Look I feel like the torment nexus didn't even
Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 4h agoSomehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
Matt Cropp
@mattcropp.bsky.social
In #BTV #Vermont. Steeped in the deep lore of co-ops, employee ownership, & solidarity economics. Enjoys amateurish tinkering on electronics and energy with hackerspace friends. Preschooler parent. Now is the Time of Monsters.
Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 4h ago
Read @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on "Disputed Pasts" - "the warning we should take from [Brazil's] situation is the one about the dangers of being stopped short on the road toward memory, truth, and justice—not a lesson about the dangers of traveling that road at all."
Truth Without Reconciliation
Why did Brazil’s democratic institutions hold firm while those in the United States so quickly wilted?
bostonreview.net
It's my preschooler's favorite food, so I've been forced to innovate a "healthy" version: - sub bone broth for one of the cups of water - 50% flavor packet - the boy adds chopped spinach, green onion, and shredded carrot to the boil at 1 minute mark. He'll eat veggies if he's the one who added 'em
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 6d agoI need to live my truth. I like cheap unhealthy ramen noodles better than fancy healthy ones.
So, I finally did a TED talk, and it got released today. I seem to have been quite intense, but I'm grateful they left in my Trump joke. www.ted.com/talks/bill_m...
Our last, best chance to cool the Earth
We're living through oil wars, wildfire smoke and extreme weather driven by a warming planet. But environmentalist Bill McKibben says one thing is finally going right: the price of clean energy has pl...
ted.com
looking forward to the preprequel episodes -2 through 0 for more detailed history of the Galactic Empire's tariff regime
This is going to happen more and more until people in power and in the media stop lying about the basis for asylum. People don’t risk their lives to come here for nothing, they do it because it’s the only chance they have at safety.
Matt Ortega@mattortega.com · last wk.Stephen Miller said just the other day that all asylum claims are "fake." A couple deported from the U.S. to Guatemala were gagged, bound, and shot dead. Their 14-month old found crying next to their mother's body. People like Miller don't care though because this is the point: ethnic cleansing.
the national service is the graveyard of people with no real ideas
Getting diarrhea like, "Hope this isn't the diarrhea that was on the news"
The compromise I'm willing to make here is calling them Strasserites: but that requires understanding that this is a disease specific *to* the left: hating liberals more than fascists, obsessed with defeating liberalism, while believing an alliance with "working-class" fascist fans is possible.
Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 4w agoI don't know what to call the specific political tendency represented by Ryan Grim, Ken Klippenstein, Matt Stoller, Michael Tracey, Glenn Greenwald, Matt Taibbi, and Zaid Jilani, mostly because words sort of fail, but it isn't "the Left."
Looking for a new coworker!
Vermont Employee Ownership Center@veoc.bsky.social · 4w agoLooking for someone in Southern #Vermont to help build #EmployeeOwnership in the region! We're collaboratively funding this position with #BDCC, so please spread the word to anyone who might be a good fit! brattleborodevelopment.com/about/careers/ #SoVT #brattleboro #ESOP #workercoop #vt
Liquidating all the stocks/mutual funds in your 401k is praxis at this point. "Why did one straw break the camel's back? Here's the secret — the million other straws underneath it"
ae@aelkus.bsky.social · 4w agorecognition of how unstable the US is and how utterly wretched its president is gets priced in. So a lot of people and institutions are now invested in protecting Trump at all costs
The abandonment of third places starts earlier than 2001. There are a host of interlocking reasons, but if you know anything about anything you know the big one.
Third Places We Lost Due to Racism: Public Pools — Melanin Base Camp
When legally required to share public pools with Black children, white Americans chose to abandon them entirely. Rest in peace to yet another third place lost to racism.
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nick andersen@nicktheandersen.com · last mo.america has a fun shortage and it's important we talk about it (decline in third spaces, etc etc)
People who spiral out overusing LLM chatbots are really just experiencing the kind of brain-damaging stream of unconditional validation that’s always been the norm for the hyper-wealthy, which explains a lot.
Jon Hendry@jonhendry.bsky.social · last mo.Worse than Twitter, private discussions (text, email, whatever) among like-minded wealthy lunatics who are all surrounded by yes-men who talk like ChatGPT in maximum ass-kissing mode.
grieving this does nothing, we have time to put together a roster of the most vicious bureaucratic killers alive
Barb McQuade@barbmcquade.bsky.social · last mo.The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.
Took the boy on a ramble for his 4th birthday to encounter the Gods that a hippie art cult trapped in paper maché and store in a rickety fire-trap barn in rural Vermont.
A few centuries in, it's clear that the Senate is structurally unable to convict, even in the most extreme cases (post-Civil War), rendering impeachment a paper tiger. While we can dream of a parliamentary executive, replacing the Senate with a citizen jury would be interesting to try?
Presidents Can Be Impeached Because Benjamin Franklin Thought It Was Better Than Assassination
The founding fathers struggled with the idea of whether the top leader should be impeachable
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when you run out of bad boyars to blame, you get the okhrana to distribute anti semitic propaganda
post malone ergo propter malone@proptermalone.bsky.social · 2mo agoVance is one billion percent headed for the Blame The Jews lane
This one hits harder now he's behind the wire. soundcloud.com/edrootsmusic...
Delaney Hall (tune of "90 Miles from Dublin")
A protest song from a Minneapolitan in solidarity with the people in Newark and the hunger strike at Delaney Hall, written to the tune of 90 Miles from Dublin, the Irish hunger strike solidarity balla
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I'm genuinely in awe of this. I don't think he even knew what you were doing.
