Diltiagem

Pill pusher/puller. Black and Native Lives Matter. He/Him

[Diltiagem @diltiagem]

The Santa Claus we believed in is gone. In his place,,,

[Diltiagem @diltiagem]

@BumpFruck @godisava @itsnwts It's not insightful to say that 'women should consider that they will be subject to violence if they try to gain rights, and probably not try to gain those rights'. We know women are subject to violence by men! Women make those considerations every day and are told to smile more

[Diltiagem @diltiagem]

@BumpFruck @godisava @itsnwts Are we saying the female gorilla was agitating the male by getting half as many bananas?

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Abbott donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund, and now a federal investigation into them has been dropped.

Under the Trump administration, you can poison babies for a price.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Elon dared anyone to name someone USAID cuts killed and Nicholas Kristof, who did research on this, told Elon a lot of names and now Elon’s crashing the fuck out

[moe tkacik @moetkacik]

1. Mark Filip was the highest ranking DOJ attorney to sign off on Epstein's NPA
2. Whereupon he joined kirkland & ellis where he became Boeing's criminal defense attorney
3. And got boeing out of being prosecuted for 146 murders & 189 vehicular homicide/manslaughter
4. With help from Mike Luttig who got Kirkland of counsel Bill Barr appointed AG
5. And instead of recusing, Barr got the case transferred to reed o connors court & a prosecutor with no experience
6. Now she too is a partner at Kirkland & Ellis

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Last year, I explained that the Supreme Court was likely to permit Trump to fire the heads of "independent" federal agencies, but prevent too much direct presidential control over the Federal Reserve (which is the most powerful, quite secret and quasi-privatized institution you probably know very little about but which controls a lot of stuff that matters for you). Today, they've basically done that.

The reason is that central banks (especially if designed like the Fed to permit giant extraction of wealth from most of society to the richest people through opaque means) are so vital to protecting global capital, and they very much don't want to risk even the small risk of democratic political control over that institution. A lot of legal analysts didn't understand the underlying dynamics here and don't appreciate how much those dynamics, rather than legal reasoning, determine outcomes in the most important cases. The exception for the Fed is about ensuring the durability of one of global capital's most important institutions from any even tiny future glimmer of more responsiveness to populist whims.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

The level of criminality here is breathtaking.

I don’t wanna hear MAGA claim they love this country and are deep patriots when Trump is robbing the country blind. You don’t do this to a country you love.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

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[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

.@elonmusk says that no one can name a person who died from his aid cuts. In fact, I've met the kids who are dying, and I've talked to the families who lost children. In my columns, I've cited many, many names of people who have died because of Musk's aid cuts. A few examples:
*Yamah Freeman was a 23-year-old woman who died in childbirth because Musk cut funding for the diesel for ambulances in her part of Liberia. She couldn't get to a hospital and died as people were carrying her there. I talked to her parents and sister in their village.
*Gbessey Kiadu, age 1, died of malaria because of his cuts to malaria medication in Liberia. I talked to his mom in her village.
*Ibrahim Koroma, an infant, died of AIDS in Sierra Leone after he interrupted HIV supplies. I talked to health workers who cared for him.
*Achol Deng was an 8-year-old girl with HIV in South Sudan who died when Musk cut funding for the health care worker who provided her medicines. I talked to the healthcare workers.
I could go on and on. In almost every village you go to in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Sierra Leone or other countries I reported in, you find people dying because of aid cuts. I challenge Musk: Come with me on a reporting trip, and we'll talk to these moms and dads, and you'll see the dying children themselves. I think if you see the kids whose lives are at stake, maybe you'll change your mind.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

In my years of work inside the system around the country I’ve learned that this kind of thing is so pervasive that merely cracking down on rampant overtime, sick leave, and other kinds of police fraud would dramatically reduce police budgets. It’s almost entirely ignored in New York and every other jurisdiction.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

Stories like today's catastrophic Supreme Court ruling on pesticides go under the radar, but they shape our society and determine our lives. One of the most important things to see about our political system is this: there are concentric circles of undemocratic mechanisms that permit local officials to enact policies that benefit the ruling class but that prevent them from enacting policies that hurt the ruling class.

If a local city wants to do something too progressive, the much more undemocratic state government can preempt it. If a state wanted to do something too progressive, the much more undemocratic federal government can preempt it. This was actually the goal of a lot of the Obama-era corporate transnational trade agreements, which were trying to replicate this system globally to prevent countries from passing progressive economic, environmental, labor, and social policies. At each higher layer, the wealthiest interests typically have more power and control, and it is much harder for people to organize to effectively fight against that power.

[Rakesh Kumar @Rakeshhkumaar]

As long as the USSR existed, Europe’s ruling classes had to fear comparison because workers had an alternative system. Today, they feel free to push the retirement age to 70.

[Diltiagem @diltiagem]

@Maga_Pup @TheCradleMedia @AliR_Ahmadi True, given Trump's untrustworthiness

[Ramit Sethi @ramit]

Abigail Disney famously shared what happened to her dad when he began flying private:

"So all of the sudden, we went from being comfortable, upper-middle-class people to suddenly my dad had a private jet. That's when I feel that my dad really lost his way in life..."

"If I were queen of the world, I would pass a law against private jets, because they enable you to get around a certain reality. You don't have to go through an airport terminal, you don't have to interact, you don't have to be patient, you don't have to be uncomfortable. These are the things that remind us we're human"

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Completely fucking unreal. 30 years for engaging in protected 1st amendment activity. Ghislaine Maxwell got 20!

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

Israel and a democratic president slaughtered over 15,000 children in HD for 15 months straight and there’s a particular genre of pundit whose job is to act confused why a generational US war crime would come to define the first wave of primary fights after said mass slaughter.

[timothy faust 🇵🇸 @taste_of_tbone]

1, AI data centers demand energy at a scale completely unlike DCs before.
2, developers are making county boards sign NDAs and sucking up billions of state dollars in secret — w/ negative ROI.
3, WI GOP bills lock data centers into building dirty energy.

I hate these smug mfs

[ettingermentum @ettingermentum]

This is how the media talks about the potential impact of M4A on the job market

[derek davison @dwdavison]

This sentiment has never been uttered by anyone who actually believed it.