Madhouse Muse
@madhousemuse.bsky.social
Polyglot; global citizen
Recovering tweeter searching for intelligent life
Obsessively measuring CO2 😷 and capturing beauty 📸
Buyer of physical media 📀📼
Recovering tweeter searching for intelligent life
Obsessively measuring CO2 😷 and capturing beauty 📸
Buyer of physical media 📀📼
For me, this remains the most influential book of the 2020s.
It's a shame that David Graeber wasn't around to see its publication.
IMO, this book should be required reading in universites.
#Books #Booklovers #SkyBooks
It's a shame that David Graeber wasn't around to see its publication.
IMO, this book should be required reading in universites.
#Books #Booklovers #SkyBooks
..Our book is an attempt to revive a dialogue between archaeology and anthropology, which has been dormant since the 1960s, and an invitation to think differently about the course of human history: an experiment, in which we hope many others will join us."
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#ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology
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#ThinkDifferentlyThinkArchaeology
November 24, 2025 at 7:53 PM
For me, this remains the most influential book of the 2020s.
It's a shame that David Graeber wasn't around to see its publication.
IMO, this book should be required reading in universites.
#Books #Booklovers #SkyBooks
It's a shame that David Graeber wasn't around to see its publication.
IMO, this book should be required reading in universites.
#Books #Booklovers #SkyBooks
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The U.S. came closer to nuclear disaster in 1983 than many realize, but the State Department recently deleted key records about it — even though they'd been online without damaging national security for years.
What history will be erased next?
What history will be erased next?
Getting to the bottom of why the State Department quietly deleted 15 pages of history on the risk of inadvertent nuclear war.
Free link below.
Free link below.
November 17, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The U.S. came closer to nuclear disaster in 1983 than many realize, but the State Department recently deleted key records about it — even though they'd been online without damaging national security for years.
What history will be erased next?
What history will be erased next?
Ted Koppel covering such an important story on Sunday AM network TV was not on my bingo card.
Author @brian-goldstone.bsky.social does an amazing job, giving an overview of the story he tells so well in his book "There is No Place For Us." (Link in next thread).
#Housing #Homelessness
Author @brian-goldstone.bsky.social does an amazing job, giving an overview of the story he tells so well in his book "There is No Place For Us." (Link in next thread).
#Housing #Homelessness
It's hard to express what it meant to watch Maurice, Natalia, Celeste, and Rhea tell their stories—in their own voices—this morning.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
The segment revealed a brutal reality: homelessness at this scale isn't about personal failure. It's the result of policy choices and systems built to exploit people.
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Ted Koppel covering such an important story on Sunday AM network TV was not on my bingo card.
Author @brian-goldstone.bsky.social does an amazing job, giving an overview of the story he tells so well in his book "There is No Place For Us." (Link in next thread).
#Housing #Homelessness
Author @brian-goldstone.bsky.social does an amazing job, giving an overview of the story he tells so well in his book "There is No Place For Us." (Link in next thread).
#Housing #Homelessness
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NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:01 PM
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
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So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
November 9, 2025 at 12:10 AM
So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!
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Oil companies are looking to the Supreme Court to rescue them from dozens of lawsuits. Recent financial disclosures from the justices show four of them have oily fingers, with past or present financial or familial ties to the industry. From @hannahstoryb.bsky.social:
trib.al/Op1O7Rg
trib.al/Op1O7Rg
Exxon’s Latest Supreme Court Hail Mary - The American Prospect
Oil companies insist that if cases are allowed to proceed, it could have major ramifications for the future of their industry. Will a Supreme Court willing to grant Trump immunity for his crimes do the same for Trump’s oil industry backers?
trib.al
November 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Oil companies are looking to the Supreme Court to rescue them from dozens of lawsuits. Recent financial disclosures from the justices show four of them have oily fingers, with past or present financial or familial ties to the industry. From @hannahstoryb.bsky.social:
trib.al/Op1O7Rg
trib.al/Op1O7Rg
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YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions"
Read more in this @theintercept.com story by @jonahmv.bsky.social and Nikita Mazurov:
Read more in this @theintercept.com story by @jonahmv.bsky.social and Nikita Mazurov:
YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations
The tech giant deleted the accounts of three prominent Palestinian human rights groups — a capitulation to Trump sanctions.
theintercept.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
YouTube quietly erased more than 700 videos documenting Israeli human rights violations: "A capitulation to Trump sanctions"
Read more in this @theintercept.com story by @jonahmv.bsky.social and Nikita Mazurov:
Read more in this @theintercept.com story by @jonahmv.bsky.social and Nikita Mazurov:
"No free government can survive that is not based on the supremacy of law."
This new book by two Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists, takes a deep dive into the failures at the DoJ & how that allowed Trump to upend this cornerstone of democracy.
#books #booklovers #nonfiction
This new book by two Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists, takes a deep dive into the failures at the DoJ & how that allowed Trump to upend this cornerstone of democracy.
#books #booklovers #nonfiction
November 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"No free government can survive that is not based on the supremacy of law."
This new book by two Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists, takes a deep dive into the failures at the DoJ & how that allowed Trump to upend this cornerstone of democracy.
#books #booklovers #nonfiction
This new book by two Pulitzer Prize winning investigative journalists, takes a deep dive into the failures at the DoJ & how that allowed Trump to upend this cornerstone of democracy.
#books #booklovers #nonfiction
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NEW: Private insurers like Neptune are cashing in on the shutdown and pushing to privatize the National Flood Insurance Program.
Our @kennystancil.bsky.social explains how for-profit insurers could leave communities in the lurch amid the mounting climate crisis.
Our @kennystancil.bsky.social explains how for-profit insurers could leave communities in the lurch amid the mounting climate crisis.
Amid The Shutdown, Flood Insurance Profiteers Are Riding The Wave
Private insurers like Neptune Insurance Holdings are cashing in on the shutdown and pushing to privatize the National Flood Insurance Program, despite risks to homeowners.
www.levernews.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:12 PM
NEW: Private insurers like Neptune are cashing in on the shutdown and pushing to privatize the National Flood Insurance Program.
Our @kennystancil.bsky.social explains how for-profit insurers could leave communities in the lurch amid the mounting climate crisis.
Our @kennystancil.bsky.social explains how for-profit insurers could leave communities in the lurch amid the mounting climate crisis.
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After Citizens United, billionaire political spending exploded — from $31 million in 2010 to $2.6 billion in 2020.
And 2024’s numbers are even higher.
The consequences were predictable — and permanent.
And 2024’s numbers are even higher.
The consequences were predictable — and permanent.
October 24, 2025 at 2:04 PM
After Citizens United, billionaire political spending exploded — from $31 million in 2010 to $2.6 billion in 2020.
And 2024’s numbers are even higher.
The consequences were predictable — and permanent.
And 2024’s numbers are even higher.
The consequences were predictable — and permanent.
I feel this accurately describes the week I just had...
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October 12, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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🚨 As @hartmannreport.com warns, the end of democracy in America won’t roll in on tanks, it will come “packaged as entertainment.”
And it won't “announce its departure with trumpets. It slips away in silence, one institution at a time.”
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/the-whoppe...
And it won't “announce its departure with trumpets. It slips away in silence, one institution at a time.”
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/the-whoppe...
The Whopper-in-Chief and the Real Threat to Our Democracy
Watch now | Don’t read Thom Hartmann’s new book, The Last American President, twice, as I have. It’s not just the nightmares it induces; it’s the fact that you’ll wake up to the nightmare that is our ...
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com
October 12, 2025 at 3:10 PM
🚨 As @hartmannreport.com warns, the end of democracy in America won’t roll in on tanks, it will come “packaged as entertainment.”
And it won't “announce its departure with trumpets. It slips away in silence, one institution at a time.”
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/the-whoppe...
And it won't “announce its departure with trumpets. It slips away in silence, one institution at a time.”
gregpalastinvestigates.substack.com/p/the-whoppe...
I had no idea that the Nobel Peace Prize is now given in irony.
...and I thought giving it to Obama, President Drone, was a joke.
Is there one institution whose original goal hasn't been turned into a complete farce?
Bueller...? Bueller...?
...and I thought giving it to Obama, President Drone, was a joke.
Is there one institution whose original goal hasn't been turned into a complete farce?
Bueller...? Bueller...?
October 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
I had no idea that the Nobel Peace Prize is now given in irony.
...and I thought giving it to Obama, President Drone, was a joke.
Is there one institution whose original goal hasn't been turned into a complete farce?
Bueller...? Bueller...?
...and I thought giving it to Obama, President Drone, was a joke.
Is there one institution whose original goal hasn't been turned into a complete farce?
Bueller...? Bueller...?
Liz Truss served 49 days as UK Prime Minister in 2022, making her the shortest serving PM until...
this week when France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after just 26 days in office.
For you Americans, that's 5 AnthonyScaramucci for Truss & 2.6 AnthonyScaramucci for Lecornu.
this week when France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after just 26 days in office.
For you Americans, that's 5 AnthonyScaramucci for Truss & 2.6 AnthonyScaramucci for Lecornu.
French PM Lecornu resigns hours after forming cabinet
The president's office announced that Sébastien Lecornu had tendered his resignation on Monday morning, hours after his new government had been announced.
www.lemonde.fr
October 6, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Liz Truss served 49 days as UK Prime Minister in 2022, making her the shortest serving PM until...
this week when France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after just 26 days in office.
For you Americans, that's 5 AnthonyScaramucci for Truss & 2.6 AnthonyScaramucci for Lecornu.
this week when France's Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu resigned after just 26 days in office.
For you Americans, that's 5 AnthonyScaramucci for Truss & 2.6 AnthonyScaramucci for Lecornu.
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> 83% of US favor Medicaid (KFF 2025)
> 62% of US favor gov't ensuring healthcare for all (Gallup 2024)
> 54% of US disapprove of RFK Jr (Quinnipiac 2025)
> 44% of US struggle to afford healthcare (KFF 2025)
The Republican fight over healthcare is misleading. It's not a partisan political issue.
> 62% of US favor gov't ensuring healthcare for all (Gallup 2024)
> 54% of US disapprove of RFK Jr (Quinnipiac 2025)
> 44% of US struggle to afford healthcare (KFF 2025)
The Republican fight over healthcare is misleading. It's not a partisan political issue.
White House Senses Political Risk on Healthcare Despite Shutdown Bravado
Aides to President Trump are discussing proposals to extend enhanced Obamacare subsidies on which millions of Americans rely.
www.wsj.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:51 PM
> 83% of US favor Medicaid (KFF 2025)
> 62% of US favor gov't ensuring healthcare for all (Gallup 2024)
> 54% of US disapprove of RFK Jr (Quinnipiac 2025)
> 44% of US struggle to afford healthcare (KFF 2025)
The Republican fight over healthcare is misleading. It's not a partisan political issue.
> 62% of US favor gov't ensuring healthcare for all (Gallup 2024)
> 54% of US disapprove of RFK Jr (Quinnipiac 2025)
> 44% of US struggle to afford healthcare (KFF 2025)
The Republican fight over healthcare is misleading. It's not a partisan political issue.
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My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
Massive immigration raid on Chicago apartment building leaves residents reeling: 'I feel defeated'
The Department of Homeland Security said federal agents with Border Patrol, the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives arrested 37 people in the raid.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 2, 2025 at 10:06 AM
My god.
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
“Watson said she saw agents dragging residents, including kids, out of the building without any clothes on and into U-Haul vans. Kids were separated from their mothers…’It was heartbreaking to watch…seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.’”
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Anti-science. Censorship. Authoritarian. Orwellian. Etc.
Can't be said enough: What a dangerous & regressive moment in human history.
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Can't be said enough: What a dangerous & regressive moment in human history.
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list
It is the latest in a series of Trump administration efforts to dispute, silence or downplay climate change.
www.politico.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Anti-science. Censorship. Authoritarian. Orwellian. Etc.
Can't be said enough: What a dangerous & regressive moment in human history.
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
Can't be said enough: What a dangerous & regressive moment in human history.
Energy Dept. adds ‘climate change’ and ‘emissions’ to banned words list www.politico.com/news/2025/09...
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It’s not possible to find one lens to explain the moment we’re living in.
But the idea that hyper financialization has turned society into an asset class to be raided in order to get stock prices up is pretty close.
But the idea that hyper financialization has turned society into an asset class to be raided in order to get stock prices up is pretty close.
September 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
It’s not possible to find one lens to explain the moment we’re living in.
But the idea that hyper financialization has turned society into an asset class to be raided in order to get stock prices up is pretty close.
But the idea that hyper financialization has turned society into an asset class to be raided in order to get stock prices up is pretty close.
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All your favorite sellouts will be at the Riyadh Comedy Festival: defector.com/all-your-fav...
All Your Favorite Sellouts Will Be At The Riyadh Comedy Festival | Defector
The existence of a Saudi Arabia comedy festival has been on the periphery of my mind for a few weeks, but there’s no more ignoring it. It’s finally here. The Riyadh Comedy Festival kicks off on…
defector.com
September 25, 2025 at 8:46 PM
All your favorite sellouts will be at the Riyadh Comedy Festival: defector.com/all-your-fav...
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NEW: How Bill Clinton & corporate Dems joined with Republicans to destroy local & independent media & create Big Media’s consolidated censorship machine that controls America’s discourse.
A case for Dems repealing Clinton’s law if they ever regain power. www.levernews.com/the-origins-...
A case for Dems repealing Clinton’s law if they ever regain power. www.levernews.com/the-origins-...
The Origins Of Kimmelgate
A 1996 law from a Democratic president created Donald Trump’s censorship machine by consolidating media, broadband, and tech firms. We can stop it.
www.levernews.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
NEW: How Bill Clinton & corporate Dems joined with Republicans to destroy local & independent media & create Big Media’s consolidated censorship machine that controls America’s discourse.
A case for Dems repealing Clinton’s law if they ever regain power. www.levernews.com/the-origins-...
A case for Dems repealing Clinton’s law if they ever regain power. www.levernews.com/the-origins-...
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A leader of the Federal Communications Commission is blasting Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show in the face of “government pressure” that she says violates the First Amendment and endangers free speech.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
September 18, 2025 at 8:25 PM
A leader of the Federal Communications Commission is blasting Disney’s decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show in the face of “government pressure” that she says violates the First Amendment and endangers free speech.
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Story: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
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The 400 richest people in the U.S. are now worth a record $6.6 trillion
Meanwhile, last year over 700,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States.
The system is completely broken.
Meanwhile, last year over 700,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States.
The system is completely broken.
September 15, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The 400 richest people in the U.S. are now worth a record $6.6 trillion
Meanwhile, last year over 700,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States.
The system is completely broken.
Meanwhile, last year over 700,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States.
The system is completely broken.
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When you devote your life to the message that empathy is evil and gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for gun rights, you shape the world with your words. Maybe Charlie Kirk didn’t expect to be a victim of his own worldbuilding, but his death is consistent with the world he helped create.
September 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
When you devote your life to the message that empathy is evil and gun deaths are an acceptable price to pay for gun rights, you shape the world with your words. Maybe Charlie Kirk didn’t expect to be a victim of his own worldbuilding, but his death is consistent with the world he helped create.
I regularly order books & DVDs from France. For the first time ever, I got a notice from DHL that I needed to pay $27.90 in import duty for the items that are due to deliver tomorrow. They will return the items back to France if not paid within 5 days.
Thanks, #TrumpTariffs.🖕
#BookLover #Books
Thanks, #TrumpTariffs.🖕
#BookLover #Books
September 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
I regularly order books & DVDs from France. For the first time ever, I got a notice from DHL that I needed to pay $27.90 in import duty for the items that are due to deliver tomorrow. They will return the items back to France if not paid within 5 days.
Thanks, #TrumpTariffs.🖕
#BookLover #Books
Thanks, #TrumpTariffs.🖕
#BookLover #Books