After decades of neoliberalism Sri Lanka spiraled into a crisis where people literally did not have fuel to get to work and school, or food to eat. It might seem like this is just about Sri Lanka, but this is a victory for the working class fight against neoliberalism everywhere.
There's a tradition of film directors and studios congratulating each other for beating their box office records. A THREAD.
1/11: In 1977, when STAR WARS beat Jaws to become the highest-grossing movie ever, Steven Spielberg took out the below ad for George Lucas in @Variety
Supreme Court justices are mad at signs outside their homes and dinner being interrupted, meanwhile the people of Sri Lanka are storming the Presidential residence and swimming in the President's pool. I'm starting to think we might be too easy on the ruling class over here.
Police tackling parents instead of saving children when the crucial moment came has to be the end. It has to be the end of your faith in police. The end of the idea that police exist to keep us safe. We need to move past this dangerous myth, now, and towards actual public safety.
Mayor Pete said today that people struggling with rising gas prices should solve their issue by buying electric cars. In related news, homeless people should also just buy houses so they aren’t homeless any longer. Thanks for the tips, Marie Antoinette.
Driving home tonight, I thought about Republicans' floor speeches today on the "sanctity of life".
And how this concern for "life" apparently doesn't extend to the kids who were shot today in a school in Michigan.
So I turned the car around, and went to the Senate floor.