Poonam Joshi
@joshi1969.bsky.social
Lover of dogs, cats, democracy and the future
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Between 1899 and her death, in 1962, the photographer Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some 24,000 negatives documenting life in her small Wyoming town, whose fortunes boomed and then busted along with the region’s copper mines.
A Woman’s Intimate Record of Wyoming in the Early Twentieth Century
Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some twenty-four thousand negatives documenting life in her small town.
www.newyorker.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Between 1899 and her death, in 1962, the photographer Lora Webb Nichols created and collected some 24,000 negatives documenting life in her small Wyoming town, whose fortunes boomed and then busted along with the region’s copper mines.
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It is quite incredible the extent to which Trump is routinely held to a lower standard than every other politician. This would pretty much end the career of any other national leadership candidate in any western democracy, except none would ever do it - at all, still less during a mourning period
May 3, 2025 at 7:11 PM
It is quite incredible the extent to which Trump is routinely held to a lower standard than every other politician. This would pretty much end the career of any other national leadership candidate in any western democracy, except none would ever do it - at all, still less during a mourning period
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Very interesting. Orban took over media in part by channeling govt ads to friendly outlets and starving critical ones. Two independent outlets are challenging that via EU competition policy, as forbidden state aid to favored companies. 1/2 on.ft.com/3GtRPdm
Hungary accused of illegal subsidies for pro-government media
Viktor Orbán faces scrutiny over his tightening grip on critical voices
on.ft.com
April 28, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Very interesting. Orban took over media in part by channeling govt ads to friendly outlets and starving critical ones. Two independent outlets are challenging that via EU competition policy, as forbidden state aid to favored companies. 1/2 on.ft.com/3GtRPdm
Just discovered economist, Justin Wolfers - engaging and clear analysis of the impact of Trump’s tariff measures and what might happen next.
Want to take a step back, slow down, and figure out what all of the recent economic chaos adds up to?
Here's a 25-minute video / podcast interview that moves beyond the soundbite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CM...
Here's a 25-minute video / podcast interview that moves beyond the soundbite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CM...
Trump is ‘punching America in the face’ as the ‘biggest loser’ in trade war
Professor of Public Policy & Economics at the University of Michigan Justin Wolfers tells Times Radio's Fergus Macphee how the US is struggling against China...
www.youtube.com
April 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Just discovered economist, Justin Wolfers - engaging and clear analysis of the impact of Trump’s tariff measures and what might happen next.
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Want to take a step back, slow down, and figure out what all of the recent economic chaos adds up to?
Here's a 25-minute video / podcast interview that moves beyond the soundbite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CM...
Here's a 25-minute video / podcast interview that moves beyond the soundbite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CM...
Trump is ‘punching America in the face’ as the ‘biggest loser’ in trade war
Professor of Public Policy & Economics at the University of Michigan Justin Wolfers tells Times Radio's Fergus Macphee how the US is struggling against China...
www.youtube.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Want to take a step back, slow down, and figure out what all of the recent economic chaos adds up to?
Here's a 25-minute video / podcast interview that moves beyond the soundbite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CM...
Here's a 25-minute video / podcast interview that moves beyond the soundbite.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8CM...
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The obvious move, very much in their interest, and in the interest of democracy itself.
The European Union’s response to US tariffs could include regulating the use of data by American big tech groups, France’s finance minister said in an interview with the JDD newspaper
EU Answer to Trump May Involve Data Use by Big Tech, France Says
The European Union’s response to US tariffs could include regulating the use of data by American big tech groups, France’s finance minister said in an interview with the JDD newspaper.
www.bloomberg.com
April 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
The obvious move, very much in their interest, and in the interest of democracy itself.
“This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.”
"Sure, the markets aren’t buying Trump’s claims, & economists think what’s happening is insanity, but there seems to be something more insidious at play here."
Trump’s Hidden Agenda
@thedanrather.bsky.social
Will #tariffs be the president’s most costly con yet?
steady.substack.com/p/trumps-hid...
Trump’s Hidden Agenda
@thedanrather.bsky.social
Will #tariffs be the president’s most costly con yet?
steady.substack.com/p/trumps-hid...
Trump’s Hidden Agenda
Will tariffs be the president’s most costly con yet?
steady.substack.com
April 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
“This week you will read many confused economists and political pundits who won’t understand how the tariffs make economic sense. That’s because they don’t. They aren’t designed as economic policy. The tariffs are simply a new, super dangerous political tool.”
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This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.
How to Think (and Act) Like a Dissident Movement
AOC, solidarity, and people power.
www.thebulwark.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:12 PM
This piece from @jvl.bsky.social is one of the most important insightful I have read since January 20th 2025.
This is quite brilliant - www.instagram.com/reel/DHmnQOj...
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March 25, 2025 at 11:16 PM
This is quite brilliant - www.instagram.com/reel/DHmnQOj...
😂😢
Russia demands to keep captured territory
The new Private Eye is out now
The new Private Eye is out now
March 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
😂😢
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In a rare move, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issues a statement rejecting Trump's impeachment threat against Judge James Boasberg, the judge who blocked the administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to justify mass deportations 👏
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
Chief Justice Roberts Rejects Trump’s Call for Judicial Impeachment
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
March 18, 2025 at 4:56 PM
In a rare move, Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts issues a statement rejecting Trump's impeachment threat against Judge James Boasberg, the judge who blocked the administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act to justify mass deportations 👏
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
This is an excellent episode: Ezra Klein: interviews Gillian Tett from the Financial Times on the startling economic playbook of Trump administration - inc what they really want (mercantilism) and what might happen (rumblings of WW3) open.spotify.com/episode/1RPk...
Is Trump ‘Detoxing’ the Economy or Poisoning It?
The Ezra Klein Show · Episode
open.spotify.com
March 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
This is an excellent episode: Ezra Klein: interviews Gillian Tett from the Financial Times on the startling economic playbook of Trump administration - inc what they really want (mercantilism) and what might happen (rumblings of WW3) open.spotify.com/episode/1RPk...
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
March 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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![Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all ‘progressive’ thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security and avoidance of pain. In such a view of life there is no room, for instance, for patriotism and the military virtues. The Socialist who finds his children playing with soldiers is usually upset, but he is never able to think of a substitute for the tin soldiers; tin pacifists somehow won’t do. Hitler, because in his own joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don’tonly want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life. The same is probably true of Stalin’s militarised version of Socialism.
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All three of the great dictators have enhanced their power by imposing intolerable burdens on their peoples. Whereas Socialism, and even capitalism in a more grudging way, have said to people ‘I offer you a good time,’ Hitler has said to them ‘I offer you struggle, danger and death,’ and as a result a whole nation flings itself at his feet. Perhaps later on they will get sick of it and change their minds, as at the end of the last war. After a few years of slaughter and starvation ‘Greatest happiness of the greatest number’ is a good slogan, but at this moment ‘Better an end with horror than a horror without end’ is a winner. Now that we are fighting against the man who coined it, we ought not to underrate its emotional appeal.”
–George Orwell, The New English Weekly, March 21, 1940](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:l6rqkccti66y7om5dnpggjoa/bafkreibjxxdpiioo6ennbypitsafkwz2bexg56uguto2e62sdlzf24qlpm@jpeg)
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If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
March 3, 2025 at 1:14 AM
If you work at the Washington Post, now is the time to resign. You’re a part of this now.
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Good morning all! 🇺🇦
Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
March 3, 2025 at 8:55 AM
Good morning all! 🇺🇦
Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Please share everywhere. 🙏🏻
Appalling victim blaming from the Washington Post.
The decision not to use an interpreter and the power imbalance between the parties, as well as Zelensky’s “warrior energy” due to his position as a wartime leader contributed to the meeting boiling over in such a dramatic way, body language experts said.
Body-language experts break down the dramatic Trump-Zelensky meeting
The row between Trump and Zelensky was heightened by the lack of an interpreter, the power imbalance, and the men’s TV backgrounds, body-language experts say.
wapo.st
March 2, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Appalling victim blaming from the Washington Post.
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Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.
March 1, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Sadly, it’s time to revive this 2017 TIME cover.
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This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
a stammering Tom Homan on AOC: "She's the dumbest congresswoman ever elected to Congress."
February 18, 2025 at 3:17 AM
This is why you fight these cowards.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
The moment you stand up to them, they crumble.
Homan has nothing. The Fourth Amendment is clear and I am well within my duties to educate people of their rights.
He can threaten me with jail and call names all he wants. He’s got nothing else.
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Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.
February 18, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Pretty disturbed by some of the Kremlin framing on the Trump talks being bought by parts of the media worldwide. It’s as if the genesis of the war is entirely forgotten. This isn’t a conflict which needs mediation. It was an unprovoked act of aggression. It could end tomorrow if Putin just withdrew.
Mark Cuban sets out the pros and cons of attacking Musk's business interests to safeguard democracy.
February 18, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Mark Cuban sets out the pros and cons of attacking Musk's business interests to safeguard democracy.
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Why is the US subjecting peaceful climate activists to long prison sentences while allowing fossil fuel companies to operate with impunity? Instead of targeting activists, the US should take urgent steps to address the causes of the climate crisis, including by holding these companies accountable.
United States: Disproportionate Sentence of Peaceful Climate Activist
Two climate activists face harsh prison sentences for a peaceful protest. This highlights a growing trend of disproportionate responses to climate activism. #ClimateJustice #HumanRights
cri.org
November 16, 2024 at 2:10 AM
Why is the US subjecting peaceful climate activists to long prison sentences while allowing fossil fuel companies to operate with impunity? Instead of targeting activists, the US should take urgent steps to address the causes of the climate crisis, including by holding these companies accountable.
Thoughtful and detailed piece on what comes next..
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state... This is by far the best, clearest and most realistic analysis of what we're in for that I've seen.
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Thoughtful and detailed piece on what comes next..
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The cease-work order at the CFOB won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulation that could govern tech companies like Apple and Google.
www.wired.com/story/cfpb-t...
www.wired.com/story/cfpb-t...
The CFPB Work Freeze Is Putting Big Tech Regulations ‘On Ice’
The "cease work" order at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulation that could govern tech companies like Apple and Google.
www.wired.com
February 11, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The cease-work order at the CFOB won’t just affect lawsuits and enforcement actions. It will stall regulation that could govern tech companies like Apple and Google.
www.wired.com/story/cfpb-t...
www.wired.com/story/cfpb-t...