YouTube video by MeTV Celebrate National Nothing Day!

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We have already lost, China has leaped while American voters do not just cling to the past, but transfer vast sums of wealth to militarize and isolate itself.

"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”

My kids have measles and my SNAP benefits were cut. But at least those cashiers at Walmart aren’t writing “they/them” on their name tags anymore.

MAGA movement of cruelty & narcissism no longer has intl food & medicine aid to demonize, so now move on to the end goal of demonizing the working poor, sick and disabled here in America.

Their ”free enterprise” = NO social welfare or safety net.

Nor thoughts of quality of life for the majority.

Yuval Noah Harari: Only generosity can secure peace between Israelis and Palestinians [FREE TO READ] Both sides must abandon false moral certainties and oversimplified historical narratives if the cycle of violence is to be broken

Good morning and welcome to this giftlink thread of Weekend FT highlights. Get 'em while they're hot, try not to complain when they're gone!
First up Yuval Noah Harari writes the Weekend Essay on the generosity and compromises needed for peace on.ft.com/4ovGWcb

New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009

Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians

“This is antifascist economics – not opposing any particular party, but addressing the material conditions that make fascism appealing. It’s a program restoring universal dignity rather than fueling divides and blaming scapegoats for the crisis”.
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Zohran Mamdani shows how Democrats can defeat authoritarians like Trump | Isabella Weber Democrats have two choices: fight to make life affordable again for ordinary people or watch voters embrace authoritarians

Mamdani’s agenda treats affordability of essentials as democratic obligation, not market efficiency. Rent freeze doesn’t pretend markets will solve the housing crisis alone. Pilot grocery stores don’t assume private retailers will serve communities”
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1970’s playboy who had “what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas” experiences his entire life needs to turn his temporary home into Caesars Palaces.

Because that entire “gluttony is chic” white/gold combo exemplifies his boyhood fantasies.

It’s his favorite font.

Cannot imagine his day without it faux gold paint glittering all around him.

Apparently the internet has figured out that the new Oval Office signage and gilding is at base a literal meme template

The Pacific Northwest architectural style….

There is a strain within the elder defenders of Israel that minimizes all actions by the IDF & ignores the intentional design by Bibi and Likud to steal land by expanding settlements since early 1990’s.

Stubbornness that ferments in a narcissi stew of superiority, hierarchy and rationalization.

Our essay: Hunger is not an emergency: substack.com/profile/5411...

John Dickerson (@johnfdickerson) We did 163 essays at Evening News Plus. This was our last one: Why Journalism?

We did 163 essays at Evening News Plus. This was our last one: Why Journalism? substack.com/profile/5411...

We cannot continue letting billionaires keep the world's money while the poorest suffer Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of all new wealth. The poorest half of the world has received only 1%.

Since 2000, the richest 1% of the world's population has taken 41% of new wealth, the poorest half has received only 1%.

Rich buy political parties, media, means of production, cause corruption, climate crisis, make mockery of democracy. Poor die early.

Must redistribute or risk social disorder.

And a healthy journalism environment would have taken these facts & tied it back to Covid w/ lines of cars THAT THE ECONOMY FOR WORKING PEOPLE IN AMERICA DOES NOT FUNCTION.

Tens of millions of people should not be on the verge of starving in a country that wastes $1 trillion a year on its military.

79% of homes sold in Dublin this year were bought by landlords, 75% by large landlords. About 1 in 5 TDs are landlords.

This is disgusting dog whistling. The problem has never been people seeking asylum. The problem is people seeking to endlessly profit from folks just looking for a home.

The Billionaires Who Tried—and Failed—to Stop Zohran Mamdani Over 20 billionaires donated to super PACs supporting Cuomo or in opposition to the next mayor, Zohran Mamdani.

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Dude quoted Eugene Debbs out of the gate. Dope. The great triggering will begin.

“We chose hope over tyranny”.

3 million doors knocked on and conversations about what people want and need out of their representatives.

Not sure when Americans are going to get their priorities straight.

Our budget expenditures reflect the values of a nation in decline.

If we had elected officials who representatively worked for voters, would have been legislation of technology & their “creators” be liable for intentionally unleashing algorithms that harm citizens.

Marketing addictive drugs = repercussions.

Tech using human weakness + theft should = consequences.

The end of shame.

MAGA is group of folks who hated feelings of shame for choices, given loud voice and power.

Shame is essential for growth. You swallow it, you learn the error and self correct. It is critical to living in a community to understand our public responsibilities owed to each other.

A Confederacy of Toddlers The Trump administration is a regime of troubled children.

Trump’s voters have become like the members of the administration, delighting in the crassness and obscenity that pours out of the president and his circle whenever they are challenged. But policies suffer and the public is poorly served.

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This is yet another reason, in the long list of reasons, I will NEVER buy GM (or Ford).

Understand my first new car was a Buick Reatta. US knows how to make good cars w/ long term quality. They choose not to, play games & self inflict wounds, while hoping protectionism will allow their survival.

Prioritizing the urgency of now over the chance to build deeper into the future is the trade-off Democrats made when they decided Biden was the only one who could beat Trump in 2020. Would one of the candidates who drew younger support have been a riskier pick in that cycle? Less safe because we have no reassurance of their past victories? Absolutely. Might Trump have won reelection then? He sure might have. Yet six years later, here we are. The short-term grab at a familiar past got us through an immediate crisis, yes, but simultaneously assured a longer-term and more corrosive defeat. A second consecutive Trump term — which then felt like the worst outcome but would have left the right less time to strategize and grow more canny in their malevolent aspirations — would perhaps have been better for the country’s future than what we have now, the bottomless catastrophe where an elderly Biden and his supporters in the Democratic Party dumped us.

A searing coda from @rtraister.bsky.social, correctly indicting Dems' tendency to lean on and coddle gerontocrats: "The short-term grab at a familiar past got us through an immediate crisis, yes, but simultaneously assured a longer-term and more corrosive defeat." nymag.com/intelligence...

Science vs. Silicon Valley with Adam Becker Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 07/14/2025 · 50m

He needs to build that rocket to get to Mars after he helps to set the rest of the planet on fire with his other profiteers and collaborators in the grift.

Has to be enough room for the progeny he deems worthy.

Hope he gets there, life on Mars sounds amazing.
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We teachers did not teach enough Stalinism in school.

Its methods, tactics and leadership. We left generations of Americans incapable of identifying it when they saw it.

NJ & VA race should not even be close.

We have an electorate that is willfully blind because they find cruelty entertaining.