I think the rest of the world sees America as a Mad Max hellscape, and we haven't even had our total collapse yet.
#GunReform
#GunControl

Not content with polluting Twitter and turning it into a waste dump, Musk wants to continue dumping wastewater into the Colorado River and residents aren't happy about it. Same old class politics, some billionaire with a stupid idea making life awful for everyone else.
Isn't he just the bestest?

We still have the Trump-era policy in place that allows officials to automatically expel undocumented migrants seeking entry, bypassing normal immigration laws and protections.
This dooms thousands of perfectly decent people to return to poverty-filled lives in which they're terrorized by drug gangs and other threats.
Doesn't seem very "woke," does it?

Lots of people on Twitter saying they're seeing tweets vanishing. I think it's because Elmo slashed too much infrastructure spending, but it could be an old glitch that's resurfaced, and now there are no engineers to fix it.
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-twitter-disappearing-tweets-1850253393

Yeah, if someone could maybe have a little chat with the Israelis and tell em to take it easy with those Palestinian civilians, that'd be great

AwwwWWW! 🤗

@RazzleDK1 @JLong - They do that with all the nationalist/racist dog-whistling. Those voters want someone to hate, someone to blame for all their misery; the elite don't want those people to see that they're the ones they should be fighting, with national strikes and such. When things are this bad for working people, they sort of glitch out and blame blacks, immigrants, women's rights, etc. because it's easy and fast.

I *told* you Zuck's Metaverse was like Second Life but it's even dumber and not ready for prime time.
This (very funny) article talks about what it's like in there: people have no legs, there's a ton of weirdos, virtual porn, and, well, it's mostly empty: Zuck was expecting a billion users, there's only 20M at the moment.
I have no interest in it at all, but you do you, seriously. Hard pass.
//nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html

@JLong - The party's a shell of its former self. They have to give workers something. Anything.

@Susandoyle - Very good band.

@RazzleDK1 @JLong - They need to reboot the party, go back to the days of unions, consumer rights and whatnot. They hate to hear it, and it's not Hillary's fault, but Bill's neoliberal "New Democrats" have been a disaster. Just horrible. They simply cannot beat the GOP in the predatory, anti-worker, anti-regulatory "free market" game. It's not in the party's DNA, it just isn't.

@JLong - The Dems' messaging has been awful for a long time. They make the McConnell crowd look like the Harlem Globetrotters.

@JLong - Definitely. There should have been a viable third party a long time ago, really.

@JLong - Nice. It does start to take shape the more you see of her. 😹

I literally cannot picture Marjorie Taylor-Greene in any other setting than watching old cowboy movies in a Texas Chainsaw Massacre house, with chickens and Guinea pigs running around the whole place and three super-smelly German shepherds barking constantly, which she really, really likes because she gets to hear her own voice going "SHUT! UP!" every 10 minutes.

Citizens aren't all stupid. They know what's good for them. When a government refuses to offer to pay to get them all trained in trades or provided with advanced education because it's too focused on expanding empire and enriching the rich, its leaders aren't doing their jobs, they're ruining the country, don't you think?

Last year, USA Today reported that since the start of covid, over 338,000 lives would have been saved if universal health care had been in place to address pre-existing conditions that contributed to COVID-related deaths.

It wasn't laziness that killed people, it was the systematic greed of our medical and pharmaceutical system.
Trump's politicization of the virus makes him guilty of pandemicide, but mass death was assured when a handful of unregulated-free-market capitalists smelled profits.

Twitter is going downhill fast. Elon's cutting corners on infrastructure and office space. The San Francisco HQ is down to 2 floors from 8. They closed the Sacramento data center and halved the Atlanta center, reduced AWS usage, and a good chunk of their Google Cloud is gone.

There's no room for the data.

Some techs on Reddit were joking that Elon might actually think he can run Twitter on his laptop. The consequences for all this are becoming alarmingly apparent to users large and small.

@Craig3010 - That's a good thing, definitely! 😊