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[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Hugo Chavez was the best thing to happen to Venezuela, he took extreme poverty from 67% to just 6% in a decade.

He was so successful in fact that the USA decided they had to destroy Venezuela or they would lose South America to Socialism.

That is what actually happened.

[Amir Khafagy (amirkhafagy.bsky.social) @AmirKhafagy91]

Exclusive 🚨

ICE raids in the small town of Lake Placid, NY, have caused fear and anxiety among immigrant workers.

It upended the local economy just days before the summer season was set to begin.

My latest investigation for @Documentedny

https://t.co/AeDnWucWG3

[Matt Malis @MattMalis]

We need to get more comfortable with talking about wealth taxes as a prophylactic measure against billionaires’ accumulation of political power, independent of any effects on tax revenues

[Andy Boreham 安柏然 @AndyBxxx]

This is why the 1% in the West are fighting tooth and nail against socialism.

[futuredescent @futuredescent]

I think I figured out why I hate the STL area: there are barely any fucking trees anywhere. It's all so fucking ugly. Why doesn't anyone plant any fucking trees?

[futuredescent @futuredescent]

Americans, forgetting how many cultures practice multi-generational housing around the world:

[flaw @flawedaxioms]

This is legitimately a disaster that will have far reaching consequences over the next decades. Living with your parents during your formative early adult years stunts your growth and makes you miserable.

[Read Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell) @JPHilllllll]

And then you look at the median wealth and everything makes sense.

[futuredescent @futuredescent]

@sergeanttheodor @Logo_Daedalus billionaires don’t create anything. the workers create those things. go dickride some more, i’m sure you’ll be a billionaire in no time.

[futuredescent @futuredescent]

Capitalism is socialism for the wealthy

[Chetuya Chinagolum @Chetuyachinago]

This is like a massive, stinging slap in the face of every self-righteous proponent of the free-market economy who works tirelessly to brainwash the entire planet into believing that limited government intervention is inherently good, that state regulation is evil, and that prices will always magically find their true, natural value.

If the state does not decisively intervene to stop corrupt oligarchs, private equity firms, and global investment giants from buying up every single affordable residential home, real estate prices will never find a value that respects basic human dignity, local communities, or the working class. Instead, they will only ever find a highly inflated, artificial value that strictly protects the greedy corporate interests, profit margins, and portfolios of multi-billion-dollar venture capitalists.

Socialism works and will always work. Even the most ruthless capitalists on Wall Street still desperately lobby for massive government tax cuts, multi-billion-dollar state bailouts, favorable regulatory loopholes, protectionist trade tariffs, and direct central bank interventions, which is basically nothing but a highly customized, tax-funded communist manifesto designed exclusively for the rich, the powerful, and the politically connected.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The Trump administration approved three new “forever chemical”-based pesticides last week for use on food crops, including corn and soybeans — the most widely grown crops in the country — as well as wheat, kiwi, oats, peas, broccoli and coffee.

These new chemicals — diflufenican, epyrifenacil, trifludimoxazin — have all been quietly approved without a standard press release.

Trump approved other PFAS-based pesticides cyclobutrifluram and isocycloseram earlier this year, and the first food use of chlormequat — which is already found in 90% of Americans’ blood.

An EPA scientist wrote in the approval documents that at least one of these new PFAS-based pesticides is “suggestive evidence of carcinogenic potential.”

These approvals come just days after the Supreme Court sided with chemical maker Bayer and the Trump administration in limiting Americans’ ability to sue pesticide companies for harms linked to pesticides.

Now, Americans will have a harder time holding companies accountable for the cancer-causing effects of their pesticides.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

This is a terrifying moment for a whole generation of politicians who’ve made careers saying the right thing and then never delivering on their promises.

Voters are now demanding they actually do their jobs and deliver results — or face the threat of being fired.

[LindyMan @PaulSkallas]

2004 was in the middle of the hydration revolution. High school kids look a little older than today, but not very much. The super old faces of pre-1999 are gone.

You can start to see the neotenous becoming normalized.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

"Why don't elderly politicians retire and spend time with families" assumes their families love them
https://t.co/ZNFgNIsKzP

[Brandon Lewis @blewis1103]

There’s a really interesting dissonance in Taylor Swift obviously wanting a Princess Diana wedding but not being able to bc it directly conflicts with her Miss Americana persona, so she has to settle for an odd middle space of very public privacy.

[Catherine Warr @HiddenYorkshire]

There is something so profoundly moving about Rembrandt's sketches of a toddler in a bumping cap. A toddler, four hundred years ago, learning to walk and given a protective hat to wear 🥺🥺

[brit ꕤ @anxietyistyping]

some of the discourse is because taylor is someone people love to trash, but most of it i genuinely believe stems from the class disparity that just reached its widest gap in history. vast majority of people can’t afford to eat, pay rent or go to the doctor but we’re all forced to watch a billionaire display an egregious show of wealth with 1,000 of her wealthy friends. of course people are mad.

[RJ Barrett Wallace @costanzaseason]

It is absolutely unacceptable that Times Square is at full blast, the Empire State Building is glowing for S**ft, and MSG has god knows how many generators going for a wedding but granny and grandpa in the boroughs have to suffer with no power

[daniel 💤 @slayonetta]

I think Taylor Swift’s seen the backlash and her next wedding will be more low key