Lisa Rokusek

Some good news

The phrase Truth Arbiter for governmental involvement in a news station should scare us so much more than we can be scared because its all been coming at us for so long.

Small government, huh?

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This really is the rub, isn't it? So succinct.

This would be more welcome than a hot fragrant bath on a cold winter's nite.

The only account I regularly wished posted more is @poetryisnotaluxury.bsky.social because I follow them elsewhere and their posts are so lovely and poignant and right on time but they don’t post regularly here. That’s where I’m at, more evocative poetry on social media but otherwise we’re good.

This sentance - It matters not that they are based on nonsense: ambitious but amoral legal scholars and professors design rhetorical edifices of gossamer bullshit to support them. - is a perfect summary of our now.

We are really revving our engines.

Kristi Noem is proud to announce the formation of the “ICE Jugend”

Worse than that. Read this EO carefully, it says anyone they see as essentially out of their mind OR homeless. It’s repeated under every point they make. This here allows to take anyone they see as a “threat” and put into an institution.

this work saved millions of lives in 2021, won the Nobel Prize in 2023, and is cancelled in 2025

Shoot me a text 314.409.5633 and lets get something on the books.

The Brooks Brothers Riot has entered the chat.

Way too many lawyers think the submission of fictitious cases is the problem. It's not.

Those fake cases are the evidence that the attorney committed fraud in signing the brief verifying its merit.

It is true.

Yes it is often a hurt them will make me better off mindset.

“Trump realized a dream that he’s had since he was president of the United States the first time: firing the person who informed the world that his economy isn’t as great as he wants to pretend it is.

It was a move so comically autocratic that Recep Erdogan of Turkey already did it in 2022.”

This is fantastic.

Thanks Tuesday.

Too many people really thought a Trump administration would help them and whew we are on a train straight to hell.

say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Deep work is helping people care about each other-to care about people they have never met and places they have never seen-so we make decisions on mutual thriving now and into the future.

Gotta think we not me.

We are so drink on individualism and aspiring to consume we are killing ourselves.

Course correcting would be logical and reality based and we are so far away from that shore I cannot see it any longer. I'm afraid our ride on the MAGA Boat is only going to get worse.

Parker Molloy, who writes the incisive newsletter The Present Age, has written smartly on headlines for years. She makes the point that headlines really matter because so many readers don't get any farther than those initial words.

Of course read this by @sulliview.bsky.social quoting @parkermolloy.com here. But also: headlines are critical because they frame and possibly misdirect the understanding even of a deep reader of the article. margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/i-fixed-th...

In retrospect, it may have been a bad idea to let our research field be completely captured by some of the world’s most-powerful corporations

You don’t but some do and it is a problem keeping the folks who just want to live and thrive from gaining power.

Such a hunger for lefty fascism out there. Honestly we have to actively stamp out brittle rigid and purist supremacy thinking in ourselves it is that prevalent.

Hahahah. We should grab some facetime sometime.

This enrages me.
The grift.
The audacity.
The lack of concern for consequences.

I have to talk myself off a rage cliff daily when I look at these absolute travesties.

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Whew. Makes me want to find folks working on sustainable desalination tech at scale. Anyone interesting out there?