Apocalypse & Chill

the apocalypse is already here, it's just not evenly distributed yet.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

join DSA

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Jamahiriya al-Juche🇬���🇨🇻 @ayo_platano]

Calling Eileen Wang a Chinese spy for running a news site that publishes articles sympathetic to China is hilarious because if she were doing it for Israel, we would’ve given her a Pulitzer.

[Kevin Van Valkenburg @KVanValkenburg]

This reader comment on a NY Times column where Ross Douthat ponders that maybe God is speaking to us through A.I. is an absolute fastball on the corner with movement, and deserves a column. "Lightening was once mysterious too; mystery did not make Zeus correct" is perfect.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

it’s a jfk quote. you went to harvard. you know better.

[onion person @CantEverDie]

ok but we’ve learned laws don’t really matter anymore, the governor should just act and sign the new seats into law just like texas and florida. fuck it

[Teddy Roosevelt Voter-Dark Woke Bull Moose @GorillaHpn]

In 2028 I am voting for whichever candidate promises to put the South through a new round of reconstruction

[Black @LilithBlack25]

It's actually very sad that no arrests were made from the epstein files and the witnesses keep disappearing one by one

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

i do find it strange that there’s a very unpopular war and the admin hasn’t paraded the heroic pilot and wso we rescued over a multi day csar where numerous assets were lost. seems strange that they haven’t used them for propaganda purposes to drum up support 🤔

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

to all the "radical centrist libs" who leaned into right wing attacks against me- you're stupid for engaging in left bashing because republicans will never distinguish between you and i, they think were all radicals for opposing trump. stop giving the fascists ammo!!

[the thicc husband & father @lukeisamazing]

John Roberts admitting what Marxists have known for decades: the Supreme Court’s entire purpose is to serve as the backstop of capital, to stifle any change that would adversely affect the status quo too much

[Rob @robrousseau]

let a thousand Miltons bloom

[𝕊𝕠𝕔𝕚𝕒𝕝𝕚𝕤𝕥 𝕊𝕪𝕤𝕒𝕕𝕞𝕚𝕟 💾 @reset_by_peer]

ContraPoints is actually a perfect case study in class consciousness:

- started as a proletarian creator
- became the darling of bread tube
- made a lot of money
- became petite bourgeoisie
- class interests immediately shifted
- now fiercely anti-leftist, protecting the bag

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

If Democrats fought for Medicare for all the way they fight against @hasanthehun, maybe things would get done.

[איישע @protosemite]

written in Yiddish, 1934

[arshia @arshia__]

at some point there’s really nothing else to say but this

[Deep Singh Badhesha @DeepNotShallow]

If you're a young Democrat sitting here wondering why Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer didn't pass the War Powers Resolution when they had a chance and passed Trump's war budget...

Well... *taps sign*

[Basel Musharbash @musharbash_b]

Just a few months ago, @ezraklein called on Democrats to abandon reproductive rights, @mattyglesias called for Democrats to join Republicans in bullying trans kids, and many more in the Vox/Faux DC Centrism orbit called on Democrats to acquiesce in Trump's mass deportation schemes in order to "do what's popular" and "win elections." Following these recommendations would certainly have made the Democratic Party “a little more hateful, a little more misogynistic, a little more vulgar, and a little dumber” — but no one who has clutched their pearls over Hasan Piker in the last two weeks ever voiced any concerns about these leading lights of DC centrism when they pushed these reactionary positions. What gives?

Considering @hasanthehun has never pushed the Democratic Party to adopt such wacko positions, he seems much better than Ezra Klein, Yglesias, and other Faux DC Centrists at keeping the Democratic Party "on the right side of history." I mean, if we win by throwing people under the bus as recommended by these amoral think-piece writers, would it even be worth it? What kind of victory would that even be?

[kev joon @never_oppressed]

I genuinely feel sick. This is just beyond anything the mind can fathom. And I keep thinking of what Ta-Nehisi Coates said. If you can’t draw the line at the genocide in Gaza, you can’t draw it anywhere else. Moral failure, on a mass and collective scale, brought us here.