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[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

“The general population doesn't know what's happening, and it doesn't even know that it doesn't know.” - Noam Chomsky

This quote hits a whole hell of a lot differently after this picture dropped, doesn’t it?

[QC @QiaochuYuan]

sorry i just can't get over this, if you saw this happening in the opening to a movie it would be the most overwrought heavy-handed symbolism imaginable but it's just actually happening in real life. it's astonishing. god really is an artist

[Ann Larson @AnnLLarson]

I've got a story for you. There was a financial crisis, and the president bailed out the banks instead of homeowners. The world we are living in today is a direct result.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.

That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.

FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.

US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.

So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.

Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.

Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.

They will not.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

I was in court on May 19, 2019 for the Deutsche Bank hearings. I took verbatim notes they’re here somewhere the government’s lawyer asked Deutsche Bank. “Why would you give Trump a $2 billion loan with no other bank would touch him?”

[Rabble @BTudbubble]

This is why the fossil fuel industry is so desperately fighting renewable energy infrastructure in the US: renewable power works.

[Wemby Central @WembyCentral]

It’s hilarious that they’re gonna try to make a player who’s only eligible for the team via birthright citizenship a symbol of the Trump admin. Genuinely we live amongst cattle

[Mel @Villgecrazylady]

So basically Mitch McConnell is a vegetable on life support in the hospital rn and bc his wife fled to China there’s no one with power of attorney to pull the plug or give up his seat…

Which is likely by design bc if the seat were vacated before August 3rd the election would become a special election which would allow Thomas Massie to run as an Independent and potentially win.

And the entire Republican Party is going along with this sick charade bc they are wholly owned by a foreign country who views Thomas Massie as a serious threat to their power.

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

AN ICE AGENT TORTURED A MAN TO DEATH, THEN COVERED IT UP.

AN. ICE. AGENT. TORTURED. A. MAN. TO. DEATH. THEN. COVERED. IT. UP!

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Really shouting the quiet part out loud here:

[ColonelTowner-Watkins @ColonelTowner]

We are guinea pigs in a massive human experiment. Create cancer via “food” that they profit from, use our wealth via taxes to fund “research” to study the cancer causing food they sold us which they all profit from, and create “treatments” not cures based on the research we paid for to profit off of treating us for the cancers they create.

This is what happens when government is allowed to steal from you. I want our republic back.

[Abdulkadir | Cybersecurity @cyber_razz]

Walmart recorded your voiceprint when you called customer service.

Did not tell you.

Did not ask you.

Built a voice profile.

Stored it in a database.

Then a second Walmart sued them for recording warehouse workers’ voiceprints through headsets.

Then a third lawsuit for facial recognition in stores.

Three biometric systems.

One company.

All being sued at the same time.

McDonald’s. Applebee’s. Chipotle. Domino’s. Wingstop.

All recorded voiceprints during pizza orders.

Verizon enrolled customers in voice ID without asking.

Your voiceprint cannot be changed.

Your face cannot be changed.

If Walmart’s database gets breached your voice is compromised forever.

Every future authentication system you use is now at risk.

The voiceprint is not a password.

It is a biometric identifier.

And it is sitting in a Walmart database.

This is only illegal in Illinois.

BIPA is the only US law that lets you sue.

In 47 states companies can collect your fingerprints face and voice.

With zero legal consequence.

The customer service call you made five years ago.

Was a biometric harvesting operation.

You just found out.

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

I CALLED IT, ANIMALS, AND YOU LAUGHED!!! Months ago I told you ICE would buy facilities DIRECTLY from the prison companies at north of $150,000 per bed — and I was WRONG, folks, it was BETTER!!! ICE just bought TWO facilities from CoreCivic — $CXW — for $1.47 BILLION!!! That's $286,000 per bed in California City, $371,000 PER BED at Otay Mesa, $323,000 a bed COMBINED — DOUBLE what these things cost to build!!! Even I underestimated the beauty, and I NEVER underestimate!!!

AND WHO OWNS $CXW??? DONALD TRUMP!!! It's RIGHT THERE in the disclosure, folks — the man holds CoreCivic AND GEO Group, the two companies running America's ICE detention centers!!! Follow the bouncing ball: HE runs the immigration crackdown!!! HIS DHS just wired $1.47 billion to a company HE OWNS SHARES IN, at DOUBLE replacement cost!!! The buyer is his government, the seller is his portfolio, and the taxpayer is the ATM!!! That's not a conflict of interest, that's a CLOSED LOOP!!!

And the STRUCTURE is a masterpiece: DHS buys the buildings, but CoreCivic KEEPS OPERATING them under the same contracts!!! Sold the real estate, KEPT the revenue — like selling your house and the buyer pays YOU rent!!! Gain north of $1 BILLION on assets carried at PENNIES!!!

THE DE-LEVERING — exactly like I told you: $716 MILLION of debt GONE overnight!!! Credit facility, GONE!!! The 2027 notes, GONE!!! And that puts them under the covenant thresholds that unlock UNLIMITED BUYBACKS with the $400 million left over!!! Fewer shares, folks — and whose shares get more valuable??? DONALD'S!!!

AND THE SEQUEL IS COMING: CoreCivic says it's in talks with ICE to sell MORE facilities!!! The machine runs forever: sign the orders, fill the beds, sell the buildings to yourself at double price, buy back the stock, watch the disclosure GLOW!!! One catch the animals should know — ICE can cancel those operating contracts anytime, so read the covenants before you chase!!! Do your own research, NOT advice!!! Is ANYBODY looking into this??? The SEC??? He APPOINTS the SEC!!! I called the trade, the price, AND the de-levering — GREATEST prison analyst in American history, maybe ever!!!

[Baaulp @Baaulp]

closest you're going to get to seeing how dark ages peasants acted

[The Serfs (youtube.com/theserftimes) @theserfstv]

The top is a French broadcaster in 2015 showing what temperatures could be by 2050 if we don't take climate change seriously and the bottom is what they are today.

Every politician pushing more oil instead of transitioning to renewable is a short term profit sociopath

[Hampton Institute @HamptonThink]

The United States is a capitalist plantation run by 1,000 billionaires who oversee 200 million broke workers with the assistance of 20 million millionaires who provide cover.

This is nothing to celebrate.

[dj franzia @hawillisdc]

mass surveillance. you can be id'd via electronic payments, phone, bluetooth signal from ur devices, fl*ck cams, wifi, ai ids your face + gait, license plate readers etc. high powered data centers can process it all in one work flow to know where everyone is all the time :)