Capitalism is just paywalls stacked on paywalls. Pay to eat. Pay to sleep. Pay to drink. Pay to breathe. Miss a payment? Game over.
Capitalism isn’t an economy, it’s a hostage situation.
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I was annoyed that the swiss government closed down their mastodon server, so I've made @swissgov that gets the RSS feed from https://news.admin.ch and posts it. It's all English
#switzerland #swiss #politics #news #government #bot
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Political meme on (*points around to everything going on now*), with eye contact:
#EyeContact #Politics #democracy #WesternDemocracy #reality #HopeIsADiscipline #EUpol #NLpol #USpol #Israel #Palestine #Sudan
New today: It’s a different camp, different year, different creek, but the same story. This story—the one where the Hill Country experiences devastating and unexpected flash #floods following an intense period of extended drought—is a familiar one for those of us who grew up in the area. https://www.texasobserver.org/hill-country-flood-family-home-fourth-of-july-2002/
#Kerrville #KerrCounty #Texas #CentralTexas #flooding #history #environment #weather #politics #USpol #news #ClimateChange
The administration is trying to kill every program that pops up in a search for the word “climate.” In the process, the heart is being cut out of agencies that produce information that the state needs to manage its environmental threats. https://www.texasobserver.org/trump-texas-doge-cuts-disaster-aid/
#weather #Trump #FEMA #politics #USpol #news #Texas #environment #ClimateChange
Elon Musk gutted the federal government, dismantled key institutions, and cut off food and medicine to some of the poorest people on the planet.
By leaving DOGE, he’s trying to restore his reputation and rescue his struggling businesses. He should never be allowed to recover.
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/elon-musks-reputation-must-be-beyond
Daily Beast:
LAPD Chief Calls BS on Trump’s Claim That Cops Asked Him for Troops
DIDN’T HAPPEN
Jim McDonnell says police were “nowhere near” the stage where they needed federal assistance
https://www.thedailybeast.com/lapd-chief-jim-mcdonnell-calls-bs-on-donald-trumps-claim-that-cops-asked-for-troops/
A Nation of Art Biennials
#politics #brazil #art #GoodNews
https://www.newcitybrazil.com/2025/05/07/a-nation-of-biennials/
KUTV: Hundreds march through downtown Salt Lake to protest against ICE raids, deportations
Updated Thu, June 12th 2025 at 9:35 PM
"...SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Hundreds of protestors gathered in downtown Salt Lake at Washington Square Park to stand in solidarity with anti-ICE protestors in Los Angeles...."
The fallout from the recent bill passed by MAGA will have a profound impact in those very deep red communities that helped get us to this point
"Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Oklahoma, Missouri, Minnesota, and Louisiana. Kentucky would experience the largest rural Medicaid spending reduction"
Maga will point to NY and scream "Blue state" but as with CAs non coastal areas, upstate NY is quite conservative in places. These places, coupled with this ongoing hard on for "defunding" Planned Parenthood, which is the only rural OBGYN provider in many areas and uses a separate fund for abortions, will double down on this.
Plus once a hospital goes under the ripple effects will be generational as they will be unlikely to get the capacity back and the community it serves will force them to drive hours for even primary care. Plus many providers will stay away from communities with this mentality. #politics #healthcare #medicare
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New today from Ana Flores: "I learned early as a Texan that our state doesn’t always fight for its people. Especially if you’re Latina. Especially if you’re undocumented. Especially if you’re young, brown, or poor." https://www.texasobserver.org/cuts-women-healthcare-reproductive-rights/
“Our country is really headed in a direction away from caring about individuals, and it’s still so shocking.”
New today at Austin Free Press: I spoke with the ACLU of #Texas, and the parents of local transgender teenagers, about the impact of the recent Supreme Court ruling which upholds bans on gender-affirming care for minors. https://austinfreepress.org/supreme-sadness/
#SCOTUS #Austin #trans #transgender #LGBTQIA+ #LGBTQ+ #news #politics #USpol #healthcare #gender #children #transphobia
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Aug 4
4 min
Epstein Nation
It's just a cozy community helping each other out. Billionaires repurpose the federal government to finance a new economy’s for human trafficking and crypto financial fraud and by its major client.
The two are intimately related through crypt o financial transfers
Epstein Nation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5D_QaDiqbo
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At this point it wouldn't surprise me to see Ghislaine Maxwell pardoned and end up as the new head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. #politics
U.S. agents suspected Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele and some in his inner circle of diverting USAID funds to MS-13 leaders. Agents sought to review any U.S. bank accounts held by 15 Salvadoran political figures including Bukele, other senior officials and their relatives.
#News #ElSalvador #Trump #Bukele #USAID #Politics #Government #Crime
So the #BureauofLaborStatistics released a #JobsReport that was not good
#Trump's solution?
Fire Dr. Erika McEntarfer, the Commissioner of Labor Statistics
This is how the #USA really dies
We're well beyond difference of opinion in #politics
We've moved into holding lies as more valuable than truth
If businesses, domestic or foreign, can't trust govt #data, they abandon #business in the USA
And they don't come back for a long time
#Trust is hard won, easily lost
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/01/trump-erika-mcentarfer-jobs-report-fired.html
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Framing is everything.
"You can keep your healthcare" is often listed as a "major lie" of "Obamacare" (they call it the ACA when they use it themselves)
The reason many people lost their "healthcare" is those plans were either completely destroyed by the ACA's offering beating it out, or just plain not actually qualifying as 'healthcare' under the new rules
People were mad the ACA exposed their plans as a scam
"Never Pay" plan from Monty Python
NBC News:
Actors Mark Ruffalo and Susan Sarandon among New York's protesters
Ruffalo told NBC News that he was marching "because democracy is in real trouble."
"We're not going away. We're not going to be quiet," he said. "We love each other, and ...we love this country..."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/live-blog/trump-military-parade-protests-live-updates-rcna212332/rcrd82198?canonicalCard=true
"I want you to imagine a toddler appearing in court to face off against a government-trained attorney trying to deport them. Think of their terror as they take their seat in the courtroom, legs swinging because they’re not long enough to reach the floor."
https://www.texasobserver.org/republicans-immigrant-children-budget-court/
#ICE #politics #USpol #news #Trump #HumanRights #immigration #fascism
Politics is a game that hides power. It purports to have "sides" -- A or B, red or blue, good or bad -- so that parasites wield control while followers on each side snipe at one another.
But if we must discuss sides, it should focus on the ridiculously, appallingly rich who grasp, wield, and use power and . . . the rest of us.
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#politics #news #USA #history #power #art #artwork #mastoart #fediart #buyintoart #ayearforart
Earlier: “If a young queer person fears that their parents might not be affirming, they need an outlet to process that. Having access to counselors at school can be a lifeline to young queer people who are trying to make sense of how they fit in the world and also trying to maintain a healthy relationship with their parents.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-lege-2025-anti-lgbtq-bills-passed/
#politics #USpol #LGBTQIA+ #Texas #law #education #healthcare #news
This headline is ridiculous. The US is currently cracking down on the people who harvest US tomatoes and sending them to a swamp concentration camp with no representation and due process, and publicly hoping people get eaten by alligators.
#cymraeg #cymru #politics #Ty_Hywel #welsh #parliament #senedd #pembroke I notice the #fash #tories all wear the combo badge 🏴 🇬🇧 #justsaying I just wear my tatts! 🇪🇺 
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Lula Says 2026 Has Begun and Rejects Handing the Country "Back to Neo-Nazism"
#politics #brazil #eleições2026
https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/brazil/2025/01/lula-says-2026-has-begun-and-rejects-handing-the-country-back-to-neo-nazism.shtml?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=comptw
Everyone assumes they would be the one pulling the lever but in reality that is someone else
#Meme #TrolleyProblem #Ethics #Capitalism #Capitalist #Politics
