Nom De Net

Trying to remember the last time I rose and shone

The Supreme Court is really “just vibes” In a new book, legal podcaster Leah Litman describes how the GOP and its jurists are "just not that into democracy."

"They feel like they are the victims. And they honestly feel like they deserve political power, and they are entitled to it, and no amount of evidence, no number of votes, seems to be enough to persuade them otherwise." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Under Texas’ Abortion Ban, Where a Woman Lives Can Determine Her Risk of Developing Sepsis While the rates of dangerous infections spiked across the state after it banned abortion in 2021, women in Houston fared far worse than those in Dallas, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind ana...

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.

In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

Here’s a big moment between Ontario Liberal leader Bonnie Crombie and Ontario NDP leader Marit Stiles:

Stiles questions how Crombie can protect public healthcare given she accepted $25K donations from private healthcare insiders

Crombie: ”I think the NDP leader is envious of my fundraising record“

I have always wondered about the methodology of the websites purporting to prevent vote splitting.

From this and other things I have seen they frankly look biased to the Liberals. Even if by faulty methodology.

Someone just open mouth sneezed straight into my face on the bus and did not even apologise.

I want to take a shower.

BREAKING: Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier released from prison after nearly 50 years

Elon Musk is of the "Parasite Class."

He is laughing at us all the way to the bank. He is looting us.

A billionaire who has attached himself to the federal government while sucking massive amounts of money from it thinks *other* people are “parasites”

You know something is up when some billionaires are starting to want to give away certain things for free.

Now is the time to push harder. Confiscate their ill-gotten wealth.

🚨🚨 The NDP just said Canada needs to implement a new CERB payment for workers hurt by Trump's tariffs

I agree!

Aid must go to the working class first!

If you actually organise to seize power outside of politics, then thank you for your work.

I am sick and tired of so called principaled leftists offering nothing but anger, mockery, and condescension when I organise in electoral politics and their idea of organising is calling a constituency office and post online about doing so.

I organise both inside and outside. You just shit post.

Japan should apologise and compensate those that they enslaved and brutalized during WW2.

I was out waiting for the bus less than 3 minutes and I was already starting to get frost nipping. I don't know how we don't have more dead homeless people.

This is why I will never quit fighting for better. This is why I will continue organising.

I fear there is deep truth here.

when the right says “free speech,” they mean “bigotry with no consequences”

"I don't give a damn whether the perpetrator was brown, black, white, blue, or yellow. I think we should support the victims of those crimes and if you're only obsessed about the perpetrators, as Elon Musk is, as Robert Jenrick is, then you don't actually care about these girls." - me vs Piers

🚨 Breaking: Newborns at Gaza’s Nasser Hospital face imminent risk of death as Israel prevents fuel deliveries

Dr. Mimi Syed spoke with Dr. Alfara, Director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Nasser Hospital, who confirms there is not enough fuel to power the life-saving equipment.

NYT: “Trump is likely to justify his plans to seal off the border with Mexico by citing a public health emergency from immigrants bringing disease into the United States…

Now he just has to find one.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/09/u...

They say this because the US-enforced 'partnership' between South Korea & Japan is one of the reasons Yoon is so hated in his own country. The US desperately needs the Korean right. "Biden aide calls partnership with Tokyo and Seoul ‘institutionalized.’"
www.asahi.com/ajw/articles...

I am reminded that though I was once given 'a pass' by a Neo Nazi for being of 🇯🇵 descent, those of us that are now considered White (eg 🇮🇪, 🇮🇹) or adjacent (🇯🇵) should not forget we were once targeted. We have more in common w/ poor migrants than Billionaire oligarchs that use fear to keep us apart.

To provide just one historical example, in 1905 it was the "menace" of Japanese trachoma

From the SF Chronicle, April 2, 1905

January

I THINK YOU'RE A BIG PIECE OF CHEESE!

I THINK
YOU'RE A BIG
PIECE OF
CHEESE!

Image of a hand holding a coffee cup surrounded by fire; text: ‘twas the strike before Christmas, Dec. 20-24th

🚨BOYCOTT STARBUCKS🚨

Union baristas are calling on EVERYONE to NOT buy from ANY Starbucks store between Dec. 20 -Dec. 24 while the workers are on strike! Here’s how to support: x.com/sbworkersuni...

AOC: “Oh, I don’t think we’re witnessing the START of an oligarchy. I think we are fully here.” 🇺🇸

I want to live in a world where my means and choices are not drawn up by the invisible hand of Capitalism.

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