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Okunoshima, better known as Rabbit Island, is home to around 900 rabbits.It was once called "the island erased from the map" &...

Okunoshima, better known as Rabbit Island, is home to around 900 rabbits.

It was once called "the island erased from the map" & contains many ruins from World War 2

#WW2 https://hiroshimaforpeace.com/en/the-island-erased-from-the-map-okunoshima/

school vouchers don't help disadvantaged kids. After the Arkansas Governor pushed through a voucher scheme, several schools raised their...

school vouchers don't help disadvantaged kids. After the Arkansas Governor pushed through a voucher scheme, several schools raised their tuition to keep #poor kids out. A school voucher is a grift to funnel your tax dollars into private hands

#poors #poverty #schoolvouchers #arkansas

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2023/jul/30/more-than-80-schools-apply-for-vouchers/

78 years ago today, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Here's one survivor's storyThe Slaughter of...

78 years ago today, the US dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. Here's one survivor's story

The Slaughter of #Hiroshima

"Walking through the park you pass a grass-covered mound, two or three meters high — containing the unidentifiable ashes of some seventy thousand human beings"

#AtomicBombs https://jacobin.com/2015/08/hiroshima-nagasaki-bombing-wwii

eat the richRishi Sunak is Still Trying to Hide His Financial InterestsThe Prime Minister’s pledge to bring in a new era of transparency,...

eat the rich

Rishi Sunak is Still Trying to Hide His Financial Interests

The Prime Minister’s pledge to bring in a new era of transparency, integrity & accountability now looks like A BIG FAT LIE

#RishiSunak #wealthy #politics #investments https://bylinetimes.com/2023/04/19/rishi-sunak-is-still-trying-to-hide-his-financial-interests/

"might makes right"An Interview With the Guy Who Was @Music on Twitter Until Elon Musk BLATANTLY STOLE his Username“As soon as I...

"might makes right"

An Interview With the Guy Who Was @Music on Twitter Until Elon Musk BLATANTLY STOLE his Username

“As soon as I got the email, I was just like, ‘This is bullcrap.’ ”

#theft https://slate.com/technology/2023/08/x-twitter-usernames-music-take-away-interview.html

The #poverty of industrial England was the backdrop of HG Wells’s childhood. This experience instilled in him a clear-eyed realism with...

The #poverty of industrial England was the backdrop of HG Wells’s childhood. This experience instilled in him a clear-eyed realism with which he rejected both utopian & progressive notions that #socialism could be won without #ClassStruggle

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/h-g-wells-socialism-progress-science-fiction

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE!! this will make your blood boil ...Just when you think our predatory for-profit ‘healthcare’ system cannot get...

YOUR MONEY OR YOUR LIFE!! this will make your blood boil ...

Just when you think our predatory for-profit ‘healthcare’ system cannot get any worse a #Louisville hospital is caught dumping sick elderly patients on the sidewalk & leaving them

#healthcare https://www.wave3.com/2023/06/29/its-like-im-worthless-troubleshooters-investigate-patient-dumping-allegations/

Joe Biden Wants You to Kill & Die for the murderous sexist SAUDI MONARCHY, like WTFH??The Biden administration is thinking about...

Joe Biden Wants You to Kill & Die for the murderous sexist SAUDI MONARCHY, like WTFH??

The Biden administration is thinking about pursuing a US-Saudi mutual defense pact. How does the prospect of US soldiers waging war for Mohammed Bonesaw sound to you?

#MBS #Saudi https://jacobin.com/2023/08/joe-biden-saudi-arabia-monarchy-mutual-defense-pact-war-foreign-relations

why is it always "poor people should cut back" instead of "billionaires should stop being such greedy psychopaths"?via...

why is it always "poor people should cut back" instead of "billionaires should stop being such greedy psychopaths"?

via BraveNewFilms

#wealth #greed #power #poverty

Right-wingers love to insist that members of Adolf Hitler’s party were socialists. But Nazism’s real economic policies upheld...

Right-wingers love to insist that members of Adolf Hitler’s party were socialists. But Nazism’s real economic policies upheld hypercapitalist principles rooted in social Darwinist ideas about the value of human life. They weren’t socialists at all

https://jacobin.com/2022/08/nazi-germany-national-socialism-hypercaptialism-social-darwinism-liberalism

Despite muskrat's stated desire for twitter to be a “free-speech bastion,” Musk’s long history of silencing critics has translated...

Despite muskrat's stated desire for twitter to be a “free-speech bastion,” Musk’s long history of silencing critics has translated into his willingness to use the site’s content policies to advance his own agenda

#FreeSpeech #lies https://www.thedailybeast.com/elon-musks-lawsuit-threats-prove-hes-a-free-speech-phony

grifting super-wealthy UK Prime Minister is shamelessly approving HUNDREDS OF NEW LICENSES for North Sea #oilandgas. His financial ties to...

grifting super-wealthy UK Prime Minister is shamelessly approving HUNDREDS OF NEW LICENSES for North Sea #oilandgas. His financial ties to oil giant & North Sea operator @Shell probably have nothing to do with it

#corruption https://bylinetimes.com/2022/07/19/rishi-sunaks-family-profiting-from-ties-to-oil-giant-shell/

"free speech" my arse: the only speech that muskrat believes should be free is HATE SPEECHTwitter Threatens Legal Action Against...

"free speech" my arse: the only speech that muskrat believes should be free is HATE SPEECH

Twitter Threatens Legal Action Against Nonprofit That Tracks #HateSpeech

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/31/technology/twitter-x-center-for-countering-digital-hate.html

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work on his Hawaii ranch, but he & other greedy wealthy landowners own land to benefit from huge agricultural...

Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work on his Hawaii ranch, but he & other greedy wealthy landowners own land to benefit from huge agricultural #tax breaks. The scheme ALLOWS THE SUPERRICH TO HOARD WEALTH AT THE EXPENSE OF THE GENERAL PUBLIC

#EatTheRich #greed https://jacobin.com/2023/06/agriculture-property-tax-break-use-value-assessment-superrich-mark-zuckerberg-investment

wow: Connecticut reduced its prison population by 50%, closed 10 prisons & reduced violent crime by 43% over a period of 10 years“It...

wow: Connecticut reduced its prison population by 50%, closed 10 prisons & reduced violent crime by 43% over a period of 10 years

“It is kind of remarkable. We could probably close a few more.”

#prison https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/mass-incarceration-reduction-crime-rates-connecticut.html

Rosa Luxemburg Anticipated the Destructive Impact of #Capitalist #GlobalizationRosa Luxemburg’s work The Accumulation of Capital described...

Rosa Luxemburg Anticipated the Destructive Impact of #Capitalist #Globalization

Rosa Luxemburg’s work The Accumulation of Capital described the havoc that capitalism wreaked upon what we now call the Global South. Today’s socialist and environmental activists can draw valuable insights from Luxemburg’s understanding of the world system

the #economy of #greed https://jacobin.com/2023/07/rosa-luxemburg-globalization-imperialism-marx-capital/

Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Perfected the Art of Originalism Jujitsu"she expertly wielded the conservatives’ own tools against them....

Ketanji Brown Jackson Has Perfected the Art of Originalism Jujitsu

"she expertly wielded the conservatives’ own tools against them. She spoke the language of the right to promote left-leaning principles."

#SCOTUS #CivilRights #BlackLivesMatter https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/07/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson-originalism-jujitsu.html

Another Monument to White Supremacy That Should Come Down? The Electoral College#WhiteSupremacy...

Another Monument to White Supremacy That Should Come Down? The Electoral College

#WhiteSupremacy #racism

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/another-monument-to-white-supremacy-that-should-come-down-the-electoral-college/

australian govt officials are FLAMING MORONS: they are mandating MURDERING NATIVE SPECIES to protect invasive introduced species ... WHUT...

australian govt officials are FLAMING MORONS: they are mandating MURDERING NATIVE SPECIES to protect invasive introduced species ... WHUT THE ACTUAL FCUK?

make this make sense ...

#Australia #swans https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-11-03/swans-culled-in-tas-central-highlands-over-trout-habitat/101608088

wow. i never thought i'd agree with lindsey graham on ANYTHING. but here we areLindsey Graham & Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to...

wow. i never thought i'd agree with lindsey graham on ANYTHING. but here we are

Lindsey Graham & Elizabeth Warren: When It Comes to Big Tech, Enough is enough. It’s time to rein in Big Tech.

Nobody elected #BigTech execs to govern anything, let alone THE ENTIRE DIGITAL WORLD

#SocialMedia https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/27/opinion/lindsey-graham-elizabeth-warren-big-tech-regulation.html