Diaries
The Evening Blues - 4-24-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Thu, 04/24/2025 - 3:27pm
New York Times Email Urges More War With Trump Hate
Submitted by fire with fire on Thu, 04/24/2025 - 11:07amThe Morning
April 24, 2025
Good morning. The U.S. is urging Ukraine to take a deal that favors Russia. . . .
Ukraine’s concessions
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By German LopezRussia invaded Ukraine, but you wouldn’t know that from the peace negotiations. At every step, President Trump has pushed the victim to give ground, while the aggressor has given little of substance.
Open Thread - Thurs 24 Apr - 2025 - What Comes Around Goes Around
Submitted by Sima on Thu, 04/24/2025 - 5:00am
What Comes Around Goes Around
Long, long, long ago, I worked at AMD (Advanced Micro Devices) when the company first started exporting production to Asia. Us little workers, those of us who ran the machines that made the chips, or tested them, or packaged them up for shipping, us... well, WE were pretty upset. We knew this meant that there would be less jobs, that regular workers would be screwed over and that AMD was going to go from a company that proudly cared about things like keeping production in the USA and workers' rights, to yet another typical American business.
So, TPTB exported shipping to Asia. About this time, my father retired from AMD; he didn't like a lot of these changes. I stopped working there because I was going to Grad school in PA. And... everything we, the workers, predicted came true. Thanks Reagan! Thanks Clinton! Thanks Nixon! And everyone else!
Cartoon from a while back, by John Pritchett
The Evening Blues - 4-23-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Wed, 04/23/2025 - 3:39pm
The Art Of The Deal
Submitted by gjohnsit on Wed, 04/23/2025 - 3:13pmIt wasn't that long ago that DOGE was going to save us $2 Trillion. Now Elon Musk is talking about just $150 Billion, all of which will be used to increase the bloated Pentagon budget.
04/23 is Saint George's Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Wed, 04/23/2025 - 11:27am
OT WE 23 APR 25 ~ Slay a Dragon Day
Submitted by QMS on Wed, 04/23/2025 - 5:00am~
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist,
but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
-- Neil Gaiman
The Evening Blues - 4-22-25
Submitted by joe shikspack on Tue, 04/22/2025 - 3:28pm
A Handmaids Tale
Submitted by earthling1 on Tue, 04/22/2025 - 10:12am
Growing authoritarianism here in American is unfolding before our eyes. Deportations and arrests are increasingly done by unlawful or questionable means, with hearings or court proceeding limited or non-existent.
