The city analyzed 152 million payment transactions and 110 million hours of work before landing on the number: DoorDash shorted more than 260,000 delivery workers in New York City between April 2022 and June 2026, sometimes paying below the city's minimum rate, sometimes late, sometimes not at all. The $131.5 million deal Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced at City Hall on September 22 is the largest settlement for food delivery workers in U.S. municipal history. More than $115 million of it goes back to workers as restitution. About $16.7 million goes to the city in fines. No claim form is required. The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection used DoorDash's own records to figure out who is owed what, and workers can expect emails in late October offering a check, direct deposit, or other payment. The city says DoorDash excluded whole categories of time it was supposed to pay for: canceled trips, trips that crossed city limits, and on-call time when a worker was logged in and waiting between deliveries. Restitution is calculated at 200% of the shortfall on top of what was owed, so a worker never paid $1,000 receives $3,000, and a worker paid $1,000 late receives $2,000. More than 27,000 workers will get over $1,000. About 4,000 will get over $5,000, and some will get more than $10,000, though the median payment is around $48. The biggest chunk, more than $83 million, settles a dispute over how to count that on-call time. DoorDash says it did pay for it, just with a different calculation it called "fair, practical and legal," and chose to settle rather than fight for years. The company also admitted the smaller failures outright: "Simply put, we screwed up." It blamed technical bugs, complicated deliveries, and bad banking information from Dashers, and says the missed and late payments hit less than 1% of NYC transactions with a typical miss of about $7.70. It says it has already reserved the money and fixed the issues. Mamdani framed it as City Hall refusing to let a company that made nearly a billion dollars in profit last year shortchange the people who keep the city moving. "This was not a rounding error or an accidental mistake," he said. Going forward, DoorDash has to adopt the city's method for counting on-call time, send pay data to the city every month for three years, and fund a worker-run compliance program
"If democracy collapses, don't wait for the "official" government to save you. Alternative structures—exiled leadership, underground networks, and local governance—become the real seat of power. "If a coup (soft or hard) takes over government agencies, expect rapid takeovers of law enforcement, the courts, media, and economic controls. If you don’t have alternative systems (independent news, community security, local food networks), you’re toast. "The French Resistance wasn’t just bl0wing up train tracks (though, let’s be honest, they were very good at that). They were doing everything possible to keep their country functioning without feeding the machine of fascism. ▪️S@b0t@ge – Work slowdowns, “lost” N@z! paperwork, derailed supply chains. (Your printer mysteriously breaking at just the right time? A classic.) ▪️Information Warfare – Secret newspapers, ill3g@l radio broadcasts, coded messages. Because when the government controls the media, whisper networks become lifelines. ▪️Underground Networks – Sm#ggling Jews, POWs, and political dissidents out of the country. Creating safe houses, f@k3 IDs, and escape routes. ▪️Civil Disobedience – Non-compliance, fake cooperation, and good old-fashioned ghosting when the occupiers came knocking. "If a bad-faith regime takes over, your job is not to comply. It’s to jam the gears. Play d#mb, work slow, misfile everything, keep independent information flowing, and organize underground support networks. "The French example is not some cute history lesson—it’s a roadmap for what happens when a modern country loses control of its own government. And if you think it can’t happen here, congratulations, you haven’t been watching the news. "So, if (hypothetically, of course) the U.S. were to face a non-military invasion—where an authoritarian force legally and bureaucratically seizes the government—what do we do? 1️⃣ Parallel systems must be ready. If democratic institutions get hijacked, alternative governance must step up. This means cities, states, and underground networks taking the reins. 2️⃣ Government employees: you have a choice. Will you follow orders, or will you “accidentally” throw sand in the gears? Don’t underestimate the power of strategic incompetence. 3️⃣ Control of information is everything. Start backing up important knowledge offline. Independent press, encrypted networks, and person-to-person info sharing will be the new normal. 4️⃣ Decentralization is protection. The more we rely on one big system, the easier it is to capture. Local governments, small businesses, and independent supply chains keep power from being centralized. 5️⃣ Resist in every way possible. Every historical occupation has the same lesson: the people who resist—from the office workers “losing” paperwork to the underground radio hosts—are the ones who keep democracy alive. "If you woke up tomorrow and found that your government was now under the control of an anti-democratic force, what’s your plan? Who do you trust? Where do you get your news? How do you keep yourself and others safe? "History doesn’t ask if you’re ready. It just shows up." [So, You’ve Been Invaded: A French Resistance Survival Guide for the U.S. - How the French Resisted Occupation—And What We Can Learn If Democracy Falls Into the Wrong Hands" Lady Libertie. SubStack. (Feb 12, 2025)]
pensions and welfare are great and all but dont get too comfy- with one edict you are forced into the working life with hundreds of thousands of others that are desperate so dont think they cant just wipe it all from the face of the earth the rulers dont care they all make hundreds of dollars a day like they care if a few hundred thousand get kicked off disability get some skills in something and get 50% employable or you will be competing in donald trumps hunger games with the rest of the unemployed why do you all have such blind faith in these losers and freaks and nerds that rule over all of us endlessly most of the world has NO social welfare and is lucky to get $10 a fucking day by doing sweatshop shit
Representative Tim Burchett, a Republican from Tennessee, said the reports emerging from the Jeffrey Epstein files contain satanic elements he believes “will shock the world,” adding that investigators and reporters are “just getting started” reviewing the documents. Burchett’s remarks, made in a video interview that began circulating widely online in mid-February 2026, come as fragments of the long-sealed Epstein files continue to surface following years of litigation and congressional pressure for their release. Burchett did not detail which specific documents he was referencing, but his comments were quickly amplified across social media, where they were framed as confirmation that the files contain ritualistic or occult material tied to Epstein’s known network of associates. One of the most widely circulated documents connected to the files is a 2019 FBI report summarizing an interview with a man who claimed to be an Epstein victim. According to a religious studies scholar who has reviewed the material, the man alleged his family was part of an ab*se ring and described ritualistic violence, claims the scholar noted bear a resemblance to allegations made during the Satanic Ritual Ab*se scare of the 1980s and 1990s, a panic that later collapsed after key witnesses were discredited. That historical parallel has left researchers divided over how to treat the newer claims. The scholar cautioned that such parallels are worth weighing carefully, writing that the goal is to keep the files’ verified evidence from being overshadowed by unverifiable claims, rather than to dismiss the broader collection outright. No portion of the Epstein files publicly reviewed to date has been independently confirmed to substantiate allegations of organized satanic ritual ab*se, and Burchett has not released or cited a specific document supporting his claim
Most Brazilian homes have no water heater at all. They still shower hot every morning. The heat happens in the showerhead itself, where a bare nichrome coil sits directly in the water path and dumps 4,500 to 7,700 watts into whatever flows past it, on a 220-volt supply, with a summer and winter switch on the side. Nothing is stored, nothing is pre-heated, and no insulated pipe run loses anything on the way, because the water is cold until the instant before it hits your shoulders. The unit costs around $20 and screws onto a standard shower arm, against $1,200 to $2,000 for an American tank heater installed. The catch is that the live element and the water share one chamber, and grounding in older homes is often improvised, which is how the thing earned its traveler's nickname: the suicide shower. The wiring is usually 10-gauge and it runs straight back to the panel. Shocks are common enough that Brazilian electricians treat the shower as its own dedicated circuit with its own breaker, and newer units use a plastic isolation chamber to keep the element out of direct contact. Nobody in Brazil finds any of this strange. The scale of it shows up on the national grid. Electric showers are the single largest electricity end use in the average Brazilian household, running about a quarter of residential consumption in national end-use surveys, and they all fire inside the same two windows, morning and evening. Utilities plan generating capacity around bath time the way British grid operators once planned around tea kettles at the end of a television broadcast. It is genuinely cheaper per shower, and it will never work here. Running 5,500 watts for 8 minutes is 0.73 kilowatt-hours, roughly 12 cents at 17 cents per kilowatt-hour, and there is no tank losing heat the other 23 hours and 52 minutes of the day. A whole-house electric tankless unit sized for American incoming water temperatures and American flow rates needs 18,000 to 36,000 watts, which is 120 to 150 amps of dedicated service. Most US homes have a 100 or 200 amp panel for the entire house, so the upgrade costs more than the water heater and that is the end of the conversation
The people who we call stars are not stars. They are money built on money people give them telling them they are now untouchable. Where are they screaming at the the top of there lungs about a holocaust happening now? Where is U2 where are the Rolling Stones where the famous actors and actresses they are afraid if they speak out someone will not like them. They are no different than trump how do you think he blackmails everyone so many of them have done horrible horrible things they can’t speak the truth because they are corrupt and they know it. Younger people see this and don’t ever become like them where money rules your life.
I'm going to write something that will make people angry with me from both directions. I've decided that's the price of saying what I actually think, which is this: almost everything circulating about Israel and Palestine — from both sides — is a collapsed version of a history that deserves better. I was trained as a historian. My first career was building documented cases for trial. So I'm going to lay out what the record actually shows, and I'm going to include the parts each side leaves out. Start with the deepest fact, the one both sides' propaganda erases: these are two peoples indigenous to the same land. Jewish history in that land runs 3,000 years — kingdoms, temples, language, and continuous communities in Jerusalem, Safed, and Hebron through every century after Rome. Palestinians descend largely from the population that never left — Canaanites, Judeans, and their neighbors who over centuries became Christian, then largely Muslim, then Arabic-speaking. Genetic studies show Jews and Palestinians cluster closer to each other than either does to almost anyone else. They are, in the most literal sense, fighting their cousins over the family land. Any argument that starts by denying one people's roots — "Palestinians are just Arabs from Arabia," "Jews are just European colonizers" — is founded on erasure. Both myths are false. Both are widely believed. What the pro-Israel narrative leaves out: The Nakba happened. Roughly 700,000 Palestinians — half the Arab population — were displaced in 1947–49, hundreds of villages destroyed. This is documented by Israeli historians working from Israeli archives. The occupation is now in its seventh decade; the International Court of Justice ruled it unlawful in 2024. Settlements have expanded under every government, including throughout the Oslo peace process, and Netanyahu spent years deliberately propping up Hamas to keep Palestinians divided and statehood off the table — that's not a conspiracy theory; he described the logic to his own party. The current Israeli government includes ministers who openly oppose any Palestinian state ever. And the destruction in Gaza — tens of thousands dead, most of the territory uninhabitable — has produced genocide findings from Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and a UN Commission of Inquiry. Israel contests those findings and the ICJ case is unresolved, but they are serious determinations, not slander. What the pro-Palestine narrative leaves out: Palestinian and Arab leadership rejected partition in 1937 and again in 1947 — the 1947 plan would have created a Palestinian state, and the answer was war instead. In 2000 at Camp David, Arafat rejected a statehood offer without making a counteroffer; in 2008, Olmert offered more — roughly 94% of the West Bank with land swaps and a shared Jerusalem — and never received an answer. Hamas won the 2006 election, the last one ever held, and its 1988 founding charter is not a resistance document with rough edges — it quotes a hadith calling for the killing of Jews and cites the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a Tsarist antisemitic forgery. The 2017 revision softened the language but never revoked the original or recognized Israel. And October 7 was the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust — roughly 1,200 killed and 250 taken hostage, with documented atrocities. A movement that cannot say that plainly forfeits the credibility to be believed about anything else. Now the part almost nobody says out loud: both of these peoples are operating from genuine existential fear, and both fears are rationally grounded. Jews carry 2,000 years of expulsion and massacre culminating in the murder of a third of all Jews on earth within living memory — and then a neighbor whose founding charter cited the Protocols killed 1,200 of them in a day. Palestinians carry the Nakba, generations of exile, a West Bank being carved apart in real time, and a Gaza reduced to rubble — the fear of being erased as a people isn't paranoia when you're watching it happen. Each side looks at the other and sees, accurately, people who have talked about their disappearance. Two traumatized peoples, each convinced the other means to finish them, on one small piece of land. That is the actual shape of this conflict, and it's why it survives every peace plan. I'm not claiming symmetry of power — there isn't any. Israel is a nuclear-armed state backed by the world's superpower; Palestinians are stateless. The asymmetry is real, and right now the overwhelming share of the dying is Palestinian. But asymmetry of power isn't asymmetry of fear, or of history, or of belonging. You can hold all of it: the occupation is unjust, October 7 was an atrocity, the Nakba happened, the Holocaust shapes everything, Hamas's charter says what it says, and Israeli ministers say what they say. If your version of this conflict has one people with agency and one people who only ever react, you're reading propaganda — I don't care which direction it points. The people actually working toward something livable, on both sides, have always been the ones who can say the whole sentence. I'd rather stand with them and take fire from both directions than repeat half a story to stay comfortable in either camp.
BREAKING🚨 Renee Good’s mom just told Congress: “I am a registered Republican. I voted for President Trump under the impression that these agents were here to protect the citizens of the United States,” she testified. "But far more than being a Republican, I am a Christian. Jesus teaches us to forgive and I have, but what we are asking for is accountability." Donna Ganger's daughter, Renée Nicole Good, was 37, a U.S. citizen and a mother of three, shot and killed by ICE officer Jonathan Ross on January 7 in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge. City leaders said Good was not a target for arrest. She was a legal observer, watching federal immigration agents work her city. "She should still be alive. I will say it again, my daughter should still be alive," she said. "It is torture that as her mom and her family, we could not protect Renee." Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said Good had "weaponized" her vehicle, a claim made before investigators had publicly released any evidence. Ross has not been charged with any crime. The Justice Department declined to open a federal criminal civil rights investigation, with then-Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche saying there was "no basis" for one. Trump, weeks after the shooting, told Fox's Will Cain that Good's death hit him harder than the killing of Alex Pretti because of who her parents voted for. "They were tremendous Trump people, Trump fans," he said. Her brother Brent Ganger testified beside her. "The time is absolutely now for accountability for the deep damage done by ICE and others," he said. "We will not be quiet. We will not go away." If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.
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BREAKING: New reporting from the Guardian reveals Trump’s FCC Chair the fucking raunch pig Brendan Carr joined a Washington, D.C.-area Alcoholics Anonymous offshoot called Midtown in 1996, when he was about 17. He stayed connected to the group for roughly nine years, including through law school. Fourteen former members told the Guardian that Midtown’s leader, Michael Quinones, who died in 2007, controlled nearly every part of members’ lives: where they lived, where they worked, what they ate, and who they dated. The allegations go further. Former members say teenage girls and young women were coerced into relationships and sex with older men inside the group. One former member, identified as Tammy S., called Quinones the “Epstein of AA.” Another said what happened to her may have amounted to sex trafficking. An FCC spokesperson denied any wrongdoing on the pervert Carr’s part. These are allegations from named sources, not criminal charges, and Carr has not been accused of participating in the abuse. But here’s the actual story. A man who spent nearly a decade inside a group credibly accused of grooming and trafficking minors now sits atop the federal agency deciding what counts as acceptable speech on American airwaves, and he’s used that power aggressively against journalists who actually do their jobs and comedians who offend Trump
coming back around with voting I dunno its a shit show here in canada guess its kind of my duty as a citizen and I do care but mostly would vote green party provincially since with one seat in last elections or a few they brought around the most change and are the most sensitive to what people need the one guy never smiles EBY and the rest are all conservative nutcases in hippyville BC lol
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