Nic Mira

Matt Taibbi

Starbucks workers are ON STRIKE! Now is the time to tell everyone in your life to STOP BUYING Starbucks.

www.nocontractnocoffee.org?utm_source=s...

What we know, final edition of the night:
[Now in 3 parts]

—Prop 50 wins
—VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG
—Dems gain leg seats in VA, NJ, & MS
—Dems defend NJ-Gov
—Dems win NJ+VA trifectas
—Mamdani wins
—PA Dems win state supreme court
—ME anti-mail voting measure loses
—GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices

Reposting for the morning crowd.

If there’s one thing you need to do this weekend, this is it.

You don't have to swallow frogs Klein and Coates show that if you don't know what your core beliefs are, you're going to get played.

"You are—at most—going to be one piece of that solution in a chain of many people that begins before you were born and continues after you die." degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-...

YouTube video by thecomputerdude24 TV & Movie Clips Don't Be An Idiot | The Office (US)

youtu.be/z2eZC40GdnI?...

Actual courage

Charlie Kirk, Redeemed: A Political Class Finds Its Lost Cause By ignoring the rhetoric and actions of the Turning Point USA founder, pundits and politicians are sanitizing his legacy.

TNC identified as the last well known American columnist with a spine:

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

I continue to be amazed at the absolute lack of courage

Charlie Kirk was killed by a meme Making sense of our dark new era of extremely online political violence

One of the best people decoding all this chaos is @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

if that news is true, don't say anything you wouldn't want to see screenshotted and spread all over right wing media

Circuses vs. Roses: Notes on Pleasure and Scold Culture Someone made this extra-grumpy meme about the fact that football player and podcaster Travis Kelce proposed to pop superstar Taylor Swift and now they're engaged, or rather about the fact that of cour...

Had a fun time writing about bread and circuses vs. bread and roses and whether in crises we're allowed to have fun. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/circuses-vs-...

It is only barely hyperbolic to say NIMBYism and the downstream effects of making affordable housing inaccessible are why Democrats have lost so much ground.

No one can find me here....

The case against worrying about pre-transfer poverty

reposted this today because the inverse is also true:

if you abandon trans people right now, you are abandoning civil rights period.

if you can't stand up for trans people when it matters, no one should, or will, ever trust you when the bullseye moves to the next target.

“URGENT. 8X MATCH. THIS IS OUR LAST CHANCE.”

Ugh if I never get another text like that it won’t be soon enough!!!

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There are also a ton of mom/parenting groups that use Facebook. Add in buy nothing groups and marketplace it can become pretty essential. That's what a monopoly combined with enshittification gives you, a service that sucks but you can't avoid.

Instead of regurgitating the bromide that LLMs are just "autocomplete on steroids" (even by people who know better), maybe we can actually engage in some public education. The problem with genAI is better expressed through a classic computer science concept, known as SYMBOL GROUNDING. 🧵

really feels like housing affordability is one of the most important political issues of our time, affecting nearly every aspect of our lives, and everyday our mainstream political discourse is about whether sour cream is woke or not

Moving back a little here: this is when things became extremely chaotic. In the first minute alone there were several overhead batons, several people wearing press passes batonned, hit, shoved. Multiple journalists had to go to the hospital after this scrum (1)

Furthest I've been:

N: Yoho National Park in British Columbia
E: Istanbul
S: Rio de Janeiro
W: probably Olympic National Park

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

“My analysis of the network's FEC disbursements reveals that, at most, $11 million of the $678 million raised from individuals has made its way to candidates, campaigns, or the national party committees.” open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

As someone who used to work at a non-profit, discourse around non-profit salaries drives me absolutely nuts. There are people making six-figure salaries? You mean white collar employees who work full time are coming close to being fairly compensated for their work?

Gallup has new polling on immigration. Topline findings:
-Americans hate Trump's immigration policy (35% approve, 62% disapprove)
-Share who say immigration is a "good thing" for the country just hit an all-time high (79%)

news.gallup.com/poll/692522/...

In the meantime, formal entries into the CFPB’s consumer complaints database have soared, suggesting that the business of junk fees, predatory terms, and routine swindles is booming just as loudly as the Prospect has been predicting it would since Elon Musk memorably typed out “CFPB RIP” on X. All told, 2.5 million complaints have flooded into the CFPB over the past six months, roughly a quarter of the total complaints the agency has recorded since its inception in 2011, with reports of everything from being shut out of bank accounts after a hurricane to scammers impersonating ICE officials who convince consumers to buy them gift cards in order to help them avoid deportation.

By the way scammers have taken notice.
Your must-read today. prospect.org/economy/2025...

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