Jean Arnold

“The great tragedy of money is that it eventually turned humans into commodities within the very consumaverse they created for themselves”
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“We have been taught over thousands of years to interpret images of utter devastation and extinction as great leaps forward in a civilisation. This level of moral incompetence is exactly why humans will soon be going extinct”
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I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The fascism playbook hasn't changed—only the speed we're flipping through its chapters.

We hadn’t won World War II by May 8th. I know because my family and I were still in an internment camp in Tule Lake, California.

Finding Meaning in An Increasingly Absurd World Although society at large will never find the courage to acknowledge its existential descent, there is a growing unspoken feeling that something is fundamentally wrong with “The World”: it has simply ...

“Our civilisations are shooting stars that burn brighter than all others, vanishing into the night just as quickly as they appear”
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Interesting that if you shop at Whole Foods, a lot of money is spent making it feel like a place that respects workers and embraces progressive values, but it is not.

Costco just feels like a warehouse but they treat their workers pretty well and has rejected anti-DEI BS

Hopefully, this sort of resistance will spread. If not, we're screwed. The courts — now that Republicans in Congress have rolled over for Trump — are the only thing that can stop him...

YOLO Economics: The Macabre Business Continuity Plans of Necrocapitalism For a society that does everything in its power to distract itself from its mortal predicaments, it is an irony that it is host to an economic system which worships death through and through, down to ...

“We have built death-worshipping civilisations which come with temporary benefits, and permanent side effects”
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Excited to have 6 paintings in “We’re Still HERe”, at Little Pink House Gallery, this weekend. Spring show at LPHG, celebrating women in the arts. Featuring the work of painters, sculptors, mixed medium, clay and collage.
April 26-27, 10-5
Little Pink House Gallery
157 N Elm St, Genesee, ID

This Florida Insurance Lawyer Is Helping Trump Vet the Art at the Smithsonian | Artnet News Florida property lawyer Lindsey Halligan has enjoyed a meteoric rise, from Mar-a-Lago to rebooting the nation's public museums.

Not a historian. Not an anthropologist. Not even an artist. Just an two-bit Fort Lauderdale real estate lawyer turned OAN mouthpiece now tasked with cleansing “improper ideology” from the 21 Smithsonian museums. America, meet your new cultural commissar. #Smithsonian #ExecutiveOrder

Trump is a loser. Here's why it matters One key thing a 'strict father' authoritarian simply cannot be

Being seen as a loser is what Trump fears this most. The “loser” label undermines his status as an authoritarian figure, making it impossible to uphold his image as a “strict father” conservative.

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Silicon Valley Whistleblowers Warn Elon Musk ‘Hijacking’ Republicans to Control Entire US Government Former followers of the ‘Dark Enlightenment’ say a planned 'neo-reactionary' hollowing out of government is happening in real time

A document authored by an anonymous group of whistleblowers accuses Elon Musk of attempting to spearhead a private hostile takeover of the US Government on behalf of an extremist anti-democracy philosophy known as the ‘Neoreactionary’ movement, by effectively hijacking the Republican Party.

History always has a lesson.

Why is no one talking about the millions of Americans the House GOP wants to uninsure? Thank Punchbowl.

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In case you were wondering, “why Greenland?”.

Honored to have three of my Malden pieces included in “Fire: Rebirth and Resilience” at the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane, WA (April 5 - Sept 28).

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Narcissists are good at wearing different masks to further their agenda.

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Happy to see Trump’s fundamentally worthless social media company has lost 57% of its stock market value since he became president. He’s beating his co-president Musk, whose Tesla stock has only lost 45% of its value the last three months.

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

Safely rewriting the code that underpins Social Security systems would take years. DOGE wants it done in months. What could possibly go wrong?

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

“Of course one of the big risks is not underpayment or overpayment per se but [it’s also] not paying someone at all and not knowing about it. The invisible errors and omissions,” an SSA technologist tells WIRED.

big scoop by @makenakelly.bsky.social

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Lolololol

Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

SCOOP: A WIRED review of public data shows that national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive information exposed via Venmo—until WIRED asked about it.

once again, every accusation is a confession. republicans spent 15 years accusing democrats of winning elections by trading cash for votes. now, here we are.

If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.

Hopeful perspective— if current admin ignores court rulings & US “Marshals go rogue,” refusing to arrest, the courts can deputize others (like probation officers, court security officers) to enforce civil contempt orders.

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Under the House GOP’s budget plan, the lowest-income taxpayers would see a LOSS of $1,125.

The richest 0.1 percent of taxpayers, on the other hand, would see a more than $180,000 GAIN.

This is trickle down economics on steroids.