Roy Tsao

so, I just randomly came upon Curtis Sliwa standing on a corner giving a speech to four people (& a camera). obviously i stopped to listen and nod along encouragingly.

(dude’s not going anywhere. we got this)

God bless you both

kakania! love it

and pretty much always have been

logging off now. maybe also throwing my phone into the ocean, who’s to say

I come back to the question with which I began: who are *we*, in this impasse, and what are we responsible for, in the circumstances? The present U.S. government isn't *us*, and it isn't ours. We can no more rely on the inertial force of decades-old statutes than we can count on past presidents' executive actions. Our endorsement of the government's policies isn't sought, and it's idle to remonstrate. If the ethical duties that weigh in Odenbaugh's analysis have any practical hold on us at all, they converge on a different set of practical questions. How are we to overcome the impotence to which we've been reduced? What will it take to build and to mobilize the power to displace our opponents? I don't claim to know how that might be done, or if it's even possible. But it seems pretty clear that it would be unrealistic to hope for any good whatever to come of political action confined to the scope of what had seemed feasible, in previous years. And if that's true of our situation now, I can't help but wonder if this might have been true all along.

last lines from a thing I wrote back in April, just published in Ethics, Policy & Environment. Nominally in response to a paper (from last year) on wildlife conservation ethics, but mostly channeling my rage at *all this*

“What is to be Done?”
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GVXJW...

thanks- bleak, yes.
planning on writing something further on this—
working title: “Owls at Dusk: Reflections on Damaged Nature”

i trust you get the idea

hey look I wrote a thing that just got published

truth

sounds great! wish I could be there (won’t be at APSA this year alas)

Let me know what you think- I may be writing further on this

title for an era

nice find!

let me know what you think if you get a chance to read. not sure how well it works as a freestanding piece, as I had too much to say about paper I was responding to. As you‘ll see I don’t have much patience for the framing.

fyi @michaeldemoor.bsky.social - it’s about the PNW barred owls

I come back to the question with which I began: who are *we*, in this impasse, and what are we responsible for, in the circumstances? The present U.S. government isn't *us*, and it isn't ours. We can no more rely on the inertial force of decades-old statutes than we can count on past presidents' executive actions. Our endorsement of the government's policies isn't sought, and it's idle to remonstrate. If the ethical duties that weigh in Odenbaugh's analysis have any practical hold on us at all, they converge on a different set of practical questions. How are we to overcome the impotence to which we've been reduced? What will it take to build and to mobilize the power to displace our opponents? I don't claim to know how that might be done, or if it's even possible. But it seems pretty clear that it would be unrealistic to hope for any good whatever to come of political action confined to the scope of what had seemed feasible, in previous years. And if that's true of our situation now, I can't help but wonder if this might have been true all along.

last lines from a thing I wrote back in April, just published in Ethics, Policy & Environment. Nominally in response to a paper (from last year) on wildlife conservation ethics, but mostly channeling my rage at *all this*

“What is to be Done?”
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/GVXJW...

“it goes against our president’s laws.” what a country this is

The big authoritarian creepiness of this is the students absolute certainty it is illegal for the professor to teach gender theory because the president said so

Gotham Commune gotta love it

wow looks great- congrats

“it goes against our president’s laws.” what a country this is

I think about this every day

Just a reminder that if the sovereign can't keep your life from being nasty, brutal, and short, the deal is off.

yeah. like, it really is all happening, now, real time.

checks out

outstanding. even by the standards of MT’s unfailing excellence. *sly*

yeah, i hear you, of course. couldn’t resist doing my classroom bit

cars are allowed only on roads tho. motor vehicle regulations are pretty strict about, say, not being allowed to drive on the college quad lawn even though some might find that a much faster way to get to classes. just saying

came here to say that!

paging @zsw.bsky.social @calebcrain.bsky.social @michaeldemoor.bsky.social @coatesmatthew.bsky.social