(For the record, I don't believe Biden was addled -- all the "autopen" stuff is RW paranoic nonsense -- but the point still stands: a Dem Party running on automatic will just keep helping people & boosting the economy. A GOP running on automatic devolves toward fascism.)

Never seen any of the Star Wars franchise. Nor Sound of Music. Happy with both. 😀💜

Thank you Birmingham for an evening of hope and community power!

More than a thousand of you turned out to help build Your Party from the ground up.

We are a mass movement for real change — and we are not going away.

Opinion | We Have Seen the ‘Woke Right’ Before, and It Wasn’t Pretty Then, Either

Do we really have such abysmal collective memory that we need to be *told* that the right has a history of censoring free speech? Have we really swallowed so much reactionary-centrist bullshit about "cancel culture" that we've forgotten that primal political truth?

Let the Wild Gods Rise! Bridging Between the Worlds with Jackie Morris and Tamsin Abbott Let the Wild Gods Rise.  Easy to say and harder to do - but if you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it? ...

If you were offered a portal, a way to step into the other-worlds, to reconnect with all that we have been and could be, would you take it?

accidentalgods.life/let-the-wild

#accidentalgods #podcast
#spirituality
#BooksofBlueSky
#WritersofBlueSky
#Books
#Writers
@tamsintheshed.bsky.social

I stand in support of Greta Thuberg and the flotilla.

I stand in support of Peace.

I stand in support of the international rule of law based on good governance

actually democratic
governance

that protects children —

ALL
CHILDREN
.

Trump is defunding the police where he can so he can fill the void with his masked Gestapo. He did it in DC, and he tried it in New York but balked. Additionally, Pam Bondi is investigating the Portland police bureau because they arrested a right wing agitator. Pay attention.

More courage than any weekend warrior in tactical gear.

There is nowhere in Project 2025 where free and fair elections are part of the plan.

The chances of us even having another election, or an election where they honor the true results, appear to be dwindling by the day.

The Crisis and the Call: Journeys through Species-Wide Soul Initiation with Sara McFarland As the old system is splitting apart, a few brave souls are already working to hospice this old system, acting as Death Doulas to the Great Dying—as well as helping people to awaken the seeds of a new...

How do we #hospice the old system — become #deathdoula to the dying — AND support the #soul #Initiation of the incoming, generative system where we grow into elders instead of languishing in perpetual adolescence?

accidentalgods.life/the-crisis-a

#Accidentalgods #podcast
#Shamanism #spirituality

Step by Radical Step: The Route to a Flourishing New Economy with Colleen Schneider Our western (Trauma Culture) economies run on two falsehoods - we might go so far as to call them lies. Our guest this week is someone particularly well positioned to debunk these and show how how mon...

How do we move beyond the predations of the capitalist death cult to a way of sharing, storing and accounting for value that serves a flourishing community on a thriving planet?

accidentalgods.life/step-by-radi

#accidentalgods #podcast
#economics
#modernmonetarytheory
#changeiscoming

The Magic in the Tales we Tell: Living new Stories in Service to Life with Paddy Loughman How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world? How can we craft narratives that shift the way we see and experience t...

How do the stories we tell ourselves and each other about ourselves, each other and our place in the web of life shape our world?

How can we craft narratives that can shift the way we see and experience the world?

accidentalgods.life/the-magic-in...

#AccidentalGods #Podcast
#Thrutopia

Or this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

How to pay for saving the world: Modern Monetary Theory for a degrowth transition

Or there's this

portalrecerca.uab.cat/en/publicati...

Always interesting exactly who is called upon to denounce what.

Bannon said years ago that the right always wins because 'we're going for head wounds and you're still in a pillow fight'

But

Might=Right is not a useful paradigm. If we're going for a world predicated on different values, we need not to be fighting at all.

How do we craft a new system in time?

The Supreme Court just took legal status from 300,000 Venezuelans Justice Jackson accuses her colleagues of "repeated, gratuitous, and harmful interference."

Conservative justices let Trump strip TPS from 300,000 Venezuelans with a brief unsigned order. Jackson warns of harmful interference on the shadow docket. Families lose protection as ICE raids escalate. Power over people, not law.

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

If it's not a good metric for 'human value' then we need one that is - because it's chasing after endlessly growing GDP numbers that has brought us to the brink of mass extinction. Even Kuznets decried its use as a global metric when he saw what was happening.
We need entirely new economic models.

I think we should stop. I do not, and will never, consider that we need a system based on continuous extraction, predicated on separation, scarcity and powerlessness, as a way forward that will generate a flourishing future in a thriving biosphere which is, as far as I can see, our only option.

Responding to Polanski’s speech, a Labour spokesperson said: “It is no surprise that Zack Polanski, a man who said he wanted to learn from Nigel Farage, has done so in his speech today – using his platform to sow division and grievance.

When Labour says @zackpolanski.bsky.social is "using his platform to sow division and grievance", what they mean is that he's using it to push for justice and equality.

They *hate* when people do that.

It's a bloody good speech. No wonder they're freaking out.
www.youtube.com/live/TZx9Vng...

@zackpolanski.bsky.social absolutely nails it.

"The Prime Minister might call this an island of strangers. When Farage says jump, Labour might say ‘how high’. But the Greens will never dance to the tune of a Trump loving, tax avoiding, science-denying, NHS dismantling corporate stooge."

Q&A With the Bear All Your Burning Questions Answered

Yesterday was actually quite fun - if you were ever curious to know about my views on pineapple on pizza (pro), scone etiquette (side by side) and whether or not I’m being held hostage by a cat, here’s your chance.

🐻

www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/q-and-a-wi...

Mone was neither a director nor shareholder of that company but she was, from this judgment, its champion lobbyist. At a critical stage, according to the judgment, the PPE Medro negotiator “engaged his ‘big gun’ – contacting Baroness Mone who then took up the fight on behalf of Medpro direct with […] the Cabinet Office threatening further escalation.” Mone sent an email to the Cabinet Office (which indicates the input of lawyers) insisting a contract had already somehow been entered into. She wrote “the committee sign off, the finance sign off, the verbal conversations on the urgency of goods and the signed returned contract, all constitutes a contract, with a legal and moral obligation on [the Department of Health and Social Care]”. But this was not correct of law or fact. The matter was still entirely subject to contract. The supplier may well have been incurring costs in anticipation of a contract, but at this stage this was at their own risk. In that email, however, a parliamentarian was falsely stating to the government that a high-value contract was already in place and that the government was thereby obliged to purchase the goods. In fact, the final price had not even been determined. There had not even been a best or final offer.

NEW

Why the government was right to take PPE Medpro to court

The state should enforce its contractual rights against suppliers more often

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

Short version: You AREN'T paying your state pension. You paid for your parents' pension.

The 'kids today' and 'those immigrants' are paying your pension.

Friday brief: ‘Hypocrisy’ charge over chief executive recruitment Here's our weekly Friday news round up

Reform UK hypocrisy charge over chief executive recruitment

It's the same problem with house prices and wages.

"My first wage was half that and i did alright"

They can't compute that even just 15 years of average inflation pushes things well beyond their mental baseline.

A lot of people don't understand how pensions (or benefits) really work.

They picture a national savings account in which their 'own' taxes are stored until they retire.

Not that they were paying for the person before them, and now someone else is doing it for them, so inflation doesn't screw them