pTaradactyl
@tkbookworm.bsky.social
No one of any importance. Lifelong Democrat. Hillary/Joe/Kamala Ride-or-Die. Head-of-Staff for three dogs.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
There’s a sort of Trump apologist, a relatively small but loud subset, who probably don’t realize or intend to be, but are so attached to a previous hyperbolic claim that they deny anything important changed.
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
-US was already an oligarchy
-US was already fascist
-Biden gave Israel a blank check
-Etc
November 15, 2024 at 9:01 PM
Listen, Broligarchy is not some cute synonym for oligarchy. It's genuinely different & WAY more dangerous.
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
I'm a sociologist who's been studying the ultra-rich globally for 17 yrs, entering their world as an offshore wealth mgr. Published 2 books abt them.
🧵Broligarchs are distinct in 3 ways:
Reposted by pTaradactyl
After a month break, I describe U.S. march toward tyranny as a slow cooker, turned up by degrees from Salvadoran gulags to snatched students to detained tourists to big-ticket capitulations. Trump wants to boil the frog...
...But we are not yet cooked. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
...But we are not yet cooked. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
The frog of democracy is nearly boiled. We can still jump out of the pot
The slow, seemingly piecemeal march of American dictatorship is trampling colleges and law firms and coming for the rest of us.
www.inquirer.com
March 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
After a month break, I describe U.S. march toward tyranny as a slow cooker, turned up by degrees from Salvadoran gulags to snatched students to detained tourists to big-ticket capitulations. Trump wants to boil the frog...
...But we are not yet cooked. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
...But we are not yet cooked. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/comm...
Reposted by pTaradactyl
Just a friendly reminder that you’re not being “unreasonable” if you wish to pull a book from a bookshelf and find that it opens a secret door.
If anyone tells you otherwise, they were never your friend to begin with.
If anyone tells you otherwise, they were never your friend to begin with.
March 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Just a friendly reminder that you’re not being “unreasonable” if you wish to pull a book from a bookshelf and find that it opens a secret door.
If anyone tells you otherwise, they were never your friend to begin with.
If anyone tells you otherwise, they were never your friend to begin with.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
The grownup version of “the floor is lava” is “it appears I’ve gotten dressed to go out too soon and now I have to somehow exist in my home for 12 whole minutes without touching anything covered in pet hair”
March 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
The grownup version of “the floor is lava” is “it appears I’ve gotten dressed to go out too soon and now I have to somehow exist in my home for 12 whole minutes without touching anything covered in pet hair”
Reposted by pTaradactyl
Sure, the price of eggs has gone up under Trump. But the price of used Teslas has gone way down.
March 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Sure, the price of eggs has gone up under Trump. But the price of used Teslas has gone way down.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/
Fight ALL the fights
We have nothing left to lose — let’s f**king act like it!
www.thealtmedia.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:45 AM
If you read one thing today read our latest piece we just posted. This one is a very important one. Please consider reading and sharing it with your friends, family, and neighbors. And as always, please share your thoughts and ideas. I am also going to post all of the text here as a thread. 1/
Reposted by pTaradactyl
If your birth certificate doesn’t match your current name HR 22 is going to take your right to vote away and this has passed the House
February 12, 2025 at 3:54 PM
If your birth certificate doesn’t match your current name HR 22 is going to take your right to vote away and this has passed the House
Reposted by pTaradactyl
You were taught that educated, single, child-free women are unwanted and pathetic because a woman who is unmanageable through attachment and enraged at the exploitation all around her is a very dangerous thing to an institution that needs to manage and exploit her in order to survive.
February 8, 2025 at 10:20 PM
You were taught that educated, single, child-free women are unwanted and pathetic because a woman who is unmanageable through attachment and enraged at the exploitation all around her is a very dangerous thing to an institution that needs to manage and exploit her in order to survive.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
Personal Discretion Over the Treasury's Payments System Means the End of Democracy
If the Court and federal workers fail to stop Elon Musk, we are heading for authoritarianism.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 4, 2025 at 8:48 PM
The NYT asked me to write an op-ed on Musk and the Treasury and then took a pass. I hope it will still get read.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
January 28, 2025 at 5:27 PM
if we staff ICE with Uvalde police officers, they'll never enter schools
Reposted by pTaradactyl
Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
January 24, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Only saying once on bsky b/c I know it is not entirely useful, but it is totally exhausting that in 2016 some of us said “they’re Nazis,” some of us screamed “they’re segregationists,” and a whole lot of very serious people now posting about them being Nazis and segregationists gaslight us for years
Reposted by pTaradactyl
I want you to hone your instincts, become suspicious, to think twice.
Fascism THRIVES when people give them the benefit of the doubt, default to politeness, or think nothing of what they see.
Become a suspicious, skeptical bastard.
I want you to give them no chance to do nefarious shit to you.
Fascism THRIVES when people give them the benefit of the doubt, default to politeness, or think nothing of what they see.
Become a suspicious, skeptical bastard.
I want you to give them no chance to do nefarious shit to you.
January 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I want you to hone your instincts, become suspicious, to think twice.
Fascism THRIVES when people give them the benefit of the doubt, default to politeness, or think nothing of what they see.
Become a suspicious, skeptical bastard.
I want you to give them no chance to do nefarious shit to you.
Fascism THRIVES when people give them the benefit of the doubt, default to politeness, or think nothing of what they see.
Become a suspicious, skeptical bastard.
I want you to give them no chance to do nefarious shit to you.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
“Basically most of social media is X now. The ‘resistance’, as it stands, is not working because much of it turned into an online grift early in Biden’s term and it has remained that way ever since.”
January 8, 2025 at 2:22 PM
“Basically most of social media is X now. The ‘resistance’, as it stands, is not working because much of it turned into an online grift early in Biden’s term and it has remained that way ever since.”
Reposted by pTaradactyl
Best thing I've seen in a minute.
I needed this today ❤️😄
I needed this today ❤️😄
January 6, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Best thing I've seen in a minute.
I needed this today ❤️😄
I needed this today ❤️😄
Reposted by pTaradactyl
She would have made an amazing president.
I mourn for a nation that did not know what they had, before discarding it.
And I will never get over my anger at the MSM who unreasonably trashed her and the Democrats who turned their backs on her.
I mourn for a nation that did not know what they had, before discarding it.
And I will never get over my anger at the MSM who unreasonably trashed her and the Democrats who turned their backs on her.
January 5, 2025 at 5:30 AM
She would have made an amazing president.
I mourn for a nation that did not know what they had, before discarding it.
And I will never get over my anger at the MSM who unreasonably trashed her and the Democrats who turned their backs on her.
I mourn for a nation that did not know what they had, before discarding it.
And I will never get over my anger at the MSM who unreasonably trashed her and the Democrats who turned their backs on her.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
It's not just in regard to college enrollment that we don't talk about misogyny, it's pretty much everything.
Many of us bloggers talked about Dobbs and the fury of women during the runup to the election. There was much less in the news and practically no notice in the polls.
Many of us bloggers talked about Dobbs and the fury of women during the runup to the election. There was much less in the news and practically no notice in the polls.
Why aren't we talking about the real reason male college enrollment is dropping?
We would rather talk about literally everything else.
celestemdavis.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM
It's not just in regard to college enrollment that we don't talk about misogyny, it's pretty much everything.
Many of us bloggers talked about Dobbs and the fury of women during the runup to the election. There was much less in the news and practically no notice in the polls.
Many of us bloggers talked about Dobbs and the fury of women during the runup to the election. There was much less in the news and practically no notice in the polls.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
Today is the Sundayest of Wednesdays
January 1, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Today is the Sundayest of Wednesdays
Reposted by pTaradactyl
Reposted by pTaradactyl
A social distancing cheat chart:
January 1, 2025 at 12:07 AM
A social distancing cheat chart:
Reposted by pTaradactyl
In ancient Egypt, people drank low alcohol beer and wine to avoid the parasites in "raw water." The old graves, which I excavate, are full of children who died from diseases we now can vaccinate against. You are ghouls for promoting this garbage.
Untreated water enthusiasts swear by natural springs, or “raw water.” Many of them are part of the so-called health freedom movement, which opposes vaccine mandates, pasteurized milk and other government public health interventions.
‘Raw Water’ Devotees Swear by Natural Springs, Despite the Risks
Untreated water enthusiasts swear by natural springs. Their movement has parallels with raw milk drinkers and vaccine skeptics.
www.nytimes.com
December 31, 2024 at 9:34 PM
In ancient Egypt, people drank low alcohol beer and wine to avoid the parasites in "raw water." The old graves, which I excavate, are full of children who died from diseases we now can vaccinate against. You are ghouls for promoting this garbage.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
When you can’t tell if it’s seasonal depression or Trump-related depression, that’s called treasonal depression.
December 20, 2024 at 1:22 PM
When you can’t tell if it’s seasonal depression or Trump-related depression, that’s called treasonal depression.
Reposted by pTaradactyl
ICYMI.
The Truth About Musk, From His Biographer
A viral Bluesky thread introduced tens of thousands around the world to a first glimpse of a forthcoming biography of Elon Musk. Here—in a single essay—is some of what the world just learned.
sethabramson.substack.com
December 19, 2024 at 1:12 PM
ICYMI.