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Something is shifting. They are still breaking things and stealing things. And they will keep trying to break and to steal. But the propaganda magic around the oligarchical coup is fading. (1/2)

submitted 12 hours ago • 1173 comments

I've been thinking this for some time too, @sifill.bsky.social. sherrilyn.substack.com/p/democracy-...

submitted 12 days ago • 57 comments

Watched The Blues Brothers film today. Pretty mediocre and the Nazi characters sub-subplot was superfluous and kinda stupid. But it did make me a little nostalgic to see the Nazi characters as ridiculous, fringe characters nowhere near any sort of institutional power.

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

What's happening in America is that, in the most literal sense, internet trolls have taken over the government.

submitted 14 days ago • 124 comments

Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work

submitted 18 days ago • 212 comments

A Few Thoughts on Messages and Morale talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-few...

submitted 21 days ago • 85 comments

The media isn’t calling it a coup for the same reason they won’t call a Nazi a Nazi 1. They’re complicit 2. It doesn’t match the *aesthetic* of what they think a coup looks like

submitted 21 days ago • 11 comments

This song has been in my head since Monday night. Someone really needs to do a cover version.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

submitted 25 days ago • 1031 comments

by freezing all federal grants, trump is fundamentally transforming the relationship between the executive and congress. he is asserting dictatorial authority over federal spending, transforming congress's lawmaking powers into advisory authority. it is a constitutional crisis

submitted 25 days ago • 226 comments

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

This is absolutely chilling. He truly is a sociopath.

submitted 30 days ago • 1077 comments

Listening to #k.d.Lang's amazing 1988 album Shadowland and growing increasingly upset about the fact that I can't find it on any list of top 50/100/200 albums of the 1980's.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

submitted 33 days ago • 199 comments

AccuWeather: between LA fires, hurricanes & other weather disasters, the US has suffered $693 to $799 billion in total economic damages over the past 12 mos, equaling nearly 3% of GDP. But remember, it’s the energy transition that’s expensive

submitted 35 days ago • 13 comments

You know who understands risk? Actuaries. And guess what they're saying: "... the plausible worst-case hit to global economies would be 50% in the two decades before 2090." I'm bad at budgeting, can someone tell me whether 50% is a lot?

submitted 37 days ago • 46 comments

"They would have found him guilty"

submitted 39 days ago • 207 comments

These teenagers and young men — 95% of whom are Black, Latinx, or Filipino — earn between $2.20 and $4 per hour, plus an additional $1 an hour when they’re actively fighting fires, according to the DJJ. ⤵️

submitted 45 days ago • 194 comments

I generally don't like to pick on entire generations, but man, the #SilentGeneration had some really questionable music taste. (The stats are from James Coleman's 1961 book The Adolescent Society, and I think the surveys were completed in 1958.)

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Our beloved security consultant Clarence Beeks disappeared 42 years ago today, last seen on an Amtrak Metroliner from DC to Philadelphia on the evening of December 31. Hold space for him in your heart today.

submitted 53 days ago • 5 comments