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Who’s This “We?”
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“It's like a bizarre experiment. Let's see what happens if no one in the world touched anyone else for an entire year and lived apart and ate alone, or with a couple of other people and lived near their screens? What would happen? What will the real world look like now?" - Laurie Anderson, 2021
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I would love for someone to write a book on this precise thing. Some offerings:
-half of ICE is HSI: Homeland Security Investigations, detectives instead of beat cops, have traditionally been a big force against being too aggro. That culture filters up to leadership and back down to ERO.
One Jays fan: “should go to bed but what if i just stared into the void some more”
“…the more wealth is accumulated in a few hands, the more responsibility for the climate crisis is concentrated among a small number of powerful individuals, who use their money and influence to deny, delay and distract from emissions reductions.” (via 💩 they💰.)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
America’s super-rich are running down the planet’s safe climate spaces, says Oxfam
Data shows wealthiest 0.1% of the US burn carbon at 4,000 times the rate of the world’s poorest 10%
www.theguardian.com
Those aren’t pumpkins, they‘re abominations. Naturally, kids love ‘em.
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This is the most-read post on my Rhetorical Tricks substack. I hope it helps. It's where I explain my unified theory of how to understand and predict Trump's actions in his second term.
jennifermercieca.substack.com/p/trump-is-o...
Trump is or is becoming the Leviathan
And it's really not good
jennifermercieca.substack.com
Stephen and I, Justin. Stephen and I. (the annoying ghost of your old English teacher.)
Confusing bluntness and authenticity is like accepting the WWA as the proper context for governance.

The U.S. is enroute to structural Federal nihilism + kleptocracy, enforced by autocratic thuggishness. How state & local governments deal with this permanent change will be interesting.
To voters, that's legible as "authenticity" -- that's why Trump scores high on honesty even though he' s a huge, proven liar. This is kind of a political superpower, it turns out...
It’s best to not be Terminally Online, especially since now and then, someone will translate and summarize the joke, like the way you can tune into a soap opera twice a year without missing much plot or character development.
Enough time has passed that I can definitively say that the “everyone is 12 now” post is THE load bearing post of Bluesky. The hall of famer Bluesky post. It commands respect even from Bluesky skeptics and haters
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Latest model projections regarding #Melissa are painting an increasingly dire scenario for Jamaica and possibly western Hispaniola (esp. Haiti) in terms of widespread risk of catastrophic flooding from exceptional rainfall amounts--possibly exceeding 3-4 feet (30-40+ inches).
Testing her/his skills using pepper spray in a light wind. Also showing off the glamorous seasonal weight gain.
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The Inspector General system is basically broken now. Most IGs have been fired, most positions remain vacant. Those who remain or would take the job pose no risk to holding the regime accountable.
Congress added more barriers to Trump firing IGs after his first term. He just ignored them.
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Yikes! I knew this would be a big number, but I didn't imagine it would be THAT big--over one-third of GDP growth since 2000 is recovering from and preparing for disasters. This seems unsustainable. Maybe we should change some things?
🚨EXCLUSIVE🚨
Many things are changing before our eyes. Others are harder to see

Like the US economy

Americans are spending more 💲 recovering from disasters and preparing for the next one. 36% of US GDP growth since 2000 is related to climate disasters.

Welcome to the Disaster Industrial Complex 🎁🔗
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
I’d bake half a dozen, stash them in the fridge, and toss one in my bag for lunch, like an apple. Toppings-shmoppings.
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Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered.

levernews.com/book
See, Toronto must win tonight to keep Seattle earthquake-free. 🧢
Pro: Ms win.

Con: Cascadia Subduction Zone triggered.
Geno Suarez hits a Grand Slam to put the Mariners up 6-2 and seal Game 5 of the ALCS!

"The City is Shaking!"

#SeizeTheMoment
A new University of Montana J-School documentary about 140 lethal miles of U.S. Highway 212 that pass through the Crow and Northern Cheyenne Reservations, southeast Montana. #CarViolence watch.montanapbs.org/video/highwa...
Highway of Death
Locals call for change on US 212, called the Highway of Death in Southeastern Montana.
watch.montanapbs.org
To an unmannered U.S. tourist, this video is highly entertaining in several ways. (Our local version: the bagpiper whose practice sessions under the bridge set off neighborhood car alarms.
Before their reincarnation as The Paddleheads🫎⚾️, The Missoula Ospreys’ slogan was “So much fun you’ll drop your fish.” Maybe Humpy got carried to and dropped in Lake Pend Oreille, and the rest is history.
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Laughter is medicine. G’night all
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