The whole play of Trumpism: convincing working class people to blame other working class people—so billionaires can keep robbing us all.

my bluesky

Smart! A Raven doing Raven things.

Power centers are working extra hard to distract everyone from Epstein files

My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com

But the stock keeps on flying higher because there's a promise in the sky that has a non-zero chance of happening

Congratulations to Mr. Putin for successfully dismantling NATO and bringing down the world hegemonic power without firing a single bullet. It was a master class in deploying capital and information. You have shown you are the best agent the world has ever seen.

BREAKING

The SEC has just halted its fraud prosecution of Justin Sun, a Chinese national who has put more than $50 million in Trump's pocket since November through the purchase of crypto tokens from a Trump-backed company, World Liberty Financial.

➡️ January 20: FAA director fired
➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen
➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded
➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees
➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years

Making America Great Again!

The wind gusts are devastating. Truly a hurricane of fire.

Video: @stuartpalley.bsky.social

Happy Saturnalia!

What surprised me the most about the death of a CEO of a predatory industry at the pre-announced public event was the lack of security detail for him. Aren't these guys the "insurance" guys? I am sure they calculated the risk and thought it was not worth having one.

And we’ve all seen catastrophic and cruel denials of care, which feel like a specific kind of barbarism in a modern society. And it’s almost a problem that cuts across class because only the very very very rich who can self insure are unaffected by it.

The preamble to the Yugoslavian wars had a bunch of ethnic tension amplified by the media when a Serb farmer in Kosovo went to the hospital for getting a bottle stuck in his rectum and decided to blame roving bands of Bosnian street toughs instead of just admitting he did it himself.

I am a supporter of Joe Biden.

It is possible to (1) deplore how Columbia University's administration is reacting to the on-campus protests and (2) also think it is very bad that a bunch of ghoulish, antisemitic opportunists have taken it upon themselves to hang out just off-campus, harassing Jewish students and celebrating 10/7.

I always wondered whether the extreme right or extreme left played worse in societal progress in the long run.

This time around I find them indistinguishable. Equally bad.

War is always the choice between terrible and unimaginably terrible. So I will blame the party that starts the war.

mastodon user: It's so simple. First you pick a server, which is important, because they are all at war with, and hate the other servers. Then, to follow another user, you open your terminal and type >followctl -f -mode3 --dump @username@server --confirm followed by your UUID (memorize this!)