@waveor.bsky.social
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people have convinced themselves that american politics can only generate very closely competitive elections paired with policy stasis and that is uh not true
i think that people in the modern era systematically underestimate what the government is capable of. e.g., the supreme court is not gone for generations. it is gone until there is a Congressional majority to reform it.
"Recover" isn't a thing here IMO. History is contingent, branching off from decision points. There's no going back to how things were
Fixing the worst of it will be difficult and take generations, but it starts with needing better politicians ASAP
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Fixing the worst of it will be difficult and take generations, but it starts with needing better politicians ASAP
bsky.app/profile/blak...
February 9, 2025 at 3:40 AM
people have convinced themselves that american politics can only generate very closely competitive elections paired with policy stasis and that is uh not true
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February 5, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
February 2, 2025 at 11:47 PM
Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is jmetraux@motherjones.com. Reposts appreciated.
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Lesson for this Trump tariff shakedown bullshit is that you can call him up and say "well okay, we'll do [list of things we're already doing], that's a really good idea" and he will take that as a win. It's like putting a blanket over a budgie's cage
February 3, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Lesson for this Trump tariff shakedown bullshit is that you can call him up and say "well okay, we'll do [list of things we're already doing], that's a really good idea" and he will take that as a win. It's like putting a blanket over a budgie's cage
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Outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz:
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
February 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Outside of USAID headquarters, Senator Brian Schatz:
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
"If you want to change an agency, introduce a bill and pass a law. You cannot wave away an agency that you don't like or that you disagree with by executive order, or by literally storming into the building and taking over the servers."
BOOM!
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We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
February 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds.
It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.
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This is a threat to annex the territory of another sovereign country. It's on the verge of a declaration of war. The US is a clear and present danger to Canada.
February 2, 2025 at 2:42 PM
This is a threat to annex the territory of another sovereign country. It's on the verge of a declaration of war. The US is a clear and present danger to Canada.
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seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
But when it comes to cutting aid budgets no one says “let’s spend less money on Israeli or Egyptian military capacity”. Instead you want to start by taking healthcare and education away from people who have been made vulnerable by the structural injustices you create and benefit from.
February 3, 2025 at 3:24 PM
seeing takes about the aid institutions and their role in imperialism. correct. If someone said "investor-owned hospitals exploit the vulnerable to benefit shareholders" I'd nod. If their followup was "and that's why I'm turning off your mom's dialysis machine" I'd...have some followup questions
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Once worked with a guy married to a psychiatrist. He said she told him -
"Never try to make sense of the actions or declarations of a crazy person. All that will happen is that you'll go crazy too, from trying. Never forget - they are sick, they are insane, you must maintain clarity on that."
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"Never try to make sense of the actions or declarations of a crazy person. All that will happen is that you'll go crazy too, from trying. Never forget - they are sick, they are insane, you must maintain clarity on that."
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February 3, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Once worked with a guy married to a psychiatrist. He said she told him -
"Never try to make sense of the actions or declarations of a crazy person. All that will happen is that you'll go crazy too, from trying. Never forget - they are sick, they are insane, you must maintain clarity on that."
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"Never try to make sense of the actions or declarations of a crazy person. All that will happen is that you'll go crazy too, from trying. Never forget - they are sick, they are insane, you must maintain clarity on that."
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Recurring demands by Trump for Canada to surrender its sovereignty and be annexed by the U.S. belie the (rather weak) claim that these tariffs have anything to do with border security or fentanyl. They are an unprovoked war of aggression by economic means.
February 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Recurring demands by Trump for Canada to surrender its sovereignty and be annexed by the U.S. belie the (rather weak) claim that these tariffs have anything to do with border security or fentanyl. They are an unprovoked war of aggression by economic means.
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For fucks sake. We didn’t lose because of the price of eggs. We lost because Republicans SAID it was the price of eggs. Now they’re dismantling government, stripping rights, starting trade wars and Dems are saying “look at the eggs!” Leaders lead! Stop chasing their bullshit! Focus and fight back!
February 2, 2025 at 2:06 PM
For fucks sake. We didn’t lose because of the price of eggs. We lost because Republicans SAID it was the price of eggs. Now they’re dismantling government, stripping rights, starting trade wars and Dems are saying “look at the eggs!” Leaders lead! Stop chasing their bullshit! Focus and fight back!
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it does make a lot of sense. one brilliant person carrying out some grand decades long plan to achieve a thought out goal is hard. some dipshit stumbling ass backwards into power and thrashing around breaking everything in reach is easy
Been thinking a lot about @mikeduncan.bsky.social's "great idiot of history" theory — the proposition that while Great Men rarely or never move history, a powerful individual's unique stupidity, incompetence, and disordered personality can do so.
February 1, 2025 at 9:04 PM
it does make a lot of sense. one brilliant person carrying out some grand decades long plan to achieve a thought out goal is hard. some dipshit stumbling ass backwards into power and thrashing around breaking everything in reach is easy
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Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and
offer them to small to medium size businesses.
Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations .
Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ?
Thoughts ?
offer them to small to medium size businesses.
Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations .
Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ?
Thoughts ?
February 1, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Ive said this before. Unions have a moment in time to create parallel, Non Profit Trust or Associated Health Plans and
offer them to small to medium size businesses.
Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations .
Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ?
Thoughts ?
offer them to small to medium size businesses.
Unions can negotiate far better than SMBs or associations .
Imagine if millions got their healthcare from unions ?
Thoughts ?
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There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
February 1, 2025 at 7:20 PM
There appear to be at least three separately operating heel factions breaking things within the government in wholly different ways right now. There's the Miller-headed immigration one, the DOGE/Elon one, and a Project 2025 OMB one. This dynamic hasn't showed up in mainstream reporting at all.
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My wife is a teacher and one of her students drew this masterpiece.
February 1, 2025 at 2:51 AM
My wife is a teacher and one of her students drew this masterpiece.
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Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
January 31, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Trump is openly violating the law on a vast and unprecedented scale and everyone is acting like it's normal. NPR had a long story about finding a rare shrew. NYT said he was disregarding "legal niceties." This is an attack on the Constitution as profound as the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.
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This is also why it’s so important for civil servants to reply to lawless orders with “Fuck you, make me.” We need as much friction as possible as quickly as possible.
February 1, 2025 at 1:04 AM
This is also why it’s so important for civil servants to reply to lawless orders with “Fuck you, make me.” We need as much friction as possible as quickly as possible.
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We’re gonna have to march.
February 1, 2025 at 6:15 AM
We’re gonna have to march.
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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
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Taking the President's symbolic roles as essentially being the central rituals of American civic religion, Trump's inability to perform them- to actually be presidential- signals that the civic religion is hollow and without power, that there are no consequences for blaspheming it.
January 30, 2025 at 7:52 PM
Taking the President's symbolic roles as essentially being the central rituals of American civic religion, Trump's inability to perform them- to actually be presidential- signals that the civic religion is hollow and without power, that there are no consequences for blaspheming it.
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the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”
January 30, 2025 at 4:45 PM
the headline is not “trump blames deadly plane crash on DEI” but “trump seizes on deadly plane crash to attack minorities”