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Fully on board with dems running for office promising to reinstate fired federal employees and jail this administration’s various criminals, but let’s go ahead and add “we will seize by eminent domain any national parkland sold to developers”

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Society is judged by the way it treats its most vulnerable. How we treat our children - from the underfunding of public schools to the failing DPS and foster system to the deprivation of basic rights in the juvenile justice system - TN is morally bankrupt by every measure. We must fight for change.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

It's not manufacturing jobs you want, it's a stable job with a middle-class wage, retirement, affordable health insurance, and worker protections that you want. Which isn't naturally tied to factory jobs, but it is naturally tied to union organizing.

submitted 22 days ago • 162 comments

“Trump has governed like a late-19th-century president, with his penchant for tariffs, his unusual relationship with a major industrial titan, and his bald-faced corruption,” writes Derek Thompson.

submitted 23 days ago • 20 comments

In that sense, AI will be no different from the Industrial Revolution: if the masses want to receive any of the economic benefits from new technology, rather than have it used as a tool to extract more from us, we will need to use collective action to force redistribution.

submitted 36 days ago • 8 comments

1. EXCLUSIVE An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency. The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result. Follow this thread for details. 🧵

submitted 41 days ago • 227 comments

This is shameful treatment of the brave men and women who exemplified service to their country and community. The only bright spot is that with every attempt to erase, more people know these heroes’ names and will carry the memory of their contributions forward further than ever. Remember and share.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

A little good news on the timeline. Something good DID happen today!

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submitted 46 days ago • 84 comments

As much as soc security and Medicare are lightning rods, I think this one will galvanize the right wing working class. Growing up in blue collar South, I learned our nat’l parks & museums were part of American greatness because they belonged to the People. Just like SS, this is taking what’s ours.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Going great

submitted 50 days ago • 5 comments

everything is so shitty, read this story about a genuinely good man who saw he had an opportunity to save millions of lives and threw himself into doing so. the world is full of heroes like him.

submitted 54 days ago • 62 comments

Honestly same

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I appreciate this. But the loss of public goods and expertise is a harm to the nation. Privatization will not avert the harm. Essential services left to the highest bidder degrades the foundation needed for a healthy, sustainable nation.

submitted 56 days ago • 60 comments

The term that makes sense to me is "evangelical capitalists." They believe if you can afford something you deserve it no matter how you got the money and if you can't buy it you don't deserve it, even food & medicine, no matter what external forces prevent you from having the money.

submitted 59 days ago • 21 comments

What if, and I know this sounds crazy, but what if the federal workforce was actually doing a really good job before all this bullshit?

submitted 61 days ago • 32 comments

1000x THIS. Government exists to provide the services that make for a thriving economy when everyone in society has access to them (infrastructure, education, safety, etc.). The Civil Service is one of our greatest strengths as a nation.

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

"My British friend reminded me that America is still a young nation. But we’re also the world’s oldest constitutional republic. The world relies on us. Imperfect as it is, that old sheet of parchment is as much a moral document as it is a legal one." michaelianblack.substack.com/p/teen-angst

submitted 64 days ago • 10 comments

This is in addition to the thousands of federal workers who felt pressured to take the resignation offer and thousands more who’ve had their lives upended by the draconian elimination of remote & telework agreements. The decimation and demoralization of the US Civil Service will have global impacts

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

I’ll add a 3rd pillar: that our strength comes from the underdog, the everyday man standing up in the face of a mighty & unjust power imbalance. I wonder when/if this Norman Rockwell haze within US identity will galvanize the “regular Joe’s” to take back their power from the modern day robber barons

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

This segment on the value and nat sec origins of MEDICAID is worth a listen. The connection to why this matters to everyone and how cuts will impact non-recipients’ wallets is clearly stated for the “not my problem”/low information crowd. Please share with the Efficiency! proponents in your sphere.

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

Silicon Valley in general has it, but Musk has particular contempt for jobs where the goal isn't to impress anybody, it's to never screw up. Such jobs are inevitably done best with some overlap and redundancy, which upsets them even more. But cutting those jobs means more catastrophes.

submitted 69 days ago • 20 comments

I think there’s a huge divide between finance, where many believe this, and actual professions where these claims are comically untrue.

submitted 69 days ago • 11 comments

Im an unabashed patriot. I love this country. I love these people, the fact that we're a nation of immigrants, and that our cuisine is an absolute madcap grab-bag of everything from everywhere. I love the "purple mountains majesty" and "bring me your tired." I love what America could be.

submitted 71 days ago • 5 comments

Public education is the backbone of American democracy. In the richest country in the history of the world, we cannot abandon our teachers and our public schools.

submitted 72 days ago • 351 comments

“A dark day… today we all lose….” Shuttering U.S.A.I.D. is impacting the soybean industry — Tennessee’s #1 cash crop, contributing billions to our economy. More: arec.tennessee.edu/wp-content/u...

submitted 77 days ago • 585 comments

This I love. And resemble more each day.

submitted 88 days ago • 161 comments