Tom "Call them Plutocrats" Lum Forest
@tomlumforest.bsky.social
Oregonian
Intelligence is inherent potential. Ignorance is a choice.
Plutocracy: rule by the wealthy
My albums are here:
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/artists/B002R9FRLE/tom-lum-forest
Intelligence is inherent potential. Ignorance is a choice.
Plutocracy: rule by the wealthy
My albums are here:
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/artists/B002R9FRLE/tom-lum-forest
Pinned
This summer's highlight was backpack camping at Mt. Jefferson.
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I'm very happy to have been in the room when we elected a new chair for the party, 27 (!) year old Nathan Soltz. His well-written and well-delivered speech brought the fire we need. He defeated the incumbent, Rosa Colquitt, by a 2:1 margin. dpo.org/news/democra...
Democratic Party of Oregon Elects New Leadership
For Immediate Release Monday, March 17, 2025 Contact: [email protected] Democratic Party of Oregon Elects New Leadership CORVALLIS, OR – The Democratic Party of Oregon’s State Central Committee met Sunday...
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March 18, 2025 at 1:16 PM
I'm very happy to have been in the room when we elected a new chair for the party, 27 (!) year old Nathan Soltz. His well-written and well-delivered speech brought the fire we need. He defeated the incumbent, Rosa Colquitt, by a 2:1 margin. dpo.org/news/democra...
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I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
March 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
Greetings from the Chinese Garden in downtown Portland. C'mon over for a tour!
March 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Greetings from the Chinese Garden in downtown Portland. C'mon over for a tour!
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America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
March 16, 2025 at 8:00 PM
America hasn’t felt this upside down since I was a child in an internment camp.
Reactionaries and plutocrats, led by DJT, have gained power by making foundational Maslowian appeals to fear. I want us to frame our strategy as allaying their targeted fears and evoking countervailing fears. Everything else is a a tactical detail.
We somehow have let that slide--for years now, but now, right wingers are saying that ANY past support of a Dem is worth purging.
The way to reverse that is not frontal opposition, it's defending actual democracy, which the right gave up in 2000.
The way to reverse that is not frontal opposition, it's defending actual democracy, which the right gave up in 2000.
March 5, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Reactionaries and plutocrats, led by DJT, have gained power by making foundational Maslowian appeals to fear. I want us to frame our strategy as allaying their targeted fears and evoking countervailing fears. Everything else is a a tactical detail.
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Senators need to know the #anti-vaxx efforts, by #RFKJr and other anti-science MAGAs, were calculated to be responsible for ~230,000 excess #Covid deaths. Here's the #science.
RFKJr as head of US health protection would be a death sentence for many more Americans.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37093505/
RFKJr as head of US health protection would be a death sentence for many more Americans.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37093505/
Estimated preventable COVID-19-associated deaths due to non-vaccination in the United States - PubMed
While some studies have previously estimated lives saved by COVID-19 vaccination, we estimate how many deaths could have been averted by vaccination in the US but were not because of a failure to vacc...
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 31, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Senators need to know the #anti-vaxx efforts, by #RFKJr and other anti-science MAGAs, were calculated to be responsible for ~230,000 excess #Covid deaths. Here's the #science.
RFKJr as head of US health protection would be a death sentence for many more Americans.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37093505/
RFKJr as head of US health protection would be a death sentence for many more Americans.
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37093505/
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“The US is poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats and fossil fuel interests.” | My commentary for LGT Crestone 2025 Sustainable Investment Outlook:
www.lgtcrestone.com.au/news-and-obs...
www.lgtcrestone.com.au/news-and-obs...
January 30, 2025 at 2:19 PM
“The US is poised to become an authoritarian state ruled by plutocrats and fossil fuel interests.” | My commentary for LGT Crestone 2025 Sustainable Investment Outlook:
www.lgtcrestone.com.au/news-and-obs...
www.lgtcrestone.com.au/news-and-obs...
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Clemency granted. Thank you so much President Biden.
January 20, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Clemency granted. Thank you so much President Biden.
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Chaplin fully understood how dangerous the tyrants of the age were. But he knew they were not supermen — that they were, in fact, ludicrous, cosplaying clowns and juvenile narcissists. And that’s the way he portrayed them in The Great Dictator.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/todays-a-g...
charliesykes.substack.com/p/todays-a-g...
Today's a Good Day to Think About Charlie Chaplin
Remember to laugh at the clowns
charliesykes.substack.com
January 20, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Chaplin fully understood how dangerous the tyrants of the age were. But he knew they were not supermen — that they were, in fact, ludicrous, cosplaying clowns and juvenile narcissists. And that’s the way he portrayed them in The Great Dictator.
charliesykes.substack.com/p/todays-a-g...
charliesykes.substack.com/p/todays-a-g...
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Rapid attribution studies are often incomplete. Study doesn't account for the broadening of the dry season into mid-winter, which leads to increasing likeliness of overlap with offshore wind season (and the probably of encountering the dry hot 100 mph Santa Ana winds that played such a key role).
New UCLA rapid attribution study: “Climate change may be linked to roughly a quarter of the extreme fuel moisture deficit when the fires began.
The fires would still have been extreme without climate change, but probably somewhat smaller and less intense.”
sustainablela.ucla.edu/2025lawildfi...
The fires would still have been extreme without climate change, but probably somewhat smaller and less intense.”
sustainablela.ucla.edu/2025lawildfi...
Climate Change A Factor In Unprecedented LA Fires
sustainablela.ucla.edu
January 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Rapid attribution studies are often incomplete. Study doesn't account for the broadening of the dry season into mid-winter, which leads to increasing likeliness of overlap with offshore wind season (and the probably of encountering the dry hot 100 mph Santa Ana winds that played such a key role).
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The Milky Way Galaxy is about 14 billion years old and at the radius of earth it takes about 240 million years to rotate once around the galactic center.
Which means the galaxy is about 58 years/orbits, old.
Which means the galaxy is about 58 years/orbits, old.
January 16, 2025 at 3:58 AM
The Milky Way Galaxy is about 14 billion years old and at the radius of earth it takes about 240 million years to rotate once around the galactic center.
Which means the galaxy is about 58 years/orbits, old.
Which means the galaxy is about 58 years/orbits, old.
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Not sure I would have gone with "Star Wars villain"
January 16, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Not sure I would have gone with "Star Wars villain"
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I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣
January 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I don’t know who did this, but thank you 🤣
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This fucking rancid white man (Jesse Watters) is blaming the California fires on Natives.
Nice scalp you got there Jesse. Be a shame if something “happened to it.”
Nice scalp you got there Jesse. Be a shame if something “happened to it.”
January 9, 2025 at 8:59 PM
This fucking rancid white man (Jesse Watters) is blaming the California fires on Natives.
Nice scalp you got there Jesse. Be a shame if something “happened to it.”
Nice scalp you got there Jesse. Be a shame if something “happened to it.”
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Great cartoon showing Mammonite plutocrats giving offerings to their god, despite Luke 16:9-11.
Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 5, 2025 at 5:33 AM
Great cartoon showing Mammonite plutocrats giving offerings to their god, despite Luke 16:9-11.
This, this, a thousand times this: "Obama beat Romney in part by defining him early as plutocrat. But he doesn't ask the next Q: Why didn't Ds bloody up Trump early in 2024?"
Last point: @jonathanweisman.bsky.social reports that Obama beat Romney in part by defining him early as plutocrat. But he doesn't ask the next Q: Why didn't Ds bloody up Trump early in 2024? As I reported, many Ds thought Future Forward Super PAC failed badly here:
newrepublic.com/article/1870...
newrepublic.com/article/1870...
January 5, 2025 at 3:41 AM
This, this, a thousand times this: "Obama beat Romney in part by defining him early as plutocrat. But he doesn't ask the next Q: Why didn't Ds bloody up Trump early in 2024?"
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Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys.
This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found.
Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....
www.propublica.org
January 4, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Outraged by Jan 6, he spent two years getting inside the top ranks of militias like the Oath Keepers. He was stunningly successful. He penetrated a new generation of militia leaders, which included doctors, cops & government attorneys.
This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
This is his story. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...
Saw a double rainbow last week down the road a bit from the house
January 4, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Saw a double rainbow last week down the road a bit from the house
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Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Why I'm quitting the Washington Post
Democracy can't function without a free press
anntelnaes.substack.com
January 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Folks: please be diligent about not disseminating Ann Telnaes' cartoon in a way that she's not getting the clicks on it (until she says differently). Her IP matters now more than ever.
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...
Make it go viral but make sure she benefits.
anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...