John Francis
@sunbreakthedawn.bsky.social
Kings basketball, leftist politics.
it's genuinely bewildering to have spent a decade yelling about what a bad dude Elon Musk was, only for him to end up doubling the Holocaust's death count like, he just went out and made his earlier crimes look like nothing, and he's still walking free
$200 million just to bring needless devastation upon Iran, but also another $200 million that goes toward entrenching militarism, toward the environmental damage that comes with creating and firing missiles, toward a less just world order. We’d be better off setting the money on fire.
Truthout@truthout.org · yesterdayThe U.S. spent roughly $200 million on munitions in a single day after Trump resumed the Iran war, as an Iranian official said Tehran could sustain the conflict past Trump’s 2029 exit.
After 17yrs in China, this is largely the you’d-never-guess-it-but-it’s-the-truth assessment I also came away with
If you haven't already go check out science feeds right now. Scientists are not mincing words. We are in a civilizational ending trajectory that is moving way faster than anticipated. If we hit +2-2.5 degrees by 2035 then we won't be talking about what steps we can take by 2050
APTN News@aptnnews.bsky.social · yesterdayAfter approving major projects that will have “adverse” effects on wildlife in Ontario, Environment Minister Julie Dabrusin has now announced money for communities to adapt to the climate crisis. APTN’s Angel Moore asked her how much environmental harm she will tolerate.
OMNIVORES. THAT'S PART OF WHY WE GET ALONG SO WELL. THEY ARE VERY SIMILAR TO US IN MANY WAYS.
High Priestess, Low Patience@cheriepriest.com · 2d ago🙄
The perfect MAGA "self-made man." Mom helped him lie to investors about a drug, giving patients false hope. He cashed out for $260m, and then the stock dropped like a rock. One teacher's union retirement fund lost $1 million. Dude made his fortune on the backs of Alzheimer patients and teachers.
How Vivek Ramaswamy’s mom manipulated Alzheimer’s data and made her son rich
Vivek Ramaswamy, a billionaire and the Republican nominee in Ohio’s gubernatorial race, served as the frontman for a dubious pharmaceutical company and then cashed out weeks before its dramatic crash.
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God I miss norm so much, the podcast is on the internet archive and sometimes I’ll sit there and watch five episodes in a row
Dan Ryckert@danryckert.com · last yr.
I think "woke" was at least partly identified with "irritating" and the way we're rectifying that in Woke 2 is by being scary instead
What happened and "changed our children?" The reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act in 1990s that and included autism as a covered disabilities. Schools had to report how many autistic students they served. Who was a cosponsor of that bill? RFK Jr.'s uncle Ted Kennedy.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d agoRFK Jr on autism: "'Oh, we're just noticing it more.' But this is an absurdity ... if we were just noticing it more, we would notice it in older groups. But we're not ... so something happened in the mid '90s that changed our children"
As I said, Wisconsin has a deep history of collective ownership that is directly results from its deep relationship with socialism.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoFrancesca Hong: "Today is a day the Green Bay Packers were founded -- our publicly owned NFL team. I think that Wisconsin has a proud history of progressivism, and the policies we're fighting for honor that, but more importantly they honor working-class people."
"Mass Deportations Now" vs. "We Just Gotta Teach 500 Unlikeable People a Very Serious Lesson"
🚨NEW🚨: Every ton of CO2 emissions increases extreme heat risk around the world. In a new paper for @agu.org Earth's Future, I show how simple statistical models can directly quantify major oil and gas producers' contributions to recent heat waves. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
I dunno...I think it's time to stop interviewing James Carville.
I was in one of these recently and it was no big deal. I'm still a closed loop individual of individual sapience. There's definitely no humming of the collective mycelium spirit in the back of my mind. Don't worry about these
Seth Masket@smotus.bsky.social · 6d agoAre deadly fungal storms bad
"powerful forces are aligned against the practices of reading books, listening to researchers, and discussing why this period in our history is the way it is (and why maybe the next one doesn’t have to be)." 💙📚💬
Anna Kornbluh@annakornbluh.bsky.social · 7d ago"one of the surest strategies for amassing autocratic power is what I call deliberate deliteracy: the destruction, restriction, and monopolization of the infrastructures that make mass literacy possible." www.theamericanvandal.com/p/neuroplast...
Chris Hansen hearing Robert Pattinson was going to play him, “how cool is that?” Chris Hansen seeing the trailer:
Here’s the trailer for “Primetime,” starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen from “To Catch a Predator”
just to make sure we’re all on the same page for general election season, let’s brush up on our white boy arabic: -inshallah-“if god allows,” or “lord willing” used BEFORE something good happens -mashallah-“what god has willed,” or “good things come from god” used AFTER something good happens
a reason that Stevens lost and other AIPAC candidates are losing despite the huge infusions of money is that Dem voters don't want to vote for a candidate who is funded by the same org who will immediately turn around and fund the Republicans
Andrew Solender@andrewsolender.bsky.social · last wk.AIPAC: "Our members remain determined to ensure that voters reject Dr. El-Sayed and his radical anti-Israel agenda in November."
🪖 At least one active-duty soldier halted her imminent deployment after her husband was detained by immigration officers, leaving no one to care for their then-5-year-old son ⤵️
AP Exclusive: Trump's immigration crackdown has detained more than 50 military spouses and parents
An Associated Press investigation reveals that President Donald Trump’s administration has detained dozens of parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops.
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Somehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
