This shit is BAD for the same people being told that it's "inevitable" and "a necessary tool."
We only have this planet to live on.
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This shit is BAD for the same people being told that it's "inevitable" and "a necessary tool."
We only have this planet to live on.
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17.11.2025 16:00 β π 218 π 182 π¬ 36 π 11The AI bubble may be about to bust.
Peter Thiel has sold all of his Nvidia stock.
We all need to say this very clearly:
NO BAILOUTS FOR THEFT-TECH!
Expropriate their asses instead.
They stole from all of us and fully plan to burn the planet.
They owe us - not the other way around. 1/3
The Trump administration took down a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the Department of Justiceβs website nearly 300 days ago to comply with an executive order against diversity, equity and inclusion.
oklahomawatch.org/2025/11/14/t...
Techbros: βWe reinvented money and now itβs computer money and itβs totally better than old money except also itβs value is still technically calculated by the standard of old money oh ALSO it needs more power than many countries, does your inferior dollar bill need to be plugged in? I THINK NOT.β
17.11.2025 12:46 β π 464 π 132 π¬ 18 π 4US citizen Maria Greeley, a Latina who was adopted, was walking home from work downtown when masked agents zip tied her. They said she βdoesnβt look like a Greeley.β This is how the government treats people under current deportation policies.
www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/15/l...
This whole piece is all the actual horribles on parade, and this one is just infuriating
17.11.2025 13:30 β π 1079 π 358 π¬ 10 π 5i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
17.11.2025 14:19 β π 10056 π 3040 π¬ 146 π 85The media participated in a years-long psyop that convinced voters Biden's actual immigration policy was Trump's and that Biden's was "open borders."
They did not tell voters that Trump's actual policy was "kidnap abuelas and put them in concentration camps"
if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove
17.11.2025 15:00 β π 14066 π 3248 π¬ 386 π 221Lol yeah man all that panic over "a Big Mac will cost $15!" if we raise the minimum wage. Well we didn't raise the minimum wage but a Big Mac is $15 now.
16.11.2025 19:06 β π 2416 π 865 π¬ 29 π 10Congratulations to Mr Duncan and I hope he finally can get his records
16.11.2025 19:32 β π 152 π 27 π¬ 0 π 0Starbucksβ CEO makes 6,666x what the average @sbworkersunited.org barista does. It would take less than one day of sales to finalize a fair contract.
Baristas at Starbucks corporate stores nationwide are on strike to fight this corporate greed and get the fair contract they deserve.
Can't believe the terrible person who was terrible at everything he ever tried also turned out to be a terrible president. Who coulda seen that one coming?
13.11.2025 13:23 β π 6400 π 907 π¬ 149 π 30"Please trust us now when we say that what is happening in the Chicago area is wrong *** It is not law enforcement; it is terror."
13.11.2025 19:05 β π 6136 π 2428 π¬ 122 π 94What is Take Back The Classroom? A deep dive into the project making its way into right-wing circles, aiding in book bans nationwide. Who is behind it? How does it work? How are they recruiting new cult members?
Know before it reaches your library.
bookriot.com/what-is-take...
Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops
14.11.2025 02:17 β π 6631 π 1984 π¬ 186 π 307What. The. Fuck.
14.11.2025 14:09 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0Wild how every single member of the political and business elite went into full drooling fascism the second the prospect of consequences for abhorrent behavior started to seem possible
12.11.2025 20:51 β π 2838 π 631 π¬ 1 π 7We are really ruled by the dumbest people in existence.
12.11.2025 19:56 β π 17019 π 2896 π¬ 2215 π 593The Republican president is a pedophile who has doubled my healthcare costs and let scores of violent criminals out of jail. But a Democratic mayor-elect wants to make busses free in a city I don't live in. I have never felt more politically homeless.
13.11.2025 12:47 β π 9048 π 2078 π¬ 49 π 35every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
12.11.2025 22:41 β π 9799 π 2646 π¬ 91 π 97You just know that βDid Women Ruin the Workplace?β bit would have done NUMBERS in this little clique
13.11.2025 15:26 β π 23338 π 3512 π¬ 256 π 56It is past time to draw negative inferences from the destruction of evidence.
13.11.2025 19:23 β π 716 π 193 π¬ 10 π 1I see the βtechnically itβs ephebopheliaβ crowd is out today, so just a reminder that A) this is NOT a case where technically correct is the best kind of correct and B) the minute you say this, the gods dump you in the βirredeemable creeperβ basket and wash their hands thoroughly after touching you.
13.11.2025 18:57 β π 6941 π 1376 π¬ 183 π 73The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.
12.11.2025 22:23 β π 12880 π 3208 π¬ 231 π 191Hey so βunderage girlsβ areβ¦children. The word youβre looking for is children. Theyβre not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. Theyβre children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.
12.11.2025 23:05 β π 18506 π 5034 π¬ 11 π 11This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class.
New piece laying this out:
newrepublic.com/article/2030...
It just wasn't a big, newsworthy deal like, for instance, the college applications of a mayoral candidate to a school he didn't get into or attend.
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