begging people to understand there is no job you could work for any length of time that would afford you the ability to be this rich from your labor alone

Iceland is the world’s biggest consumer of SSRIs. They’ve had less than 10 gun homicides since 2020; in the US, there have been over 90,000. Japan is one of the largest video game markets in the world. They have 10 gun deaths per year; the US has nearly 50,000. It’s the guns.

A person earning the median salary in the US would have to work 1,607,924 years to get to $100 billion. Tax billionaires.

On this day in 1973, Salvador Allende, the progressive, democratically elected leader of Chile, was attacked and deposed in a US-backed coup that installed the right-wing dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.

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Ask yourself why all the most egregious details of the ICE debacle in Georgia are coming from foreign media outlets? It’s beyond clear that the media is under covering certain stories to avoid the ire of the Trump administration. This has been clear for some time.

Yeah well this is housing under capitalism

TikTok, X, and Meta are controlled by Trump allies Sinclair Broadcast pushes right-wing propaganda into 40% of local news markets Fox News is in 70M homes The WaPo and Politico owners are Trump donors Our information is being carefully curated by conservative billionaires.

The new “if we stopped testing for Covid, the number of confirmed cases would be lower,” just dropped.

I read this ages ago and it still chills me.

In 1946 WWII veteran Maceo Snipes was shot in his back by the KKK the day after he became the first Black person to cast a vote in Taylor County, Georgia. After he was shot, Mr. Snipes walked three miles to the hospital with his mother. For six hours doctors left him waiting

To be clear: It's not "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after comments about Charlie Kirk," it's "ABC pulls Jimmy Kimmel after threats from Trump FCC chair" The distinction matters here.

"King Charles shouldn't be blamed for things his ancestors did." The Irish response when the King visited Ireland in 1911.

From the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Here's your regular reminder that they could guarantee SS for all by simply removing the income cap. Choosing to raise the retirement age instead is class war.

A worker making $50,000 a year contributes to Social Security on 100% of their income. A CEO making $20 million a year contributes to Social Security on less than 1% of their income. Instead of raising the retirement age, we should scrap the Social Security tax cap.

The median worker in Germany works 400 hours a year less than the median American worker. That's 50 full extra days a year off. Their retirement age is the same with longer life expectancy. We shouldn't be raising the retirement age. We should be cutting the work week.

hopelessness is tempting. look at Cubans fighting a 50-year blockade, Palestinians holding the line since the 1948 Nakba. there’s always a world to win, and no good reason not to keep going for it

“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry” “If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence” “If we don’t release inflation data, there’s no inflation” “If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases” You see what’s happening, right?