So often the story we are told is that everyone is set in their ways. But I want us to look closely at who benefits from that story. If we don't believe people change, why would we ever take action?
rt if u hate nazis and love boobs
the people yearn for woke 2
this made me cackle all the way through
"hey, it's important to have boundaries. hey. live in my house. hey, jack does nude yoga at sunrise." what are we DOING here. #thepitt
I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...
the idea that choosing to get paid for murdering brown children is morally equivalent to getting a student loan and working a couple minimum wage jobs like a normal person is a bright red tell on whoever believes it
In the US, under-regulated Little Pharma is BIGGER than Big Pharma.
Snake-oil never went away.
Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.
The U.S. is a country that is unable to handle death but is awash in it. A country with people who often can't process grief. These are terrible things.
The ICE surge in Minnesota cost $280M to detain 4k people. Of those- only 30 were accused of violent crimes.
$9 million per capture of the "worst of the worst".
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People do what you pay them to do.
You pay corporate executives to make stock prices go up, not to make better products.
You pay politicians to get re-elected, not to govern well.
You pay reporters to get a bigger audience, not to tell the truth.
And so forth.
Be aware of what you pay people to do
re: hockey, Muhammad Ali, one of the greatest boxers ever to live, gave up three years in the prime of his life — years in which his fighting would have been at peak; actual money incalculable — rather than fight in an unjust war, so noping out on grandpa’s burger bash should be an easy choice
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Until this country reckons with police and policing, nothing will improve.
In competitive authoritarianism (US right now) there's often a "loyal opposition" that's essential to the regime. They are so wedded to "decorum," they go along with rites & rituals that help regime prop up veneer of normalcy, undermining clear view of regimes actions & aims.
The GOP: the party of the boss's kid.
This is breaking me a little. I was writing about chilling effects, and immigrants being terrorized out of public life, for this website, in 2017 and frankly earlier. www.vox.com/policy-and-p...
"We owe conspiracy theorists a huge apology"
No we fucking don't. They were talking about a secret conspiracy of gay trans Jewish lizard people. The Epstein files uncovered a conspiracy of rich, straight, white, right-wing Christian men, which these motherfuckers never even considered.
It appears to be
The left has long said that U.S. foreign policy is about empire and extraction, and now the Trump administration doesn’t even bother to pretend otherwise.
Full discussion with @jamellebouie.net: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUnA...
I don't know what to do but just keep repeating it so I don't go insane: the rise & eventual total domination of RW media is the single most significant political development of my lifetime and the entirely of the US political & media elite resolutely refuse to discuss or even acknowledge it.
Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela.
Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
There’s plenty of money.
I am seeing nonprofits lay off staff, cut services, and in some cases close outright. The very programs that help those most at risk are being run into the ground so a murderous regime can build concentration camps and ballrooms.
Great to talk with Dahlia about the warehousification of immigrant detention and how it intersects with concentration camp history. I've now had a chance to listen to the Linus Chan segment, too, and it's so helpful how he lays out the maximalist approach unfolding now on the ground.
This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine.
Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.
