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Jay Bryant
Jay Bryant
@jaybryant.bsky.social
Retired writer, editor, and software developer. Very liberal fan of Bernie Sanders. Proponent of letting people make their own choices rather than letting the government tell women to not have abortions and the families of trans kids to not have treatment.
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That's how they've looted the nation for decades now. Imagine the nation we could have if the 50 trillion dollars that have been directed to .1% had been spread among the working and middle classes: Universal health care, free college for anyone who can get passing grades, one-income families, etc.
🔥 BEN MEISELAS ERUPTS: The Cheesecake Factory faux outrage exposes the propaganda machine. They brainwash Americans into fighting each other while oligarchs steal our healthcare, send our kids to endless wars, and buy more yachts. Divide the people. Enrich the oligarchs.
Damn. 90 and much loved by many is a good run. But still, damn.
My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.
The energy we need from the Ds here in the US.
It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.
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My first five TTRPGs: 1. White box D&D: 1977 2. The Arduin Grimoire: 1977 3. Traveller: 1978 4. Gamma World: 1979 5. Top Secret: 1979 Bonus: Melee (and then Wizard): 1979 It's a seven-hex dragon! Hat tip to @sjgames.com, since my group has been playing GURPS since 1986. 🙂
Surgery. In 1980, I had to have knee surgery. Arthroscopic surgery was still on the horizon in my little town, so it was the full procedure, and the recovery was months long.
Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?
Imagine would life for the middle and working classes could be if we hadn't committed this horrible idiocy: no one bankrupted by health care, college for anyone who can maintain decent grades, families living on one income, and more. Trickle-down fuckery took all that from us.
The upward redistribution of wealth over the past 50 years has shifted $80 trillion from the bottom 90% of Americans to the top 1%. That’s $80 trillion that would have gone into the paychecks of the working class. The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
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The right gets off on cruelty, not realizing that the oligarchs will inflict it on them, too.
If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. And we certainly wouldn't have public executions. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It's about cruelty.
I'm done with Newsom. We can do better.
It’s bad enough that Gavin Newsom opposes California’s Prop 40. But he also supports Prop 42, a billionaire-backed poison pill that would cancel out Prop 40 entirely and make it impossible to enact future wealth taxes. It’s clear whose side he’s on. Remember this in 2028.
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Yet another reminder that he's a demented narcissist who believes anything he says must be true. As I say every day, may he die today.
Q: You said Russia and Ukraine agreed to a ceasefire, but both sides said they have not agreed to that TRUMP: Well they agreed, you know why? Because I said 'you agree.' That's why.
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