The disabled high risk are among the few people masking in public at all for health reasons. And many can’t even afford the best medical respiratory protection available.
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Crypto connected real estate man revolving-doored in & out of the Shapiro admin and into data center consultancy.
Dodgy looking conflict of interest crypto & AI stuff in Pennsylvania.
AI boosters use the vulnerable people as scapegoats tactic.
Sometimes it’s meant as a way to put people at ease who believe themselves to not be at risk, and sometimes it’s a way to say it just happens to “those other people” and that’s ok actually.
Labor precarity and the weaponization of communication.
People just don’t trust unknown funding, nor hiding stuff. And people don’t like to find out that someone they thought was speaking truth to power is actually towing a prescribed party line.
The federal government is essentially embracing eugenics programming.
My letter to the editor, and to elected reps who are supposed to be overseeing healthcare and science, but Republicans seem to be embracing a new Dark Ages instead.
Imagine being shamed for wearing a seatbelt or getting up and leaving a building when a fire alarm rings.
It’s bizarre that there are still people who have been convinced into having hangups about wearing a respirator mask.
If Trump crashes and burns, the tycoons are still trying to take over.
Not all fellow travelers are allies. And no kings means no to data center power plant schemes, AI slop, and crypto corruption.
The Jeffrey Epstein case is not a “conspiracy theory”, stop conflating it with Pizzagate.
Sure Trump is chucking his Qanon base into the Deep State Dumpster over the Jeffrey Epstein case, but real crimes actually happened, it was proven in court.
Pennsylvania AI boondoggle summit as full of BS and unwanted garbage as expected.
I listened to Trump at the Republican data center power plant “summit” in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and read about Josh Shapiro’s involvement so you don’t have to. (You can thank me later.)
How is anyone safe without due process if I can’t even prove my identity on an credit card application?
I have excellent credit, applied for an Apple Card, was turned down repeatedly; the reason they gave: they couldn’t verify my identity. I have not been given a way to prove my identity.
The US needs migrant farm workers not because Americans are lazy, but because Americans are privileged.
I wish people (on the left) would stop saying that “immigrants do jobs Americans don’t want” because that just really plays into the right-wing frame of “lazy people don’t wanna work”.
Government determines the distribution of wealth. That’s not charity, it’s governance.
Social insurance is not charity. Social programs make a civilization work.
We do need a shadow cabinet, but a private medical society is unlikely to overthrow the current regime.
Don’t wait for some elite doctors and scientists to save science for the people from “behind the scenes”.
People need to crowd out the pro-industry political consultants.
Dem politicians are listening to political consultants when they should be listening to their constituents, and we need to tip that math in the other direction.
The Abundance agenda is totally gaslit.
The Abundance Agenda really represents a bunch of people who want to hold their world together with the cheeks of their asses.
If you “agree with” any of MAHA you’re signing onto eugenics.
MAHA is a movement involving anti-vax eugenicist principles. Even if you can pick out one little part of it that sounds ok, do you really want to sign on to the stink of eugenics?
Netflix takes Sesame Street as spoils of the defunding of public broadcasting.
Good gravy don’t buy into the “privatization will save us from authoritarianism” narrative.
Pope Leo XIV throws down the gauntlet against AI hype.
At his first “working meeting”, the pope outlined his priorities to include defending “human dignity” against the threat of AI, citing the dehumanizing effects of the industrial revolution.
Don’t take public health prescriptions from repeatedly wrong Doctor Monica Gandhi.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 023
Is the Pope Marxist?
The bear poops in the woods and Pope Leo XIV was born in Chicago, lived in Peru a lot, and has spent a large part of his life ordained in Holy Orders, so we know he’s Catholic.