America’s obesity epidemic is a function of our car culture. This is the only country on God’s green Earth that feels putting in sidewalks is a moral failure.
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It really is that simple. I wish I had received this kind of support.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•An isolated John Fetterman clashes with colleagues and staff as he skips his Senate duties5·5 days agoAlso, I can protest and play XBOX with Wendy’s.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Industry groups are not happy about the imminent demise of Energy Star181·6 days agoThen keep it going. Have California, New York, New Jersey, and Michigan all pass state laws that require EnergyStar compliance.
There is no international market anymore; if an American manufacturer wants to sell their products, they’ll match the requirements and regulations of the biggest markets for them. Nobody will be able to afford undercutting anymore, which means nobody will be able to afford to lose any market share.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•President proclaims doubling of ICE troops - 20k forces in the next 60 days | Whitehouse.gov2·6 days ago“Vagrancy”? Good lord it really is the 1920s again.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•President proclaims doubling of ICE troops - 20k forces in the next 60 days | Whitehouse.gov4·6 days agoAll of Trump’s beliefs are malleable and for sale. Hell, he used to call Elon Musk a bootlicker. All it took to gain his unending respect was a sack with a dollar sign on it.
“No, today I will NOT spend three hours spamming my friends about The Simpsons,” he said, finishing up a three hour rant about The Simpsons.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•3 people die in ICE custody in April as conditions worsen in immigration jails4·11 days agoChildren can be criminals. Have you ever read Oliver Twist? /s
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•3 people die in ICE custody in April as conditions worsen in immigration jails14·11 days agoI am a natural citizen of Usonia and I fucking gasp every time I hear through the grapevine that someone from a(n) (formerly) allied nation took the risk to travel here. I understand that most don’t have much choice, but my home is unrecognizable to me now.
Don’t come here, and I am saying this as someone who benefits from Canadian tourism. I have a deep, long-time love and appreciation for the Canadian people and their First Nations — it breaks my heart to even say so, but please, for your own safety, do not come here!
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•3 people die in ICE custody in April as conditions worsen in immigration jails19·11 days agoI am struggling to get my fellow Americans to understand that in WW2, we built concentration camps for Japanese people and were detaining them in these numbers. Everyone just wistfully calls them “internment camps.”
I don’t know what the fuck is wrong with this culture but we are just perennially unable to recognize things for what they are. It’s like we have this built-in need to be lied to. If the government doesn’t do it, we brew up our own homemade lies.
msprout@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•Some US cities are canceling cultural events over fears of ICE raids and deportations471·11 days agoCan’t blame em. Time for all of those amazing white cultures to step up and offer their incredible spicy ethnic foods for all to enjoy.
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Oh. Oh no.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Maga’s era of ‘soft eugenics’: let the weak get sick, help the clever breed271·12 days agoThe one thing about a low replacement rate that brings me comfort is knowing that the very material realities of our world agonize white supremacists every second of every day.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Suggests Republicans Start Expelling Dems From Congress15·14 days agoHonestly I wonder how long it’ll take before these goobers just lock the doors of Congress during a recess with a U-lock.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Is Plotting Shock-and-Awe ‘Purge’ of White House Staff19·14 days agoGod, what the fuck else is new? That has been every day since January, man.
msprout@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•May Day demonstrations in US and around the globe protest Trump agenda12·14 days agoIt honestly shocked me so much that I had to do some research before bed just to make sure that number was right. Seems like it was. But I also was there in Pittsburgh during the riots that happened during the 2009 G20 summit, and that also saw similar numbers of people arrested and charged.
No city has resources, especially right now, to find charges that stick on all those people, so they put everyone in front of a judge on a rapid fire basis, and that judge basically triages the ones with charges that would actually matter. I saw something like 80% of the cases get dropped entirely, though, many months later, which is still plenty of time to ruin a worker’s life.
msprout@lemmy.worldto News@lemmy.world•May Day demonstrations in US and around the globe protest Trump agenda56·14 days agoI saw on the news last night that here in Philly, there were almost 70 arrests by city police of a group of union demonstrators doing an organized sit-in. When they were hauling one middle-aged black lady away, the news shoved a microphone in her face and asked if it was worth it. She just replied, “solidarity forever.” ✊🏻
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Ketanji Brown Jackson sharply condemns Trump’s attacks on judges12·14 days agoYup. I hope she stays safe. She seems especially sane.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•DOGE recruits college kid to help rewrite housing regulations with AI1·15 days agoY’know, every day, I think I realize more and more that the guys doing generative AI search optimization are the real geniuses. If you can bake a biased statement into a gigantic model, I guess it’s pretty difficult to ever get it out specifically.
msprout@lemmy.worldto politics @lemmy.world•Trump Orders Hegseth, Bondi to Send Military Assets to State, Local Police 'to Prevent Crime' in Latest Executive Order144·16 days agoAll the anti-2a people have accomplished is to help the fascists into power and render themselves helpless against them.
Fascism is here, and the Second Amendment has never once been restricted in any practical fashion. That means that fascism rose to power while everyone was fuckin strapped. Nobody has done shit so far except that one kid in Butler who was a bad shot.
What do you still need so that you’d have been a genuine threat to the world’s global military hedgemon? A personal F-15 Eagle?
That second one is brilliant.