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“Back in 2017, if you wanted a car that cost less than $20,000, you had 11 options. [In] March of 2023, and that list had been narrowed to only two. The average price of a new car is currently more than $48,000, up 30 percent over the last three years.”

Cars are now for the rich. Cities that support car-free living will be the winners.

https://jalopnik.com/new-cars-cost-more-than-most-people-can-afford-1850414664?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=jalopnik_reddit

#FuckCars #urbanism

AOC on CNN's Trump town hall: "I know you said earlier that you will not comment on the platforming of such atrocious disinformation, but I would. I think it was a profoundly irresponsible decision ... it was shameful."

Maddow highlights the Nazi speakers welcomed to Trump Doral Miami event this week - Raw Story - Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism https://www.rawstory.com/trump-doral-welcomes-christian-nationalists/

In 2024 when Trump is GOP nominee one of top issues will be reproductive freedom. I urge people not to say the Supreme Court overturned Roe v wade but instead: "Donald Trump OVERTURNED Roe v Wade." After all Trump promised in 2016 to appoint justices to overturn Roe and he did.

Yes, the climate has always changed.

But, the speed of recent change is unprecedented.

More importantly, we understand why.

Burning fossil fuels & deforestation adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere which warms the planet.

Simple physics. Understood for more than a century.

#EarthDay

Opinion | Enraged by GOP debt limit extortion? Blame MAGA’s moderate enablers. - The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/04/21/republicans-debt-limit-extortion-moderates/

Retired Navy Officer Takes on Florida’s Book-Ban ‘Fascism’ https://www.thedailybeast.com/retired-navy-officer-takes-on-floridas-book-ban-fascism

The Supreme Court just ruled that mifepristone will remain available pending appeal, but the fate of the safe and effective drug used in more than half of all U.S. abortions is still up in the air.

Let's be clear: There's nothing "pro-life" about blocking access to medicine.

Please do NOT applaud the GOP controlled Supreme Court for putting a hold on the Trump appointed judge's decision banning the abortion pill. We are ONLY here because the GOP extremists on the Court that Trump picked overturned Roe v Wade!

#meme #shitpost #alialexander #eggplantgare #politics

“But how can we afford paid leave?”

“But how can we afford free child care?”

“But how can we afford student loan forgiveness?”

“But how can we afford universal health care?”

How? We make the super-wealthy pay their fair share.

Republicans don't give a damn about the deficit. They've raised the debt ceiling again and again while handing out trillions in tax cuts to billionaires.

Their end goal is to gut popular programs like Social Security and Medicare, which tens of millions of Americans rely on.

The safest place from gun violence is an NRA convention, where guns are not permitted because they are too deadly.

Out of respect for tireless #NRA lobbyist Wayne LaPierre, I think we should start calling these incidents "NRA Freedom Parties." At an NRA Freedom Party in Dadeville AL last night, 20 people were shot, mostly teenagers celebrating a sweet 16. Freedom! #guns https://www.wrbl.com/news/more-than-20-shot-at-dadeville-gathering-investigators-on-scene/

When you have lost NPR, the most benign and fair member-funded news organization in the USA, you know you are making bad choices. Get off Twitter; save Tesla.

https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label

A terf posted this calling it "gaslighting" and "terrible" but I thought it was sweet so I'm reposting it from them.

“At the trial of God, we will ask: why did you allow all this?

And the answer will be an echo: why did you allow all this?”

—Ilya Kaminsky

#poetry #books #humanity #quotes @bookstodon

Did the Pentagon do a thorough security check before they hired 'OG'? Or perhaps they did and liked the cut of his jib.

#leaks #Pentagon #Discord

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/13/pentagon-leaks-og-source-military-base-discord-report

It's long past time the 2006 GOP/NRA championed federal law granting gun manufactures immunity from civil suits be repealed. These lawsuits will compel gun companies to make guns safer to reduce gun deaths-just like car companies did when sued. My MSNBC https://www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/gop-gave-gun-makers-broad-immunity-lawsuits-dems-work-take-away-rcna79245