Kevin Carson

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2024-06-24 18:32:03

Remember when Trump tried to turn CBP/ICE into his personal Gestapo that would ignore court orders and legality? Multiply that x 10:
"Tom Jones and his American Accountability Foundation are digging into the backgrounds, social media posts and commentary of key high-ranking government employees, starting with the Department of Homeland Security."
https://apnews.com/article/trump-biden-president-project-2025-33d3fc2999a74f4aa424f1128dca2d16

2024-06-07 02:39:59

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@npub1rqz…sjtk And the marginalists IMO should be immediately followed up by Veblen and Commons, and Maurice Dobb's "Theories of Value and Distribution Since Adam Smith."

2024-06-06 21:06:16

Other wealthy countries have social safety nets. We have police, prisons, "defense," and subsidized car culture.
https://truthout.org/articles/u-s-postpartum-mortality-rate-395-percent-higher-than-other-wealthy-countries/

2024-06-06 21:00:07

Despite Governor’s Tough Talk, Michigan Bottlers Still Extract Water for Free | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/despite-governors-tough-talk-michigan-bottlers-still-extract-water-for-free/

2024-06-06 20:56:33

Telecom profit model:
1) Collect billions in excess rates with the promise to build out fiber optic infrastructure for cheap broadband.
2) Do nothing, but keep collecting high rates
3) Outlaw competition
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/05/minnesota-kills-ignorant-ban-on-community-broadband-bought-by-the-telecom-lobby/

2024-06-06 18:48:09

I love this. It has a very Cory Doctorow vibe @npub1hyk…3p33 "Efficiency," by Paolo Bacigalupi. Chicago - Center for Science and the Imagination
https://csi.asu.edu/story/chicago/#efficiency

2024-06-06 16:55:23

It occurred to me that it would be much more accurate to replace "Freedom" with "Folkways" in right-wing discourse.
To MAGA Nation, "Freedom" means little white wood frame churches, checkered picnic tablecloths, porch swings, giant trucks, and guns. The primary "threat" to "Our Freedoms" is the very existence of people who don't live like that.
So when those people howl that their "Freedoms" are in danger, what they really mean is they have to live in a country where people like themselves are not dominant, and not the social default.

2024-06-05 19:39:24

Victoria and Justin Huang, two 17-year-olds from The Woodlands College Park High School in Texas, designed a system that filters microplastic particles out of water using ultrasound waves.
https://projectboard.world/isef/project/eaev062t-harnessing-ultrasound-for-microplastic-filtration

2024-06-05 19:32:11

Senior reporter and editor at the Family Research Council’s blog cites “ancient Egypt” and “Babylon” to claim “dark arts” are aligning against Trump
https://www.mediamatters.org/project-2025/project-2025-partner-claims-trumps-conviction-was-result-witchcraft

2024-06-05 19:25:36

"Nadler has long been a reliable voice for copyright maximalism, and Hollywood has rewarded him accordingly."
Also extreme side-eye at anyone who frames "the right to own an idea" as a good thing.
Centrist/establishment Democrats have always been the biggest water-carriers for the RIAA/MPAA/MAFIAA. As VP, Biden supervised -- from Disney HQ! -- an FBI operation to shut down "infringing websites" through civil forfeiture, with no due process of law.
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/05/rep-jerry-nadlers-shocking-misrepresentation-of-copyright-law/

2024-06-05 16:47:31

"The scheme allegedly works by encouraging landlords to adopt RealPage’s pricing recommendations, which they do 80-90% of the time.... As one of RealPage’s architects reportedly stated, the goal is to prevent landlords from undervaluing their properties, thereby ensuring higher rents nationwide."
https://upriseri.com/fbi-raids-corporate-landlord-in-major-rent-price-fixing-probe-what-it-means-for-you/

2024-06-05 03:00:25

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@npub17ha…t558 I clicked, but it requires membership. Anyhow somebody on FB sent it to me.

2024-06-05 01:52:30

Library Genesis/Sci-Hub doesn't have this. Anyone with SSRN access mind sharing a pdf?
Hannah Arendt and Edward Said: Exile and Binationalism
Burdon, P. (2018). Hannah Arendt and Edward Said: Exile and Binationalism. Philosophy Today, 62(2), 377-395. U. of Adelaide Law Research Paper No. 2019-25

2024-06-04 19:22:37

Columbia Law Review Board Nukes Website Over Palestine Article
https://theintercept.com/2024/06/03/columbia-law-review-palestine-board-website/

2024-06-04 19:22:09

Report from the World Social Forum 2024, Kathmandu | Grassroots Economic Organizing
https://geo.coop/articles/report-world-social-forum-2024-kathmandu

2024-06-04 19:20:10

Report from the World Social Forum 2024, Kathmandu | Grassroots Economic Organizing
https://geo.coop/articles/report-world-social-forum-2024-kathmandu

2024-06-04 19:02:56

"And Netanyahu, therefore — this is the crucial thing, Amy — he, therefore, looks at the proposal and says, 'Is it more risky politically for me to say no to Biden or to say no to Ben-Gvir and Smotrich?'
"And that is why I suggest to you that the question is for President Biden: Does he up the ante and make the cost of saying no greater, or does he allow Netanyahu to stare him down?"
https://truthout.org/video/a-former-israeli-peace-negotiator-dissects-the-new-ceasefire-proposal/

2024-06-04 02:34:03

The Columbia University administration took down the entire Columbia Law Review website in order to keep anyone from viewing this article it published:
Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept."
https://perma.cc/L3US-9V8R

2024-06-03 21:10:55

At every point in our lives, the absolute most insane right wing shit you can find at any given moment is the mainstream Republican position five or eight years later and folks I just don’t know if The Fever is Going to Break, it seems like perhaps it’s been getting consistently worse.
You used to have to look at like, mimeographed gun show flyers to find “great replacement theory”. Then Stormfront, then Newsmax, then Reddit, then cable, then the Capitol building.
--Ed Burmila on Bluesky

2024-06-03 20:04:46

Silicon Valley neoreactionaries, accelerationists and techno-fascists at it again.
https://www.pinkerite.com/2024/06/peter-thiel-is-back-to-supporting-trump.html

2024-06-03 19:56:09

Sarandos says he regrets ever having said they were hoping to emulate HBO’s approach to quality content. In short, he’s forced to admit that focusing on quality won’t deliver Wall Street the unsustainable, unrealistic, impossible and permanent growth investors so crave
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/03/netflix-co-ceo-im-very-sorry-that-i-promised-wed-focus-on-quality-a-decade-ago/

2024-06-02 21:59:23

Electric vehicles need cobalt. Congolese miners work in dangerous conditions to get it. | Grist
https://grist.org/energy/electric-vehicles-cobalt-congolese-miners-dangerous-conditions/

2024-06-01 20:28:44

"The actual talent behind Jerry Seinfeld, Larry David, appears to despise Bari Weiss."
https://www.pinkerite.com/2024/06/jerry-seinfeld-is-apparently-member-of.html

2024-06-01 01:51:52

We Need to Address the Calvinism That's Choking the American Left | Occupy.com
https://www.occupy.com/article/we-need-address-calvinism-s-choking-american-left

2024-05-31 19:28:07

Trump Supporters Issue Threats of Violence Online After Guilty Verdict | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/trump-supporters-issue-threats-of-violence-online-after-guilty-verdict/

2024-05-31 19:16:03

Well, this is a first -- somebody Tom Cotton doesn't want to send to prison
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/05/30/sanders-cotton-leap-to-trumps-defense-after-guilty-verdict

2024-05-31 18:35:01

A Haaretz investigative reporter alleges that in 2022 senior security officials threatened that he'd "get to know the interrogation rooms of the Israeli security authorities from the inside” if he reported on attempts by the former head of Mossad to intimidate a former ICC prosecutor.
The Only Democracy in the Middle East(TM), everybody!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/30/journalist-threatened-over-reporting-on-spy-chief-and-icc-israeli-newspaper-says

2024-05-31 03:49:02

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Note: Alda's very near the deadline for eviction if she doesn't pay her motel balance. She's $600 away.

2024-05-30 23:09:44

The Green-Energy Revolution Shows What Real Innovation Looks Like - The American Prospect
https://prospect.org/environment/2024-05-30-green-energy-revolution-real-innovation/

2024-05-30 23:06:56

Pluralistic: Real innovation vs Silicon Valley nonsense (30 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/30/posiwid/

2024-05-30 22:27:13

Center for a Stateless Society » Mutual Exchange Radio: John Cavanaugh on Data Privacy & The Digital Divide
https://c4ss.org/content/59658

2024-05-30 22:14:30

From early on, Israeli leaders have been remarkably clear about their intentions in the Palestinian enclave. Israeli Colonel Yogez BarSheshet, speaking from Gaza in late 2023, put it bluntly: “Whoever returns here… will find scorched earth. No houses, no agriculture, no nothing. They have no future.”
https://truthout.org/articles/white-house-denial-of-genocide-buried-under-mountain-of-evidence-to-the-contrary/

2024-05-30 21:54:48

"The Arkansas Legislative Council will meet Friday to decide whether to extend the Solution Tree contract, which was initially signed on a no-bid basis, with no objective metrics."
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/05/29/solution-tree-may-not-be-improving-arkansas-schools-but-it-is-raking-in-the-cash
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/531/789/746/055/215/original/5bf5abffddafc827.jpg

2024-05-30 18:47:05

Paxton has repeatedly used laws that are meant to protect people from fraudulent or deceptive practices to pursue entities he disagrees with politically, including hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and LGBTQ+ groups.
https://www.propublica.org/article/ken-paxton-consumer-protection-laws-political-targets

2024-05-30 03:46:16

“You should help us and let us take care of you. You don’t want to be getting into things that could compromise your security or that of your family.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/28/israeli-spy-chief-icc-prosecutor-war-crimes-inquiry

2024-05-29 20:58:31

Of all the tools for self-aggrandizement by the real estate Growth Machines that control city governments, Tax Increment Financing (TIF) districts are one of the most evil. They allow downtown businesses' property taxes to be used to make their own property values go up.
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/05/28/downtown-little-rock-master-plan-calls-for-special-tax-district-focus-on-river

2024-05-29 19:21:24

Cybertruck Stuck On Ping Pong Mode In Flowing River | Carscoops
https://www.carscoops.com/2024/05/cybertruck-stuck-on-ping-pong-mode-in-flowing-river/

2024-05-29 19:18:08

Alito lied about the reason the flag was up because he didn’t know the couple had text messages establishing the date of when the incident took place. They were supporting the insurrection.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/28/us/justice-alito-neighbors-stop-steal-flag.html
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/525/513/927/103/135/original/2272cffd3fd22a5f.jpg

2024-05-29 04:31:17

Latest from Alda West. Good news: She's probably going to be approved and start getting SSI checks within 2 months. But she needs money to stay housed in the meantime.
Venmo: @Alda-West
PayPal-@Alda-West
Cash App:$Wearywidow
https://www.spotfund.com/story/7afd6398-b77f-4b15-8d8b-b545b64e8420
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/522/002/342/379/577/original/bea1539d57bf3cc1.png

2024-05-28 21:17:01

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2024-05-28 20:35:47

What might a parallel polis feel like? David Bollier’s idea of a “commonsverse” - a world in which commons are viable & valued - could tell us — THE ALTERNATIVE
https://www.thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2024/5/26/commonsverse-as-parallel-polis

2024-05-28 20:18:50

Well I'll be damned -- there's a British Phil Magness. I should add that "cum-mouthpiece" is an unfortunate construction.
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/slavery-empire-wealth-imperial-measurement-book-kristian-niemietz-iea-kemi-badenoch-conservative-party-culture-war-woke/

2024-05-28 19:57:41

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@npub1zh0…egwm I think settler/slaver culture interacted with the Second Great Awakening in the US in a way that's uniquely awful in the West. It's a toxic stew of reaction and religious batshittery.

2024-05-28 19:55:24

https://c4ss.org/content/59649

2024-05-27 17:14:02

Lindsey Graham: "If they do this to Israel, we're next."
Good. There's probably not a president or top-ranking military commander in my lifetime who doesn't deserve to be kidnapped and tried like Eichmann.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/22/icc-international-order-criminal-court-israel-war-crimes/

2024-05-27 16:32:15

Can metals that naturally occur in seawater be mined, and can they be mined sustainably? A company in Oakland, California, says yes. And not only is it extracting magnesium from ocean water — and from waste brine generated by industry — it is doing it in a carbon-neutral way.
https://grist.org/science/researchers-explore-mining-seawater-for-critical-metals/

2024-05-25 21:28:31

Pluralistic: They brick you because they can (24 May 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/24/record-scratch/#autoenshittification

2024-05-25 18:45:36

The Media Still Doesn’t Grasp the Danger of Trump
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/25/media-trump-danger-democracy/

2024-05-25 18:29:39

Now THIS is terrifying. Cotton is without a doubt the most authoritarian major party politician I've ever head of. He's worse than Joe Arpaio or David Clarke. The possibility of a second-term Trump destroying the election process and then installing Cotton as his successor is the worst case I can conceive of.
https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/05/24/tom-cotton-reportedly-a-leading-contender-for-donald-trumps-running-mate

2024-05-24 04:01:25

I can't believe Stephen King's "You Like It Darker" collection is already available on Library Genesis.

2024-05-24 02:22:38

Center for a Stateless Society » An Orientalist History of Transmisogyny
https://c4ss.org/content/59643

2024-05-24 00:52:55

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A year ago, I shared the receipts on Nordhaus. https://c4ss.org/content/58379

2024-05-24 00:52:08

Once again, Reason is appealing to the "authority" of Ted Nordhaus -- simultaneously one of the most dishonest, and one of the most batshit, climate commentators alive.
https://reason.com/podcast/2024/05/23/ted-nordhaus-how-bad-is-climate-change/

2024-05-23 23:29:04

"In McCurtain County, Oklahoma, Sheriff Kevin Clardy was caught on audiotape in March of 2023 talking with other county leaders about how they might kill and discreetly bury the bodies of two local journalists who had written stories about alleged corruption inside his office, among others."
What right-wingers mean by "law and order" -- ALWAYS -- is the existence of a class which is protected but not bound by the laws, and a class which is bound but not protected by the laws. Always.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/county-sheriffs-deaths-accountability/

2024-05-23 02:19:53

These people suddenly went blind (again) when the companies that made their bionic eyes went bankrupt.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/amp/bionic-eye-obsolete-2656624624

2024-05-23 00:46:27

It was his wife again, right?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/22/us/justice-alito-flag-appeal-to-heaven.html

2024-05-22 21:15:07

"Libertarian" Reason (increasingly just a front for the Volokh Conspiracy, aka Federalist Lite) has gone all-in, not only in railroading fascists and cultural reactionaries onto the Supreme Court, but in defending or downplaying the ones who were already there.
https://reason.com/2024/05/21/samuel-alito-was-foolish-to-sell-his-bud-light-stock/

2024-05-22 16:40:36

"And so, as the war grinds on, we Israelis are not who we think we are. We may think we know our boundaries and principles; we may think we are on the side of right; we may think we are in control. Yet what was once unthinkable soon becomes the norm..."
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/20/opinion/israel-gaza-idf-palestinians-human-rights.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t00.7soE.C9EpVCBq4Ayw&smid=url-share

2024-05-22 02:18:12

75th anniversary of the first issue of Monthly Review
https://monthlyreview.org/product/donation/?mc_cid=5bfafbcf34&mc_eid=8922724b53

2024-05-21 19:20:15

Decentralized Systems Will Be Necessary To Stop Google From Putting The Web Into Managed Decline | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/21/decentralized-systems-will-be-necessary-to-stop-google-from-putting-the-web-into-managed-decline/

2024-05-21 18:55:13

"Scientists have estimated its complete collapse could ultimately lead to around 10 feet of sea level rise — a catastrophe for the world's coastal communities."
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/20/climate/doomsday-glacier-melt-antarctica-climate-intl/index.html

2024-05-21 16:08:27

“Settlers intercepting the vital humanitarian supplies to the strip are receiving information about the location of the aid trucks from members of the Israeli police and military, a spokesperson from the main Israeli activist group behind the blockades told the Guardian.”
Meanwhile, I just heard Ron Dermer -- Israel's answer to Baghdad Bob -- on NPR this morning.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/israeli-soldiers-and-police-tipping-off-groups-that-attack-gaza-aid-trucks

2024-05-21 04:12:53

Election 2024: Trump campaign video includes references to a 'unified Reich' | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/trump-election-2024-rhetoric-germany-antisemitism-31002afb91b642c0314223d19e51f427

2024-05-20 23:10:52

The scene in Dogma where Loki reveals the sins of everyone in the boardroom and then executes them all is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHzU5ZH_qNY

2024-05-20 22:27:15

The People Deliberately Killing Facebook
https://www.wheresyoured.at/killingfacebook/

2024-05-20 22:07:37

Bottled water is full of microplastics. Is it still 'natural'? | Grist
https://grist.org/accountability/bottled-water-microplastics-natural-evian-poland-spring-arrowhead-crystal-geyser-fiji-lawsuit/

2024-05-20 21:32:07

The board of trustees for the Cypress Fairbanks independent school district in Houston voted 6-1 earlier this month to redact certain chapters in science textbooks, including those about vaccines, human growth, diversity, and climate change.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/19/us-public-schools-texas-book-bans

2024-05-20 17:25:39

People who were repeatedly vaccinated for COVID-19 — initially receiving shots aimed at the original variant, followed by boosters and updated vaccines targeting variants — generated antibodies capable of neutralizing a wide range of SARS-CoV-2 variants and even some distantly related coronaviruses.
https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/repeat-covid-19-vaccinations-elicit-antibodies-that-neutralize-variants-other-viruses/

2024-05-20 01:04:42

“Trump supports Jesus, and without Jesus, America will fall,” said Kimberly Vaughn of Florence, Kentucky.
Riiight. “Jesus is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-christian-evangelicals-conservatives-2024-election-43f25118c133170c77786daf316821c3

2024-05-19 17:39:06

"I have owned my Tesla for less than a year, and within the last six months, it has twice attempted to drive directly into a passing train while in FSD mode. The most recent incident occurred on May 8, 2024, and I have dash cam footage from that event."
https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/ap-fsd-related-crashes.264798/page-8#post-8259936

2024-05-19 00:24:23

How I Made Google’s “Web” View My Default Search
https://tedium.co/2024/05/17/google-web-search-make-default/

2024-05-18 16:08:24

Contrary to right-libertarians like Jacob Hornberger who think infinite capital accumulation fuels productivity, there's actually no productive outlet for that capital because wealth inequality has destroyed aggregate demand.
Instead it goes to buyouts, asset-stripping, and #enshittification.

2024-05-17 21:56:15

Israeli Company Is Hawking Its Self-Launching Drone System to U.S. Police
https://theintercept.com/2024/05/17/israel-orione-drone-us-police-louisiana/

2024-05-16 20:27:05

The big news in search this week is that Google is continuing its transition to "AI search" – instead of typing in search terms and getting links to websites, you'll ask Google a question and an AI will compose an answer based on things it finds on the web.
https://pluralistic.net/2024/05/15/they-trust-me-dumb-fucks/

2024-05-16 19:42:31

1st Jewish Biden Appointee to Resign Over Gaza Quits on Nakba Day | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/1st-jewish-staffer-resigns-gaza

2024-05-16 18:19:56

Report: Sprint, T-Mobile Merger Immediately Killed Wireless Price Competition In U.S. | Techdirt
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/16/report-sprint-t-mobile-merger-immediately-killed-wireless-price-competition-in-u-s/

2024-05-16 18:14:35

John Miltimore has never written anything but trash takes at FEE, but this is a unique level of despicable.
That's right -- the very idea of power differentials, or systemic or structural inequality, is totalitarian.
https://fee.org/articles/why-hitler-loved-social-justice/

2024-05-16 16:44:01

Yet another perfectly viable enterprise hollowed out and destroyed by private equity. Contrary to the right-libertarian commentary that's churned out literally every day, capital accumulation doesn't create new productive capacity -- it buys it up and strips it for parts. #Enshittification
https://www.businessinsider.com/red-lobster-endless-shrimp-bankruptcy-private-equity-debt-real-estate-2024-5

2024-05-15 19:20:31

#Enshittification
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/05/14/private-equity-is-using-copyright-to-cannibalize-the-past-at-the-expense-of-the-future/

2024-05-15 19:04:25

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If Twitter and Elon had existed in the 1930s, he'd have replied "Concerning!" to Goebbels' tweets on a daily basis.

2024-05-15 18:58:32

"they’re all on cocktails of ketamine, 2ci, modafil, mescaline, adderal, mdma, phenibut & lsd
"sharing conspiracy theories in signal gc about the woke cathedral, labor stats are fake, unemployment is at 25%, n societal collapse is coming any day while commiserating about sexual assaulting YC founders"
--Starshine on Bluesky
https://www.anildash.com/2023/07/07/vc-qanon/

2024-05-14 19:56:41

"Strapped down, blindfolded, held in diapers: Israeli whistleblowers detail abuse of Palestinians in shadowy detention center."
Most Moral Army in the World(TM) and Only Democracy in the Middle East(TM), everybody! *Golf clap*
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/10/middleeast/israel-sde-teiman-detention-whistleblowers-intl-cmd/index.html

2024-05-14 19:25:37

"Billions of dollars burned. Thousands of jobs gone. Customers miserable, because it's now literally years between seasons of their favorite shows. All to create enough chaos and big merger deals to puke out tens of millions in executive bonuses."
--John Rogers on Bluesky
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peacock-netflix-apple-tv-plus-bundle-streaming-comcast-1236002375/amp/

2024-05-13 19:02:33

Judd Legum deftly takes apart Bari Weiss, Nellie Bowles, Uri Berliner, and their fellow "free speech" grifters.
https://popular.info/p/the-real-cancel-culture

2024-05-12 20:22:52

“We Are Going to Rally an Army”: Christian Zionists and Far-Right Zealots Are Actually Trying to Take Over Colleges - In These Times
https://inthesetimes.com/article/christian-zionists-rally-protesters-campus-columbia-usc-gaza

2024-05-12 20:17:20

General Strike Brings Argentina to a Halt Over Milei Austerity Program | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/general-strike-brings-argentina-to-a-halt-over-milei-austerity-program/

2024-05-12 18:42:05

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2024-05-11 17:30:36

"Liberal" Democratic mayors are every bit as much of the local Growth Machine as anybody else. Here's one cheering on a regressive sales tax on poor people's groceries, to fund projects that make the real estate industry's property values go up.
https://arktimes.com/news/2024/05/11/mayor-scotts-tax-plan-might-be-a-winner

2024-05-11 00:05:23

Note: These are Palestinians detained by military authorities on the West Bank and detained without trial. Apparently the Most Moral Army in the World likes to do the Abu Ghraib thing.
https://truthout.org/articles/report-israeli-prisons-subject-palestinians-to-constant-torture-revenge/

2024-05-09 20:04:20

All the bear meme discourse made me think of this:
https://youtu.be/mxSM15nHHA0?si=Y07WAOlx1W2dCxxS&t=21

2024-05-09 18:18:52

In which Cory Doctorow takes on a lot of assholes, starting with Garrett Hardin.
https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/04/analytical-democratic-theory/#epistocratic-delusions

2024-05-09 18:05:10

In a number of places like the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy, state-funded social services are delivered through social cooperatives. #Municipalism
https://www.shareable.net/why-social-coops-offer-potential-transformation-of-care-and-more/

2024-05-09 17:57:36

Israel Is Blocking All Aid From Gaza, Risking Shutdown of Remaining Hospitals | Truthout
https://truthout.org/articles/israel-is-blocking-all-aid-from-gaza-risking-shutdown-of-remaining-hospitals/

2024-05-09 16:05:10

Activists flood Utah tip line with hoax reports to stop bathroom law enforcement : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/07/1249879189/activists-flood-utah-tip-line-with-hoax-reports-to-block-bathroom-law-enforcemen

2024-05-09 00:47:22

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@npub13uy…uxzz My favorite CD for listening in the car -- Nirvana Unplugged -- wore out. I'm gonna have to look for a replacement at the used CD store.

2024-05-09 00:46:15

NGL, seeing Marjorie shut down by the entire House, including the overwhelming majority of her own party, howling with contemptuous laughter was balm to my soul.

2024-05-08 18:38:39

How ‘15-minute cities’ could save time, reduce emissions, and build community - Grist | Grist #Municipalism
https://grist.org/looking-forward/how-15-minute-cities-could-save-time-reduce-emissions-and-build-community/

2024-05-08 16:27:34

https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/anarcho-trumpism-a-thesis
https://kolektiva.social/system/media_attachments/files/112/405/931/458/871/390/original/cee6d990784da35a.png

2024-05-07 21:23:20

Doctor Who's David Tennant slams anti-trans bigots: 'F**k off'
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/07/david-tennant-speaks-out-weaponising-trans-rights/

2024-05-07 21:17:43

Cybertruck Owner Breaks His Finger Trying to Show Vehicle Is Safe
https://gizmodo.com/cybertruck-video-breaks-finger-safe-stick-elon-musk-1851460112