The issue is here when things get to burning, Black people are blamed and the specter of Black violence doesn't stir the same revolutionary fervor for the public the way the French protests seem to inspire.

Literally passed laws that made it okay for people to hit protesters with their cars. That was the response.
nytimes.com/2021/04/21/us/…

It's wild to watch cause people are acting as if we're not living through the reaction to the Floyd protests. They're passing more laws to continue targeting protesters right now! They're charging protesters with domestic terrorism right now! This is because of those protests!

'Imagine if people in the US protested like this' THEY DID! In 2020! The police beat the shit out of us! You all were there!

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A hazardous materials expert recommends anyone in the East Palestine area 'get a health check-up. Get a record now of where your health stands so that moving forward, you'll have documentation of any possibly related effects to the train derailment.'

Feels like the Ohio hydrochloric acid death plume is getting a lot less media attention than the Chinese balloon.

whenever chuck gets a lot of new followers after an art theory post or political statement it brings me great joy to consider their thoughts when they start getting audiobooks about sentient lesbian ice cream sandwiches on their dang timelines welcome to the tingleverse new buds

A top ten most satisfying feeling is when we find out billionaires have been screaming “MAKE THEM LIKE ME! THEY HAVE TO LIKE ME! **MAKE THEM!**”

Because then we get to be reminded that all the money in the universe can’t make people unsee how pathetic you are.

Cutting healthcare coverage and tuition remission is unprecedented, despicable, and is a calculated choice Temple University is levying against our members for participating in protected action (a strike).

Lincoln Michel In a classic move for this genre, she invokes Schrödinger's 'voters' - a group that is, on the one, highly receptive to Democrats' positions but simultaneously hypersensitive to the exact wording of political messages, depending on who's looking and when.

it's tough weeklies but it's honest work

I enter the Library of Books You Read As A Child.
'Do you have... er. It was green, and there was a girl and a dog, and...'
The librarian nods.
'Of course. Which version do you want?'
'Version?'
'The one you read, with all flaws you didn't notice, or the one you remember loving?'

'giant cars are safer'

No. They're less safe for everyone.

People getting bigger cars to feel safe because other people have bigger cars, therefore becoming the problem themselves, is an arms race of selfishness that unfairly sacrifices the lives of pedestrians and children.

Gritty is the Way Another policy that masquerades as a sick leave policy but is really a “report to work sick” policy is expecting people to provide a doctor’s note. If someone doesn’t have insurance, a PCP, or enough money for a dr visit, they won’t be able to get a note. So they go to work sick

Every American outside the 1% knows someone who got scammed by a dentist. Maybe they took teeth out unnecessarily or something. We just kind of accept it—“ah, yeah, you gotta watch out for that.” This is a country full of scams.

Today Martis serves as a county commissioner in Lenawee County and a policy fellow at E&E Legal, a think tank funded by coal companies.

He continues to run advertising campaigns asking residents to block solar and wind projects and regularly spreads misinformation on Facebook.

You could have made $20 million per year since Jesus was born and still not make the profits Shell did last year

A new Zillow study says that renters who make minimum wage have two options to keep rent under 30% of their income: either find 3 roommates (with 2 people per bedroom) or work 4 full-time jobs.

has anybody written a piece about how Etsy is no longer really about selling handmade crafts and has instead become a mere middleman for AliExpress?