Patrick Loftus 🐌 🟥

In the #MMT MA via @modernmoneylab
Did the #Degrowth MA via @R_Degrowth. Opinions my own. #ClimateAction #CancelALLStudentDebt
he/him. bsky is @ PatrickLoftus

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥🇺🇸 Asked whether a week of intense scrutiny made him consider dropping out, Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner said the experience showed why ordinary people are discouraged from running for office, and why that needs to change.

He said the attacks had only strengthened his commitment to that goal. “Part of that really has to be making politics accessible to people who have lived regular lives, not just the people who prepared for it.”

[Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) @DebtCrisisOrg]

Education is an investment in the public infrastructure of the future. It's time to cancel student debt and make education truly accessible.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

Ok I’ve just read the Platner story. It is built entirely on the claims of a Heritage staffer whose accusations lack even one shred of contemporaneous corroborating evidence. Two other women Platner dated felt dissed, but that’s all.

The NYT is running oppo for Collins.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Joseph Gordon-Levitt says “almost all” AI systems are “built on mass theft,” arguing that companies using large language models “shouldn’t be forgiven for that past theft.”

[Alvaro Bedoya @BedoyaUSA]

United Auto Workers president Shawn Fain testifying in favor of a 32-hour workweek. "Eighty-four years ago the 40-hour workweek was established. And since then, we've had a 400 percent increase in productivity, and nothing's changed."

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

War is not a game.

[Roose @RuNoseP]

i do not care if Trump's comments result in nothing tonight. no one who even thinks of saying the phrase "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" should be allowed to operate an ice cream stand, nevermind the most powerful office on the planet

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

It’s incredible how absent Democratic Party leadership is in the face of Trump blowing up the entire fucking world.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Apartheid states aren’t democracies.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

33,000 military veterans are currently homeless.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

Bombing civilian infrastructure is a war crime, and the time to speak out against it is right now.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

it’s very hard for me not to appreciate the way platner communicates on this stuff. absolutely miles ahead of the current party. perhaps this is why they love him in maine.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

We are the richest society in human history.

We can have universal health care.
We can have universal child care.
We can have universal public higher ed.

We can have a tax code that pulls back all the wealth that was stolen from the working class over the past 50 years.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Imagine if Iran bombed and destroyed the Golden Gate Bridge in California, what would you call it? TERRORISTS

The U.S bombed and destroyed the highest bridge in Iran, the B1 bridge, why do you call it “PEACE”?

Bombing a bridge is a war crime under international humanitarian law

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

A few things. Number one, why is there not a single Democrat demanding a pause on payments? Let's push that. Two, every single student debtor should download/screenshot/record their own balance/payment history to guard themselves against future errors. Three: stay in SAVE for now

[Leon Musk @spear_dagger]

Garbage men are more important than billionaires.

[Jason Hickel @jasonhickel]

The main thing AI has taught me is a profound new appreciation for human intelligence (and human writing and art!), particularly that which emerges from longstanding experience, expertise and mastery.

[Student Debt Crisis Center (SDCC) @DebtCrisisOrg]

Education shouldn't have a price tag.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

The idea that AI robots could ever replace the work of human teachers is rooted in sexism, classism and a gross disregard for humanity.

It's delusion at every level.

All we have to do is pay teachers what they're worth—a living wage—and make education free at every level.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

A judge just interrupted a DOJ lawyer who claimed that canceling $11 billion in student debt held by defrauded debtors would hurt taxpayers.

"When you come out and say it's $11 billion — It's like $11 billion in coupons..."