Merlin

He/Him | Vox/bass/guitars/scholarship. Check out my metal CD in the website link. follow @factory_static for news about that project.

[Merlin @Voxmerlin]

The tour company is named OceanGate? They’re just asking for a scandal

[BBC Breaking News @BBCBreaking]

Titanic tourist sub goes missing in Atlantic Ocean, sparking search and rescue mission https://t.co/PsPMj5dyk1

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

🚨NEW: How pundits manufactured the lie that corporate profits aren’t responsible for inflation — and how that lie was used to justify policies that crushed America’s working class.

None of the pundits have offered an apology even as data show they lied. https://t.co/SZDxi4eyrP

[Fight for the Future @fightfortheftr]

TODAY: It’s time to rally for #InternetArchive. Use Wayback Machine? Listen to music or enjoy 37 million free texts? Wikipedia citations?

Time to speak up about the nonprofit behind core Internet infrastructure and demand #DigitalRightsForLibraries at https://t.co/eqVAuH9a09

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Skip Bayless's misrepresenation of Giannis's "roast" of Kevin Durant reminds @hasanminhaj of everything he hates about the media. #AfterTheCut

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: YouTube Music workers are ON STRIKE, the first in Google history.

After being hired remotely, these workers filed for a union. Now, Google is trying to force them into the office.

Instead, workers are withholding their labor, and filing union-busting charges.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Egg prices are up 60%. That’s absurd. People are paying up upwards of $6 and $7 for a dozen eggs.

Why? Corporate greed.

Cal-Maine, the largest egg producer in the US, is raking record profits — $198 million in its latest quarter.

That’s a 65% increase from a year ago.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

A Kansas City Fed report released today finds that corporate price markups accounted for over half of 2021's inflation. Markups grew by 3.4%, amounting to 58% of total inflation. The same year, U.S. corporate profits surged to their highest level since 1950.

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

Let me get this straight - Republicans want to see Hunter Biden’s dick but not Donald Trump’s tax returns.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Opinion | For too long, a handful of elites had the power to dictate content policy at Twitter. Now that power is back where it belongs in the hands of a single elite.

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

The House just passed an $858,000,000,000 defense bill and not a single person, nor the media, asked “how are we going to pay for it?���

When it’s time fund programs that help poor people, we hear that question from Dems, the GOP, & pundits in the corporate media.

[Rafael Shimunov @rafaelshimunov]

We regret to inform you that we will not be giving away insulin, a publicly funded invention that was given away by its creator to be given away to people so they don’t die.

https://t.co/lft5DvAlKf

[Nina Turner @ninaturner]

They don’t apologize for people having to ration their insulin due to prices, though.

[jordan @JordanUhl]

4 in 5 Americans who need insulin to survive have taken on credit card debt to afford it because companies that manufacture the drug like @LillyPad price gouge patients.

https://t.co/QGwOfDWeZt

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Now apologize to the 1.3 million Americans who were forced to ration insulin in the past year by making insulin free.

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

In an ironic twist to this shocking story, the academic journal that published the dangerous, unethical article calling for 500,000 more cops was presented to the students as one of Harvard Law School's responses to the murder of George Floyd.

[Paul Scheer @paulscheer]

Once again @RepKatiePorter FTW

[Alec Karakatsanis @equalityAlec]

One of the open secrets everyone in the legal system knows but that media does not treat with nightly urgency: the scope of white collar crime in the U.S. is breathtaking, and it’s almost entirely ignored by cops and prosecutors.