Jen Bivens

When I hear men worshipping guns and talking about how there’s nothing that will stop them from defending their family, my mind goes to Naaman in the Bible. Do you remember Naaman? He was a great military leader, and he also had leprosy.

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YouTube video by Bendersnatch Fargo - Car Ride Ending

All of the time the dialogue in my head. All of the time.

Education Policy Reforms Are Key Strategies for Increasing the Married Birth Rate The fertility rate in the United States has dropped to 1.6,

I just saw this today on FB group I joined last year about how to pay for college for your kid. Someone posted it when people were wondering what the administration is up to. This is one angle, unfortunately, for sure:

"It’s unclear when the website, which lists mostly Black employees who work in agencies primarily within the Department of Health and Human Services, first appeared."

Elon Musk Quoted tweet: Career Treasury officials are breaking the law every hour of every day by approving payments that are fraudulent or do not match the funding laws passed by Congress. This needs to stop NOW! Mario Nawfal Quote tweet: Should the treasury be put on the blockchain so this doesn't happen? Elon Musk Reply: Yes!

We are in such, such profound danger. They are doing the Reichstag fire to the most crucial and foundational payments layer of the Federal Government.

OpenAI Strikes Deal With US Government to Use Its AI for Nuclear Weapon Security OpenAI has announced that the US National Laboratories will use its deeply flawed AI models to help with "nuclear security."

Been nice knowing y'all

This is what convinced me they’re going to intentionally crash the economy. They said it out loud several times.

Excerpt from the book THEY KNEW

"You live in a mafia state in a mafia world headed for the mother of all mergers."

-- THEY KNEW (2022)

“People Will Die”: The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True. Organizations that provide vital care for desperate and vulnerable people around the world have been forced to halt operations, turn away patients and lay off staff. “I’ve never seen anything that sca...

“I’ve been an infectious disease doctor for 30 years, and I’ve never seen anything that scares me as much as this.”

The Trump Administration Said It Lifted Its Ban on Lifesaving Humanitarian Aid. That’s Not True.

This is very bad political communication. Embarrassing really.

So I would think at this point people in the DC area should surround the treasury building? Or is that just any other country but here where citizens pay attention to coups?

Maybe I'm crazy, but when the new authoritarian leader is executing a blitzkrieg to consolidate power and demolish the pillars of our democracy, maybe the opposing party shouldn't vote for his bootlicking nominees who were selected for their blind fealty. I'm crazy, right?

Spleen Of The Town In January Listen to Spleen Of The Town In January by Radio Oobleck playlist on desktop and mobile.

Good bye January. I will never not think of this in January. m.soundcloud.com/radio-ooblec...

T.J. Clark · A Brief Guide to Trump and the Spectacle Trump has annihilated the idea of charisma. The new leader is not above us. He’s on the screen in our hands. We...

‘If Trump is what the image-world has now revealed itself to be – if he’s the “society” we have settled for, looming against us, cruel and false and ugly and determined to destroy – then what answer is left but a fight to the finish?’

T.J. Clark: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

A real cliffhanger

YouTube video by Benjamin James "Shapeshifting" an excerpt from HyperNormalization by Adam Curtis

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THE GUARDIAN: I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers | Rebecca Shaw

One headline to rule them all

Ahhh the nazi salute on national television. Right on schedule I suppose.

Trump's new crypto token jumps ahead of his inauguration Donald Trump's newly minted cryptocurrency soared on Monday to top $9 billion in market value, drawing in billions in trading volume just hours ahead of the U.S. President-elect's return to the White House.

Donald Trump's newly minted cryptocurrency soared to top $9 billion in market value, drawing in billions in trading volume just hours ahead of the US President-elect's return to the White House reut.rs/3CdkLEE

What Trump’s Inauguration Has to Do With the Era After the Civil War Resurging white power politics. Political violence. All-powerful businessmen. Sound familiar?

This op-ed explains how Trump’s election recalls the post-Civil War Redemption Era — a white supremacist backlash against racial progress and equality.

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

New Climate Maps Show a Transformed United States According to new data analyzed by ProPublica and The New York Times Magazine, warming temperatures, rising seas and changing rainfall will profoundly reshape the way people have lived in North…

In 2020, we mapped out the danger zones that will close in on Americans over the next 30 years — combining climate data with wildfire projections by US Forest Service researchers.

See what changes are in store for your county.

By @shaw.al , @abrahm.bsky.social & Jeremy W. Goldsmith

Around 2 a.m. during the 17-hour marathon lame duck session, lawmakers passed H.B. 315, a massive, roughly 450-page omnibus bill. In it was a provision that could cost people money to get access to video from police and jails. Law enforcement could charge people for the "estimated cost" of processing the video — and you would have to pay before the footage is released. Governments could charge up to $75 an hour for work, with a fee cap of $750 per request. Legal experts say this could affect access to video from dash and body cameras, as well as surveillance video from inside jails — which are public records in Ohio. The policy was not public, nor had a hearing, prior to being snuck into the legislation.

Tonight, near midnight, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine signed bill into law to charge public for footage from law enforcement, including body cams

This follows a massive bill passed in December at 2 am (via @morgantrau.bsky.social) www.news5cleveland.com/news/politic...