UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell criticizes Trump's White House UFC fight:
Our government is desecrating its role in society by hosting sporting events. Our tax dollars and resources are funding this operation. The government is supposed to protect us, not entertain us.
This is outrageous.
A small town in Michigan did everything right to stop OpenAI & Oracle from building a $16 billion data center in their town.
The people of Saline Township flooded their council meeting, put up signs all over town, and convinced their officials to reject it.
The officials voted against the data center 4-1, and that should have been the end. But two days later the developers sued, and the town couldn’t afford to fight back in court.
We are not a free nation when billion-dollar corporations can take over the land of our communities and towns. We are a captive nation ruled by corporations and billionaires.
Supreme Court rules that Republicans can gerrymander as much as they want without any voter input, Democrats can’t change a map even if voters expressly approve. Sham of a democracy, institutionalism will kill us.
Democrats NEED to be talking more about the GUTTING of the Voting Rights Act.
MAGA is silencing voters and carving up Black districts all across the South to hold onto power.
This is Jim Crow 2.0. Silence is NOT an option.
Question for southerners
If you’re a Black parent living in a newly gerrymandered & splintered neighborhood, can you now freely send your child to the fancy well funded public school that no doubt exists in the area they gerrymandered you into?
Yes. He’s the most famous entertainer in history.
All of the entertainers you mentioned can sit courtside at a NBA game. Michael Jackson could not. @MagicJohnson told the story of how he invited MJ to a Lakers game and it created so much chaos, they had to stop the game. MJ had to leave because fans were leaving their seats to try to get to him.
None of the people you mentioned have that level of fame where they can’t attend public events.
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.
I know Scott Jennings tantrum got all the attention yesterday, but I want to talk a little bit about what I said that got him so mad.
The bottom line is: Trump’s war with Iran has failed. This has made it mentally strenuous for MAGA operators to defend it on TV.
For 8 weeks now, Scott has pointed to the U.S. destroying the 50 year old Navy and Air Force of Iran to try and prove we have won. This is dishonest for many reasons.
The point of war is not to kill your enemies and blow up their navy. That’s an infantile view of war that MAGA is pushing to trick Americans.
The point of war is to use force to extract political concessions from your enemy that benefit you on the world stage.
Trump has been unable to translate his military success into a SINGLE political concession from Iran. Not one. This is a failed war.
The Strait is closed. Iran won’t even negotiate. The enriched uranium is still in Iran with their blueprints stored in the Cloud.
So enter Scott Jennings. He has claimed weekly that victory is right around the corner with this war… but we have blown past the 4-6 week deadline set by this administration and have failed to get a single concession.
So I asked the simple question: “Can you name a single political concession we have gotten from Iran?”
He couldn’t answer. Never forget the weakness he showed when he had no answer for Trump’s mistakes.