This is a pretty useful summary of the modern right. A guy named “CrusaderPepe” getting mad at a fake quote tagged with a screenshot from an interview he didn’t watch inserted into a graph he’s too stupid to understand.
The past 6 weeks, Oregon has been having the largest and longest-running nurses' strike in the state's history. Unusually, physicians joined the strike as well. They demanded higher wages and better staffing.
A group of frustrated Yosemite National Park staffers hoping to draw attention to the federal government’s sweeping workforce cuts hung an upside-down American flag thousands of feet off the ground on the side of El Capitan on Saturday.
📸: Tracy Barbutes
Bernie, who’s not a Democrat, has three things Democrats currently lack:
1) A comprehensive frame for viewing the world, for processing news about Trump, politics & the realities of the economy. (MAGAs have this too.)
2) personal integrity, credibility, passion
You can reject his frame, disagree w him on details but no one doubts he means what he says, as he’s been saying the same thing for 60 years.
3) Boundless energy. Old as he is, he’s barnstorming the Midwest.
Our country is facing the very real existential threat of losing our democracy as we know it and plunging toward authoritarianism. Join our town hall in Omaha, Nebraska now. https://t.co/4Jy2OEPnlk
“stars were the first 𝘵𝘦𝘹𝘵...making a pattern out of them was the first 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺...
But the moon was the first 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘮, an entity complete in itself...one that played upon the emotions so strongly that the context of time and place hardly seemed to matter."
-Mary Ruefle
Genocide by AI.
'The result is that thousands of [civilian] Palestinians...were wiped out by Israeli airstrikes because of the AI program’s decisions.'
‘Lavender’: The AI machine directing Israel’s bombing spree in Gaza https://t.co/opRM5sPhYJ