Notices by Brian Tatosky (virtualbri@mastodon.online), page 2

The Atlantic called it with: "Trolligarchy"

Rule by the ultra-rich and business, but with the additional layer of cruelty and pettiness just for the reactions?

#USPol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2024/12/14/trump-usps-privatize-plan/

Here comes the disassembling the Federal government for parts, to get replaced with shittier everything.

I don't think people are prepared for how fast this is going to go down.

#USPol

Gosh. It’d be an awful shame for people to keep overthrowing dictators.

Let’s start “Dictatorless Decembers”

If I were the rest of the world, I'd be figuring out how to survive without being dragged down by America. And fast.

#USPol

Needed a yard sign for all the drivers who roar through my neighborhood cutting through to work and school.

#USPol

Maybe firing all the people who make your software work *isn't* the best idea. Still.

#USPol

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/kamala-goes-electric-and-trump-melts-down

Love to read it. Seems like a big change is starting to happen. Doesn't mean we let up one bit, but a good shift is starting.

#USPol

More of headlines like this please.

From The Guardian's website.

Call lies, lies.

#USPol

Scans well

#KHive #USPol

Joe should just go crazy with executive orders now. Make them have to try and stop him

#USPol

Hey, Dem politicians,Biden thank yous need to come with Harris endorsements.

Like Elizabeth Warren just did.

#USPol

Trump being ordained by God is the best argument for Atheism in my lifetime.

#USPol #Religion

"Silicon Valley financed Yale Lawyer J.D. Vance..." should lead any article where he purports to be a man of the people

#USPol

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-07-10/newsom-biden-challenge-harris-president-election

Gives me more respect for our Governor.

#USPol

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme-court-chevron-overrule-agency

This one is going to fuck us for a *long, long* time.

"In overruling Chevron, a 40-year-old precedent, the Court decided that federal agencies no longer get to fill in the gaps of Congress’ laws with their experts’ own reasonable interpretation of how to carry them out; that authority now resides in the judiciary. It’s a power grab that the right-wing legal world has been marching towards for years — and they finally got a Court activist enough to do it."

#USPol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYYixvqjiuE

This seems weird and fun. Japan is just a bonus on top.

#Streaming #scifi #appletv

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/richard-sherman-dead-mary-poppins-1236016622/

RIP to Richard Sherman, who made a huge amount of the music of my youth.

#Disney #Music

It's fun to blame Red Lobster going down because of all you can eat shrimp, but no one really emphasizes this bit:

"A private equity firm bought the chain ten years ago from Darden Restaurants.... The firm, Golden Gate Capital, funded the deal partly by selling Red Lobster's real estate.

That meant the chain had to start paying rent. That's now a major financial factor in Red Lobster's bankruptcy filing"

VC again leaving a trail of destruction behind them

#Capitalism #Finance

If a group shows up specifically to attack other in the middle of the night, it's not a "clash of protestors", it's an unprovoked attack.

Journalists should cover accordingly. Because words matter

#UCLA #Journalism #Protests

@andrewfeeney @jenn "Sure it sucks and is super dangerous *now*, but if you put an off switch on it, it'll only stifle chainsaw innovation...."