A year or so ago, there was a football (soccer) match - I believe the English Championship maybe ? - where the second half highlights consisted of the kickoff and then the ref blowing his whistle for full time.
Apropos *gestures at the world* I am constantly reminded that the burning question on billionaires’ brains is “after the world is reduced to a smoking husk by our own actions, how do we keep our security team loyal to us once money no longer has meaning?”
Tech billionaires are buying up luxurious bunkers to survive a societal collapse they helped create, but like everything they do, it has unintended consequences
The default answer to everything for MAGA is violence. That's how it's going to be when Trump wins.
Things did not go so well for these Main Line farmers.
Statt die steigenden Mieten mit Wohngeld zu subventionieren und den Vermieter*innen Steuergeld in den Rachen zu stopfen, könnten natürlich auch einfach die Mieten gedeckelt werden. Könnte die Ampel durch ein Bundesgesetz regeln.
Die Zahl der Haushalte, die Wohngeld beziehen, ist als Folge einer Gesetzesänderung im vergangenen Jahr um 80 Prozent gestiegen.
My day job includes reading through all the latest climate science research. It’s so much worse than most people know.
This is such a crucial point: By adopting the Right’s framing and problem diagnosis on immigration, Democratic leaders are not simply compromising / triangulating on a policy issue, they are lending legitimacy to the very core of the ethno-nationalist political project. Great thread:
Remember how cancel culture was a national crisis because online mobbing with harsh words was a dire threat to free speech? Anyway, this man in Ohio, plus his family, are getting mobbed with death threats because he said that people Trump and Vance are viciously lying about are good workers
latest victim of the two minute hate www.nytimes.com/2024/09/30/u...
The lifelong Republican employs fewer Haitians than others in Springfield, but his life has been upended since Donald J. Trump spread falsehoods about immigrants in his hometown.
Families are saying the bosses left but the workers were not allowed to. Many of them are immigrants: www.facebook.com/watch/?mibex...
Workers at Impact Plastics in Erwin, TN were not evacuated, many are now missing: wcyb.com/news/local/d...
It's so disheartening ...