Andie Wyatt

This, more than anything, is what the right realized in the wake of the 2000 election: in a moment of chaos or crisis, they can do anything -- *anything*, no matter how overtly criminal or gross -- & just smooth it over later with "both sides" pablum. "Let's not fight, let's look forward," etc.

Class reductionism is not actually opposed to capitalist extractivism it just wants to give different white men a chance to be on top

There’s a difference between doomerism - “it’s all terrible and there’s no answer” - and the warning given here, which is “it’s currently heading in a terrible direction and we need to *make damn sure* we DO something about it.“

Because we can. But currently we aren’t.

This is indeed great from start to finish, but “the kind of specific neurological injury that you can only get by paying for an economics degree” was a particular highlight.

Putting Elon Musk on the cover of a magazine for anything other than “his illegal government funding cuts have already killed hundreds of thousands of people, mostly children” is propaganda

We are being poisoned every day, so why do we keep voting for more pollution? Ask a lobbyist | George Monbiot The dirty industries that dominate politics deceive us into accepting dangerous pollutants such as ammonia as part of life, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

I think about this quote from @georgemonbiot.bsky.social a lot:

“The idea that some people may freely poison others is one of the most astonishing but least contested aspects of modern life.”

I think Trump experiences fear, jealousy, pleasure, disgust, rage, & that's about it, emotionally speaking.

Barely a peg above lizard shit.

Beyond that I think he's basically a glitchy human AI, trying to spit out a facsimile of human-sounding language without any real processing or understanding.

Agree with the addition that “negative externalities” isn’t a concept in capitalist economics so much as a refutation of it. A system that excludes massive relevant effects from consideration can only possibly be a lie to cover for extraction and abuse of power.

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Saying "it's good that this is happening" isn't the same as saying "the people who are doing this are good."

Scumbag politicians figuring out what the progressive base wants and giving it to them is an essential part of making the country better. Always has been, always will be.

The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth, report shows The wealth of the ultra-rich is undergoing a historic surge. This is the key takeaway of the third major report of the World Inequality Lab co-directed by French economist Thomas Piketty, which emphas...

There are 56,000 of them, the wealthiest 0.001% of the planet with at least €254 million in assets. Together, they now own three times more than the poorest half of humanity or 2.8 billion adults …Back in 1995, the 0.001% held "only" twice as much as the poorest half.

www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/a...

@quigley.house.gov Signing on? Your constituents (hi!) need you to support this as soon and as strongly as possible.

🚨 Today, I formally introduced articles of impeachment against Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

RFK Jr. has turned his back on science and the safety of the American people. Michiganders cannot take another day of his chaos.

It's a weird psychosocial terror of being feminized by penetration, but the penetration is "your feelings being affected by people you care for," a basic element of being a social creature. They want to amputate a key chunk of human nature in the name of being totes alpha masc bros.

🧵 Also: Much legal theory seems to be based on a fantasy Congress.
The administrative state grew because Congress, which has a limited number of people with extraordinary time demands, delegated to specialists.
It now has the same number of people, demands are worse and tasks are more complex.

The scamming and grifting, the mob style shakedowns, the Christian nationalism, the technofascism, the MAHA eugenics, all reflect the same deeply felt and simple-minded need for rigid zero-sum hierarchies (where those already at the top and bottom respectively are rightfully there, natch).

MAGAts believe disasters are good for weeding out the weak and undeserving and for giving deserving rich white men opportunities to grift and profit from suffering, safe in their enclaves and bunkers. By their measures, this asshole has all the merit. (Climate messaging people should take note.)

Defining things in a binary, zero-sum way against what they are not is central to how these people simplify reality down to their comfort level and it sucks, including but not limited to in the domain of gender

Masculinity does not need to be anti-femininity to be real, but that idea’s beyond them

This is extremely my jam. My law review article was on soil protection. Soil is magic. 🍂🍄‍🟫🪨🐌🪱

Seriously, conservatives DO NOT MIND BEING CONDESCENDED TO. Obviously. They mind being condescended to by people they don’t respect as their superiors. And they’re very superficial, very big on big dick-swinging appearance. We can only make inroads by compromising LESS, not more. Know thine enemy.

Left-liberalism is morally, ethically, intellectually, practically, and aesthetically superior to conservatism. It always has been.

We should worry way less about looking “condescending” than about looking wishy-washy when we’re right—even from the perspective of effective persuasion.

Sucks for rural kids and blue dots that most of their neighbors are in a death cult.

I want to face-punch everyone who ever said conservatism meant respect for tradition and prudent caution in the face of change. The only thing conservatives have ever! wanted to conserve is unearned dominance. I’m a leftier-than-left radical and I’m way more “conservative” by that BS definition.

roast chicken with schmaltzy cabbage Cabbage cooked slowly in salty buttery chicken drippings until charred at the edges and caramelized throughout is the real star of this deeply cozy and rewarding three-ingredient roast chicken.

One of the best three ingredient meals.

They lack theory of mind for anyone situated even slightly differently from them. *They* lose respect for non-toxic and non-shitty men and can’t fathom women *really* think otherwise

In these cases, AI is being used to solder together the libertarian goal of dismantling administrative capacity with the fascist goal of ever present control and enforcement. This mediating function between contrasting desires is at least as important whether it actually works.

Our education system is structured to prepare students for capitalism and sort the deserving from the undeserving, and sadly no amount of heroic effort from educators to prepare students for society and full humanity, encourage curiosity, and treat them all as deserving can overcome that structure.

A poster on 8.5 x 11 inch paper saga Fishtown fish facts: red lipped catfish or of ocephalus Darwini. Then a pic of that freaky fish with 4 limbs it rests on the ground and then the words “stg this fish real red-lipped batfish walk ocean floor with they flippers RLBF have RBF, not they fault RLBF have a bioluminescent lure that glows to attract dinner RLBF lipgloss is popping, RLBF lipgloss is cool, all the fish keep jockin, they chase RLBF after school RLBF got scales like armor and shine bright like a diamond Red-lipped batfish will teach you how to dougie, I can promise u that. @yaboyni Take a moment And and realize the moment You took has already passed Thank you See you next time

One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.

They know that SCOTUS is very likely to overturn the 14th amendment, which definitionally means that overturning the 14th amendment is a reasonable thing to do, which means they need to start preemptively constructing justifications for it now, to show how reasonable and sensible they are.

We could build that on a recognition that science conclusively proves the ontology of reality is best explained as process-relational, i.e. that everything and everyone is deeply interdependent and defined by our relations not self-contained essences. Bridges religious/secular. Better vocab needed.😝