Grocers in New York City are suing Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration, claiming that their civil rights will be violated if city-run grocery stores are opened.
I don't understand why "raising taxes on billionaires" is "class warfare" but raising rent on the poor is just "the market." The wealthy can lobby to change laws. Renters can't negotiate with algorithms. One side has power; the other has slogans.
James Cameron: "In Star Wars the good guys are the rebels; they're using asymmetric warfare against a highly organized empire. I think we call those guys terrorists, Mujahideen, Al-Qaeda today."
George Lucas: "When I did it they were Vietcong. That was the whole point."
Lucas confirms that Star Wars is a film about the evils of American imperialism.
The ONLY thign that differentiated them from their competitors was that they were selling the experience of walking into a store and smelling doughnuts cooking - seeing them come down the conveyor and getting one hot. I can still taste it. Imagine just abandoning that and thinking it would work?
Dolly Parton spent decades quietly funding band uniforms and instruments at Black high schools across the South - never once putting her name on it. No headlines, no fanfare — just help, given because it was needed.
Rhinestones on the outside, gold on the inside. 💛
So y’all don’t be seeing the conversations about the power grid going out soon, us running out of clean water, the fruits losing their seeds so we can’t regrow them, the robots advancing fast asf, meat being made in factories and getting shipped from Argentina (beef) with a known chemical on it etc…. Like when are we gone talk about all of that instead of everything that don’t matter?
we actually can’t allow the black liberal class and black consultant class to try to redefine what socialism is after being anti-socialist and anti-communist for years.
absolutely not. no.
NIPSCO is charging residents of Gary, Indiana up to $2,500 for electricity claiming their rates have raised when it's that NIPSCO is offloading the cost of operating AI hyperscale datacenters onto the Black residents, while leaving them in the dark. This is environmental racism.
There's a scene in Don't Look Up where DiCaprio & Lawrence tells everyone an asteroid is headed for Earth and it barely trends in the news.
Anyways, the oceans are now hotter than they have been in 120,000 years.
Krispy Kreme stock has crashed more than 90%.
The reason?
A private equity firm bought the company in 2016 and decided that, instead of making fresh doughnuts in every store, they would produce them in a single location and ship them out to the stores.