there’s a whole chapter at the end of Against the Day where Pynchon talks about planes flying at dangerously low altitudes as a symbol of encroaching fascism
and here the trump era blue angels are just…doing it
They cut funding for your healthcare, your children’s schools, and disease control.
But they can fund flock, data centers, wars that make everything harder. ICE can kill with impunity.
And if you dissent to any of it, you’ll be called a “commie” and they want to kill you too.
Colombia has been eliminated from the World Cup by Switzerland after falling victim to VTuber Essie's curse
Every team she has supported so far has been eliminated
“Four Haitian women who were deported from the United States in February were found beheaded and dumped in a river several months later, lawyers said in court documents.”
The sentences handed down today are a huge threat to the possibility of a democratic society. The prosecution is rife with constitutional violations, but 30 years in prison (more than anyone for January 6) for moving some magazines? 50 years in prison even for those not involved in planning the protest? The evidence of an illegal conspiracy is non-existent, but this is how the authoritarian dragnet targets those fighting against repression. Everyone should be learning about this case. https://t.co/XLki7OBuID
É a Copa mais bizarra da história. Ou pelo menos da era moderna, com certeza.
Nem na ditadura catari foi feito isso. Nem na Rússia de Putin.
Mas vai ter gente querendo justificar o injustificável, passando pano. Só porque é nos Estados Unidos.
Fifa rendida ao dinheiro.
If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.
If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.
This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.