I'd rather vote for something I want and not get it, than something I don't want and get it. - Eugene Debs

This is outrageous. A small town in Michigan did everything right to stop OpenAI & Oracle from building a $16 billion data center in their town. The people of Saline Township flooded their council meeting, put up signs all over town, and convinced their officials to reject it. The officials voted against the data center 4-1, and that should have been the end. But two days later the developers sued, and the town couldn’t afford to fight back in court. We are not a free nation when billion-dollar corporations can take over the land of our communities and towns. We are a captive nation ruled by corporations and billionaires.

You gotta hear this one:

War crimes

Aisha Gaddafi, the daughter of the slain Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, has addressed the people of Iran. "Negotiations with wolves do not lead to the salvation of the herd - they merely set the date for the next hunt," she stated. According to her, the West assured her father that if he gave up on nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, the world would open its doors to him. "He believed it, made concessions... And NATO's bombs turned Libya into ruins". She urged Iranians not to make concessions to the enemy, as they do not lead to peace, but only to destruction.

Anyone can become disabled at any time. Your life can change in an instant, no matter how strong and healthy you think you are. People will leave you. Funds will dry up. Life will get tougher. It’s not a moral failing. It’s a minority group you can join anytime.

Now this is what a real American hero looks like…. Brave Ex-Marine and Humanitarian🤍🕊️☮️

Happy International Women’s Day to everyone in the struggle for liberation

🇷🇺🌍🇺🇸 Comparing early 20th century cartoons of Africa from the Soviet Union vs the USA.

It's not okay for grown adults to believe the United States wages wars to promote humanitarian interests and bring freedom and democracy to oppressed populations. It's not okay for grown adults to believe that US soldiers fight and die to protect their country and its citizens. It's not okay for grown adults to believe US military interventionism in the middle east has anything to do with women's rights or making life better for women. It's not okay for grown adults to believe good things come from the US military attacking middle eastern nations and toppling their governments. It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US government tells the truth about its wars and the reasons it wages them. It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US are the Good Guys who are fighting evil Bad Guys like the heroes in a children's cartoon show. It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US government is less murderous and tyrannical than the Iranian government. It's not okay for grown adults to swallow obvious atrocity propaganda about horrific actions allegedly perpetrated by a US-targeted government. It's not okay for grown adults to consume western news media about a war without extreme skepticism about all the information they're being fed. It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US fights wars for self-defense. It's not okay for grown adults to believe the government that allows its own citizens to die of poverty and disease cares deeply about the plight of the Iranian people. It's not okay for grown adults to support this war because of some shit that was written in the Bible. It's not okay for grown adults to believe the life of an Iranian matters less than the life of an American. It's not okay for grown adults to believe the US military is used to make the world a better place. It’s not okay for grown adults to believe this war will make Iran more free and democratic. It's not okay for grown adults to believe this war will benefit anyone besides Israel and western oligarchs.

No, this is incorrect. The key isn't finding a balance between blissful ignorance and painful awareness, it’s learning to find happiness in sources that don’t depend on the delusional belief that everything is fine. It’s very possible to be both happy and well-informed. We live in an explosively beautiful universe, and getting to experience anything at all is amazing. The fact that our world is plagued by human butchery and degradation does not cancel out the majesty of a bird in the sky, or the ecstasy of the wind upon your skin. It is true that we live in a civilization of unfathomable cruelty. It is true that our biosphere is being strangled while human and non-human beings are subjected to horrific abuses in a society which elevates the worst art, the worst values, and the worst people to the highest levels of prominence. It is also true that getting to live even a single moment on this astonishing blue planet is a gift worthy of immense joy and gratitude. These things are both fully true at the same time. They do not negate each other. Don’t find your happiness in the belief that everything is okay, because everything is not okay. If you spend your life squirming around trying to avert your gaze from the truth and psychologically compartmentalizing away from reality, you will never know actual happiness. Instead, find your happiness in that which cannot be corrupted by this fraudulent dystopia. Your connections with your loved ones. That’s real and authentic. The radiance of the natural world. That’s real and authentic. The crackling aliveness of the senses. That’s real and authentic. The boundless peace deep down at the heart of your being which reveals itself if you listen closely enough. That’s real and authentic. These things can supply endless happiness, even as the world burns, and even as you weep at its burning. Because it is entirely possible to honor the grief and tragedy of this world while also delighting in its beauty. You can weep for the dying oceans while marveling at the stars. You can rage for Gaza while reveling in the earth beneath your bare feet. You can open your heart to all the suffering and to all the wonder. You can fall to your knees in both anguish and gratitude. You can do these things because feelings move through you if you don’t cling to them. You feel them fully without resistance, you invite them in to have their say, and then you let them leave when they are done. It usually doesn’t take long; a few minutes, maybe even seconds. Then you get up and go back to marveling at the miracle. Feelings are meant to be felt. If you simply feel them all the way through when they come up instead of repressing them or trying to manage them, they move through fairly quickly without setting up a permanent residence in your chest. But you’ve got to really let them have their say. You’ve got to give yourself fully over to them. This takes practice if you don’t know how to do it, and because of the way our culture conditions people it tends to be harder for men than for women. But it’s a skill like any other, and anyone can teach themselves how to do it. Appreciating the beauty of this terrestrial experience likewise takes practice. Everything is crackling with beauty all the time, but we don’t notice it because our attention gets wrapped up in mental stories. Just make a conscious practice of noticing beauty at every opportunity, and your aperture for appreciating beauty will get wider and wider. You can learn to live your whole life in this way, from moment to moment. If you can get the hang of these two skills—appreciating beauty and feeling your feelings all the way through—then there will be nothing stopping you from living a joyful and fulfilling life while also having an entirely truth-based relationship with reality.

Wow, this chart is simply unreal. How is this even possible in a developed country in the twenty-first century?

They entered the country legally. They had a pending asylum case. They had zero criminal history. They were going to the hospital to address their child's nosebleed. Now they're all in a cage somewhere down in Texas.

KY gave $250,000,000 to this company; now they're challenging the democratic decision to unionize at Trump's anti-worker NLRB. Economic development should benefit the working class, not just the wealthy few & hope it trickles down. Incentives must require voluntary recognition!

RT this to make weak dudes angry and strong dudes happy <3

Nobody has ever been more vindicated in history than the abolish ICE people

Drop a ❤️ for this little angel! 🇵🇸 Pray for her, don't stop talking about our children!

Pass it on ✊🏽 #ProtectPalestine

In recognition of the unpaid labor of mothers everywhere: Happy #MothersDay. 💐

Nobody can ever say that they didn't know!