📚 John McAndrew 🌏🇺🇦

American security seems to be a thing of the past.

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

Now, when they send me one of those sky-is-falling send-us-money emails, I just send them back a copy of this exposé. data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

Why don’t more scientists support Republicans? We may never know

I respect your decision. I've made a different one. I block everyone who asks me for money here, because I don't have time to verify them. I give to World Central Kitchen, who feeds people in crisis or war everywhere, and to a local food distributor.

You're thinking of our bombing of Hiroshima, Congresswoman. That was in 1945, on August 6.

I agree.
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YouTube video by TODAY Titan Submersible Disaster Was 'Preventable': Coast Guard Report

This is what happens when you ignore regulations as the GOP compulsively does. Risk is good: regulations and oversight make it responsible and safe, rather than foolhardy.

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YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix Allison Janney as Grace Penn explaining THAT decision | The Diplomat | Netflix

Allison Janney needs to lead the resistance. Or she needs to teach the people in a position to lead it how to have this attitude and expertise.

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Well, that's that then. Moving on. How's the old stock portfolio doing?

/s

If we knew how many people around us – and how many of our friends – were guilty of rape, pedophilia, or sexual assault, we'd all be walking around with PTSD. Or pepper spray. We need to address prevention. But we also need to bring justice to the crimes that have already happened.

This Is What the End of the Liberal World Order Looks Like In a post-American world, greed and nihilism are destroying Sudan.

Earlier this year, I made two trips to Sudan, where a terrible civil war has displaced 14 million people. The state is absent, international institutions are weak.Outside powers, motivated by greed and nihilism, have stepped into the vacuum

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Mutual aid is the way. It helped during COVID, after Hurricane Sandy, and more. It works everywhere, every time, and builds community in the process.

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GOP/MAGA = white plutocracy.

No matter what they SAY they're about, white plutocracy is the thread running through everything they DO. EVERYthing.

You won't read a more necessary commentary on America than this thread today.

Re-upping this from November. Some of us have consistently tried to warn about what was to come. Many of us were treated as hysterical.

JD needs to learn a few things about making memes, it appears. Clarity is good. Like, what does "their" mean? The ones that rule in their favor? The ones they nominated? The ones they golf with? The ones who ruled that he didn't commit treason?

We could take our country back, and hold it, if we ended voter suppression and gerrymandering.

US constitution

This is the US Constitution page @ the Library of Congress

Sections 9 and 10 have been removed

9 includes habeas corpus, the courts' review of unlawful detention & imprisonment

This gov't can't change the Constitution w/ sneaky editing, but it's a new low: constitution.congress.gov/constitution/

Yep. On brand.

White House Orders NASA to Destroy Important Satellite The White House has instructed NASA employees to destroy two major, climate change-focused satellite missions.

i continue to think that “family annihilator” is a useful frame for the trump administration futurism.com/white-house-...

Good. I don’t want most of these people dead. But I do want them humiliated publicly.

I am increasingly convinced that we need to bring back tarring and feathering.

well well well

Also, we’re taking away your due process rights, your neighbors, medical research and your health care, and bringing back measles and coal pollution.

. . . OR EVEN BEFORE 21 INFECTIONS!

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But I got a little work done today that's been waiting to get done. I signed up for a nonviolence training (Like anyone's afraid of this bookish geezer throwing fists. Even so...). Got verbally abused for pushing back against purity tests. Delivered produce for a CSA, checked in with my CHC board.

This. 👇

Was just texting with a friend. Both of us feel. . .gray. Blah. Caring is exhausting, and most of my friends are empathetic, care about justice, and the environment, want a better world – and WORK for it. But we're all thinned out. I feel like an underachiever. Exhausted, and guilty for it.

And everyone who's capitulating at the first sign of pressure – or before! I've lost SO much faith in our institutions in 6 months.