costrike
@costrike.bsky.social
Matters will not improve of their own accord. Lecturer, writer, & socent interested in inequality, sustainability, systems thinking, & renewing democracy. Enjoy cooking, gardening, writing & wandering.
"...or my name isn't whatever he tells me it is."
Ann Telnaes@anntelnaes.bsky.social · 14h agohahahahahahahahahaha AG Todd Blanche: "This narrative...that the president is going to pull me aside and ask me to do something illegal is completely a false narrative, not true, will not happen, and hasn't happened"
The failure to prosecute bank fraud was a massive and inexcusable failure of the Obama administration. Kids go to jail for stealing 1/1000th as much.
Ungovernable Ed Walker@edwalker.bsky.social · 10h agoAfter the S&L crash over 1000 execs went to jail. The threat of jail affects white collar workers who are potential cheats. The failure to repeat after toe Great Crash emboldened this crowd of cheats.
A new documentary, "American Doctor," shows the reality of what Israel has been doing in Gaza. It's genocide. youtube.com/watch?v=VecG...
NEW DOC: ‘American Doctor’ exposes 'the actual facts’ of what’s happening inside Gaza’s hospitals
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I'll show me
Alt: A man standing on top of a ladder dismounts it by way of a sledge hammer intervention
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He keeps this up, they might not invite him to the next WHCD
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday“The journalists say they feel disappointed that the White House wasn’t forthright about the operation and didn’t brief them during the flight or once it concluded, with some reporters saying they feel deceived by the government.” 🙃
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Greg and Margaret Sullivan talking about Trump's decoy plane? Sign me up.
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · 4d agoTrump leaving journos on decoy plane after viciously attacking them at a press dinner that feted his power neatly captures how media submits to his authoritarian abuses. And nothing will be learned from it, as @sulliview.bsky.social says on our pod. She's great here: newrepublic.com/article/2142...
Plenty to reflect about re: the Arday affair, but I'm going to repeat this one thing. The playbook the right used here is effective even though it's not especially sophisticated, as it relies on the audience to do the dirty work. I've been calling it "Trojan horse propaganda", let's go with that. 1/
I get it, but I think we could run out the clock with his real crimes
ᴀʟᴇx ʀᴜssᴇʟʟ@infrequently.org · 2d agoStephen Miller deserves to spend the rest of his natural life fighting a legal system charging him of crimes he didn't commit in a language he does not speak, alone, and without counsel: publicnotice.co/p/stephen-miller…
I wanna see public school teachers added to this
David Cay Johnston@davidcayjohnston.bsky.social · 3d agoGreat SF Chronicle report on pay—clear, compares top pay to the median, including benefits and overtime. Bravo to chartist Hanna Zakharenko, reporters Hanna Zakharenko and Nami Sumida, plus Abigail Vân Neely for a related piece. Gift article link below. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...
Third Way was never aboveboard, but anyone trying to defend them going forward is inviting me to lose my shit
Jared Holt@jaredlholt.bsky.social · 5d agoThe "centrist" think tank Third Way is looking to pay someone between $140,000 and $150,000 to spend their days trying to dig up dirt on DSA members. They're trying to sell this gig as "anti-extremism" work, which I find completely disgusting.
Labour ought to be required to rebrand. The Neoliberal Party feels a fit
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 3d agoAndy Burnham moves to cut new EV sales targets
And several hundred thousand fewer than the deaths due to the dismantling of USAID. (Everyone involved with the admin ought to spend the rest of their days in The Hague for resigning in response to that.)
USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, accord...
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Grudgie the Whale@grudgie.bsky.social · 3d agoHe killed about 230 fewer people than Trump & Hegseth have fishermen
Need to accelerate, but the line is bending the right way.
Dr Paul Dorfman @drpauldorfman.bsky.social · 3d agoUtility-scale battery storage capacity in the United States grew at an average annual rate of 70% over the last three years, driven by rapid utility-scale solar deployment www.pv-magazine.com/2026/08/13/u...
