Oligarchy thrives with chaos. It seeks to monitize social services like infastructure, security, the electrical grid, parking authorities and sewer systems. Once privitized, the quality goes down. Prices go up.--Chris Hedges
An important key at this point for resisters is to avoid clashes, rioting, vandalism, or looting.
Modernity promised certainty. Postmodernism unmasked it. The Epistemic Age is learning to live without it. www.douglasdecelle.net/the-epistemi...
I’m going to miss Jimmy Kimmel but… the real late-night circus is American politics. We don’t need monologues to see absurdity—it’s playing live every day on Capitol Hill
Violent crime in D.C. has dropped significantly, with a 26% decrease in violent crime this year compared to the same period last year, according to NBC4 Washington, including a 12% drop in homicides and a 20% drop in assaults with a dangerous weapon.
The massive budget for ICE and immigration enforcement and incarceration exceeds the military budgets for most countries.
And the Big Beautiful Bill will amp this up massively
Alligators are part of the beautiful texture of Florida life. They are no longer endangered. They're not especially dangerous, killing less than 5 people a year. This Alligator Alcatraz idiocy does these marvelous creatures no favor.
The MAGA plan for climate apocalypse follows the strategy of insurance companies. You're covered so long as premiums are greater than payouts. Once a fire burns Sacrameto down or a storm floods a third of Florida, the motto of both insurance co. and government will be "You're on your own."
Notice how Republicans are now disinterested in the deficit or national debt. Why not? Because tax relieved millionaires are no longer financing medicad, fema, etc. The one budget item that will never be cut is debt service--which goes to millionaires.
Forty-two percent of America's enormous national debt is held by private American investors, the ones who are receiving big tax cuts. Can you see the big con? Non rich taxpayers lose services that make their lives better, but pay for natl debt service which flows to the rich. Its called class war.
This actually might be a good idea. Can we consider release of green house gases, and the resulting planetary heating and violent weather as manipulating weather?
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A veteran’s wife was arrested by ICE when she went for an immigration check-in. She was separated from her young children, even though she’s still nursing.
I wonder who he voted for?
That said, it’s odd he said “almost inhumane”. Being snatched from your newborn baby IS inhumane.
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@billshaner.bsky.social reports from the scene of a brutal ICE arrest in Worcester, Massachusetts: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The ubiquity and high quality of theological scholarship today exceeds, or at least extends, what I got in seminary. Your work plus that of thousands of other talented writers, bloggers, social media users, parallels moveable type's contribution to biblical literacy.
The danger of the current GOP agenda is the proposed extention of the 2017 tax cuts. This brief WSJ video is the best analysis of how poor and middle class Americans will be locked into destitution if the cuts in services and tax relief for the wealthy advances. youtu.be/AdwFchjz2e8?...
Well-written compelling essay on why POTUS has no authority to levy teriffs without a genuine emergency. consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/t...
This crisp, well-written article demonstrates why the tariffs recently imposed by POTUS are unconstitutional. consortiumnews.com/2025/04/10/t...
Yesterday's "Hands Off" protests drew 5M peaceful demonstrators opposing the Republican Administration. Expert Erica Chenowith says no government withstands a non-violent challenge from 3.5% of its people without yielding or collapsing. With 340M in the U.S., that’s 11.9M—we're halfway there.
This is pretty rich.
What the global elite reveal to Davos sex workers www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...
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The daily CO2 number from Mauna Loa exceeded 430 ppm yesterday. This is the first reading above 430 ever recorded.
CO2 levels have not been this high since the Pliocene epoch, 3 to 5 million years ago.
The danger of the current GOP agenda is the proposed extention of the 2017 tax cuts. This brief WSJ video is the best analysis of how poor and middle class Americans will be locked into destitution if the cuts in services and tax relief for the wealthy advances. youtu.be/AdwFchjz2e8?...
Hmmm...interesting that Musk's wealth comes from the US government. www.cnn.com/2024/11/20/b...
This is the best analysis of the Ukraine situation that I've seen. youtu.be/J9x5E0ETyv8?...
