The top 10% now hold 67.4% of all the wealth in the US.

The bottom 50% hold 2.5%.

"The MAGA Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it,"

Jimmy Kimmel

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

“Protest beyond the law is not a departure from democracy; it is absolutely essential to it.”

Howard Zinn was born August 24, 1922 in Brooklyn

It was liberals - now called "centrists" in both parties - who passed the laws giving presidents the powers now used against them. The centrists aimed to use that power against leftists. Ironically the far right now uses it against the centrists. - Meme credit: @redneckgonegreen.bsky.social

I have sent a copy of ‘The Onion’ to every member of Congress. To spread its message to less powerful people, I have also taken out an ad in a lesser newspaper. Read my full letter here: theonion.com/why-im-sendi...

ICE alert: anyone near Alondra Park in Lawndale, please head to that area. ICE has been spotted all over this neighborhood this morning.

They started on Manhattan Beach Blvd this morning and moved west towards Hawthorne. They were recently (12:30) spotted near Marine & Crenshaw and Lennox & Prairie

Four LAPD officers on horseback surround a man laying on the ground, trample him, and beat him with their polycarbonate "saber" batons.

Hegseth is threatening to deploy US Marines on US Citizens

If you are a US servicemember & unsure on how to respond to an illegal order, please utilize the resources at your disposal: Call the GI Rights Hotline at 1-877-447-4487 for free & confidential guidance.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/trump-is-d...

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Skepticism towards workplace democracy is normal. People are accustomed to top-down hierarchies with limited worker participation.

But skepticism often marks the beginning of great ideas. Political democracy was initially met with great resistance. And then it changed the world.

The only way I can interpret the GOP's actions is that they are 100% certain they will never face another democratic election again.

They hit the shore and burned their ships.

There is one fundamental truth about mutual aid, and it always shocks people:

YOU MUST BREAK THE LAW IN ORDER TO ACTUALLY HELP PEOPLE.

This truth alone should radicalize you.

The more you work on scale, branding, recognition, institutional funding, the harder it becomes to actually
help people.

Remeber when Avocado Toast guy said “We need to see pain in the economy. Unemployment needs to jump 40-50%. Employees think employers should be thankful for them, we need to kill that.”

If more CEO’s talked like this then labor would be far stronger and their lives far worse. He’s worth 600 million

The Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther" claims to combat antisemitism but in fact, aims to destroy the Palestine solidarity movement as a first step in a crusade against all domestic dissent in the U.S.

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/11/inside-project-esther-the-right-wing-action-plan-to-take-down…

Christians of good intentions need to accept the fact that the signs and symbols of Christianity now represent a genuine menace and a credible threat of violence to all the kinds of people Jesus told followers to serve. The cross once again represents only a tool of authoritarian torture and death.

Via our parent company @globaltetrahedron.bsky.social CEO @brycetetraeder.bsky.social: theonion.com/heres-why-i-...