theiconoclast
@theiconoclast.bsky.social
tech entrepreneur, democratic socialist, atheist, pet lover, straight guy with deep interest in biology and neuroscience and appreciation of the value of diversity and cooperation.
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This is really a startling example of how treating women like shit publicly teaches the men around her to behave so they don’t catch a smack too. Literally domestic violence frame but the workplace
"When an off-camera female reporter... began to ask if there was anything 'incriminating' in the Epstein emails, Trump pointed a finger in her face. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy,' he said menacingly."
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Tell me again how it's women who are ruining the workplace?
people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 1:41 PM
This is really a startling example of how treating women like shit publicly teaches the men around her to behave so they don’t catch a smack too. Literally domestic violence frame but the workplace
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November 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
November 10, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.
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Simple Truth:
Insurance and financing's purpose is to mask imbalances in wealth distribution.
Sustaining them amplifies wealth concentration because capital earns returns faster than wages grow, while those without capital pay premiums and interest that sustain the system.
Insurance and financing's purpose is to mask imbalances in wealth distribution.
Sustaining them amplifies wealth concentration because capital earns returns faster than wages grow, while those without capital pay premiums and interest that sustain the system.
November 9, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Simple Truth:
Insurance and financing's purpose is to mask imbalances in wealth distribution.
Sustaining them amplifies wealth concentration because capital earns returns faster than wages grow, while those without capital pay premiums and interest that sustain the system.
Insurance and financing's purpose is to mask imbalances in wealth distribution.
Sustaining them amplifies wealth concentration because capital earns returns faster than wages grow, while those without capital pay premiums and interest that sustain the system.
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I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!
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The Vienna Circle was not that coherent politically, but its one consistent theme is hostility to populism: "While positivism was ultimately unsuccessful as an antidote against metaphysics, it remains valuable as an antidote against anti-scientific politics." www.oxonianreview.com/articles/in-...
“In science there are no ‘depths’; there is surface everywhere”
The Vienna Circle was by all accounts a motley crew. As their manifesto states, “not one of the members [is] a so-called ‘pure’ philosopher; all of them have done work in a special field of science”. ...
www.oxonianreview.com
November 8, 2025 at 12:39 PM
The Vienna Circle was not that coherent politically, but its one consistent theme is hostility to populism: "While positivism was ultimately unsuccessful as an antidote against metaphysics, it remains valuable as an antidote against anti-scientific politics." www.oxonianreview.com/articles/in-...
A short list of deceptions to make wage earners ignore the loss of buying power:
Home equity loans
College loans
Two earner households
7 year auto loans
Two earner households
....
Home equity loans
College loans
Two earner households
7 year auto loans
Two earner households
....
The corporate propaganda machine colluding with the Trump propaganda machine to lie to the American people about Thanksgiving.
November 6, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A short list of deceptions to make wage earners ignore the loss of buying power:
Home equity loans
College loans
Two earner households
7 year auto loans
Two earner households
....
Home equity loans
College loans
Two earner households
7 year auto loans
Two earner households
....
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Think about these contrasting storylines of the last week:
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
November 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Think about these contrasting storylines of the last week:
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
Zohran Mandani is the face and future of young Dems
Nick Fuentes is the face and future of young Republicans
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Here are two graphs showing the changes in death rates by party state votes for in presidential elections for non-Hispanic Whites aged 20-54 and 65-84. See text for descriptions and explanations. I wonder who Everyone hits?🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News #Everyone
November 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
Here are two graphs showing the changes in death rates by party state votes for in presidential elections for non-Hispanic Whites aged 20-54 and 65-84. See text for descriptions and explanations. I wonder who Everyone hits?🧪💡☠️ #Sociology #Population #Think #News #Everyone
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JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
JD Vance claims that diversity weakens unions, as people end up distrusting each other and not organizing.
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Let me tell you two menswear stories related to this claim. 🧵
Seems like killing DEI could be thought of in religious terms as functionally equivalent to killing God.
October 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Seems like killing DEI could be thought of in religious terms as functionally equivalent to killing God.
The secondary educational social studies curriculums based on Cold War views of economic systems that boomers and Gen Xers grew up with have impacted modern life like a toxic landfill.
I’ve been writing for a long time about contested and evolving meaning of economic terms like “free enterprise,” and I’m struck that pollsters can ask people whether they have a “positive or negative” image of “capitalism“ or “socialism,” without defining the terms.
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
news.gallup.com/poll/694835/...
Image of Capitalism Slips to 54% in U.S.
Fifty-four percent of Americans, down from 60% in 2021, have a positive opinion of capitalism, while a steady 39% view socialism positively.
news.gallup.com
October 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The secondary educational social studies curriculums based on Cold War views of economic systems that boomers and Gen Xers grew up with have impacted modern life like a toxic landfill.
the unspeakable truth....
I think a “doomerism” is appropriate - in the context that hoping the systems that enabled a fascist takeover of the US government are the systems we can use to remove said fascists. Elections? Courts? These things will not be a salvation.
The way out of this mess is in a different direction.
The way out of this mess is in a different direction.
The dooming on this site is getting out of control. Every time you post anything about politics some rando condescendingly wonders how you can't possibly know that elections are over and all hope is lost. If you've completely lost hope, I'm sorry, but shut the fuck up, OK? You're not helping.
October 24, 2025 at 5:06 PM
the unspeakable truth....
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California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model.
It will be announced today.
It will be announced today.
October 23, 2025 at 2:33 PM
California is readying a one-time 5% tax on billionaires for the 2026 ballot that would go toward compensating for Trump's Medicaid cuts. The architects see it as a national model.
It will be announced today.
It will be announced today.
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Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.
This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
Google
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
Altria Group Inc.
Amazon
Apple Inc.
Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp.
Caterpillar Inc.
Coinbase Global
Comcast Corp.
Hard Rock International
HP Inc.
Lockheed Martin Corp.
Meta Platforms Inc.
1/3
October 22, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Lots of US companies have done lots of dreadful things to Americans. But the symbolism of paying to destroy the White House is hard to top.
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This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
October 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is the best political news I’ve seen in a very long time — so please pass it on👇
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
Each state can limit Citizens United in their own state & they don’t have to wait for other states to do it.
Our new @rollingstone.com piece based on our new book MASTER PLAN. Get the book at LeverNews.com/book
@nytimes.com dare you to cover this....
Dutch intelligence suspends sharing arrangements with the US after concluding that high level intel was routinely being shared by the White House with their friends in the Kremlin. www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/n...
Nederlandse diensten delen minder informatie met de VS: ‘Soms vertellen we dingen niet meer’
Het aantal dreigingen dat op Nederland afkomt is groot, zien de hoofden van de AIVD en de MIVD elke dag: niet alleen Russische agressie, maar ook de opmars van China als digitale macht en binnenlands ...
www.volkskrant.nl
October 19, 2025 at 3:29 PM
@nytimes.com dare you to cover this....
Imagine if we stood up a CSO, Congressional Science Office, to work like the CBO, Congressional Budget Office to score all proposed legislation according to its alignment with the scientific method.
Back in the late 1960s, Mondale proposed creating a national Council of Social Advisers, which would draw on social science to support a liberal reform agenda. This initiative's failure symbolized the collapsing faith in the possibility of well-informed progressive state muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...
Project MUSE - Closing the Domestic Intelligence Gap: Walter Mondale’s Proposal for a National Council of Social Advisers and the Uneasy Partnership between Social Science and the Federal Government
muse.jhu.edu
October 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Imagine if we stood up a CSO, Congressional Science Office, to work like the CBO, Congressional Budget Office to score all proposed legislation according to its alignment with the scientific method.
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this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
October 18, 2025 at 6:27 PM
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
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FURIOUS MINDS by @lkatfield.bsky.social reviewed in NYRB as "the most up-to-date introduction we have to the MAGA intellectual right reshaping America with astonishing speed today."
October 17, 2025 at 11:13 PM
FURIOUS MINDS by @lkatfield.bsky.social reviewed in NYRB as "the most up-to-date introduction we have to the MAGA intellectual right reshaping America with astonishing speed today."
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"The United States cannot remain a federalist system when soldiers from one state are sent to police another state against the explicit wishes of its elected leaders and when the justification for it is a lie.” @amandacarpenter.bsky.social
The ‘Chipocalypse’ is now
A training ground for the military?
www.ifyoucankeepit.org
October 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
"The United States cannot remain a federalist system when soldiers from one state are sent to police another state against the explicit wishes of its elected leaders and when the justification for it is a lie.” @amandacarpenter.bsky.social
That "distributional conflict" is corporate profits being allocated to share buy-backs and dividends rather than worker compensation.
October 11, 2025 at 6:06 PM
That "distributional conflict" is corporate profits being allocated to share buy-backs and dividends rather than worker compensation.
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This is disastrous.
Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.
SCOOP: The Bureau of Land Management says the largest solar project in Nevada — the Esmeralda 7 mega-farm — has been canceled
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
The news was quietly dropped via a sudden website update with no public word from any of the companies involved or a statement from the agency
@heatmap.news
October 10, 2025 at 12:28 PM
This is disastrous.
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Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.
October 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Needing multiple streams of income to stay afloat is a societal failure not a personal one. You should be able to afford a comfortable lifestyle with one job. You are not lazy.
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.