@erichamilton
Just a guy lurking on the net, working on a little enlightenment. Fortunate son, happy husband, proud father. Privileged white guy who graduated from Robert E. Lee High School and knows how f***ed up that was. Worked hard, paid my taxes, if only...
Really well said: "Economic inequality reduces the ability of people to experience others as equals, to have relations with them on equal terms, and hence to function as citizens."
www.liberalcurrents.com/it-wasnt-fas...
Pessimistic prediction, but:
At some point, being in the Epstein files a few times without direct evidence that you killed, fucked and ate a baby, is going to become a mark of prestige. Because enough powerful people are implicated that accepting it will be presented as realistic grown up politics.
The play is never done because it’s awful, a total mess, the work of at least 6-8 writers. This is the bit Shakespeare wrote. We know for sure because it’s in his hand. Even if we didn’t have that, though.. I saw it the only time it was on, I think - this scene leapt off the stage
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
One thing that irks me: people keep calling the folks on the streets in Minneapolis protestors. They are not generally there to protest, they are there to observe and document. This is the product of organizing and mutual aid. It is telling that these acts of citizenship are seen as protest!
I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing
It's the gentlefolk of the Shire, and their daring to care about the world outside their own borders, who save the "hard men of Gondor," you illiterate billionaire oaf.
That PMJ cover of Creep is excellent, but my fav is www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mOL...
I think of the journey all privileged white folks, particularly those with some past power, must make given the reality of our collective past and the work still to do.
Listening to Coates and being true to our values is a good step.
I love your piece, its insights for us all and how it invites us to struggle with issues and not just dunk on Klein.
I have no basis to judge Klein's heart. Perhaps he is a lost bright-kid. Another author suggests America's past 50 years have been like a childhood for many.
If I were ever to have as large an influence as Ezra Klein and get so wrong in public, I would hope I had a friend with as much moral clarity as Ta-Nehisi Coates.
The linked piece here is great. And the Klein-Coates discussion is worth reading and thinking about.
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
I want to do a 🧵 about the Sidney Sweeney thing, because it's *extremely* revealing & educational.
First, to be clear: I could not give less of a shit about the details -- the ad, the rhetoric, the jeans, her boobs, whatever. Good lord, who cares.
Let's look at the *structure* of the episode.
No comment on New Yorker-specific concerns one way or the other.
The New Yorker is owned by Condé Nast. They also own Wired. They are doing good work to hold this regime to account.
I think I saw mention that Condé Nast might be bought by Skydance who are purchasing Paramount. That would be bad.
If you’ve never seen one before, this is a strawberry finch.
Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/
Yes! And adopting a "statute of limitations" approach avoids the need for periodic "amnesty" fights or kicking the can down the road for decades.
That's in addition to the bass damages.
This guy consistently posts songs with incredible lyrics mere hours after events unfurl. This was a good one.
Don't use arsenic in sauce reductions.
"Claim your pets as full deductions."
I mean, true, but not by changing statutory rates...
#HandsOffMountainView
I don’t know who this guy is but I liked his sign! (NYC)
HandsOff
This week makes 8 years since I joined my local police department to help change the world by changing myself. Far from being jaded, I now see much more good in people. I see a great deal of death & violence. But I see far more beauty & potential.
I choose this way. Join me
Try making your own list. I made a “short list” with a subset of the people I follow. You can pin a list among your feeds. I look at it if I only want to check on latest from some. Can do on phone with no coding.
I may regret this, but I read it was:
Stop saying: "All tariffs are bad because they raise prices-- that's what got us de-industrialization."
Start shouting: "Trump's unhinged on-again off-again tariffs on our staunch allies are unconstitutional, illegal, AND they raise prices & kill export jobs.
Here's how I see it. America is very far along in a process of regime change--a fundamental, revolutionary change to our entire system of government, from a liberal democracy allied to other democracies, to a patrimonial autocracy allied to other autocracies.
My wife likes to garden. I feel safer now.
I think both these things can be true:
-Moves by Trump himself are 99% performative, destructive, bluffing, bigoted, bottomlessly stupid, usually fail even on their own terms.
-Meanwhile what Musk, Vought, FBI/DOJ/State et al are doing is genuinely ominous IMO.
