3 Photos of “Prepare to be illuminated” by Elle Koziupa in Sheffield, UK | STREET ART UTOPIA

Source: 3 Photos of “Prepare to be illuminated” by Elle Koziupa in Sheffield, UK | STREET ART UTOPIA

Thom Hartmann: The GOP Plan to Kill Social Security | Diane Ravitch’s blog

This may be the most important article you read today. The Republicans have made it a practice to promote culture-war issues in order to obscure their real goals: cutting or eliminating entitlement programs, including Social Security, Medicare and Obamacare. Because the entitlement programs are wildly popular, the GOP can’t admit publicly that they oppose them. So the GOP elevates issues that they oppose like “woke,” critical race theory, diversity-equity-inclusion, drag queens, and gay marriage. Forget the smokescreen and see what their real agenda is… Source: Thom Hartmann: The GOP Plan to Kill Social Security | Diane Ravitch’s blog

अपेक्षा / Expectation  – Kaushal Kishore

When I speak a lot, 

people think I’m crazy; 

if I speak less, 

I look arrogant, 

if I focus solely on work, 

I’m branded as selfish,

and if I stay silent, 

I risk appearing dumb, 

it makes me wonder 

what people actually expect…

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–Kaushal Kishore 

image: pinterest 

Source: अपेक्षा / Expectation  – Kaushal Kishore

Republicans Want To Block Broadband Funding To Schools That Refuse To Implement Easily Bypassed TikTok Bans | Techdirt

We’ve noted how the GOP’s obsession with TikTok is… weird and superficial. Guys like Ted Cruz or Brendan Carr will suffer absolute embolisms about TikTok (and TikTok only) to get on cable news where they’ll be portrayed as good faith privacy reformers. While simultaneously refusing to pass a privacy law or regulate dodgy data brokers (who routinely sell consumer data to everyone, including Chinese intelligence).

At the same time, the GOP’s “solution” to TikTok is somehow even more superficial and stupid: a blanket ban that doesn’t work. You’ll recall how it took college kids all of forty seconds to realize they could bypass the Montana TikTok University ban by simply switching their phone from Wi-Fi to cellular, something the GOP brain trust still hasn’t gotten its collective noggin’ around.

Source: Republicans Want To Block Broadband Funding To Schools That Refuse To Implement Easily Bypassed TikTok Bans | Techdirt