Amory Cather

Solar as Solidarity It's not just for saving planets any more

As far as I can tell, @billmckibben.bsky.social is the only writer with any real reach who is discussing the liberatory potential of distributed solar power. I'd like that subject to get a lot more air time.

The American people electing Trump after he staged a coup attempt 5 years ago was a nail in the coffin of our democracy. You can rationalize it all you want - But inflation! But wokeness! - but ultimately it was a societal suicide attempt and probably the dumbest collective voting decision ever made

Cignetti always looks like he’s been waiting for a table for an hour and they keep sitting parties who arrived after him.

“Now I know we were here before them.”

There are monsters in the world that need slaying.

The search for a “motive” is the liberal version of “thoughts and prayers.” Both function to individuate violence and perpetuate our armed society; both serve the interests of gun-ownership.

85% of CEOs are white men.

All but one US President has been a white man.

65% of all elected offices are held by white men.

Roughly 30% of the population is white men.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS TOPIC EVEN???

YouTube video by The Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory John Ganz | What's Happening Here? Fascism as Past and Prologue

Video of my U Chicago lecture is now available.—
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Technological innovation 1917-2023: I need a watch I can swim in

Technological innovation 2023-The End: I need a watch that will raise my bothersome son

MacKenzie Scott: *donates $50M every 10 hours°

Joe Lonsdale, co-founder of Palantir: "I want to see people hang"

They should invent a slice of pizza that you have to peel

We should treat being an “influencer” with as much disdain as any other get rich quick scheme. At best you’re mining your life (and the life of your children) for maximum attention to flip as advertisement potential, and at worst you’re getting things like this. The model’s broken and corrosive.

or The Crusades by Thomas Asbridge

Battle Cry of Freedom is phenomenal

jesus christ man, we can’t ever get used to this and normalize it.

Last week Jesse Watters spoke to man named Eric who claimed he was formerly a member of antifa. Two years ago Watters interviewed Ramon "Mundo" Mendoza, a former Mexican Mafia member. Some folks thought the men looked similar. This is a side by side comparison. 🤷‍♀️

Ranking the 117 Best NBA Names of the Quarter Century What’s in a name? Everything. Featuring Dwayne Bacon, Stromile Swift, and so many more, these are the NBA player handles that stand the test of time.

NAME RANK

Fit for Purpose? How Today’s Commercial Digital Platforms Subvert Key Goals of Public Education Digital educational platforms have become ubiquitous in American classrooms, with tools like Google Workspace for Education, Kahoot!, Zearn, Khan Academy, and many others now structuring curriculum, i...

Say it often, say it loud:

"Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

Why? Because "we're all in it together" -- or more precisely, "we all must join in and sacrifice some of our immediate individual interests in the name of long-term collective welfare" -- is diametrically opposed to hierarchy & domination, which are the fundamentals of authoritarian psychology.

The amount of shit I got for this segment at the time was astronomical, and it was all from people who now stalk CVS employees to get them fired for insufficient online sadness.

Cheering on political violence is both evil and not new, an outgrowth of an internet intentionally dismantled years ago.

An outstanding salute to Bragg encapsulating everything i think about the show but never actually thought about. In Our Time is one of the finest free things ever devised.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Showing children of the future the unacceptable hair rendering on the left to explain why we had to get rid of the rainforest.

August 19, 2025 The Honorable Pamela Bondi Attorney General of the United States U.S. Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue NW Washington, D.C. 20530 RE: Response to August 13, 2025 letter from Attorney General Bondi to Mayor Michelle Wu Attorney General Bondi, I write in response to your letter of August 13, 2025, threatening to prosecute local officials anc illegally withhold federal grants and contracts unless the City of Boston agrees to actively participate in mass deportations. 'This federal administration's false and continuous attacks on American cities and millions of our residents are unprecedented. You have eliminated health care and food assistance for our families; unlawfully cancelled grants for our schools and roads; slashed funding for our universities, hospitals, and research institutions; and deployed military personnel to occupy our streets. These attacks all come back to a common aim: the Trump Administration seeks to divide, isolate, and intimidate our cities, and make Americans fearful of one another. The City of Boston is the safest major city in America. Our progress is the result of decades of community policing and partnership between local law enforcement and community leaders, who share a commitment to making Boston a safe and welcoming home for everyone. It is the result of our strong gun laws. And it is the result of our local policies-including the Boston Trust Act, which prohibits local police from engaging with federal immigration enforcement absent a criminal warrant, and which ensures that all Boston residents are able to report crimes and call 911 for help. The City of Boston follows the law-local, state, and federal. The United States Constitution establishes that local governments, closest to the people, hold the authority to enact public safety policies without the threat of unlawful interference from the federal government. The Founding Fathers included these protections as a direct result of the attempted coercion of …

Ashcroft, 501 U.S. 452, 457 (1991). It is indisputable that the drafters of the U.S. Constitution made "the decision to withhold from Congress the power to issue orders directly to the States." Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 584 U.S. 453, 470 (2018). '"[T]he Federal Government may not compel the States to enact or administer a federal regulatory program'' nor "conscript state or local officers directly" nor "coerce States to action through improper influence." Illinois, No. 25-cv-1285, slip op. at 19 (citing New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144, 188 (1992); Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898, 935 (1997); Nat'l Fed'n of Indep. Bus. v. Sebelius, 567 U.S. 519, 578 (2012)). As the federal court in Illinois wrote just weeks ago: "[A]nticommandeering is a bulwark against abuse of [federal] government power." Id. Additionally, in Massachusetts, state law places clear limits on participation in federal immigration enforcement. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, in Lunn v. Commonwealth, held that state and local law enforcement agencies may not arrest individuals solely based on immigration detainer requests from the federal government, absent a criminal warrant. 477 Mass. 517 (2017). The Boston Trust Act and its amendments codify the Lunn decision. Our City's longstanding and productive partnership with state and federal law enforcement to protect the people of Boston far predates your tenure. The Boston Police Department, the first municipal police department in the United States, works closely with state and federal agencies to address counterterrorism threats, protect our airport and our harbor, combat drug and human trafficking, and hold perpetrators accountable for crimes. Just last week, Boston Police arrested thirteen people as the result of a joint human trafficking investigation with the FBI and Massachusetts State Police. The week before, Boston Police worked alongside the FBI in an investigation that led to an arrest and the reco…

Mayor Wu’s reply to AG Bondi. content.boston.gov/sites/defaul...

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

in retrospect i guess it was inevitable there would be attempts to frame any pushback against tech as the same "annoying hippie lib busybody" stereotype the left has been getting hit with for decades

I believe one of the new mRNA vaccines was expected to treat colon cancer, and another had the potential to keep pancreatic cancer from recurring. That’s what they’re taking away.

Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent

Alabama Governor Signs New ‘Heartbeat Bill’ Lowering State’s Age Of Consent