is it out of the realm of possibility of a recession so bad happening that everyone stops paying for streaming services and reverts back to physical media so hard it causes the Blockbuster boom to return.

The yearly pay at the federal minimum wage: $15,080 The average yearly cost of a 1 bedroom apartment in the United States: $17,340 We need living wages and lower housing costs. This is not sustainable.

You don’t get to say "Measles is serious" and "Covid’s just part of life" in the same breath. You just don't.

I will never be popular because like the honey badger I don't give a f about that. I care for compassion, ethics, and helping ensure children have a better future everywhere. I won't agree just to just go along with the crowd because something looks more palatable than the truth.

NEW: As part of my effort to track @ElonMusk's influence in the Texas Capitol, I asked for all of his emails with Gov. Greg Abbott for the last several months. Abbott's office rejected my request, saying some of the records are too "intimate and embarrassing" to release. #txlege

Specifically, the governor's lawyer argues that Abbott and Musk's emails are "intimate and embarrassing and not of legitimate concern to the public, including financial decisions that do not relate to transactions between an individual and a governmental body." [my emphasis]

Abbott's lawyer also had other reasons for why the governor's emails with #ElonMusk should not be released. He said they include: - private exchanges with lawyers - details about policy-making decisions - and information that would reveal how the state entices companies to

I file a lot of records requests. This time, I encountered something unusual. Abbott's office charged me $244 to search for his comms with #ElonMusk. They said it would take 13 hours of staff time. But after the check was cashed, Abbott's office told me they determined all if

Abbott's office could have redacted his emails with #ElonMusk. They could have released some and withheld others. Instead, they said none of them could be released. Ken Paxton's office, which referees public records disputes, will decide whether I get the records. #txlege

A lawyer for SpaceX also doesn't want the emails with Gov. Abbott released. He cited just one main reason: They contain “commercial information whose disclosure would cause SpaceX substantial competitive harm.” Here is the story. kut.org/politics/2025-… #txlege

"The announcement came as Grok unveiled what it called 'Grok for Government,' a suite that allows agencies and federal offices to adopt its chatbots for their specific uses." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Among other issues with this development is the fact Grok is powered in part by poisoning the air over Memphis. We covered that here: youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT2J…

Not in a universe where Ellen Ripley exists.

She could literally do a whole show dedicated to Tina and it would EAT.

The pandemic didn’t end — it just got quieter. It got quieter because news outlets stopped talking about it. Because governments stopped counting. Because silence was more profitable than truth. But the virus is still here. And so is the risk. This thread is for the

Please help Willow stay housed if you can! Also in need of assistance with other essentials, like food.

Please help if you can but even if you can’t please repost.

Rich people don’t hold student debt, they were able to afford school. Student debt is held by those who come from working class families and couldn’t afford to pay the tuition. Student debt shouldn’t exist. It should be free to go to college, just like other public schools.

It’s happening again. Be safe out there New York

They take our constitutional & civil rights, and we fall back. They take our services & social safety nets, and we fall back. They take our friends & family to concentration camps; we fall back. At some point we have to draw a line and say NO FURTHER. Before we lose everything.