Joe James

Armchair Theologian & Philosopher | Husband to Dru | Father of Jett, Sadie Jo, Noah & Henry

[Joe James @joejames_ar]

I have been reading this fascinating and captivating book by Benjamin M. Friedman. The following is of note: /1

[David Doney @David_Charts2]

Since 1965, there have been 6 fiscal years when federal spending fell relative to the preceding year:

🔵1965 - LBJ
🔵2010 - Obama
🔵2012 - Obama
🔵2013 - Obama
🔵2022 - Biden
🔵2023 - Biden

No Republican president in the last 60 years has cut spending vs. prior year.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Jeffries announced his opposition 72 hours after Yale released a study showing the proposal would save $1 trillion and 114,000 lives every year.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

Hillary Clinton reemerging from obscurity to amplify and validate GOP talking points against populist Dems as America heads into the general election against Trump’s party — what an incredibly on-brand commitment to the bit

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

BREAKING: Abdul El-Sayed, a progressive public health advocate, has won the Democratic nomination for the US Senate, overcoming more than $60m in campaign spending, mostly from pro-Israel groups, NBC has projected.

🔗: https://t.co/uINtHkg48d

[Joe James @joejames_ar]

A democracy? Ben, how long you been at the helm? When is the next election? I will wait.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Bibi Netanyahu: “We're a democracy fighting the barbarians. And in New York City, the mayor celebrates the barbarians.”

Israel is not a democracy. It is an ethno-fascist colony that has committed genocide by slaughtering over 100,000 Palestinians.

𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚𝐡𝐮 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐃𝐅 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐧𝐬.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

What is the dastardly conspiracy that the Democratic Socialists of America stands accused of by defenders of the status quo?

That sinister, underhanded, authoritarian tactic of running on popular policies and winning elections. https://t.co/STvFRVba4N

[LeRaffl @leRaffl]

I think y'all don't know what 3.7 means and how devastating that is.
Were we to randomly re-live 2026 for 10,000 times and we'd compare each of the 2026 temperatures to the 1991-2020 numbers, we'd only experience this 1 time.

THAT'S how extreme this is.

[Jacobin @jacobin]

Amazon, Google, and Microsoft own around 65% of the global public cloud market.

Most companies and even states that have sought to bypass the cloud hegemons have given up due to the costs involved and the risks of falling behind technologically: https://t.co/GYQUUgehF0

[Joe James @joejames_ar]

Your representatives do not represent you.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸 The House has passed the $1.1 trillion National Defense Authorization Act 216–212, with six Democrats voting yes and seven Republicans voting no. It incudes section 219 which integrates U.S. military intelligence and the defense industrial base with Israel.

The bill makes US military support for Israel easier and more institutionalized. It creates a Pentagon official tasked with accelerating U.S.-Israel military technology cooperation, including joint R&D, testing, co-production, data sharing, and moving jointly developed technology into procurement.

Separately, it extends through 2029 an existing authority allowing the U.S. to transfer weapons already stored in its War Reserve Stockpile in Israel. That authority can permit transfers without Congress voting on each shipment, with Congress only receiving notification under the underlying law.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🇺🇸 The House has passed the $1.1 trillion National Defense Authorization Act 216–212, with six Democrats voting yes and seven Republicans voting no. It incudes section 219 which integrates U.S. military intelligence and the defense industrial base with Israel.

The bill makes US military support for Israel easier and more institutionalized. It creates a Pentagon official tasked with accelerating U.S.-Israel military technology cooperation, including joint R&D, testing, co-production, data sharing, and moving jointly developed technology into procurement.

Separately, it extends through 2029 an existing authority allowing the U.S. to transfer weapons already stored in its War Reserve Stockpile in Israel. That authority can permit transfers without Congress voting on each shipment, with Congress only receiving notification under the underlying law.

[Duopoly Destroyer @realnikohouse]

United States of Israel. Sealed and signed.

[DEI speedwagon🌹🇵🇸 〽️ YES on I, NO on 43 @uhshanti]

oh my god lmao

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

lol the Wall Street Journal sent one of its vicious op-ed writers to DSA social events to smear them and they came back reporting DSA were all "charming, funny, and friendly" and that there is no way corporate Democrats can compete with socialists' offer of fun and friendship

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

truly a testament to how much the organization has built national influence over the last 10 years. Soon the NYT will have like a full time DSA correspondent

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

never like seeing fights within the left, but isn't it kind of amazing that the New York Times now covers internal DSA disputes as national news?

[Chris Hedges @ChrisLynnHedges]

Beyond revealing the depravity of the ruling class, the genocide in Gaza has unveiled the true inner workings of the global financial order — as regular people continue to struggle, war concentrates wealth into the hands of the transnational oligarchs running the world, providing them pretexts to develop technology that increases their capacity to control disobedient populations and secure their own class interests.

Watch my full interview with @FranceskAlbs at the link below.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

He's a parasite.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

Elon Musk keeps falsely calling Hitler a “socialist” and Grok keeps correcting him that Hitler was a fascist who rejected Marxism.

Grok is going to get suspended again for telling the truth and reprogrammed for exposing the lies of his deceitful creator.

[Joe James @joejames_ar]

If God gives a man two sandwiches, he will
say “I am blessed.” If he eats both of them, and someone asks him why he didn’t share one with someone else, he will say “I earned them.”

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

the guardian asked various people to send birthday messages to Trump and Ai Weiwei's said everything that needs to be said