Cynthia from the PNW

Instant Holograms On Metal Film, by Stereolab 13 track album

new stereolab!

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We're not just in a political crisis, it's a full-blown mental health crisis

Intentional inequality, scarcity and precarity, the decline of empire, growing authoritarianism, everpresent control and manipulation by tech, and an ever-evolving system of grift and exploitation has pushed us to meltdown

YouTube video by Belle & Sebastian - Topic The Gate

Belle and Sebastian -- The Gate
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LCx0...

I talked to a NOAA colleague yesterday who told me that 75% of the federal employees of his division have left and he’s worried about their ability to get work done even if Congress funds NOAA at some level. The devastation to science will be felt for generations.

When Is The Collapse Going to Start? The definitive answer.

When someone asks me when the collapse is going to start, I think what they really mean is this:

When’s it going to affect me?

Because the collapse has already started.
www.the-sentinel-intelligence.com/p/when-is-th...

We live in a world where the same people who believe a man built a boat big enough for every animal don't believe in climate science because it’s “unproven.”

It's so wild watching the majority of people just going about their everyday lives pretending we aren't in the new Nazi Regime 2.0.

Walking their dogs and eating ice cream while this evil regime is building concentration camps in aligator infested swamps on OUR LAND.

It's beyond surreal.

Trump breaks historic Columbia River deal between U.S. government, tribes, Northwest states • Oregon Capital Chronicle In an order Thursday, Trump said he is withdrawing the U.S. from a 2023 deal made with tribes, states, to end lawsuits over fish losses.

Your 'moment of kakistocracy' for today:

"Trump on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum withdrawing the U.S. government from a Dec. 14, 2023 agreement to help restore salmon, steelhead and other native fish being decimated by federal hydroelectric dams in the Columbia River Basin."

BREAKING: A Chilean woman on vacation was kidnapped by ICE and NYPD in New York City. Her 12-year-old daughter was left alone on the damn street.

You think that’s a “mistake”?
This is Trump’s America.
Xenophobia runs this country now.
Do not come here. It’s not safe.

Another person being attacked via horse...

The way they just yank at people bodies as though they’ve had NO professional training is telling.

The Big Fucked Up Bill, is NOT a spending bill.

It’s a government restructuring bill, that consolidates power in the executive, defunds critical services to the point of absurdity, removes the power of our courts to enforce the law and dramatically curtails voting rights.

It’s Project 2025

It really feels like we don’t talk enough about how much COVID has fucked up our politics, our culture, and all of us personally. It’s not surprising considering how absolutely averse this country is to confronting trauma, but sometimes it still needs to be said.

Part of the bill that Republicans jammed through includes something you may have missed:

Defunding Planned Parenthood.

There's nothing "pro-life" about defunding breast exams, pregnancy tests, prenatal care, and so much more. Over 1 million women could lose access to care.

BREAKING:

For the first time in its history, Moodys has downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA1.

It's so cool how this world has been deliberately constructed to drive you insane if you're a good person

I’m with Leader Jeffries and Senator Booker for a sit-in at the Capitol, spotlighting the stories from real people who’d be hurt by Trump’s budget.

We will not stop fighting to protect Medicaid, food assistance, and the programs our communities depend on.

75% of US scientists who answered Nature poll consider leaving More than 1,600 readers answered our poll; many said they were looking for jobs in Europe and Canada.

75% of American researchers & scientists are considering leaving the US
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Let this sink in—the head of the EPA has now labeled climate science as “religion”, and reframed the purpose of the EPA to “lower the cost of buying a car… and running a business”—the ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY!

That’s where we are now.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

The wealthy folks supporting Republicans don’t like the ACA because as long as we can purchase our own health insurance, we don’t have to work their shitty jobs just to keep health insurance.

They need us desperate enough to work for any wage under any condition.

The image is a line chart titled "Fears of an erratic US government have skyrocketed." It shows the "US economic policy uncertainty index" from the year 2000 to 2024. The vertical axis represents the index values, ranging from 0 to 700, while the horizontal axis represents the years. The chart illustrates sharp spikes during key economic and political events, with significant peaks around the 2008 financial crisis, 2020 (likely due to the pandemic), and a sharp increase in 2024. The data source is Fred Economic Data.

We're potentially on the verge of an economic collapse that will make the great recession look like a picnic. The AI bubble popping along with restrictive tariffs, massive cuts to the federal government, and a grossly incompetent president will ensure we repeat the great depression.

This is Marco Rubio explaining how the USA promised to defend Ukraine forever if they got rid of their nuclear arsenal left after the Soviet Union fell.

This is why lil marco was sinking into the couch. He was hoping we wouldn’t find it…so don’t RT right now this very second.

the Trump administration is dominated by two antidemocratic camps. one wants a theocracy (Project 2025). the other wants to carve the US into fiefdoms (see: techno-feudalism). Vance is the bridge between the two.

Thank you Portland OR for showing up. I estimate we had about 4000 people.

Trump announces task force to ‘eradicate anti-Christian bias’ President Trump announced plans Thursday to establish a task force and a presidential commission to protect Christians from religious discrimination. Trump addressed the National Prayer Breakfast i…

Next they came for the atheists. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

If you don't think Social Security & Medicare are next, you're not paying attention. If you voted for this, you deserve all that's coming. I've spent my entire life a bleeding heart for others less fortunate, but I have no drops left for you. I feel nothing... except for your children. Damn you all.

Witness the collapse of the U.S. in real time and saying some goodbyes:

goodbye science
goodbye medicine
goodbye arts
goodbye social justice
goodbye immigrants
goodbye insurance
goodbye food and water
goodbye habitable climate
goodbye civilization
goodbye humans
goodbye everything else

The US government is a Jenga tower and right now the Trump admin is pulling out every piece and one will cause a complex system collapse. We won't know what precisely will do it but something will and it'll cause a collapse. I think a lot of things we think matter won't by the end of the year.

The thing is, I feel like if someone truly, accidentally, & unintentionally made a n*zi salute on a national stage, they would be appropriately horrified by it and apologize. And when they don’t ….. it says everything.