People don’t see classism as a legitimate form of violence because they believe being poor is indicative of people’s character rather than a result of systemic oppression. In order for rich people to thrive, a whole lot more people have to barely survive.
@NicholasMoreano The Bears top four receivers last year were separated by only 61 yards; has there been a team with a comparable level of distribution? Do you think they will try for a similar level this year or will someone separate themselves as the clear top choice?
@NicholasMoreano Luther Burden had 47 catches on 60 targets last season. How many targets do you think he will have this year and do you think the reception percentage will remain similar with the increased workload?
Workers are now taking home the smallest percent of America's economic output since records began in 1947.
At the same time corporate profits are now at the highest point since 1950.
Three months ago today, a war began that no one voted for — and the cost has been paid by people who had no say in it.
Thousands of civilians have lost their lives. Thirteen U.S. servicemembers will never come home to their families.
Americans across this country and our city have watched prices rise at the pump and the grocery store, their budgets strained by a conflict launched without a single vote of Congress.
Every life lost abroad and every dollar squeezed from a working family here is part of the same reckless bill, handed to the people who could least afford it by those who will never pay it themselves.
I opposed this war from the first day. I oppose it still. It must end.
MAGA HEADS ARE GOING TO EXPLODE 🤯
🚨 A new Cato study found immigrants reduced US deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994.
Not increased.
Reduced.
Even undocumented immigrants were estimated to have reduced deficits by at least $1.7 trillion.
The very people Republicans keep villainizing are working, paying taxes, and helping keep the economy afloat while billionaires and corporations dodge taxes with loopholes their lobbyists wrote themselves.
The 2026 Robber Barons are young, ugly, psycho predators, willing to burn it all down to the ground to get their ways. The next democratic house and senate must apply the Sherman Act and break up their monopolies. Their wealth and their powers must be curtailed.
We made it all up. All of it. Money, bills, capitalism, war, laws, the 5-day workweek, 3 meals a day, school, traditions, housing costs, food insecurity. Almost everything we say is “just the way it’s done” is something humans created, and it is important to remember that.
Pope Leo XIV on AI:
“Artificial intelligence needs to be disarmed. The word [disarmed] is strong I know, but deliberately chosen because this moment needs words capable of attracting attention, awakening consciences, and indicating paths forward for humanity.”
Donating $5 million to the people investigating you is corruption.
Accepting $5 million from the person you’re investigating is corruption.
Our government is run by corrupt billionaires and bought politicians.
"The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves."
Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers.
When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it.
They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long.
In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it.
The flowers attract a standing army to our fields.
We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.