Fritz Swanson

Love and respect, but there is a direct line from there to here. Because we were enthused by the chat rooms we liked, and ignored the chat rooms we didn’t like. Surely no one was going into the Bronze Age Pervert chat room, right? The Stormfront one? The internet sorts all people by all interests.

Mill owners confident new powered looms a good investment. Skilled weavers raise concerns about looms in workplace.

Fracturing the audience was the focus of the right from the 70s through into the 2000s with Fox News and Talk Radio. But then we gave over editorial control to robots with our algorithmic news feeds. We are awash in Salt Marches. And they have no effect. We need a Gandhi of today.

I felt the same when re-watching the movie. Gandhi leveraged the broadcast networks, which created a singular global audience; but we don't live in that world at all. The Salt march was in 1930. Cronkite turned against the war in Vietnam in 1968. The right learned that a mass audience is dangerous.

Pope Leo in message for 40th World Youth Day: “True witnesses are humble and inwardly free, above all from themselves, that is, from the pretense of being the center of attention.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Trump Says ‘There’s No Reason To Be Good’ Except For... The president framed morality as a kind of transaction.

There is no better evidence that Trump is dying than his recent obsession with getting into heaven. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

“…then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him. No pleasure but meanness," he said and his voice had become almost a snarl. 2/2

"Jesus was the only One that ever raised the dead," The President Trump continued, "and He shouldn't have done it. He shown everything off balance. If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but throw away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't…” 1/2

These are the "law enforcement" tactics federal agents are using in Chicago. Their car is obstructed by a moped so they tear gas the entire neighborhood.

Unacceptable in America.

She’s doing porn songs the right way.

Pope Leo during Vespers at Domus Australia: “I t has often been said that the Incarnation first took place in Mary’s heart, before it took place in her womb. This emphasizes her daily fidelity to God.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

I need more “late bloomer” stories! Tell me about the things that you did at 50+ that you never thought you’d do or finally got to do!

And if you have examples that aren’t you, bring ‘em!

“No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” -Edward R. Murrow

“Maybe we HAVE created AGI, because actually regular people kind of suck too.” —legit sentiment amongst some AI bros.

Can we remember that EVERYTHING that’s legal is only legal because somebody said so? Immigration used to be entirely unregulated. Then it was a civil regulation. Then they started calling it criminal. Then they made some of it criminal. Now they are disappearing people. For something legal in 1870.

Let’s not get ahead of ourselves. Ellison is buying CBS. It’s CBS, people.

Hostility towards Greta Thunberg continues to be an AMAZINGLY reliable red flag, especially when it comes to guys, and not just on the Right.

Are yall ever just sitting around and out of the blue you remember — again — that all of this is because of ONE Black President?!!

Just the one!!

I’m enraged for everyone who isn’t white. But I’m enraged for myself. Whiteness isn’t real. It’s a political category cobbled together out of a bunch of European ethnicities. White supremacy erases all ethnicities. The “white” and non white alike. I’m sick of being baggage for dickheads.

I know it’s obvious, but I hate the way white supremacists make other people’s identity political. Being a white supremacist is a political choice where you make someone else’s born identity into a politics. Bad Bunny is Puerto Rican. It’s just who he is. It’s not a provocation.

Pope Leo at Jubilee of Migrants: “Brothers and sisters, those boats which hope to catch sight of a safe port, and those eyes filled with anguish and hope seeking to reach the shore, cannot and must not find the coldness of indifference or the stigma of discrimination!” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Steady on, McDonald’s. I hope no.

In order for the United States to become a party to the International Criminal Court and have our officials be subject to trial at The Hague, the US Senate would need to ratify the Rome statute by a two-thirds vote. Let’s start running on that.

And that's how we treat the kids.

Turning the entire economy into gambling is a self-evidently bad idea lol

Screenshot from Politico: SPOTTED: Thune, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso and other GOP pals dining last night at swanky Capitol Hill hotspot Bistro Cacao — where filet mignon and magret de canard go for $45 a head and the cabernet sauvignon list ranges from $60 to $750 a bottle, per Playbook’s Adam Wren. Fine dining on the first night of a government shutdown?

They’re loving it. Your health care is not on their minds.

Again, @joshtpm.bsky.social I really want your view on what “blame” even means. @galendruke.bsky.social I’m interested in your view as well.

I’d like it if we provided healthcare to everyone including immigrants without documentation. And I’d like to see that view argued for by my leaders.

I hope this yields a lot of productive learning so that other institutions can follow this example.

It’s just not right.