Jamie Beachy, PhD
@walkswithplants.bsky.social
Ecology, bioethics, and religious studies scholar, psychedelic therapist, MDMA researcher
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we have achieved Maximum Chait
November 8, 2025 at 3:30 PM
we have achieved Maximum Chait
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A RAND study found $79 trillion was stolen from the bottom 90%.
Red tape is bad & should be fought, but America's biggest problem is not red tape reducing abundance.
America's biggest problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance.
Glad to be quoted with Bernie Sanders in NY Magazine.
Red tape is bad & should be fought, but America's biggest problem is not red tape reducing abundance.
America's biggest problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance.
Glad to be quoted with Bernie Sanders in NY Magazine.
October 31, 2025 at 4:32 PM
A RAND study found $79 trillion was stolen from the bottom 90%.
Red tape is bad & should be fought, but America's biggest problem is not red tape reducing abundance.
America's biggest problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance.
Glad to be quoted with Bernie Sanders in NY Magazine.
Red tape is bad & should be fought, but America's biggest problem is not red tape reducing abundance.
America's biggest problem is oligarchs hoarding the abundance.
Glad to be quoted with Bernie Sanders in NY Magazine.
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Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.
May 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Thinkinge of askinge Chat GPT a questioun about your plannes? Trye a tarot deck. Cheaper, bettir for the environment, bettir resultes.
I struggle to relate to “abundance” as a political strategy, but not for the ideological reasons Chait names here. Abundance fails to address the devastation of economic inequality, and it dissociates from our climate crisis. Chait really misses these points completely.
The Coming Democratic Civil War
A seemingly wonky debate about the “abundance agenda” is really about power.
www.theatlantic.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I struggle to relate to “abundance” as a political strategy, but not for the ideological reasons Chait names here. Abundance fails to address the devastation of economic inequality, and it dissociates from our climate crisis. Chait really misses these points completely.
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15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
April 13, 2025 at 10:00 PM
15 years ago the Supreme Court decided corporations are people under the First Amendment.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
Today, billionaire political spending is up 160-fold since that ruling.
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
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out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘
in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
April 8, 2025 at 1:19 AM
out: being someone’s emergency contact 💘
in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
in: being someone’s emergency habeas filer 📃✍️
So true
I think we can all agree the White Lotus killer is obviously Gaitok’s smile.
April 7, 2025 at 3:09 AM
So true
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Good advice below on leaking to reporters. Folks can also use nytimes.com/tips (or reach me on Signal @malachy.22).
April 4, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Good advice below on leaking to reporters. Folks can also use nytimes.com/tips (or reach me on Signal @malachy.22).
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Just a reminder that America will in fact crush fascism.
It will take a while and it will be messy.
But bet on it.
It will take a while and it will be messy.
But bet on it.
March 23, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Just a reminder that America will in fact crush fascism.
It will take a while and it will be messy.
But bet on it.
It will take a while and it will be messy.
But bet on it.
This is true
My critique of Abundance™ - a thread:
- “We should have more good stuff” isn’t a revelation, it’s pedantry for bookselling
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- “We should have more good stuff” isn’t a revelation, it’s pedantry for bookselling
(1/5)
March 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
This is true
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Fuck it. Show me your receipts for AOC’s Courage to Change PAC and I’ll match the first $1000 (please share, friends who have a lot of followers).
it.how
March 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Fuck it. Show me your receipts for AOC’s Courage to Change PAC and I’ll match the first $1000 (please share, friends who have a lot of followers).
Etsy and now Southwest Airlines. The VC tragedy continues.
March 12, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Etsy and now Southwest Airlines. The VC tragedy continues.
done
Quit Amazon. Quit the Washington Post. Divest from soup-brained billionaire oligarchs.
SCOOP: WaPo Opinion editor David Shipley is out. Jeff Bezos emails staff about a change to Post Opinions: "We are going to be writing every day in support and defense of two pillars: personal liberties and free markets."
February 26, 2025 at 10:12 PM
done
yep
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them
WASHINGTON—With the elected officials trying their hardest not to move a muscle, reports confirmed Monday that top Democratic leaders in Congress were standing real still in hopes that the American pe...
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February 25, 2025 at 1:39 PM
yep
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Trump’s party controls Congress & the courts, which means they could repeal spending & close agencies thru legislation.
Trump is *choosing* to instead do it thru through extra-legal actions. That’s a feature not a bug: they are trying to destroy checks & balances…and democracy.
Trump is *choosing* to instead do it thru through extra-legal actions. That’s a feature not a bug: they are trying to destroy checks & balances…and democracy.
February 10, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Trump’s party controls Congress & the courts, which means they could repeal spending & close agencies thru legislation.
Trump is *choosing* to instead do it thru through extra-legal actions. That’s a feature not a bug: they are trying to destroy checks & balances…and democracy.
Trump is *choosing* to instead do it thru through extra-legal actions. That’s a feature not a bug: they are trying to destroy checks & balances…and democracy.
The Department of People Who Work for a Living
"The campaign by the AFL-CIO is called the Department of People Who Work for a Living, a play on Mr. Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency. 'Government can work for billionaires or it can work for working people, not both,' said Liz Shuler, the AFL president." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...
A.F.L.-C.I.O. Pushes Back on Elon Musk’s Campaign Against Federal Workers
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2025 at 12:23 PM
The Department of People Who Work for a Living
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The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
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The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
snyder.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The logic of the coup that is going on now. And how to resist it.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
snyder.substack.com/p/the-logic-...
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I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
January 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world.
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO
And the gap is increasing…
January 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
And the gap is increasing…
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Nation’s Mumblers March On Washington Demanding Something Or Other
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December 4, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Nation’s Mumblers March On Washington Demanding Something Or Other
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There's a "nobody is to blame"/"nobody coulda predicted" throughline in how Dems explain the world - whether it's their complicity in the Iraq War, the dereg that created the financial crisis, or both Trump wins.
Nobody is responsible for anything, there are no villains, shit just happens! Weird!
Nobody is responsible for anything, there are no villains, shit just happens! Weird!
November 30, 2024 at 8:22 PM
There's a "nobody is to blame"/"nobody coulda predicted" throughline in how Dems explain the world - whether it's their complicity in the Iraq War, the dereg that created the financial crisis, or both Trump wins.
Nobody is responsible for anything, there are no villains, shit just happens! Weird!
Nobody is responsible for anything, there are no villains, shit just happens! Weird!
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Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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November 27, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero.
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