Apocalypse & Chill @Afforess

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a father of three. He lived in Houston for 35 years. On his way to work, ICE agents shot and killed him. His family learned from a video posted online. There must be accountability. We need a full, independent investigation.

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onion person @CantEverDie

a month ago

ok i’ll renew my DSA membership and pay dues

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The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency. As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created. Texan here A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided! Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks. Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier. This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses. How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

Headquarters @HQNewsNow

2 months ago

Trump's Agriculture Secretary tries to blame the resurgence of the New World Screwworm on Biden despite Trump and DOGE slashing funding for Screwworm monitoring programs

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Calling Eileen Wang a Chinese spy for running a news site that publishes articles sympathetic to China is hilarious because if she were doing it for Israel, we would’ve given her a Pulitzer.

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This reader comment on a NY Times column where Ross Douthat ponders that maybe God is speaking to us through A.I. is an absolute fastball on the corner with movement, and deserves a column. "Lightening was once mysterious too; mystery did not make Zeus correct" is perfect.

it’s a jfk quote. you went to harvard. you know better.

Ted Cruz @tedcruz

3 months ago

This is who Democrats are campaigning alongside. The is openly calling for “violent revolution.”

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ok but we’ve learned laws don’t really matter anymore, the governor should just act and sign the new seats into law just like texas and florida. fuck it

MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch

3 months ago

🚨BREAKING: In a 4-3 ruling, the Virginia Supreme Court has OVERTURNED the redistricting referendum approved by voters last month that could have netted Democrats 5 additional House seats. The court ruled the General Assembly violated the Virginia Constitution in advancing the

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In 2028 I am voting for whichever candidate promises to put the South through a new round of reconstruction

It's actually very sad that no arrests were made from the epstein files and the witnesses keep disappearing one by one

i do find it strange that there’s a very unpopular war and the admin hasn’t paraded the heroic pilot and wso we rescued over a multi day csar where numerous assets were lost. seems strange that they haven’t used them for propaganda purposes to drum up support 🤔

to all the "radical centrist libs" who leaned into right wing attacks against me- you're stupid for engaging in left bashing because republicans will never distinguish between you and i, they think were all radicals for opposing trump. stop giving the fascists ammo!!

Hasanabi Productions (fan account) @HasanabiProd

3 months ago

So it turns out the alleged WHCD shooter was not only completely unaffiliated from Hasan Piker. He actually hated Hasan and reposted hate tweets on his Bluesky account.

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John Roberts admitting what Marxists have known for decades: the Supreme Court’s entire purpose is to serve as the backstop of capital, to stifle any change that would adversely affect the status quo too much

Nick Field @nick_field90

3 months ago

John Roberts admitting his action was wrong but that he wanted to protect coal plants. A decade at least lost with immeasurable consequences. Fuck John Roberts x.com/JaneMayerNYer/…

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let a thousand Miltons bloom

ContraPoints is actually a perfect case study in class consciousness: - started as a proletarian creator - became the darling of bread tube - made a lot of money - became petite bourgeoisie - class interests immediately shifted - now fiercely anti-leftist, protecting the bag

Sean @SeanDaBlack

4 months ago

Does ContraPoints only unthaw when things are bad to chastise the left, only to reenter hibernation when everyone else is trying to actually oppose this administration?

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If Democrats fought for Medicare for all the way they fight against @hasanthehun, maybe things would get done.

written in Yiddish, 1934

at some point there’s really nothing else to say but this

If you're a young Democrat sitting here wondering why Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer didn't pass the War Powers Resolution when they had a chance and passed Trump's war budget... Well... *taps sign*

Just a few months ago, @ezraklein called on Democrats to abandon reproductive rights, @mattyglesias called for Democrats to join Republicans in bullying trans kids, and many more in the Vox/Faux DC Centrism orbit called on Democrats to acquiesce in Trump's mass deportation schemes in order to "do what's popular" and "win elections." Following these recommendations would certainly have made the Democratic Party “a little more hateful, a little more misogynistic, a little more vulgar, and a little dumber” — but no one who has clutched their pearls over Hasan Piker in the last two weeks ever voiced any concerns about these leading lights of DC centrism when they pushed these reactionary positions. What gives? Considering @hasanthehun has never pushed the Democratic Party to adopt such wacko positions, he seems much better than Ezra Klein, Yglesias, and other Faux DC Centrists at keeping the Democratic Party "on the right side of history." I mean, if we win by throwing people under the bus as recommended by these amoral think-piece writers, would it even be worth it? What kind of victory would that even be?

Evan Rosenfeld @Evan_Rosenfeld

4 months ago

.@monacharen: Even if it were true that Dems would profit electorally by becoming a little more hateful, a little more misogynistic, a little friendlier to America’s authoritarian antagonists, a little more vulgar, and a little dumber—is it worth it? What kind of victory is that?

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