Alan Rudy

Wow, I have no memory of that year in Montreal... nor the next two - in and out of the line-up according to his stats - on the South Side... started college that fall, and spent most of the year hating Pete Rose and the Phillies.

timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine...

Terrible.

Meanwhile, @governor.ny.gov Kathy Hochul, governor of a deep blue state, is fast-tracking approval of the Williams NESE fracked gas pipeline that Trump’s pushing. (Which NYS previously rejected). And, no, it’s not to save money: this project alone would raise utility bills by 3.5% 🤬

Is Michael related to Nick, national champ with MSU in '67 - out of St Lou - and an absolute silver back in MI high school soccer?

Here in EL? Or one of those other M states? If EL, DM and let's get coffee, beer, tea or something.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

Alex Acosta resigned in shame* from the first Trump administration because of the sweetheart deal he cut for Trump's longtime best friend Jeffrey Epstein.

Seems like it might be worth talking to him?

* Yeah, that used to be a thing, even with them!

i think it is hard for some people to really their heads around the reality that kennedy is staunchly anti-vaccine and thinks that people should suffer through disease and that those who die deserved it and that those who survive are a better order of human being

I’m kinda annoyed by the people I’ve seen pooh poohing the American Eagle stuff as not serious but mostly I’m just really worried. The normalization of eugenic thinking is not good stuff, and while it’s never really gone away, we are in the midst of a concerted push to bring it back in a big way

Radically oversimplified, of course

Of all the things O'Connor taught me, this simple little diagram has been of greatest political and pedagogical utility. Socialism is democratizing the right column (which radicalizes the left one.)

We’ve discovered a literal miracle with almost unlimited potential and it’s being scrapped for *no reason whatsoever*. This isn’t even nihilism, it’s outright worship of death and human suffering.

What Are We Waiting For? – Spectre Journal This two-part essay draws upon crisis theory and the history of economic crises to reflect on the current turbulence and the next economic crisis. The first part of the essay begins by drawing on the ...

Socialists must plan for the next economic crisis *before* it happen. Otherwise, the ruling class will use it – again – to suppress workers and further destroy nature.

This essay – first of two parts – in @journalspectre.bsky.social offers socialist reflections on the coming crisis.

Sugarcane burning is a plague on these Black Floridians “I like to call it 'structured' racism.”

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

Join Truth Social and look for yourself. I can't imagine the OP is interested in feeding traffic there.

What Would Roberto Clemente Do? The right fielder would want the baseball players’ union to fight the Trump administration’s campaign of terror against immigrants and their families.

If reanimated in 2025, Clemente would be a voice against Trump's racist brutality. But is heart would also shatter over the silence of Major League Baseball in the face of Trumpist terror and the meekness of a players union that he helped to build.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Yeah, East Lansing and Grand Rapids have had air quality warnings every day for more than a week... as with last year.

Sinking sphincter...

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

I apologize for swearing but--are you fucking kidding me???

The NYT thinks that judges refusing to give Trump's DOJ the benefit of the doubt is "eroding the healthy functioning of the courts."

For democracy to survive, judges need to be more skeptical and impose greater sanctions for DOJ's lies.

Is there anything resembling an international effort to aid Canada with the wildfires?

I would feel seen, if my glasses weren't so fingerprint-smudged...

Trying to imagine the level of oxygen deprivation from huffing your own farts it requires to get enough brain damage to think reading and writing will ever be anything but essential skills

huge W

True since, at a minimum, Clinton's Omnibus Crime Bill, deregulating the media, and implementing NAFTA w/o either labor or environmental side agreements - then Workfare, deregulating banks, and NCLB (among others)

The US political Overton window extends from the fascist Republicans to the neoliberal Democrats. Both are right wing ideologies (neoliberalism is literally Reaganism) except one is populist and the other is elitist. The actual political debate is on the other political axis that nobody talks about.

Something really sick is happening on Twitter and there’s no indication that the ownership or any of the elite or institutional users care

YouTube video by Zeteo Who Matters More to Congress: Americans or Israel?

A series of events:

—We ask Senators how many Americans had been killed by Israeli violence. None know. One replies “I am pro-Israel”

—Settlers kill American

—We ask Senators who took photo with Netanyahu about it. No reply

—Senate approves more weapons to Israel

—Settlers kill another American

Got to admit... whatever this is saying it's why I ran tf away from philosophy after a bit. Feels like it's just saying shit... please oh please, my horse for a coherent empirical referent.

Killed it, miss a few folks, most are here. V v glad to be away. Also killed FB...