She doesn’t have a light resume; the incumbent had nothing else to criticize her for so he kept calling her inexperienced. She was the head of the transit riders’ union and got significant legislation passed.

Sometimes it’s easier to stop something if you understand why it’s happening.

Yeah, we really fucked up making individual wealth so powerful. A healthy society needs at least a balance of collective wealth and individual wealth, and we went way too far. And now they’re trying to dismantle the last major structures of collective wealth we haven’t already ruined.

EAT EVERY EGG

https://theonion.com/jd-vance-begins-to-suspect-there-another-group-chat/

Yeah, there’s just nothing new to report, and it’s not like Luigi is going to talk to media or anything right now. More will come.

The people who are most likely to suffer in the next 4 years are also the people with the fewest resources. If those of us with enough resources to leave do so, who will be left to fight for those who can’t?

There are 15,000 McDonald’s in the US and turnover is pretty high. It’s an old stat but I don’t expect it’s changed much over time.

My husband and MIL both worked there so it tracks with my family members at least!

One out of eight Americans have worked at McDonald’s, so that’s quite a lot.

He’s surrounded by toadies who told him he’d win the first one, and he lost.

True: they’re obviously neither a woman nor a man with empathy.

You’re obviously not a woman: if you were you’d know that we talk about this stuff all the time, and that it absolutely is not obvious to women in blue states how scary things are in red states.

Reverse Melisandre.

I thought it meant that all the icons/interfaces for AI seem to have a graphical gradient between colors, usually cool colors like blue/purple/pink. (Like the face in the meme)

If you’re willing to do “whatever it takes” including instituting fascism, you’re a fascist.