they're gonna turn every remaining facet of government interface into a manosphere podcast, ie, a dumb white guy telling everyone who ostensibly works for him that they're gross pieces of shit who deserve all the bad stuff in their lives because they jack off too much
Unemployment has risen to 1,737,000. That's up 64,000 in the last 3 months and up 230,000 in the last year
On the wider measure of underemployment, there are now over 5 million underemployed - up by nearly 500,000 on a year ago.
There are now 6.9 people seeking work for every vacancy
Heard about this earlier, and my jaw didn’t drop. You know who else isn’t surprised? Pretty much every Republican.
As someone who’s been a frequent target, none of this shocks me. I don’t expect real consequences from the right because I doubt today is the first day they heard about it.
"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."
one thing that Democratic politicians should take note of is that the overlap between “great political optics” and “actual morally good stuff” is really big right now
Yep, I know exactly what that’s like.
Yeah. We have a fair about of factories here as a hub to support Toyota Kentucky. The real answer is,” Depends greatly on the factory.”
The range is HUGE
When government invests in its people—with universal healthcare and higher education—then the commerce takes care of itself, and the economy grows from a robust, educated, healthy middle class—we were never really very good at this, but it’s sad now that we’re not even gonna pretend to try anymore.
Jasmine Crockett is a STAR, you guys
she is meeting the moment better than almost anyone around her and the fact that she's doing it every day on every topic really makes you feel like this is not someone who is going to get discouraged or run out of steam
I am so glad we have her right now
Social Security isn't sending checks to dead people over 120.
Tariffs aren't beautiful, but they are raising prices on groceries, beer, and cars.
Elon Musk is taking away veterans' healthcare and childcare for families.
Presidents are supposed to be truth-tellers, not liars.
Every American with a 401(k) is unnecessarily hemorrhaging money right now and the price of everything you’re about to buy is gonna go up by 25% but that’s OK because the guy who bankrupts everything he’s ever touched is calling the shots
To appreciate how the US has changed, watch these classic movies.
- The Post
- All the President’s Men
- Hidden Figures
- American President
- Dave
- Apollo 13
- Good Night & Good Luck
- Imitation Game
- Spotlight
- Wag the Dog
- Die Hard With A Vengeance
The world they depict is unimaginable now.
can't believe it's 2025 and i'm stressed about tariffs and measles, like am i a character in an american girl book
Yep
Well we can’t have that
There are moments in these deportation fights when I can just FEEL how pissed off they are that I’m Puerto Rican 😂 they want to threaten me with it so bad 😂
Jasmine Crockett is shredding this solo. But it’s past time for the rhythm section to enter this song already.
Once again, in an exhausted voice: None of the terrible things are a distraction from the other terrible things. It's all happening. It's all real. It's all hurting real people.
When Dems call "distraction," they're failing the people getting hurt.
It's also a terrible strategy.
Crockett: "Down in Alabama, who's broke. Down in Louisiana, who's broke. I can go through pretty much the entire south and tell you that they're broke and rely on a lot of welfare from the government. To be perfectly honest, it is tax dollars from these big blue states...we're in the find out phase"
If you don’t pay out and end SS, then you have more $ in SS.
Welll, if I don’t pay my mortgage, I have more money!
Why didn’t anyone ever think of that!?
Crockett: "It's just that they're idiots. These are the same guys as it relates to our nuclear stockpile, they're like, 'Oh, wait a minute, we needed those guys? Can we get them back? Oh, we don't know how to.' I don't know how anyone can look at this administration & feel a semblance of confidence"
Wikipedia's "Your teacher tells you not to cite it because you can't trust it" to "The last remaining bastion of consistently good information on the internet" arc remains unbeaten.
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
‘You Can’t Let This Happen,’ Says Fundraising Email From Sitting U.S. Congressperson
Eliminating FEMA eliminates the government’s ability to help middle class and working families to rebuild—increasing the likelihood that impacted land is abandoned and cheap and easier for the rich to grab up, develop, and profit from.
They’re robbing us.
"The best and the worst thing about vaccination is that it 'makes nothing happen.'
A child successfully inoculated against measles doesn’t fall sick with that condition, doesn’t miss school, doesn’t go to the hospital. They don’t suffer life-changing complications. They don’t die prematurely."
Wondering how much of The Thing Right Now is that older people fundamentally don't understand the dangers of online trolling and don't see how it intersects with what's going on with Musk and his bros. There is still a very fundamental "Online isn't real life" thing in too many brains.
This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
I don't want to be on ghastly x anymore but it's where a lot of my sales come from so this post is a brazen request for shares to spread the word about my work on a kinder platform that isn't run by a dangerous megalomaniac!
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Sara...
#selfemployedartist #ukgifthour #shopindie
Just saw a farmer say, "you don't have to admit you were wrong, you have to admit you were lied to, " and idk that seems like a good framing to call people in
