Respectfully, it’s kinda crazy to me that people are spinning this as a feel-good story when the implication is clear: These items seized by TSA obviously posed no danger to anyone in flight. That would be the natural question for a journalist to ask instead of this PR promotion.
Massachusetts taxed the rich. Now they have an extra $1.8 billion to spend.
In November 2022 voters approved a 4% tax on incomes over $1 million.
The state can now use that money on free public school meals, free community college, and public transit.
I think the moral content of a protest matters, I think it’s the single most important thing actually, and the elaborate media pseudo debates about tactics, electoral impact etc—where we discuss everything but the moral content—is because the righteousness of the cause is obvious
People seem to be confused.
When workers are paid less than a living wage, they’re forced to rely on taxpayer funded social safety nets to survive.
That’s not a taxpayer “handout” to workers.
That’s a taxpayer handout to corporations.
Hey there’s something I want to be clear about: if you’re a lawyer that stands in front of the highest court of the land and argues that homeless people should be criminalized for existing, you are bad and you should feel bad. You deserve to be booed everywhere you go forever.
NBA All-star weekend should just be a series of one-on-one games featuring the players vs folks who been on the computer talking shit about them all season.
What’s missing in today’s immigration debate is this. Hardly anybody in power is pushing back on GOP fear mongering about immigrants by making the case for how they benefit our country. Instead, most Democrats are letting the GOP win the narrative. We’re all worse off for it.