Fediverse graybeards always knew how Bluesky (and Threads) would play out. We know multi-billionaire Jack Dorsey belongs to the big club that you ain’t in.

“Latest” meaning “final/last,” not “most recent.”

Corporate media seldom publicly catch heat because they usually self-censor, thus maintaining the illusion press freedom.

Always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise they won’t go to yours.

It’s the same data Amazon and most e-tailers collect. The difference between Temu and Amazon is Jeff Bezos attended Trump’s inauguration, while Temu is a competitor based in China, which the US considers its greatest enemy.

Now what I saw next was completely unexpected: my email is sent out in plain text.

Yeah, that’s how email has always worked. Even if you go out of your way to use Proton, PGP, or S/MIME, your metadata is still in plaintext.

I think it’s pretty straightforward. If the health care system worked, or if they weren’t poor, they would have had a battery backup.

What the fuck is Laura Ullrich smoking?

This phenomena ruined so many African nations. A dictator comes in, defleeces the economy and disappears. Leaving the country open to leveraged loans, and world banks.

That is a very different phenomenon. Those countries owed money in a foreign currency, namely US dollars. The US also owes in US dollars, but that is its own domestic currency, which it can print at will.

The US has no need to take on these USD loans, because it is the issuer of that very currency.

So why is the US borrowing its own currency? To give the wealthy a safe place to park their capital with interest. Why would the US do that? Because the wealthy want it to do that, and they run the state.

She contracted COVID-19 twice, and then developed long COVID, needing to rely on the iron lung around the clock.

She’d been using an iron lung since the age of 5, since 1953, but what ultimately did her in was the combination of long COVID and iron lung.

Lillard struggled with access to healthcare, and last year, a tornado knocked out power to her iron lung. Her husband, Baha Seleh, gave her mouth-to-mouth resuscitation until help arrived.

If the the health care system worked, or if they were wealthy, she wouldn’t have been done in by a dilapidating iron lung.

Long covid is woke, and wokeness is a thoughtcrime.

Have they run afoul of their CIA handlers?

You don’t value travel. It’s a waste of money to you. But regardless of individual tastes, anyone’s quality of life is degraded by poverty, and this population shift indicates increasing poverty.

Read the room, namely the ballooning proportion of impoverished US residents.

These kinds of outbreaks are the inevitable result of dismantling federal institutions for our common welfare.

I can excuse war crimes against brown people, but I draw the line at white people rape allegations.

That’s President Daddy to you, Runte.

US leftists are a small minority as it is, but ones who aren’t social-chauvinist, sometimes it feels like we count in the dozens.