stopdropandprole

this makes me so angry. congress already took away the Affordable Connectivity Plan which helped millions of Americans.

internet service providers should be nationalized and made into a public utility.

opposition party? these motherfuckers may as well be on the same goddamn team.

welcome! it ain’t perfect here, but at least it’s decentralized and harder to manipulate in favor of the oligarchs.

in a just world, every person on that panel who dismissed her concerns would have a black bag pulled over their head and they’d wake up in a prison in El Salvador.

here’s another great historical photo of a revolutionary. the sources have more details about Marina’s life, for those interested in Spanish Civil War history.

Marina Ginesta - photo by Hans Gutmann

source: rarehistoricalphotos.com

source2: Marina Ginestà, 94, the defiant militia girl with the gun

~people aren’t doing anything~

literally millions of Americans organizing nationwide protests and resistance events, uniting with friends and co-workers to strategize, with larger and larger turnouts with each passing week…

🤔🤔🤔

most people aren’t aware that Air Traffic Controllers are forced to retire at 55. no old, slow reaction employees allowed.

when Reagan fired thousands of ATCs in the 80s, then hired and trained all new scabs, he inadvertently created an enormous cohort who would all be retiring at around the same time due to forced retirement.

fast forward to today,

• thousands of ATCs were aging out and being replaced with less experienced people (less of a prob now than 10ish yrs ago but still staffing is extremely lean due to Reagan)
• add to that the obsolete legacy tracking tech
• add to that cost saving (corner cutting) by aerospace corps like Boeing
• add to that major dysfunction in pilot training, screening out baddies, inexperienced pilots, and dissatisfied airline workers and unions
• add to that Trump administration purges and demoralization of federal workers
• add to that Musk getting his SpaceX cronies hands all over the system to make ‘upgrades’

data nerds can point to historical accident statistics from the past 20 years up to what, 2020? all you like. trend lines don’t often accurately predict the future, they merely describe the past.

I recommend thinking twice before placing all your loved ones on a plane over the next couple years. there’s going to be more of this.

a singular politician. he’s going to die on the job, in the middle of an impassioned speech on behalf of the working class. indefatigable. not even Lincoln or Kennedy had a fraction of the perseverance and consistency this man has demonstrated. a true public servant.

Nazis are fucking cowards. challenge them even the slightest and they crumple.