GrrlScientist

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

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/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to Arkansas

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/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to politics

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/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

"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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to socialism

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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to Louisville

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/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

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

via BraveNewFilms

#wealth #greed #power #poverty

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to FreeSpeech

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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

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/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

"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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to eattherich

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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to incarcerated

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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to geopolitics

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/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

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/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to australia

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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to internet

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

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

how can any sane person believe ANYTHING this greedy lying liar says?

Tesla FAKED DASHBOARD RANGE PROJECTIONS under ORDERS FROM @ElonMusk, duping owners into thinking they could drive farther before recharging. Last year, complaints became so high it created a special team to start canceling owners’ service appointments

#TeslaEV #lyingliar https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/tesla-batteries-range/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

i make generous use of mute & block of ALL who $upport #x (i also refuse to buy their junk) so i already know what the inevitable effect will be from ME

Rather than ban neo-Nazis--who are scaring advertisers off the platform--#XTwitter is threatening brands they will lose their check mark if they haven’t spent at least $1,000 on ads in the last 30 days or $6,000 on ads in the last 180 days

https://truthout.org/articles/twitter-threatens-to-nix-advertisers-verification-if-they-dont-spend-more/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

"might makes right"

Elon Musk steals @X handle from longtime Twitter user

The sudden takeover of the handle highlights the branding and intellectual property rights issues that Musk’s company now has to deal with

#ElonMusk #TwitterX https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/elon-musks-takes-x-handle-longtime-twitter-user-rcna96074

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

The NYT revealed 8 YEARS AGO how some rich ppl get tax deductions for making their private museums available to the public—then don’t make them available. The Senate investigated and … NOTHING CHANGED

#wealthy #museums #TaxTheRich https://www.propublica.org/article/how-private-nonprofits-ultrawealthy-tax-deductions-museums-foundation-art

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

Ivy League Admissions Favor the Rich by Design

kids who are elbowed out by non-deserving rich kids still attend college, just at a 98th percentile institution, not a 99th percentile institution. The quality of the educational services they receive does not differ, though the prestige, status, & career opportunities offered by the institution do

#inequality #university #wealthy

https://jacobin.com/2023/07/elite-colleges-holistic-admissions-wealth-inequality/

GrrlScientist, 10 months ago to random

definitely NOT a genius: Analysts & brand agencies call the product’s renaming a mistake

By Turning Twitter Into X, Elon Musk Risks Killing Billions in Brand Value

“It took 15-plus years to earn that much equity worldwide, so losing Twitter as a brand name is a significant financial hit”

#TwitterX #TwitterXLOGO https://time.com/6297303/twitter-x-rebrand-cost/