Oxiclean

I’m as real as a donut motherfucker

[Oxiclean @AustinHrbink]

My kingdom will be built on citrus

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

To all who celebrate

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court just blocked thousands of lawsuits claiming Roundup causes cancer.

The court sided with chemical giant Monsanto, ruling that federal law preempts cancer victims from bringing these lawsuits in state courts, where most of the claims are filed.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

We really CANNOT have sustainable energy because it threatens the oil industry. We cannot have healthcare because it threatens insurance. We cannot have peace because it threatens the weapons industry. Capitalism built a system where doing the right thing is treated like bad business.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Jackson's framing in the dissent is the one worth holding. Green card holders are, by law, "as close to citizenship as one can get absent naturalization." They have gone through the process, paid the fees, established the ties, built the lives. The Immigration and Nationality Act was written with specific narrow exceptions for when that status could be revoked at the border.

The 6-3 majority has now expanded those exceptions to include unproven allegations. You do not need a conviction. You need an indictment and a return flight. DHS can reclassify your status at the border, move you into removal proceedings, and let the conviction come later. Jackson called it a "massive blank check." The sequencing she describes - reclassify first, convict second - is not a procedural technicality. It is the architecture of a system in which legal status is only as secure as the government's current political interest in honoring it.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

The only people who seem to want these AI data centers are people who stand to benefit financially and won't have them in their backyards.

[noah kulwin @nkulw]

i need yall to look at this. release date 5/29

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

cuba has never been a threat to the us. it’s only threat was being a successful alternative. a country that fought & won its own sovereignty and dignity. we starved them for that & never stopped. between this and the nyt funding piece, we’re manufacturing consent for war.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The House just dramatically weakened a landmark affordable housing bill that passed the Senate earlier this year.

The Senate bill had groundbreaking restrictions on Wall Street’s purchase of single-family homes, but the new House version significantly weakened the bill’s limitations on institutional investors in the housing market.

The new version would make it possible for private equity firms and other large investors to purchase more homes than the initial version allowed.

The new bill’s definition of a “single-family home” would also now exclude manufactured housing and newly-renovated homes.

And the new version removes a controversial mandate that homes built for rent have to be sold to tenants within 7 years, incentivizing companies to permanently rent their properties.

When the Senate passed their landmark bill, Wall Street and housing developers immediately started lobbying the House, spending tens of thousands on key lawmakers. That spending appears to have paid off.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

Oligarchs think they're above the law. And if we don't enforce the laws for them, they are.

[Bret Weinstein @BretWeinstein]

This is indefensible: Spraying glyphosate over wild lands is ecocide, and toxic to humans, of course. But there is one upside: It allows us to see the full corruption of our system, which pretends to be preoccupied with our health, even as it poisons the world behind our backs.

[goma @soigomaa]

"violence isn't the answer" only gets said when oppressed people start fighting back, not when the oppression is happening

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

The most common liberal American response to criticism of American foreign policy is to agree with the specific criticism and then immediately undermine it.

"Yes, the Iraq War was a terrible mistake."

Mistake.

"Yes, what happened in Vietnam was a tragedy."

Tragedy.

"Yes, the CIA did some very bad things during the Cold War."

Some things. Very bad. Past tense.

Watch the language.

Watch what the language does.

Watch how it processes an atrocity.

A mistake is what you make when you mispronounce a word.

A mistake implies no intent, no pattern, no structural cause, no accountability.

A mistake is something that won't happen again because now we know better.

A tragedy is what happens in Greek theater. Oedipus didn't mean to kill his father.

Tragedy implies fate, complexity, the sad inevitability of good intentions meeting harsh reality.

A tragedy is no one's fault, because fault requires agency, and tragedy requires that the agent be a victim of circumstance.

Some bad things.

Quantifying. Minimizing. Removing the specific human content from events that had specific human content.

Not: the Phoenix Program systematically tortured and assassinated somewhere between twenty and forty thousand civilians.

But: some bad things.

This is the liberal version of American innocence.

It performs more discomfort.

It is willing to go further in acknowledging that something went wrong.

But it arrives at the same destination:

No one is accountable.

No pattern is structura.

No reckoning is necessary.

And the fundamental moral standing of American power remains intact.

The conservative version says it didn't happen.

The liberal version says it happened but it was complicated.

Both versions protect the same thing.

Both versions mean you never have to change anything, because mistakes don't require structural change and tragedies don't require perpetrators.

The people who were napalmed do not have the luxury of calling it a tragedy.

They just call it what happened to them.

[Dan Sheehan @danpjsheehan]

Posting this nativist slop as the national parks budget is slashed, as environmental protections are rolled back, as public lands are being sold off to corporate interests.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Maryland is about to become the first state in the nation to ban the use of surveillance data and dynamic pricing at grocery stores.

The Maryland House has just passed the Protection from Predatory Pricing Act.

Governor Wes Moore plans to sign the bill.

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

Huh?

You bailed in the middle of trial after cutting a sweetheart deal with Live Nation, tried to pressure the rest of us to accept it, but we pressed on and won the trial without you.

Congrats to consumers, not to you.

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Repealing Citizens United needs to be a top priority for anyone running for office. We can’t live like this.

[Rep. Betty McCollum @BettyMcCollum04]

We don’t allow mining in Yellowstone.

We don’t allow mining in Glacier.

We don’t allow mining in Yosemite.

We don’t allow mining in Zion.

We don't allow mining in Acadia.

We don't allow mining in Grand Teton.

We shouldn’t allow mining in the Boundary Waters.

[Rep. Ilhan Omar @Ilhan]

You can't mine at Yosemite. You can't mine at Yellowstone. You shouldn't be allowed to mine in the Boundary Waters.

Republicans are trying to sell out our most pristine waters to a foreign mining corporation.

NO.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: The Senate just passed the legislation allowing the devastation of the Boundary Waters.

The motion passed 50-49, and now goes to Donald Trump’s desk.

The way Republicans passed this bill that prevents future administrations from issuing protections for Superior National Forest, so this pristine land will be exploited in perpetuity unless Congress intervenes to reverse this decision.

The state of Minnesota can still block the Chilean mining corporation from operating in Superior National Forest and protect the Boundary Waters from pollution.