Joyce Tompsett
@joycetom.bsky.social
Sometimes concerned with analyst relations, usually with Buddhism, frequently with other things, but always fiercely with the state of the world and all beings in it.
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It's only “DEI” if it comes from liberal coastal cities. Otherwise it's just sparkling white supremacy.
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
It's only “DEI” if it comes from liberal coastal cities. Otherwise it's just sparkling white supremacy.
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Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
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America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
December 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
America's richest 10% now hold 60% of the nation's wealth.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
The bottom half of America? It holds just 6%.
Wealth inequality is eating this country alive.
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Via The Other 98%
December 28, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Via The Other 98%
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Peter Thiel says he’ll leave California if they pass a 1% wealth tax on billionaires for five years. So… how much would it take to make him leave the U.S.?
December 28, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Peter Thiel says he’ll leave California if they pass a 1% wealth tax on billionaires for five years. So… how much would it take to make him leave the U.S.?
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Here in the Midwest, data centers threaten to suck up fresh water from our Great Lakes. Just one of may examples includes a Microsoft plant now under construction near Racine, WI that is expected to use upwards of 8 MILLION gallons a day. A day! That is not okay.
Bernie Sanders: "We need to be thinking seriously about a moratorium on data centers. You gotta slow this process down. It's not good enough for the oligarchs to tell us 'you adapt.' Are they gonna guarantee healthcare to all people? What are they gonna do when there are no jobs? Make housing free?"
December 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Here in the Midwest, data centers threaten to suck up fresh water from our Great Lakes. Just one of may examples includes a Microsoft plant now under construction near Racine, WI that is expected to use upwards of 8 MILLION gallons a day. A day! That is not okay.
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In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
A Hampton Inn in Asheville just canceled my family's reservation because our address (incorrectly) showed Asheville—and the hotel bars locals within 50 miles.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
When I asked why, they said, "because of our homeless population," adding that most hotels here have similar policies.
This is outrageous.
December 29, 2025 at 2:46 AM
In America, where irony is dead, a hotel chain uses a policy denying shelter to local people, for fear of accidentally housing homeless persons…
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
To deny a reservation to the author of a much-lauded book on how American economic unfairness forces working people into homelessness.
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This is one of the things that's often missing from online discussions of anti-capitalist theory. The question that actually determines our socioeconomic status and fate is this:
Do you live off what you're paid for your own labor, or off the profits you draw from the labor of others?
Do you live off what you're paid for your own labor, or off the profits you draw from the labor of others?
I can’t believe you idiots are still arguing with me about this. Idc what your job is paying you now, you still have to labor for your money. You’re working class.
All it takes is an unfortunate accident or illness for you to be in the poor house. Medical debt and fallout would cripple you. Stfu.
All it takes is an unfortunate accident or illness for you to be in the poor house. Medical debt and fallout would cripple you. Stfu.
All of you are poor. These hypothetical poor people everyone is discussing are us. We’re poor. Idc if you make 6 figures or not. You’re poor too.
November 30, 2025 at 8:01 PM
This is one of the things that's often missing from online discussions of anti-capitalist theory. The question that actually determines our socioeconomic status and fate is this:
Do you live off what you're paid for your own labor, or off the profits you draw from the labor of others?
Do you live off what you're paid for your own labor, or off the profits you draw from the labor of others?
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If it feels like every tragedy gets twisted by MAGA into proof that people outside their movement are dangerous, you’re not imagining it. That instinct has a name in psychology, and MAGA has turned it into a political strategy.
MAGA Is Weaponizing Basic Human Psychology To Declare War On The Left
The out-group homogeneity effect is having an insidious impact on our politics
thinkbigpicture.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
If it feels like every tragedy gets twisted by MAGA into proof that people outside their movement are dangerous, you’re not imagining it. That instinct has a name in psychology, and MAGA has turned it into a political strategy.
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The administration said it received too much public and legal backlash for firing employees who did nothing wrong, so if their performance “declines,” fewer people will defend them.
December 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
The administration said it received too much public and legal backlash for firing employees who did nothing wrong, so if their performance “declines,” fewer people will defend them.
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This is illegal! The Trump administration is instructing managers across the federal government (regardless of employee performance) to ensure that at least 80 percent of staff receive a 3 out of 5 rating, making them easier to terminate and easier to justify in court.
December 17, 2025 at 12:05 AM
This is illegal! The Trump administration is instructing managers across the federal government (regardless of employee performance) to ensure that at least 80 percent of staff receive a 3 out of 5 rating, making them easier to terminate and easier to justify in court.
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🌱 ¡Dos formas de cultivar, dos futuros distintos! 🌾
December 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
🌱 ¡Dos formas de cultivar, dos futuros distintos! 🌾
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AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
December 16, 2025 at 4:20 PM
AOC: I want to remind you where the real crime is. It's in the oligarchs taking $170 billion of our money from health care and food assistance and public programs and taking that and funneling it into a secret police program.
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Laying dormant in the Reagan and HW bush administrations? You fuckers watered the seeds that started this. You carefully fed them with welfare queen myths and the destruction of the mental health care system. You demonized poverty even while you created more of it. Now you ask are we the bad guys?
December 15, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Laying dormant in the Reagan and HW bush administrations? You fuckers watered the seeds that started this. You carefully fed them with welfare queen myths and the destruction of the mental health care system. You demonized poverty even while you created more of it. Now you ask are we the bad guys?
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On Canadian tv if Trump does a press conference they run about 30 seconds then cut away adding “he’s just repeating things he’s been saying for years” that’s what US tv needs to do. Shut him off. He just rambles.
December 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
On Canadian tv if Trump does a press conference they run about 30 seconds then cut away adding “he’s just repeating things he’s been saying for years” that’s what US tv needs to do. Shut him off. He just rambles.
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To the “lesser of two evils” folks.
We would not have spent the day reprimanding Kamala Harris over a morally bankrupt social media post.
We would not have spent the day reprimanding Kamala Harris over a morally bankrupt social media post.
December 15, 2025 at 7:27 PM
To the “lesser of two evils” folks.
We would not have spent the day reprimanding Kamala Harris over a morally bankrupt social media post.
We would not have spent the day reprimanding Kamala Harris over a morally bankrupt social media post.
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Minneapolis ✊💚 Way to stand strong against ICE!
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Minneapolis ✊💚 Way to stand strong against ICE!
Ahhhhhhhh
Literalization of metaphor applied to three-dimensional psychologically real characters and setting in fiction is often a catastrophe unless you quarantine it to a Borges-adjacent summary short story approach. Discuss.
December 16, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Ahhhhhhhh
Hey Press - turn the lights off, turn the mic off, put the pen down. Just stop giving him so many minutes/column inches. Maybe focus on the important things for one damned day instead of glorifying the corrupt circus.
December 16, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Hey Press - turn the lights off, turn the mic off, put the pen down. Just stop giving him so many minutes/column inches. Maybe focus on the important things for one damned day instead of glorifying the corrupt circus.
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The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
I'm dubious about Amazon's commitment to keeping pre-existing conditions a thing of the past.
December 14, 2025 at 11:50 PM
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
Peaceful mass resistance gets ignored. One gunman gets broadcast everywhere.
If you ever wondered how media helps authoritarians, this is it.
If you ever wondered how media helps authoritarians, this is it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
November 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"These findings highlight the divergence between what the candidate emphasized and what the media reported" hmmmmm
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...
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This is a hostile takeover of our country. And we are the resistance.
It’s not “We’ll definitely win.”
It’s not “We’ve already lost.”
It’s this: We may not know if we’ll win. But we do know what happens if we don’t resist. Resistance is what makes victory possible.
Always has.
It’s not “We’ll definitely win.”
It’s not “We’ve already lost.”
It’s this: We may not know if we’ll win. But we do know what happens if we don’t resist. Resistance is what makes victory possible.
Always has.
June 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
This is a hostile takeover of our country. And we are the resistance.
It’s not “We’ll definitely win.”
It’s not “We’ve already lost.”
It’s this: We may not know if we’ll win. But we do know what happens if we don’t resist. Resistance is what makes victory possible.
Always has.
It’s not “We’ll definitely win.”
It’s not “We’ve already lost.”
It’s this: We may not know if we’ll win. But we do know what happens if we don’t resist. Resistance is what makes victory possible.
Always has.
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They’re coming for abortion access nationwide—quietly, through the fine print. The “Big Ugly” bill would gut coverage for millions. Congressional Republicans know they can’t win on this issue in the open.
Don’t let them hide it.
Don’t let them hide it.
Most people aren't tracking this, but the Big Ugly bill would effectively ban marketplace insurers from covering abortion care in ALL 50 states.
We can't let this stand. Please help spread the word.
Republicans are jamming this bill through—we have to speak up NOW.
We can't let this stand. Please help spread the word.
Republicans are jamming this bill through—we have to speak up NOW.
June 19, 2025 at 3:08 AM
They’re coming for abortion access nationwide—quietly, through the fine print. The “Big Ugly” bill would gut coverage for millions. Congressional Republicans know they can’t win on this issue in the open.
Don’t let them hide it.
Don’t let them hide it.