Capitalists created a two tier system over the last 5 decades with a few winners and the rest being exploited and we’re about to reap the “bitter harvest of popular rage” now as corporate fully integrates with state. American fascism is here.

When the Trolls take over the world: David Remnick is pitch perfect on Trump's dangerous cabinet choices. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

this is like something a character in Animal Farm would say, and every 6th grader in the classroom would understand why it's wrong www.nytimes.com/2024/11/15/o...

“Never give people respect based on their authority; respect people based on their actions.” 🛎️🛎️🛎️

“Every $1,300 New York invested in building bike-lanes in 2015 provided benefits equivalent to 1 additional year of life at full health over the lifetime of all city residents, according to a new economic assessment.”

Bike-lanes are a sound public health investment.
www.reuters.com/article/busi...

There should be a manual recount anywhere Starlink was used.

Drop a 💙 and follow if you agree. 👍

Next time you're applying for a job, tell your prospective employer you'd prefer they not do a background check.

Let's see how that goes.

Persistent mood

“Since 2016, we have suffered a collective failure of imagination about how the years ahead will unfold” and now we’ll pay the price.

While the last two presidential elections were about democracy vs fascism, this last one was really just about survival vs annihilation, and we willingly handed the keys to terrorists.

It’s not so much that they hate universities as it is they hate that universities have actually (very slightly) shifted their demographics to be more inclusive and move POC into positions of esteem. THEY still want THEIR kids to go to college, they just want to make it hard for everyone else again

NYC is on fire because Eric Adams took a hatchet to the Parks Department budget, firing 51 forestry specialists who remove the dead trees and invasive species most likely to ignite during dry periods.

“When a species becomes conscious of engineering its own collapse yet completely resigns itself to it, there are many questions to be raised regarding the nature of human consciousness itself”

You know it’s bad when the big thinkers are thinking what you’re thinking

#chronicillness #disability #shitstorm

"Those who claim calling Trump a threat to democracy is violent rhetoric are doing a kind of rhetorical violence to democracy, screeching it to a halt, making of an ever-moving idea a static one, writing a banal and brutal ending onto a story that’s meant to keep going."

Read this book when it first came out—in 3 days! I knew most of the bits and pieces but Sarah puts it all together so brilliantly.

#UBI results in more trust, agreeableness and social cohesion, and less anxiety, depression and crime. And with the rise of AI especially, it’s a must!