Carley Carden

@carleycarden.bsky.social

•GA artist •intersectional feminist •learner •quant •hsp •ilove Iris Murdoch •heavy music •prog policy •RCV •NBA •Virtue ethics in the streets, virtuoso in the Heat (culture) •All things are connected.

Hooooly happy pub day, @josie.zone! Currently balls-deep (for days sans sleep) in reconciling accounts to prep back taxes for mtg w IRS on Fri, but I took a pause ~6:15am to visualize PPL GOING FUCKING HAM in stores/doors/libraries/streets over beckbook.com, and atp, tysm for a reason to live. 😅💅🏼💖

"The Last Temptation of Beck" by Josephine Riesman

From the New York Times-bestselling author of "Ringmaster," Josephine Riesman, comes a stylish and shocking account of the life of the musician Beck.

beckbook.com

Josephine beckbook.com Riesman@josie.zone · 6d ago

𝐓𝐖𝐎 𝐆𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐓 𝐖𝐎𝐑𝐊𝐒 𝐀𝐑𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐅𝐈𝐍𝐀𝐋𝐋𝐘 𝐀𝐕𝐀𝐈𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐋𝐄 𝐓𝐎 𝐘𝐎𝐔! One is 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙏 𝙏𝙀𝙈𝙋𝙏𝘼𝙏𝙄𝙊𝙉 𝙊𝙁 𝘽𝙀𝘾𝙆, which just published on all platforms: beckbook.com The other is 𝙇𝙊𝙎𝙀𝙍 𝘽𝘼𝘽𝙄𝙀𝙎, my "soundtrack" album of musicians interpreting the book in bangin' original tracks: bit.ly/loser-babies SNAG ONE OR BOTH NOW!!!

cover of josie's book THE LAST TEMPTATION OF BECK

“Drawing on labyrinthine Internal Revenue Service records, the pair study a group of rich business owners that looks more like a suburban chamber of commerce than an oligarchy: car dealers, dentists... What they find is tremendous wealth and power.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/b...

The Rich People Democrats Aren’t Talking About (Gift Article)

As billionaires become a popular political target, a new book urges Washington not to lose sight of a much larger, and quieter, group of wealthy business owners.

nytimes.com

"“We make sure that the right people get access and the wrong people don’t: security of identity information is paramount,” said the Defense Manpower Data Center while maintaining intense, sustained eye contact and actively shitting itself in front of you."

Hackers stole millions of US military personnel records during months-long data breach | TechCrunch

The Department of Defense notified millions of current and former U.S. military personnel that their personal information had been stolen in a months-long breach.

techcrunch.com

remember: it saved no net money, social services US citizens are getting cut, and left the US in a weaker place geopolitically. none of the debates about fiscal responsibility, obligation to US citizens first, or 'hard choices' actually apply. they're all bullshit. killed people for nothing at all.

Eric Michael Garcia@ericmgarcia.bsky.social · 2w ago

Still kind of inconceivable how many people died or will die because of the death of USAID. And the world’s richest man did it almost as a joke

Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical emergencies without calling 911. with @wpln.bsky.social

He Suffered Abuse in a Private Youth Jail. The Company Never Reported It.

Tennessee’s highest-security youth prisons are operated by a single private company. Former staff say they felt pressure to hide abuse and other serious incidents from the state and to handle medical ...

propublica.org

Gonna log off bc every post I’ve seen in the past 5 minutes has prompted me to say, “OH, FUCK OFF,” to my phone either silently or aloud, but none so much as the Hegseth “Autowarcom” killkillkill drivel