Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

A: "The house is on fire!"
B: "Okay, let's put on flame-resistant cooling suits and wear smoke filters over our faces for the rest of our lives."
A: "Shouldn't we put out the fire?"
B: "No."
A: "I can't afford a suit and filter."
B: "Haha, I can. Sucks to be you."
A: "What happens when the fire gets worse and suits and filters don't work any more?"
B: "Actually there is no fire, the house is going through a natural cycle of being temporarily hotter and smokier."
A: "There are flames all around us!"
B: "That's your interpretation. You don't have the monopoly on truth, stop preaching at me. You should be more nuanced and pragmatic."

@aral @QudsNen

I cannot say it enough times.

FUCK Netanyahu
FUCK the Israeli government
FUCK ANYONE WHO SUPPORTS THEIR GENOCIDE.

Kinda surprised there haven’t been more Luigi Mangiones, tbqh
https://theintercept.com/2026/06/25/police-luigi-mangione-wealthy-ceos-threat/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

If you've started hearing more about Christopher Harborne & are not quite sure how his involvement with the Fascist Frog has played out, or what concerns there might be around his involvement with Reform UK Ltd., the Nerve have been running a series on the Crypto Billionaire helmed by Carole Cadwalladr, and available below.

Well worth a read; both intriguing and concerning!

#politics #ReformUK #corruption

https://www.thenerve.news/the-harborne-receipts

Hey, who remembers that time that the South lost the Civil War, so slavery was abolished? But racist Texans didn't want the slavery party to stop, so they kept slavery going for another 2 years after abolition? But then a bunch of Black Union soldiers from the United States Colored Troop under General Gordon Granger marched into South Texas with guns, and threatened to shoot anyone that wouldn't release their slaves? So then those Black soldiers finally forced those racist Texans to release their slaves? But then American people pretended that Juneteenth celebrates the news of slavery reaching the far reaches of Texas, when "the news" was really Black Union soldiers with guns? Because we lie to ourselves and talk about Texas like a distant space colony that was out of contact with the rest of humanity, but in reality people traveled to Texas every single day during that two years, and everyone knew what was going on? And no white people went to jail for keeping slaves for 2 years after abolition, because Lincoln was a self-admitted white supremacist and slavery sympathizer?

Happy Juneteenth!

If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.

If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.

This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.

Open plan offices are the best approach for office space. But the open plan desks should be used by managers. The actual workers need to concentrate and should have individual, soundproofed offices. Managers need to chitchat, so they need a noisy room.

Stunned that anyone could report on a study of declining birth rates after 2007 and not mention the Global Financial Crisis of 2008, followed by a decade of painfully slow recovery. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/us/iphone-birthrate-decline-studies.html