In 1983, Ruth Schwartz Cowan published a book called More Work for Mother where she argued that modern household tech (washing machines/vacuums) didn't reduce women's housework time, it just raised standards of domesticity. Household work is never shortened by tech & you can extrapolate that out.
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That is subsidizing agribusiness, not rural areas. Agribusiness and consumers don’t pay what food costs to produce in labor — just like how it’s Walmart and dollar general that are subsidized by social systems like WIC, not the labor itself.
We don’t pay what food costs to produce, otherwise this country wouldn’t be reliant on migrant labor for poverty wages
…in rural communities, but i’ve grown into a lot of empathy and come to understand my disdain as partially classism. The people you imagine you hate are poor, and stuck in cycles of poor education and few opportunities. Unlike suburbs.
I really understand this but I don’t think it’s fair to lump suburbs in with rural areas. Another QT mentioned how cities are dependent on rural water - what about food systems? As someone who grew up rurally, no one was more contemptuous than I was as a teen of the ignorance and parochialism…
This is a policy of genocide.
This is a genuinely terrible idea which would damage the night sky & thus our ability to explore space (& also to just have, y'know, darkness & uncluttered skies), & would drastically increase the likelihood of catastrophic cascading collisions of various human-made space objects (Kessler Syndrome).
HORRIFYING -
Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025
🧸Most were children
⌛️ Many died within the first year
😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from:
- HIV, TB, malaria
- Maternal & fetal deaths
- Malnutrition
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Excuse me, skeets. Except I can’t with skeets it’s too horrible and the first time I said it out loud my boyfriend said “SKEETS?” So now I have to keep saying “Bluesky posts” when I talk about the internet
God my last couple of tweets really do make me seem like a lib though
Scan of a Dealing with Dragons cover, front and back, with a black-haired princess petting the snout of a large dragon
May I offer the Trina Schart Hyman cover from the first edition?
Amused by the discourse cycle and wish David Gra*ber were here to chime in since he called me a fascist on Twitter in 2016 for criticizing black bloc agitation performed by young white men during BLM and that is a salt I will never let go of
I ID’d this a few years ago, drawing a line between people who were hipsters in the late aughts and Bernie purists, chapo listeners, etc around 2016
Thinking this through out loud, I'd define a reactionary leftist as someone reflexively adopts the position of "I am smart and savy because I belong to the small clique of people who are correct, and everyone else is wrong, always."
Race as a construct is so powerful that only now are many people saying ‘they are killing us’.
They have been killing us. We have all been us the whole time.
I think opposition to abortion is actually a great place to situate a working definition of fascism. The baseless desire for control over the bodies of an underclass, reaffirmed as such by that control.
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I want to throw out competitive debate as a possible influence here
This bill by a Washington State Democratic legislator would prevent any law enforcement agency in the state from hiring anyone employed as a sworn ICE officer after January 20, 2025. A good start, I say. Make them outcasts.
We should stop putting things in space because it personally frightens me
someone asked why I would appropriate an "evil" speech for the cause of woke, so I'll spell it out:
the speech exemplifies how confidently asserting your values has the power to define an entire cultural moment, and I want people in the service of good to think about how we can wield power that way
Not a gift but entertainment, has he seen the doc The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia (2009)
I like that they’ve given up on even having immigration enforcement as a pretext for any of this. It’s just purely armed masked goons wandering around in the middle of intersections harassing U.S. citizens as a display of force now.
Please donate to Keith Porter's family.
He was killed by an off-duty ICE agent in LA earlier this month.
The D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force established in Executive Order 14252 of March 27, 2025 (Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful), shall establish an online portal for Americans with law enforcement or other relevant backgrounds and experience to apply to join Federal law enforcement entities to support the policy goals described in Executive Order 14333. Each law enforcement agency that is a member of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful Task Force, as well as other relevant components of the Department of Justice as the Attorney General determines, shall further, subject to the availability of appropriations and applicable law, immediately create and begin training, manning, hiring, and equipping a specialized unit that is dedicated to ensuring public safety and order in the Nation’s capital that can be deployed whenever the circumstances necessitate, and that could be deployed, subject to applicable law, in other cities where public safety and order has been lost. ( (ii) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately begin ensuring that each State’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard are resourced, trained, organized, and available to assist Federal, State, and local law enforcement in quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety and order whenever the circumstances necessitate, as appropriate under law. In coordination with the respective adjutants general, the Secretary of Defense shall designate an appropriate number of each State’s trained National Guard members to be reasonably available for rapid mobilization for such purposes. In addition, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.
Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.
LIDAR image of landscapes showing linear raised beds over a very large area, with inset image showing the scale of raised beds in a photograph
This is a neat new study using LIDAR to document pre-colonization raised agricultural beds along the Menominee River that separates Wisconsin from Michigan, north of Green Bay.
“massive field systems like these were much more common than previously recognized”
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