Michael Knight

victim-blaming stays close to the top of the abuser’s toolbox at all times

even if this is a ‘myth’, it tells some truths of our situation: parties take megadonations of corpos & the rich, beg/bargain/grift the people for even more money, then install candidates, leaders & policies that serve them—no regard for the people’s wishes. Feel like our votes don’t count? …yeah

Barry recorded and performed some bangers. Trying to Get the Feeling, This One’s For You, Even Now—all those albums have well known classics and underappreciated gems—and you’re right, this guy could command a stage and an audience, whatever one thinks about the musical style.

mixed feelings on going to great lengths to serve retirement benefits to the generations that have been dismantling them for their kids & grandkids; but SSA protects so many more people than these bad-faith olds, and the work is too important to abandon over such grievances—thank you for all you do!

customary for the grifter-in-chief to add many hallucinatory/insane points for each that’s even lightly grounded in reality

sets up a wide phase space for future lies; ensures opps spend too much time & energy tilting at windmills & trying to pull the audience back to planet earth

‘flood the zone’

As usual a scrap of accuracy (the program is financially upside-down) is being pressed into service of an evil argument (“the program is bad”).

The program is crucial, *and* it needs fixed, with proper funding. Not destroyed, not privatized. PROPERLY FUNDED. Guess who doesn’t want to fund it?

When a serial liar starts off with “to be clear here” you can be assured everything that follows will be an attempt at obfuscation

In case we ever wonder why all the 70-90yr olds still in Congress, just holding the line to prevent Gen X and younger from creating real social welfare reform and saving the health & retirement systems for future generations.

The bummer of course is that the money we pay is sent to current retirees even as its being received. Once this social support ladder is pulled up, it’s gone. It’s never made long-term demographic sense for this to be a pay-as-you-go system, but the people benefitting from it had no will to reform.

Thanks for spreading the word, Mar🐪!

We needn’t associate tomorrow’s economic protest with any particular group or leader, however.

This is a decentralized action—of the People and for the People—ALL of us!

Secret cabals running the government are only bad when they’re left-leaning and imaginary

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Just watched Parker Posey play a lorazepam enjoyer on TV, can confirm she was giving “unbothered” at high levels

It’s patterns all the way (up &) down. Cosmos is chaos.

Banger job ‘saving’ all those babies so we can ideate and try to commit suicide later on at massively inflated rates vs. the kept population. Feeling so loved and cherished rn. 🙄

But they will definitely cost money to implement and cause even more expensive problems down the line.

This excites the private sector, which loves promising to solve expensive problems of its own making. How? Why, with expensive solutions of course!

The West Virginia Legislature’s continued war on the poor

COMMENTARY: People are struggling to pay bills. Some can’t find child care, leaving them unable to work to make ends meet. And what are lawmakers doing to help with these issues? They’re worrying about what’s in your kitchen cabinets, writes @leannray.bsky.social.

Your regular reminder that the US air & water pollution laws passed in the 60s & 70s -- and the elaborate federal bureaucracy created to administer them -- constitute one of the most successful gov't interventions in history. WILDLY successful. The envy of the world.

Since Trump has claimed Elon doesn’t run DOGE, we wanted to make sure you know who is running our government. This list has been updated with 15 names.

Time for Appalachians to quit backing these 21st-century Robber Barons, and remember the answer to that old question: Whose Side Are You On?

Montani Semper Liberi!

Mono if it’s meant to be a backdrop; color if it’s meant to be a focal point

Texas Banned Abortion. Then Sepsis Rates Soared. ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis is the most detailed look yet into a rise in life-threatening complications for women experiencing pregnancy loss under Texas’ abortion ban.

NEW: Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to ProPublica’s first-of-its-kind analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%.

https://propub.li/43487Tj

Everyone get your surprised faces ready for when they claim the gold is “mysteriously gone” & the social security trust funds are “mysteriously empty.”

Tbh there might be a good self-conscious use of the meme with a twist like “There’s one wolf […]” that ends up making the point by way of contrasting itself with the expected joke? Just a thought

social media has been mostly a distraction for at least the last decade and convincing people that it's where the "war is being waged" was a coup for the tech industry and oligarchs long before musk bought twitter

Our parks are in chaos. We’ve seen firsthand how Trump’s hiring freeze, the rescinding of hundreds of job offers, and the layoff of 5% of NPS staff have left us overwhelmed and short-handed.

Oh no we still have Laws, we just use them exclusively for keeping the poors in check.

The termination of 850 Indian Health Service physicians, nurses, and dentists will have a grave impact on access to care for millions of Native Americans.

Upholding our treaty obligations is not optional.

Incompetence in Washington puts every American at risk, no matter how you voted. No one should be happy that the DOGE team - the same folks who randomly published classified U.S. security information online today - wants access to your bank account & Social Security numbers.

This administration has convinced half the country that the real problem isn’t billionaires who evade taxes and collect government handouts but the working class who pay taxes and get nothing in return.