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DOGE keeps cutting agencies and funding and personnel, but no one I know has saved a dime on taxes. It’s almost like they are stripping the public good of resources to send that money to the oligarchs in tax cuts…

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NYC's centuries long dedication to cartoonish corruption still managing to produce the greatest city in the world vs LA's long parade of good government progressives producing an unaffordable sprawl dystopia is a good "fun hell vs shitty heaven" data point

submitted 11 hours ago • 17 comments

Columbia’s cave-in, Cuomo’s polling, the top-to-bottom corruption of Adams’ mayoralty: a good post earlier talked about the collapse of civic virtue in the U.S., but it’s worth suggesting that there’s something lacking regarding civic virtue and civil society in New York _specifically_.

submitted 13 hours ago • 40 comments

So essentially the president can do anything he wants, regardless of whether or not that’s his constitutional power, say no when told otherwise, and there’s really no mechanisms in this country to stop him? The branches of government and checks and balances were all just suggestions?

submitted 19 hours ago • 101 comments

This is a time for VISIONARIES and yet the vast majority of people have ceilings on their imaginations.

submitted 23 hours ago • 21 comments

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

submitted 17 hours ago • 295 comments

About 1 in every 60 people in El Salvador is incarcerated. That is more than twice the runner up (Cuba, which is around the same ballpark of estimates for North Korea) and more than three times the notoriously high rate in the United States. It is about on par with the gulag population under Stalin.

submitted 20 hours ago • 35 comments

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submitted 20 hours ago • 891 comments

This is exactly what Democrats should be doing!! You’ve got power and status so leverage it. More of this!!!!

submitted 19 hours ago • 146 comments

The number of people jailed pretrial has nearly quadrupled since the 1980s; people with mental-health issues tend to be detained much longer than the rest of the population. Sarah Stillman reports on a crisis of care in county jails across the nation.

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"The left went too far" in contemporary U.S. politics is almost always a lie and a very convenient way to rationalize moral failure. For example, "MeToo went too far" replaces "I do not care about sexual violence or its victims and I don't want to have to even feel bad about that"

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It's a straightforward relationship: high #inequality leads to the triumph of the far right. It will keep winning until governments deliberately seek to make societies more equal. I'm looking at you, Keir Starmer. This week's column. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 2 days ago • 94 comments

Gomez: It doesn't matter if you're young, old, or Gen X, Gen Z. We are now a new generation. We are the fuck around and find out generation. Gomez: Fuck around Crowd: Find out

submitted 2 days ago • 169 comments

Called my congressman who voted for the SAVE act. Me: What documents will I need to vote if this passes? Staffer: a DL and birth certificate. Me: The documents don’t match Staffer: Then a marriage certificate. Me: Will my husband need the marriage certificate too? Staffer: No Me: See the problem?

submitted 3 days ago • 1654 comments

Our government feels like when Scar took over after Mufasa died. Just a bunch of ecological damage and hyenas running around this mf.

submitted 3 days ago • 120 comments

Man our failure to do any productive public investment during an entire decade of negative real interest rates is going to look awfully foolish in hindsight.

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

I have to prove that I have a Constitutional right to vote but I don’t have to prove I have a Constitutional right to own a gun - even one w/ the sole purpose of killing a human. This is crazy fucked up. I want to challenge the govt to prove that I DON’T have the right to vote, like they do w/ guns.

submitted 4 days ago • 49 comments

If you are a Democratic member of Congress and you’re trading stock, you are part of the reason millions of voters believe the system isn’t built to help them.

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Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

submitted 4 days ago • 610 comments

“To escape the prisoner’s dilemma, universities must shift from individual risk management to strategic alignment.”

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

One thing people need to understand is that the US could literally just work together with China and create a better world for everyone with abundance. It’s precisely because the US wants to maintain its hegemony and does not want other countries to develop that we’re in this mess.

submitted 5 days ago • 21 comments

The BEST way to fight back against fascism is to provide a vision for the future for working class people. This system is leaving folks behind. Asking folks to preserve a system that leaves them behind is a hard sell. It’s time for a Freedom Budget for All Americans.

submitted 5 days ago • 23 comments

The Supreme Court saying deportation targets must have due process (as long as they have a lawyer ready to go with a habeas suit who quickly notices an unannounced disappearing by unmarked agents) is Jim Crow stuff. You technically have rights, says the Court, you just won’t get to exercise them.

submitted 6 days ago • 168 comments

Schadenfreude alert: all of those sleazy amoral big firms absolutely would've litigated anti-environmental cases for the coal companies but now they have to do the exact same work for free. 😂

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

On top of the blatant privacy law violations, this is another indication that the deficit—the supposed reason for all the draconian cuts—is going to explode because the agency charged with tax enforcement is in shambles and led by incompetents on partisan missions.

submitted 6 days ago • 17 comments

After seeing how the “justice” system refuses to penalize rape, charges domestic violence victims as perpetrators, and rewards fathers who abuse their children with more custody, it unfortunately doesn’t surprise me that it is enabling fascism

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

I love paying TurboTax a few hundred bucks every year to figure out how much money I owe the government, which the government already knows, but won't tell me because TurboTax pays legislators to keep the government from telling me. 😻

submitted 7 days ago • 476 comments

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

submitted 7 days ago • 209 comments

Most people in the United States who have never faced housing insecurity have no idea how easy it is to evict someone in this country. Before the pandemic, every US state evicted more people annually than all of mainland Europe COMBINED. Many states don't even allow counterclaims in evictions.

submitted 7 days ago • 87 comments

A lot of people seem to be under the belief that the post-war factory jobs their parents and grandparents had were good jobs because they were masculine and tough instead of, say, protected by a union under a progressive tax rate and a massive surplus

submitted 7 days ago • 102 comments

“They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” ~The Great Gatsby

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It’s a recalibration of economic control. Oligarchs don’t live paycheck to paycheck. They have the capital to buy market dips and recoup faster, acquiring more assets at fire sale prices along the way. When the dust finally settles, they will own more. The rest of us will own less. A lot less.

submitted 8 days ago • 944 comments

Whenever this all ends, and who knows when that will be, the United States is going to need a Truth & Reconciliation Commission. There has to be a full accounting of the wrongdoing and the collaborators.

submitted 8 days ago • 284 comments