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Justice Alito when it comes to his wife: “She makes her own decisions, and I have always respected her right to do so.” Justice Alito when it comes to other women’s decisions about their own bodies: “Go fuck yourselves.”

From 1978 to 2022, CEO pay grew by 1,209% while the typical worker's pay rose just 15%. This explosion in CEO pay relative to the pay of average workers isn’t because CEOs have become so much more valuable than before. They've just gamed the system to line their pockets.

My god. This is scary as hell. time.com/6972021/donald-trum…

Billionaires who condemned Trump are now flocking to his campaign. It’s obvious why. Biden wants a 25% tax on billionaires. Trump wants to double down on tax cuts for the rich. All they care about is lining their own pockets no matter the cost to everyone else.

What a group of the worst humans, supporting the worst human.

This!

Why are things expensive? 4 companies control 55% to 85% of the meat market. 4 airlines control 80% of air travel. 3 companies control 92% of the soda market. 3 companies control 73% of the cereal market. Why don't I hear about it? 6 companies control 90% of the news.

Trump facing a criminal trial on March 25 is significant. To understand, review the bidding. First, before Trump was President, he hid his payments (the hush money) to avoid a criminal indictment then. Second, he then became President, and said he couldn’t be indicted for his past crimes like the hush money while in office. Third, he then committed more serious crimes in office (the Mueller report lists 10), and he said he couldn’t be prosecuted for his crimes as a sitting President while in office. Fourth, he then got voted out of office, and so committed even more crimes to try to stay in office (the Jan. 6 charges, some of the most significant charges in the book), and said he couldn’t be prosecuted for them while he was still President. Fifth, b/c he couldn't be prosecuted, Congress impeached him and he said he couldn’t be impeached because the only remedy was to prosecute him after he leaves office, not to impeach him. Sixth, he then leaves office and he’s prosecuted (as per exactly what his lawyers said could happen to him), and he now says he can’t be prosecuted because he is absolutely immune from prosecution for acts while he was President. Seventh, for crimes he committed when he was NOT President (like the New York ones), he is now saying he can’t be prosecuted for those either, b/c he’s he’s a candidate for President again (as his lawyer argued in court today). And oh, eighth, he filed a brief in the US Supreme Court today saying because he was not impeached, he can't be convicted. What is this? What Constitution on earth would permit this?

The NFL still won’t accept responsibility for its damaged players washingtonpost.com/sports/20…

I think a harm of online activism is the "THIS IS ACTUALLY EASY" argument. I've seen lots of folks indicate that a single billionaire could solve homelessness, or that there are 30x more houses than homeless people so we could just give them all houses. These words are fantastic for activating people, but they are also lies. The US government currently spends around 50B per year keeping people housed. States, of course, have their own budgets. If Bill Gates spent the same amount of money the US does just to keep people housed, he would be out of money in 3 years. I think that would be a great use of his money, but it would not be a permanent solution. The statistics about there being more houses than homeless are just...fake. They rely on looking at extremely low estimates of homelessness (which are never used in any other context) and include normal vacancy rates (an apartment is counted as vacant even if it's only vacant for a month while the landlord is finding a new tenant.) In a country with 150,000,000 housing units, a 2% vacancy rate is three million units, which, yes, is greater than the homeless population. But a 2% vacancy rate is extremely low (and bad, because it means there's fewer available units than there are people looking to move, which drives the price of rent higher.) Housing should not be an option in this country. It should be something we spend tons of money on. It should be a priority for every leader and every citizen. it should also be interfaced with in real, complex ways. And it should be remembered that the main way we solve the problem is BUILDING MORE HOUSING, which I find a whole lot of my peers in seemingly progressive spaces ARE ACTUALLY OPPOSED TO. Sometimes they are opposed to it because they've heard stats that the problem is simple and could be solved very easily if only we would just decide to solve it, which is DOING REAL DAMAGE. By telling the simplest version of the story, you can get people riled up, but what do you do with that once they're riled up if they were riled up by lies? There are only two paths: 1. Tell them the truth...that everything they've been told is actually a lie and that the problem is actually hard. And, because the problem is both big and hard, tons of people are working very hard on it, and they should be grateful for (or even become) one of those people. 2. Keep lying until they are convinced that the problem does not exist because it is hard, it exists because people are evil. Or, I guess, #3, people could just be angry and sad all the time, which is also not great for affecting real change. I dunno...I'm aware that people aren't doing this because they want to create a problem, and often they believe the fake stats they are quoting, but I do not think it is doing more good than harm, and I would like to see folks doing less of it. One thing that definitely does more good than harm is actually connecting to the complexity of an issue that is important to you. Do that...and see that there are many people working hard. We do not have any big, easy problems. If we did, they'd be solved. I'm sorry, it's a bummer, but here we are.

Adjudicated rapist wins N.H. primary, calls female 'Birdbrain '

Every day they tell us what the game plan is. It’s not a secret that the strategy is to create chaos rather than solutions.

Many folks who use “woke” with contempt today probably would have hated Daddy when he was alive. He was very conscious and committed to eradicating what he called the Triple Evils of racism, poverty and militarism. If you’re quoting him to stop truthful teaching about him…

In separate legal rulings, Trump has been found to have committed rape, business fraud, and insurrection. And yet he remains the Republican presidential front runner. Don't ever tell me again that the GOP is the party of "family values" or "law and order."

Anyone against Diversity Equity, & Inclusion does not believe in American values. “Diversity” is E Pluribus Unum, out of many one. “Equity” is the belief that all men are created equal and endowed with unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

listen up, stupids: John McCain lost his election and fucked off back to Congress. Mitt Romney lost his election and fucked off back to Congress. Hillary Clinton lost her election and fucked off and went home. Al Gore challenged the results in ONE STATE, and when he lost, he fucked off and went home. Donald Trump lost his election and freaked the fuck out and sent a mob of armed morons to the Capitol to disrupt the certification, and he also headed up a ginormous criminal conspiracy to commit election fraud in Georgia, all so he could cling to power — because he's a big fucking baby who can't deal with being the huge fucking loser that he is. and that's why your guy is in deep fucking shit right now

This. Really important thread.