Should the Democrats gerrymander ever state they have a trifecta in? Why should they put themselves at a disadvantage in the 2028 presidential elections?

Democrats now can remove all of the gerrymandering in the states they currently have control over. The districts would be redrawn by the state legislature to be more fair. They would remove all the GOP gerrymanders.

But if Trump and Republicans opposes the democrats legislation the democrats will heavily gerrymander all the states they currently have control over and change the retirement age of the state supreme courts.

So if Trump vetoes legislation Democrats heavily gerrymander one state. If he vetoes more legislation they gerrymander another state. If he vetoes more legislation they change the retirement age and appoint their own justices.

They could later negotiate with republicans to pass new Civil Rights Act banning all forms of gerrymandering and voter suppression.

Jaw-dropping. It's all fun and games to them.

One source of many: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/celebrity/articles/martha-stewart-says-deleted-homeless-000002031.html

Not sure if there's a better place to post it. This seemed the most-relevant in light of one of the ultimate WASPy rich dicks mocking the homeless.

We should have a global Land Value Tax on the top 1%.

She's a real one.

This channel digs into how systems of power shape our identity, behaviour, and beliefs, and how we can shift the stories we tell ourselves and each other about poverty, inequality, and who’s to blame.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/73939581

Microsoft looking to remove 60,000 jobs, ~25% of the company

In this powerful keynote, researcher Joshua Doss argues that we cannot dismantle and replace the current economic system without explicitly naming and tackling the systemic racism and inequality that have become inseparable from the system of capitalism. Working-class Americans across all backgrounds and races are being "hunted" by the same extractive economic monster. The historical role of Black exploitation that made American capitalism possible is starting to be experienced to some degree by all of the working class. Will this lead to a class consciousness of the working class?

I heard about this site on a podcast advertisement. I rarely tolerate ads, but in this case I make an exception because it is for a good cause. Here is the link: https://andmario.com/

Quote from the page:

Billionaires are a disease. You are the cure.

The name is a bit confusing at first .. but you get it eventually. It is about two famous brothers, and of of those two has gotten a quite a bit attention lately.

This cartoon from The Seattle Times illustrates how America's economic pizza is actually sliced per capita, highlighting the massive disparity between the Top 1%, the merely wealthy, the upper middle class, and the lower 50%.