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No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors, we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine. 🌎 Divided States of America
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Your wallet shrinks, your 401(k) tanks, but Trump's first thought is to help Elon.

“Neither Musk nor Trump seek a more capable state; they seek a broken state that they can control and corrupt.” www.nytimes.com/2025/03/09/o...

😂😅

My sleep is 100x worse this year. I wonder what it could be 🫠

“If you asked: ‘Who will undermine the liberal international order’ 10 or 15 years ago, I would have said it was going to be the rise of China, or the rogue actions of Russia, or Iranians. No… it turns out to be the United States of America, who turned its back on its own creation.” - Fareed Zakaria

One of the best conversations I’ve heard yet unpacking this administration’s idiotic, antiquated worldview on foreign policy — from screwing over allies to obsessing over territorial expansion. Worth a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Street art in Brooklyn, NY circa 2017. Particularly apt today.

What the absolute FUCK

Absolutely worth a subscribe. Equal parts hilarious and depressing, and @jefftiedrich.bsky.social does a great job curating the most insane shit from the previous day.

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

This is fucked, but the problem isn’t that no one sees the danger. It’s that no one has figured out an effective counter-offensive to chaos created by the “muzzle velocity” strategy. It feels like paralysis at this point.

Over 20 years ago, Fox News turned information into entertainment. Truth was subverted, explicitly in pursuit of profit. Social media adopted this formula, severely distorting honest and context-rich communication, explicitly in pursuit of attention and profit. Humanity deserves better.