the duder

Leftist politics, Caturday enthusiast, also ATL Braves

[the duder @ATLck23]

Finally put the little nugget in the first band onesie I bought her. She's ready to rock!

@IncubusBand @mybrandonboyd @MichaelEinziger

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

New York City Mayor Mamdani just gave one of the most amazing speeches you will ever hear:

"We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else.

"The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon. But the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — that work endures, and it belongs to us all.

"It belongs, too, to our newest Americans: those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I, too, felt what you feel: the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too.

"You each hold a special power: the power to determine what America means.

"The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom; where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.

"How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal.

"At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics — and the cheapest.

"But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress."

[JOKAMRREDPILLZ @JOKAQARMY1]

People destroying Flock Cameras 📷 all over the place. 👀

[Stephen Tolbert @b_outliers]

Some of the Braves highest paid players and their fWAR this season:

Yaz: $9M, 0.0
Riley: $22M, -0.1
Murphy: $15M, -0.2
Kim: $20M, -1.1
Strider: $20M, 0.1
Lopez: $14M, 0.2
Bummer: $9.5M, -0.8
Jimenez: $9M, 0.0

$120M of payroll that’s produced a total of -2.0 fWAR this season

[the duder @ATLck23]

@grantmcauley

[Abby Martin @AbbyMartin]

Celebrate America’s 250th by watching a film that will change how you see the US military and environmentalism itself.

🇺🇸 Earth’s Greatest Enemy on Apple TV & Amazon July 4 🇺🇸

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hasan Piker: “There’s always a healthy flow of migrant workers that will come to the US that will work for pennies on the fucking dollar to make ends meat to work in slave-like conditions because they’re desperate. Why are they desperate? Because we’ve destroyed their countries. We’ve manipulated their finances, destroyed their economy, extracted their natural resources. We’ve kept them down and underdeveloped by design to create this chaos and then they’re desperate enough to come here and we don’t allow them to get the proper paperwork so our capital owners can justify paying them nothing”

[the duder @ATLck23]

@leprekhan 2027 starting SS is in the organization currently or out of it?

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

What a rotten deal we made with Iran. We get nothing (except laughter at our stupidity). They get everything, including delay and big cash!

[ChihuahuaEnjoyer420 @tweetsandboobs]

I need everyone to understand something- we have a national burnout crisis. And the vast majority of you don’t even know what it is or how it manifests, and you internalize it and pathologize it. But you’re never going to believe this, it’s the capitalism.

[Jenson Puffin ہائدی 🐦‍⬛ @MissOoo1g]

Marie Antoinette lost her head for less

[the duder @ATLck23]

Matt Olson is pretty obviously favoring that right arm #Braves

[Hassan Mafi ‏ @thatdayin1992]

Anti capitalists realizing capitalism is doing so bad that the most powerful capitalists on the planet are visiting the Communist Party of China to beg for help with their economy

[🌞🐠 @sunfishyy]

Never underestimate how colonized your parents minds are

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and shits quantity.”

— William S. Burroughs

[Samrah @_Chemist1]

Ending celebrity worship culture is a major key to defeating fascism.

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast." Sound familiar?

[Saganism @Saganismm]

When Ted Turner asked Carl Sagan if he was a socialist, Sagan gave an answer that redefined what it means to be a civilized society.

It wasn’t about politics or ideology.

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain testifying in favor of a 32-hour workweek. "Eighty-four years ago the 40-hour workweek was established. And since then, we've had a 400 percent increase in productivity, and nothing's changed."

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

I’m sorry, but I’m not gonna be nicer about this. Neocon boomers are mortgaging my generations future by amassing trillions in debt, turning America into a pariah on the global stage, and getting our troops killed for another failing war.

I have to watch these neocons lie about the state of this war on TV every single day. Then, the moment I push back and assertively ask, “hey, what’s the actual goal here?” I have a legion of neocon boomers telling me I should know my place. Or I should wait my turn to talk with the grown ups.

Fuck that, genuinely.

I’m not claiming to have all of the answers or be all knowing. But young people deserve a seat at the table to fight for our interests as well. 95% of media is made up of boomers in suits who created these problems, and being nicer isn’t going to fix them.