Dylan Clark

Opinion | West Point Is Supposed to Educate, Not Indoctrinate

"I will be resigning after this semester from my tenured position at West Point after 13 years on the faculty. I cannot tolerate these changes, which prevent me from doing my job responsibly. I am ashamed to be associated with the academy in its current form."
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Two-thirds of global warming since 1990 caused by world’s ‘wealthiest 10%’ - Carbon Brief Of the 0.61C increase in global average temperatures over 1990-2020, a new study estimates that 65% was due to the emissions of the wealthiest 10%.

Stunning new research: If the world's entire population had emitted between 1990 and 2020 as much carbon as the world's richest 0.1%, average global temperatures would have soared nearly 54°F. #inequality #wealth
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After Pahalgam, India Has a New Kashmir Strategy: Collective Punishment In Indian-ruled Kashmir, homes allegedly linked to anti-India rebels have become targets, leaving innocent family members to pick up the pieces.

In Indian-ruled Kashmir, homes allegedly linked to anti-India rebels have become targets, leaving innocent family members to pick up the pieces.

* While 35% of Indian children have stunted growth for lack of proper nutrition.

There is a way that this could be — and in fact should be— framed where this is not about political victories but human rights, the rule of law and what is just in America. When will we learn to stop treating democratic crises as mere horse race politics?

Has any other player made 20 assists this season? Just remarkable

A massive blow to democracy Indonesia. A willful slide back towards the New Order’s evil.

Real leadership, unlike Sen Schumer

In 2019, Pfizer reported ZERO taxable profits in the US—despite selling $20 BILLION worth of drugs to American patients.

By reporting their profits offshore, they dodged billions in taxes and paid a 5.4% tax rate.

Don't tell me our tax code isn't rigged for giant corporations.

The E.P.A. vs. the Environment With the help of the agency, the Trump Administration is doing everything it can to make emissions grow again.

That's the way I've been characterizing the Trump administration from the beginning. Not complicated, not difficult to understand. They are militantly pro-climate change.

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But, at the end of the day, is Carney just a neoliberal who wants pipelines, tramples indigenous sovereignty, and thinks that global GDP can rise indefinitely?

Same!

His strength vs Trudeau was novelty. The more Canadians see of PP the more he’ll fall in the polls.

What a world. Capitalism "externalizes" costs to the point where the costs are "externalized" into our own bodies.

Internal Memos: Senior USAID Leaders Warned Trump Appointees of Hundreds of Thousands of Deaths From Closing Agency One million children will go untreated for severe malnutrition, up to 166,000 people will die from malaria and 200,000 more children will be paralyzed by polio over the next decade, the memos…

Tuberculosis, the deadliest infectious disease on the planet, kills more than 1.25M people a year. New infections are expected to surge by 30% as a result of closing USAID, a memo says. The increase will inevitably lead to cases in the U.S.

India’s children suffer from rampant malnourishment, poor access to education/sanitation/electricity/health care/etc. and yet articles like this preach about warships and “national security.” Be better, Diolomat

You can always count on ⁦‪ @aoc.bsky.social to bring it! "There's a fundamental math problem here. There is a constant reiteration of waste, fraud, and abuse."

People are NOT disposable!

Isn’t it more likely—for salary cap reasons—that the Niners cut Deebo?

Yes : Bloor bike lanes a complete disaster. And Danforth, Harbord, etc. etc. And the some of the tractors actually make it worse. We need “How’s My Plowing?” signs on the back of every tractor, so we can report these bad drivers.

Are y’all pressuring the city about plowing the bike lanes? They’re soooooo bad on Danforth and Bloor. And some of the “plowing” just makes it worse

The Icicle of Damocles

Required reading (you won’t regret!):
Ferguson, James. 2015. “Give a Man a Fish: From Patriarchal Productionism to the Revalorization of Distribution.” In Give a Man a Fish. United States: Duke University Press., pp. 35-62. [Just ask, and I’ll send the pdf]

Bloor bike lanes were an absolute joke, especially on the evening commute. Rode the street most of the way home. Shamefully bad effort by the City

Tesla paid $0 in federal income tax last year.

2022: $0
2021: $0
2020: $0
2019: $0
2018: $0

Tesla reported $6.7 billion in profit in those years.

Kudos to @wired.com for shining a scathing light on Silicon Valley's hostile takeover of the federal government. I subscribed. You should, too.

Idgaf I’m still fighting for guaranteed healthcare.

Aspiration is the answer. Not just “we’re not the bad guys.”

We need something more meaningful than that. I want a future worth fighting for. They have no vision. We do. Lean into our strengths and knock them out. 👊🏽

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.

Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

Why is the evil snake in an indigenous or shamanistic costume? Seems like an evil snake should be wearing corporate garb

Mike Klonsky @mikeklonsky According to Barron’s, Elon Musk’s wealth increased by almost $200 billion between November 5 and December 20. That means he could give $250,000 to every homeless person in the US and still be as rich as he was on November 5.

In our book Calling Bullshit, we suggest that if something seems too good or too bad to be true, it probably is.

This post definitely seems too bad to be true.

We also teach Fermi estimation, which I thought would reveal an order of magnitude error.

But no—it’s absolutely correct.