Evan Morrison
@evanstruth.bsky.social
I care deeply about the wellbeing of my community. I'm also into art, sports and D&D. Working to end homelessness in Santa Cruz County at peoplefirstscc.org. Writing at evanstruth.com
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I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
February 12, 2026 at 2:26 PM
I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*)
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.
I see a couple life lessons about work here:
1) if you become unreliable because you don't think management has your back, management will often see your unreliability as a reason to not have your back
2) if your employee doesn't see how being on your team furthers their career goals...
1) if you become unreliable because you don't think management has your back, management will often see your unreliability as a reason to not have your back
2) if your employee doesn't see how being on your team furthers their career goals...
February 11, 2026 at 5:21 PM
I see a couple life lessons about work here:
1) if you become unreliable because you don't think management has your back, management will often see your unreliability as a reason to not have your back
2) if your employee doesn't see how being on your team furthers their career goals...
1) if you become unreliable because you don't think management has your back, management will often see your unreliability as a reason to not have your back
2) if your employee doesn't see how being on your team furthers their career goals...
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Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
February 1, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Some jawdropping CBP crime statistics here...
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As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
![That which is for me through the medium of money - that for which I can pay (i.e., which money can buy) - that am I myself, the possessor of the money. The extent of the power of money is the extent of my power. Money's properties are my - the possessor's - properties and essential powers. Thus, what I am and am capable of is by no means determined by my individuality. I am ugly, but I can buy for myself the most beautiful of women.
Therefore I am not ugly, for the effect of ugliness - its deterrent power - is nullified by money. I, according to my individual characteristics, am lame, but money furnishes me with twenty-four feet.
Therefore I am not lame. I am bad, dishonest, unscrupulous, stupid; but money is honoured, and hence its possessor. Money is the supreme good, therefore its possessor is good. Money, besides, saves me the trouble of being dishonest: I am therefore presumed honest. I am brainless, but money is the real brain of all things and how then should its possessor be brainless? Besides, he can buy clever people for himself, and is he who has [In the manuscript: is. - Ed.] power over the clever not more clever than the clever? Do not I, who thanks to money am capable of all that the human heart longs for, possess all human capacities? Does not my money, therefore, transform all my incapacities into their contrary?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:myqic77tkmdhmaufgkvj43hr/bafkreidpuxbx764xh7vobavcnvs3v2lo5fnfi6dukfrmk3ygxmseznkyxi@jpeg)
January 31, 2026 at 4:05 PM
As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”
Santa Cruz County has made big strides on homelessness. But what's happening federally is threatening all of our gains. Here's how you can make a difference app.lookout.co/story/298249...
We’re reducing homelessness in Santa Cruz County; now we must fight to keep the funding
Santa Cruz County is bucking national trends, significantly reducing homelessness through sustained investment, coordination and compassion, writes Mer Stafford, the chair of the Coalition to End Home...
app.lookout.co
January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Santa Cruz County has made big strides on homelessness. But what's happening federally is threatening all of our gains. Here's how you can make a difference app.lookout.co/story/298249...
Harvard Business Review calls our political system a duopoly. I wonder if it's better described as a cartel youtu.be/NE61lMiZV2k
How Industry Competition Theory Can Help Fix U.S. Politics
YouTube video by Harvard Business Review
youtu.be
January 25, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Harvard Business Review calls our political system a duopoly. I wonder if it's better described as a cartel youtu.be/NE61lMiZV2k
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Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Let us all have the courage displayed by the residents of Minneapolis.
January 25, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Really hard to look at this and all the other examples of bravery and kindness from ordinary people in this moment not think also of the tremendous cowardice exhibited over the past year by some of the richest, most well-protected people in business, media and politics
Back in July, research showed that 40% of employers had already posted fake job listings in 2025 www.forbes.com/sites/bryanr...
The Dishonest Job Search: 4 Must-Knows For Job Seekers And Managers
The Dishonest Job Search reveals what both job seekers and hiring managers must look for in the confusion and dishonesty in today's hiring process so they're not misled.
www.forbes.com
January 22, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Back in July, research showed that 40% of employers had already posted fake job listings in 2025 www.forbes.com/sites/bryanr...
When I think about ICE, it seems obvious to me that this is what they are doing
January 22, 2026 at 3:28 PM
When I think about ICE, it seems obvious to me that this is what they are doing
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1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
January 19, 2026 at 10:34 AM
1️⃣ He didn't say that.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
2️⃣ He said it, but you misunderstood him.
3️⃣ He said what you understood, but he was just trolling.
4️⃣ He was serious but he's just negotiating, not going to do it.
5️⃣ He's going to do it for grand strategy reasons I've invented.
6️⃣ Look what you liberals made him do.
I wonder what folks in Europe are thinking right now? How could they be viewing current events? decorrespondent.nl/16667/donald...
Donald J. Trump is the greatest danger to the world since Adolf Hitler
What was once our greatest and most important ally is now the most powerful and dangerous criminal organization in the world. Donald Trump rules as a corrupt tyrant with a fascist playbook in his hand...
decorrespondent.nl
January 19, 2026 at 4:26 PM
I wonder what folks in Europe are thinking right now? How could they be viewing current events? decorrespondent.nl/16667/donald...
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"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval."
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
January 17, 2026 at 4:51 AM
"Vast majority of men are only willing to engage in public violence if they feel like the people around them will approve of — and reward them for — that violence. ICE Watch works because it surrounds men seeking approval with people loudly expressing their disapproval."
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
www.ms.now/opinion/minn...
I think it's important to note that there are quite a few American businesses that haven't turned their back on our democracy open.substack.com/pub/populari...
Five years later, these 10 corporations still aren’t funding election deniers
Five years ago today, on January 6, 2021, a violent mob stormed the Capitol building.
open.substack.com
January 18, 2026 at 5:43 PM
I think it's important to note that there are quite a few American businesses that haven't turned their back on our democracy open.substack.com/pub/populari...
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When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
The top 10% now account for nearly half of all consumer spending.
January 17, 2026 at 6:50 PM
When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways
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i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
January 16, 2026 at 1:55 PM
i have been reading Tom Ricks’ “Fighting the Good War” which is a military analysis of the civil rights movement, and one thing that comes abundantly across is that movement leaders and ordinary people made it a practice to refuse to fall into despair and cynicism.
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An honest assessment of the current status of higher education in America open.substack.com/pub/sharonmc...
The Four-Year Degree Was Built for a Different America
A degree once promised economic security — now it's an expensive gamble
open.substack.com
January 12, 2026 at 8:24 PM
An honest assessment of the current status of higher education in America open.substack.com/pub/sharonmc...
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Wowwwwww
This is stunning. Listen to this in Philadelphia.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
Thousands singing “Hey-Oh, we won’t be silent while our friends are gunned down.”
Really listen to it.
January 11, 2026 at 5:01 AM
Wowwwwww
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ICE apparently lacks capacity to oppress more than one city at a time.
This is performative authoritarianism.
performative authoritarianism that has killed people, yes. It’s not a joke.
But it is also incapable of any sort of meaningful authoritarian consolidation.
They lack the numbers to win.
This is performative authoritarianism.
performative authoritarianism that has killed people, yes. It’s not a joke.
But it is also incapable of any sort of meaningful authoritarian consolidation.
They lack the numbers to win.
Federal immigration officers are pulling out of a Louisiana crackdown and heading to Minneapolis in an abrupt pivot from an operation that drew protests around New Orleans and aimed to make thousands of arrests, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
Federal officers are leaving Louisiana immigration crackdown for Minneapolis, documents show
Documents obtained by The Associated Press show that federal border agents are pulling out of a Louisiana immigration crackdown and heading to Minneapolis.
www.mprnews.org
January 10, 2026 at 1:19 AM
ICE apparently lacks capacity to oppress more than one city at a time.
This is performative authoritarianism.
performative authoritarianism that has killed people, yes. It’s not a joke.
But it is also incapable of any sort of meaningful authoritarian consolidation.
They lack the numbers to win.
This is performative authoritarianism.
performative authoritarianism that has killed people, yes. It’s not a joke.
But it is also incapable of any sort of meaningful authoritarian consolidation.
They lack the numbers to win.
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You deserve food, shelter and medical care. You don't deserve an economic/political system that shames you for not being able to afford any of those www.firesidestacks.com/p/billionair...
Billionaires Want You to Blame Yourself. We Win When We Stop.
For most of my life, I thought my hardest moments—the bills I couldn’t pay, the groceries I had to put back at the checkout line, the dental emergency that spiraled into medical debt and eventually co...
www.firesidestacks.com
January 8, 2026 at 8:46 PM
You deserve food, shelter and medical care. You don't deserve an economic/political system that shames you for not being able to afford any of those www.firesidestacks.com/p/billionair...
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These guys are all on the same Telegram channel where the orders come down
amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders
January 5, 2026 at 7:00 AM
These guys are all on the same Telegram channel where the orders come down
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the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
January 3, 2026 at 9:19 PM
the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches
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They hanged propagandists at Nuremberg.
The Washington Post editorial board comes out in favor of the Venezuela attack/operation to capture Maduro
January 3, 2026 at 5:55 PM
They hanged propagandists at Nuremberg.