"Terrorism" is a socially constructed term. If Luigi murdered a homeless Black man, the US would call him a hero. If he killed poor/sick Americans every day via insurance policy, they'd say "what about his family?" What’s happening is disgusting & anyone with a brain sees right through it

UnitedHealth subsidiary sends memo (leaked to me) to employees hailing murdered CEO as having had “a relentless focus on serving others” and tells them “your work matters.”

In addition to other sinister motives, attacks on USPS are because it’s a pillar of the black middle class and black labor. As of 2020 postal workers have the highest avg annual wage ($52K) and the highest hourly wage ($25) among the 10 occupations with the heaviest representation of Black workers.

Bernie Sanders: "We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few people had so much wealth and so much power."

"In Russia, Putin has an oligarchy. We have an oligarchy here, too.

whether you think it’s fascism or “competitive authoritarianism” or whatever, this era will be characterized by Trump using state power to lean on his private sector enemies, and most of them will capitulate.

Pardoning Hunter Biden absolutely rates, there, but just barely for me relative to the rest of it. The periods of time in which the government affirmatively worked to make anyone's lives better/anything fairer were all outliers and barely existed within my lifetime. The work ahead is mostly new.

🔥 🗣️STURGILL SIMPSON: “This toxic patriarchal energy is an age coming to an end… that energy is clawing for its survival bc it knows it’s dying. We’re heading to something beautiful, we just have to go through some dark shit first. So love everybody.” (H/T @wutangforchildren.bsky.social )

the thing about Mikal Bridges being janky and erratic from three is that he has been Steph Curry from midrange

alright taylor vs serrano was good tho

it might be hard and a long journey but a better world is possible

first post!