hey, NYC! I'm doing a fun zine/poster event on 11/15 for @handsoffnyc.bsky.social with @bkindivisible.bsky.social and @anyonecomics.bsky.social and a bunch of awesome local comics creators!

Come fold zines and make posters and push back against ICE!

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This is a rare moment I think @jamellebouie.net isn’t correct.

The Constitutional and institutional guardrails set up to protect against the rise of fascism DID work.

It’s just that in the 1970s oligarchs embarked on a multi-decade plot to co-opt our institutions. That’s what the Fed Soc is.

Four Seasons TOTAL Landscaping. Let's show some respect.

And misallocation of financial resources to an at-best dubious business model.

And read and read are the same part of speech, but lead and lead are different parts of speech.

Remove the Regime | November 22, Washington, DC Join the movement to demand impeachment and remove the current administration in Washington, D.C., November 22, 2025. Be part of historic change now.

So amazingly, the impeachment movement is blowing up massively and there is going to be a huge rally on the national mall to push for it.

Dropkick Murphys are going to be there! You should come!

Y'all remember when they said Mamdani tried to pretend to be Black to get into Columbia? And newspapers rushed to mention this without discussing the hack of applicants' data or the politically motivated reasons behind publicizing anything about his college app to a college that rejected him.

The key factor that everyone seems to always forget is that Trump was the host of what was once the highest rated show on network TV - a purportedly non-fiction show that portrayed him as a hyper-savvy and hyper-successful businessman.

Yay! I get to vote against her and end her political career!

Delighted for the chance to vote against this odious lickspittle and end her political career!

TBH there's not a better example of "everybody is 12" than this. The whole reason we have food aid is because if we don't send food, we'll eventually have to send troops and that's a lot more expensive.

Spreading the word to my neighbors!

ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.

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