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Billionaires are also sponging off everyone else: exploited staff; public infrastructure (and the education and work required to create and maintain it); environmental costs. The wealthier you are the MORE of a sponge you are.
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Yep. Their billions are also not their earnings: underpaid staff, suppliers & contractors; billionaires failed to pay for the public services and utilities that make their companies possible, and their billions cost the environment - all unpaid for by the super-rich.
To restore democracy and create a fairer, safer, greener world, we need massive taxes on the ultra-rich. As in the 1940s. People get confused about this. The main purpose of such taxes is *not* to raise revenue. The point is to stop the few dominating the many. It's an essential democratic measure.
Oh wonderful; thanks for telling me! Asa is such a gem. His latest book, Cartographies of Exclusion, is terrific.
Also, many, many museums and research libraries have digitized historic collections and have free images available for download for many (even all) purposes.
Don't wreck the planet and participate in training surveillance capitalism systems. There's no excuse.
I get almost as many comments about how ugly or fat I am on my workout posts as I did on my posts before I started lifting. I’m not asking for sympathy. I just want to remind Black women that the point isn’t if we are pretty or skinny or not. The point is they want us to not exist.🙄
The family - the firm - is complicit.
Fascists only need to win one election to destroy democracy, whereas democrats have to win every election to preserve it. That’s why fascists cannot be allowed into politics, why a tolerant society must never tolerate fascism or it will lose its tolerance. It’s the Popper Paradox and we’re living it
So first of all, the DOJ's standards are....extremely fallen, I cannot imagine this happening much earlier in time.
Second, the word "intentionally" has very specific meaning and this lawyer thirty years into practice knows what it means, and the judge is being very clear about that.
Honestly, I am absolutely disgusted by academics suggesting that AI can do the reading and writing for you. At a certain point, what you're bragging about is fraud. And in a broader sense, what you're contributing to is the erosion of knowledge and the destruction of trust in academic publishing.
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(Rhetoric of the bad guys still same)
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Chotiner knows a few things.
Honestly, this would have been a good law school course, too.
On the @ohgodwhatnow.bsky.social podcast I spoke with @jonnelledge.bsky.social & @zoegrunewald.bsky.social about monsters and politics! Starts at the 35-minute mark after an interview w/ @stellacreasy.bsky.social about the UK Government's migration & asylum plans.
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@brookenewman.bsky.social this feels like the other set of nails in the coffin of the monarchy.
Cue hollow laughter.
I don’t think people who aren’t regularly covering the reproductive rights beat realize how common it is for women to be incarcerated for miscarriages.
Wrote a thing about the Frankenstein spinoff movie Bride! The film is "a joyful escape and an exhortation to own one’s inner nasty woman, or monster."
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Wow. Understated rapiers everywhere.
🤮 Indeed.
"The gift of Andy and Fergie, which comes at too high a price, has been to bring the antiseptic of daylight to the culture of royal privilege."
That's not even the worst stuff in the essay. Searing. Necessary. Shocking.
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"Giuffre was hounded by the press and eviscerated by those who live with the terrifying delusion that royalty has something to do with virtue."
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Andrew sold house gifted by the queen, for 3 million pounds over asking price, to son-in-law of president Nazarbayev of Kazakhstan, "a dictator whose regime tortured opponents and whose security forces opened fire on striking oil workers on 16 December 2011, killing 15 people and injuring 100."
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Christ alive, in 2008 he visited Ghaddafi three times in the space of a few months.
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"Andrew found that he liked the company of men who floated above the clouds and above the law. He seems to have volumised his bad behaviour to match theirs, while hoping, in the fetid conditions of the modern Elizabethan court, that if Mummy didn’t think badly of him it didn’t matter."
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OMG my fave line: "Andrew was a walking category error, perceiving no difference between business and pleasure, between what was good for the country and what was excellent for him, conducting a campaign of international larceny masquerading as public service."
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" It was all plastic. All sheen. And it took ages for the dodgiest elites in the world to work out that the Yorks were Britain’s most corrupt family and that being close to the queen was their only line of credit."
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