toussaint

toussaint, 15 days ago to random

"Young voters do not look at our politics and see any good guys. They see a dying empire led by bad people.”
#election #vote https://www.semafor.com/article/05/28/2024/a-dying-empire-led-by-bad-people-poll-finds-young-voters-despairing-over-us-politics

toussaint, 22 days ago to random

The Pentagon has never successfully passed an audit and cannot account for over half of its assets.

Lockheed Martin gets more money from the US government than the Dept of Education

Why are taxpayers spending nearly $1 trillion a year to enrich a few arms manufacturers? #CapitalismIsKillingYou
https://newrepublic.com/article/181289/stop-war-profiteering

toussaint, 23 days ago to random

More Perfect Union:
Red Lobster had $2.3B in sales in 2021. Now it's filing for bankruptcy. Some blame endless shrimp, but the truth is simpler: private equity
Golden Gate Capital, a private equity firm, bought them in 2014.

To finance this deal, Golden Gate sold off Red Lobster's real estate to another entity —American Realty Capital Properties — and then immediately leased the restaurants back.
Suddenly, restaurants had extra rent expenses...
#CapitalismIsKillingYou
https://www.businessinsider.com/red-lobster-endless-shrimp-bankruptcy-private-equity-debt-real-estate-2024-5

toussaint, 24 days ago to random

1. its better than nothing
2. it upholds my moms rule of being better than a stick in the eye
3. at least history will note that not all of humanity were craven genocidal maniacs
   #freepalestine https://youtu.be/tdJNAgI7e0I

toussaint, 25 days ago to acab

meanwhile...the Texas governor just pardoned a pedophile who murdered a man in cold premeditated blood. All im saying is that if they gonna give ya 70 for spitting, you might as well get your moneys worth #ACAB #DEFUND
https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2023/04/14/texas-man-sentenced-to-70-years-in-prison-for-spitting-on-police-officers-reports-say/

toussaint, 26 days ago to random

looks like Rudy is having so much fun on his birthday...oh wait

In front of nearly 75 guests, two officials with Arizona’s attorney general’s office arrived at the shindig around 11 p.m. to hand Giuliani the papers in the case alleging he and 17 others were involved in a plot to overturn the 2020 election, the sources said. Some partygoers started screaming and one woman even cried as Giuliani was served.

toussaint, 27 days ago to random

US banks were the biggest financiers of the fossil fuel industry, contributing 30% of the total $705bn provided in 2023, the report found.
JP Morgan Chase gave the most of any bank in the world, providing $40.8bn to fossil fuel companies in 2023,
while Bank of America came in third.
#CapitalismIsKillingYou
https://theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/13/banks-almost-7tn-fossil-fuel-firms-paris-deal-report?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

#ApartheidIsrael learned everything they know abt genocide form the US:

"39 years ago today the City of Philadelphia dropped a bomb on a rowhouse on Osage Avenue belonging to MOVE, a West Philadelphia-based Black liberation and activist group. The bombing and fire killed 11 people, and destroyed 61" homes. https://inquirer.com/move-bombing/

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

look libs, i know hes talking abt going around trump and that makes you feel safe and happy, but this former general/security advisor to presidents/thumb person is saying that the military industrial complex has a deep state and it will go around the commander in chief if they think they know better than the elected officials. dont listen to what the president says, hes not in charge...who is in charge, & how will he be 'convinced'?

this is bad actually
https://asia.nikkei.com/Politics/Defense/U.S.-will-defend-Japan-Taiwan-if-Trump-wins-election-H.R.-McMaster

toussaint, 1 month ago to climate

the war in Gaza has added the CO2 emissions of a country the size of Sweden #climate #climatechange #ClimateCrisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/08/world-scientists-climate-failure-survey-global-temperature

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

its not good enough that the US can throw an asylum seeker out BEFORE a trial just based on a preliminary interview with ICE then make them wait for trial in Mexico, now Biden wants to be able to throw you out based on the computer application, you know, let AI do the racism for you w/o having to pay that pesky government employee who might take pity on another human being
#CapitalismIsKillingYou https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/08/biden-migrants-asylum-changes-00156865

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

Cindy McCain says, There is ‘full-blown famine’ in northern Gaza as #ApartheidIsrael continues its genocide with an assault of Rafah, the 'safe zone', today, just in time since they kicked out anyone who can report on whats happening. Truly a sad day for humanity on this Holocaust Remembrance Day #freepalestine https://alquds.com/ar/posts/119426

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

Biden is AGAIN asking for $37B for 100,000 more cops. Google & see hes been trying this since 2022, even tho he let states use $15B in #covid funds for cops. Remember this when dummies tell you cops got #DEFUND
Look at the city you live in and i bet you anything the cops budget is roughly 50% of the total city budget, yet it is never enough. Biden looked at the campus crackdowns and said, we need MORE cops to crack the heads of people who were not fighting back.
FUCK JOE BIDEN & the #CorpoDems

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

The FTC just found evidence that American oil companies colluded with the Saudi government to hike gas prices, causing 27% of all #inflation, costing the average family $3,000 last year.
#CapitalismIsKillingYou https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/an-oil-price-fixing-conspiracy-caused?publication_id=11524&post_id=144247362&isFreemail=false&r=60tq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

back in my day...brains were everywhere, and they were cheap too, everyone had 'em

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

US House just passed a law limiting your freedom of speech. you cant say having a country based on race/ethnicity is wrong IF you are talking about #ApartheidIsrael
You cant compare what israel is doing in Gaza to the Nazi's even tho they are running the place like the warsaw ghetto. The US House just outsourced the definition in our laws to an international organization called holocaust remembrance alliance, they subbed their definition for anti-semitism and put it into our law
#freepalestine

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

my 2cents on protest:

i think they are LOW yield for the amount of work/money/arrest. With 150 colleges protesting, ONE school, Brown U, has agreed, not to divest from #ApartheidIsrael, but to hold a vote to divest SIX MONTHS from now.

i think the 1000 students at Columbia protesting shoulda went to the Admin building, got transfer forms, filled them out, handing them in together, saying; we will take our $66,000,000 to a school that doesnt invest in genocide next year, will that be Columbia?

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

"Nearly 40 million FAMILIES, or 29% of the population, fall in the ALICE category — Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed — according to United Way’s United For ALICE program, which first coined the term to refer to households earning above the poverty line but less than what’s needed to get by.

That figure doesn’t include the 37.9 million Americans who live in poverty..."

This means 40%+ of america is struggling is this 'good' economy
#CapitalismIsKillingYou
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/29/29percent-of-us-households-have-jobs-but-struggle-to-cover-basic-needs.html

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

all pretense of liberal democracy in australia is peeled away by this story of a special forces lawyer who got so tired of war crime reports coming across his desk that he finally became a whistleblower.
He leaked those reports to the press, only for ABC australia to smear him in an attempt to cover their own ass with the corrupt government.
ABC helped the government put him in jail for life.
This is the doublespeak era and its coming to a 'western democracy' near you. https://youtu.be/sYt4CxFfQUU?si=4HeHWGHT74Co5G6c

toussaint, 1 month ago to random

"{at least seven State Dept bureaus} have advised Sec of State Antony Blinken that they do not find "credible or reliable" Israel's assurances that it is using U.S.-supplied weapons in accordance with international humanitarian law, according to an internal State Department memo reviewed by Reuters.
Blinken must report to Congress by May 8 whether he finds credible Israel's assurances that its use of U.S. weapons does not violate U.S. or international law"
#freepalestine
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/some-us-officials-say-internal-memo-israel-may-be-violating-international-law-2024-04-27/