Bai Shen

$830,000 to fill #Zuckerburg’s yacht with gas. $90,000/day to operate. The average worker doesn’t make that in a year. It’s a #class war people. Don’t get distracted.

Wonder if AI tells this history. #theft by billionaires

FARMS FEED US - DATA CENTERS BLEED US - Shalersville, Oh Protest 5/29/26

@JeffBezos Guaranteed this money you blew up for funsies would be better spent on the “teacher in queens”.

All personnel are accounted for and safe. It’s too early to know the root cause but we’re already working to find it. Very rough day, but we’ll rebuild whatever needs rebuilding and get back to flying. It’s worth it.

@mhdksafa No doubt this money would be better spent by “the teacher in Queens”. Tax these irresponsible megalomaniacs

Elon Musk last week launched a massive rocket that detonated in the Indian Ocean. Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin rocket exploded during a test last night. Both cheered on this environmental destruction, calling it progress. Billionaire avoid introspection. Without introspection, there is no capability of accountability. The definition of power, unchecked.

@yanisvaroufakis Old fascist fucks need to be ousted so sanity & Isræl/Palestinian solidarity can prevail. Says this old anti-fascist fuck

Nearly half of young U.S. Jews want to replace Israel with binational state, poll finds forward.com/news/827329/po…

À 23 ans, elle guérit la lèpre. À 24 ans, elle disparaît. Et pendant 90 ans, un homme blanc s'attribua le mérite de ses travaux. Voici l'histoire d'Alice Augusta Ball, le génie qu'on a tenté d'effacer. Elle grandit à Seattle au début du XXe siècle, dans une famille qui croyait au potentiel des Noirs. Son grand-père fut l'un des premiers photographes noirs d'Amérique. Sa mère lavait les sols pour pouvoir offrir un microscope à Alice. Ce cadeau changea le monde. Alice dévorait la chimie comme l'oxygène. Elle obtint deux licences. Elle publia des recherches alors qu'elle était encore étudiante. Puis elle s'installa à Hawaï et devint : 📷 La première femme à obtenir une maîtrise en chimie à l'Université d'Hawaï 📷 La première femme noire à obtenir ce diplôme 📷 La première femme professeure de chimie de l'histoire de l'université Elle avait 23 ans. Mais pendant qu'elle enseignait, elle fut confrontée à une urgence bien plus grande que le monde universitaire : La maladie de Hansen, la lèpre. Un diagnostic signifiait l'exil. Arraché à sa famille, on était déporté sur une île pour y mourir seul. Il existait un traitement : une huile amère et collante, peu efficace et extrêmement douloureuse. Nombreux furent ceux qui le refusèrent. Nombreux furent ceux qui moururent. Alice refusa de baisser les bras. Dans son laboratoire, elle trouva la solution que personne d'autre n'avait trouvée : Elle transforma cette huile épaisse en une forme assimilable par le corps. Une injection révolutionnaire qui sauva enfin des vies. Les patients commencèrent à guérir. Des familles furent réunies. Des personnes condamnées guérirent subitement. Sa découverte devint la méthode Ball. Elle changea l'histoire de la médecine avant même que la plupart des gens n'aient terminé leurs études. Et puis… elle disparut. À seulement 24 ans, un mystérieux accident de laboratoire lui coûta la vie. Elle ne vit jamais le miracle qu'elle avait accompli. Puis vint le vol. Le président de l'université, un chimiste blanc nommé Arthur Dean, s'appropria ses recherches, en retira son nom et les rebaptisa : « La Méthode Dean ». Pendant des décennies… 📷 Son nom figurait dans les manuels scolaires. 📷 Son nom était encensé par les médecins. 📷 Son nom était attribué à la seule reconnaissance de ses mérites. Son nom a failli disparaître complètement de l'histoire. Un vol si discret que la plupart des gens ignoraient même qu'un crime avait été commis. Il fallut 90 ans pour que la vérité éclate enfin. Des chercheurs ont mis au jour les documents originaux d'Alice. Son travail. Son génie. Ses découvertes majeures. Les projecteurs se sont braqués sur elle. Le mensonge s'est effondré. Et aujourd'hui, le monde le sait : C'était la Méthode Ball – TOUJOURS. Alice Ball a guéri une maladie qui avait ravagé des vies pendant des siècles. Elle a libéré des familles. Elle a sauvé des milliers de personnes de l'isolement et de la mort. Et elle a accompli tout cela en une seule année. Imaginez ce qu'elle aurait pu faire en une vie entière. Alice Ball méritait un prix Nobel. Elle méritait des statues. Elle méritait que son nom soit sur toutes les lèvres des étudiants en sciences. Au lieu de cela, elle a été étouffée par le silence… Jusqu'à aujourd'hui. Nous prononçons son nom parce que l'histoire a refusé de le faire. Nous l'honorons parce que d'autres ne l'ont pas fait. Nous nous souvenons d'elle parce qu'elle l'a mérité. Alice Augusta Ball (1892-1916) La chimiste qui a changé le monde avant même d'avoir eu le temps d'y vivre.

Is the richest man in the world scared to have this competition in US since Tesla has been beaten severely by #Chinese innovation. How much of not allowing Chinese #cars here is influenced by him?

@CattardSlim You have to wonder as well, why has he chosen to live in US….not Asia, where he would be paying extremely high taxes & where Tesla innovation has been beaten severely.

Elon Musk: If Kamala wins she'll hide the Epstein files, & be a threat to democracy. If Trump wins he'll release the Epstein files, & focus on the people. This idiot has NEVER been right about anything. 👇

This is absolutely fascinating: Jason Furman, one of the foremost economists in the U.S. and former chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, explains why the so-called "China shock" is a myth. According to him, "85 to 95% of Americans benefited" from trade with China, and "China has been part of helping [the US economy] work, not hurting it work." In other words, the narrative that China "stole" American jobs and wages is the exact opposite of reality. Furman's logic is pretty ironclad: 1) He points out, which is factual, that "the slowdown of wage growth and the rise of inequality began in the 1970s, when there basically was no trade with China." It then accelerated in the 1980s-90s when China trade was small, and **slowed down** after 2000. And "since about 2013," when trade with China was at its highest, "we've had pretty fast real wage growth," with "the fastest real wage growth for moderate income households." In other words, the timing doesn't fit: if China was the cause, the problem should have gotten worse as trade with China increased. Instead, it got better. 2) A common narrative one hears about China is "who cares about affordable goods, we need well-paying jobs." But Furman points out it's actually one and the same thing: "the way we measure jobs is how much your wages can buy. If you improve purchasing power, you are making every single job in the economy better." In very concrete terms, if salaries stay flat but Chinese imports make goods 10% cheaper, your purchasing power just went up 10%, as if you got a 10% wage hike. This makes every single job in the economy better. In effect "jobs vs. cheap goods" is a false dichotomy: cheap goods ARE better jobs. 3) Furman also points out, rightly, that the majority of what U.S. imports from China isn't consumer goods: "more than half of what we import is actually inputs into the manufacturing process itself." In other words, Chinese imports make U.S. manufacturing MORE competitive as it decreases their input costs. If you were to cut all Chinese imports, you'd cripple U.S. manufacturing as it would no longer be able to compete on price with anyone. And, as per point 2 above, you'd also destroy Americans' purchasing power, making every single U.S. worker worse off. 4) Last but not least, Furman says that the "China shock" literature is fundamentally flawed, as it "doesn't answer the most important question, which is what the net effect was." It "doesn't consider other causes for the job losses, doesn't look at all the places that gained jobs and wages, and doesn't integrate the consumer side." All in all, he believes that if one were to actually calculate the net effect of trade with China on the U.S. economy, it'd show that "85 to 95% of Americans benefited." And even for the 5-15% who lost out, Furman says these people were failed by "our labor policies, our social safety net" - not by China. What Furman is saying is more relevant than ever because, both in the U.S. and in Europe, this notion that China is somehow "stealing" Western jobs and prosperity has become the unquestioned premise of so many of today's policies. Nobody even debates it anymore, it's almost universally assumed correct. In my own country France, Macron keeps repeating it all the time, leading the charge in Europe to slap tariffs on Chinese imports, warning that China is "killing its own customers" and that it's a question of life or death for European industry (reuters.com/world/china/fr…). He literally called last week for the EU to build its own version of America's Section 301 - the same protectionist tool Trump uses (politico.eu/article/emmanu…). BUT, if Furman is right, and the data strongly suggests he is, France and Europe are about to inflict economic self-harm in the name of a problem that doesn't exist. Much more affordable cars, for instance, would literally give every single European a big wage hike. It's Furman's argument on "85 to 95% benefiting" vs 5% to 15% losing out: the vast majority of Europeans would see their money go further, while a small number of jobs in legacy automakers would be disrupted. Instead of helping those workers transition, Europe wants to prevent making everyone better off. Anyhow, please do watch the whole podcast, which has many other fascinating insights because Furman also debates with Justin Yifu Lin, the former Chief Economist of the World Bank and State Council Counsellor of China. They're both interviewed by my friend @Hansong_Li - also a professor and an immensely smart man - in his excellent new podcast "worldviews" (imho one of the best new podcasts our there). The video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=TAj2FB…

@johncusack Elon Musk on morals 🤦🏻‍♀️ -

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BREAKING: Israel just wiped out an entire residential building inside a Palestinian refugee camp in Tyre — packed with civilians. Children, women, men, entire families are now buried under the rubble of their own homes. This is a massacre.

✨🇨🇳With 10 days left until China's Gaokao (college entrance exam), a high school teacher organized a hotpot party for his entire class. The teacher even served as a "senior waiter," refilling soup and adding seasonings for the students, aiming to help them relax and boost their morale before the crucial exam.

Tenant ownership of their buildings, like so many other initiatives of the last six months, is possible because the democratic socialist won.

This is a war crime under international law: Wanton devastation not justified by military necessity. Destroying dams serving civilian populations across surrounding villages is not military necessity. It is the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure. War crimes beget war crimes—When the international community failed to bring Israel to justice for targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza, Israel knew they could do it again with impunity. Israel began targeting bridges and cutting off roads to isolate southern Lebanon from the rest of the country, with absolutely no consequences. Now Israel start targeting critical water infrastructure—yet again the international community and ICC remain silent.

BREAKING: Israel is MASSIVELY bombing Mashghara in Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley right now. This comes mere hours after entire families were massacred in the same village. This is what the complicit international community applauds as a “ceasefire.”

@sahouraxo Israel & U.S. are burning down the world. Evil disguised as civilized is Evil -

BREAKING: Israel just carried out a horrific massacre in Maarakeh, South Lebanon. Dropping bombs on residential buildings. Children are being pulled from under the rubble of their own homes. Entire families wiped out. The scenes are devastating.

🔴 At least 5 people were killed and 11 wounded, including children, in an Israeli strike on the town of Mashghara in Lebanon’s western Bekaa Valley late Monday, with rescue crews continuing to pull people from beneath the rubble, according to Press TV.

If you give a politician $5 to influence a vote, it’s bribery. If billionaires spend $50 million to influence an election, it’s legal. That is what a corrupt campaign finance system looks like.

There is not a single mention of Gaza in the 192 page DNC autopsy report. As someone who campaigned in Michigan and Wisconsin, let me tell you- one of the main reasons we lost was our blank check to Israel while they committed a genocide. Our party must put human rights first.