John Swenson

No Kings, Bellingham, WA. Post rally dance party. #nokings @walshfreedom.bsky.social

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Talarico: if you read the new testament, Jesus doesn't spend most of his time preaching or teaching or even praying. He spends most of his time healing the sick.

Right now, we have politicians in congress with Christ follower in their Twitter bio, but they are kicking the sick off their health care

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

ABC Pulls Jimmy Kimmel Live! From the Air ‘Indefinitely’ The decision follows conservative backlash to a comment the late-night host made about Charlie Kirk.

I don’t know when it’s going to pop for a lot of normies that they are living under an authoritarian regime, but the cancellation of popular TV shows that make fun of the administration might do it www.vulture.com/article/abc-...

Calm down that rhetoric, Democrats 😒

Dungeon Crawler Carl. Light suggestion if you don't like video games and/or RPGs; imperative legendary suggestion if you do.

the era of small government is over and we can either have armed thugs with badges disappearing people or universal health care and high speed rail

I’m watching a live stream

Considering he's consistently been the highest-rated late-night host for years...yeah.

I learned this the hard way with my very first conference talk (lightning talk, thank god). My first time going without notes was when I gave the actual presentation and it .... Didn't go well haha.

Now, I prepare assuming no PowerPoint notes and have physical note cards in case my mind blanks

Literally the Republican platform

Big fan of democracy but we'll have to admit it's an L of historic proportions to get subverted and destroyed not by some strategic genius but by possibly the dumbest man on earth

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.

Shark Week bills itself as pro science and conservation and says they don’t promote fear.

One of these 2025 episode titles is real and I made up the rest.

Guess which is real.

1 Great white assassins

2 Great white sex battle

3 Great white invasion

4 Florida’s death beach

Lolz all real

Seems our new approach to Middle East diplomacy draws heavily from the Mars Attacks playbook.

legitimately, being able to calmly say "I was wrong, my bad" or "oh, I didn't know that!" when being corrected or encountering new information is an actual skill, something people have to work to develop, and the fact that so many adults are incapable of doing it is a problem

There is a lie that shapes our governing ideologies & institutions in this country: that property is of more value than people. The idea is as pervasive as it is destructive & has to be completely destroyed for justice & equality to be made more than empty phrases & meaningless gestures.

☝🏻This

I don’t know how to communicate with someone who believes that Elon Musk is not an out of touch elite, but my colleagues who make $65,000 a year and have $150,000 in student loan debt are out of touch elites.

Amen

“They’re trying to kidnap someone” On the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts.

"The crowd chants 'Don’t take the mother!' over and over again as the daughter keeps trying to get back on the hood of the car. More Worcester cops arrive, all helping the ICE agents carry out their rotten senseless work." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Contrast this to the announcement yesterday that the government would garnish wages, SS, etc. of student loan borrowers who defaulted.

I'm no economist, but taking as much money as possible from low/middle income folks while taking relatively little from the rich seems financially inefficient, no?

Welcome to the liquidation of American dominance in science