Folks are treating the recent tech layoffs as something spontaneous. They were not. Apparently the current layoffs were orchestrated by hedge funds.

This hedge fund demanded that the big tech companies lay people off because they were being paid too much. Let that one sink in: a hedge fund manager saying that you're being paid too much.

Note that TCI is demanding that Google lay off more people.

Texas college students say 'censorship of TikTok over guns' says a lot about how officials prioritize safety

#texas #tiktok #tiktokban #highereducation #highered #education #gunviolence #gunreform #guncontrol #censorship #safety #truth #news

https://www.businessinsider.com/texas-college-students-blast-tiktok-censorship-over-guns-mental-health-2023-1

The biggest lie the US public ever bought into about public transportation - busses, subways, trains, is that should be a profitable service. They're not a profitable service, they're public infrastructure.

Aside from toll roads (which are a regressive tax on the poor and should be eliminated), we don't expect our roads or sidewalks to earn a profit. They're simply a utility that is granted to the public because you live there.

The roads don't close at 2AM just because not enough people drive on them for them to turn a profit, they're there 24x7x365 for people to be able to get from point A to point B no matter when they need to go there. When I buy a house on a road, I don't have to worry that some future administration will decide to tear up that road in front of my house and leave me with no way to get to work. It's simply part of our social contract that you can get to every location in town via a road and a car.

Why can we not offer the public the same for mass transit? Define an area of the city that is a Guaranteed Free Public Transportation zone. Every home and place of business within that zone is guaranteed to have public transportation service 24x7x365 to every other place within that zone. where you'll never have to wait more than 15 minutes, and you won't have to transfer more than 2 times.

Sure, maybe you say "After midnight, the busses don't run, but the city will pay for your taxis, because it's more efficient to run a fleet of taxis than to operate busses", but you've maintained that public infrastructure commitment.

#publictransit #masstransit

With CNN and Twitter making a strong right turns, this is needed now more than ever:

“If the left does not develop a means of mass communication in the US, there is coming a time when they will have a message to deliver but they will not have the ability to deliver it. Even now most channels of communication are controlled from the right.” Jon Smyth

Oh Lord, not this again.

Fresh off helping derail the Afghan Adjustment Act and the bipartisan immigration framework, "Texas US Sen. John Cornyn calls for 'safe, orderly, humane and legal' immigration reform," El Paso Times reports: https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/immigration/2023/01/10/texas-sen-john-cornyn-calls-for-humane-and-legal-immigration-reform/69793938007/

Why do you keep doing this to families, John? And why do reporters keep falling for it?

https://americasvoice.org/press_releases/the-cornyn-con-to-scuttle-immigration-breakthrough-moves-to-step-two/

1. Florida English teacher Vicki Baggett is seeking to remove 150 books from school libraries

She says it's her "responsibility to protect minors" from inappropriate content

But her former & current students say Baggett openly promotes racist & homophobic beliefs in class

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