Chris Prato
@cjprato.bsky.social
☯️ Not the actor.
Colorado Springs is pretty great actually.
Child of the 80s.
Devourer of bread heals.
Writing about climate, business, and culture at WattMind.
I'll just keep on winging it, there's always blue skies ahead. 🦎 ☯️
Colorado Springs is pretty great actually.
Child of the 80s.
Devourer of bread heals.
Writing about climate, business, and culture at WattMind.
I'll just keep on winging it, there's always blue skies ahead. 🦎 ☯️
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so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
September 17, 2025 at 11:10 PM
so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining
A playbook for the aspiring tyrant.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Modern Dictatorships
Everything You Need to Know About Overthrowing Democracy (That They Forgot to Make Illegal)
open.substack.com
September 1, 2025 at 2:34 PM
A playbook for the aspiring tyrant.
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She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras
A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.
www.wunc.org
August 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
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We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.
She was brought to the US as an 8yo, worked hard, studied, earned a scholarship, planned to become a nurse.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
ICE kidnapped her. Held her for 6 MONTHS in a detention facility with conditions so miserable that she finally agreed to voluntarily move to Honduras, which her family left at gunpoint.
After six months in ICE custody, Charlotte woman chooses voluntary removal to Honduras
A 20-year-old Honduran woman who has lived in the Charlotte area for more than a decade will soon be removed from the U.S.
www.wunc.org
August 27, 2025 at 11:57 PM
We’re being governed by monsters. Just absolute monsters.
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kristi noem as porta potties: thread
June 18, 2025 at 12:51 AM
kristi noem as porta potties: thread
Lots of discourse on "what's the deal with men?" Here's another perspective - progressives need to give men a righteous cause to fight for. wattmind.substack.com/p/the-honor-...
The Honor Wars
The Ancient Drive Reshaping American Politics
wattmind.substack.com
June 5, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Lots of discourse on "what's the deal with men?" Here's another perspective - progressives need to give men a righteous cause to fight for. wattmind.substack.com/p/the-honor-...
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"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." -
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
June 1, 2025 at 5:10 PM
"The death of human empathy is one of the earliest and most telling signs of a culture about to fall into barbarism." -
Hannah Arendt
Hannah Arendt
Why young men are drawn to the right, and how the left can fight back. open.substack.com/pub/wattmind...
The Honor Wars
The Ancient Drive Reshaping American Politics
open.substack.com
May 27, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Why young men are drawn to the right, and how the left can fight back. open.substack.com/pub/wattmind...
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BIDEN'S CANCER DIAGNOSIS: shock, plus the trivia: Tapper, Politico, others exploiting his health can go to hell
TRUMP THREATENS SUPREME COURT and justices HE appointed, re-posts call for 'Military Tribunal' for Obama
GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/mut9xyxx
TRUMP THREATENS SUPREME COURT and justices HE appointed, re-posts call for 'Military Tribunal' for Obama
GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/mut9xyxx
May 19, 2025 at 4:07 AM
BIDEN'S CANCER DIAGNOSIS: shock, plus the trivia: Tapper, Politico, others exploiting his health can go to hell
TRUMP THREATENS SUPREME COURT and justices HE appointed, re-posts call for 'Military Tribunal' for Obama
GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/mut9xyxx
TRUMP THREATENS SUPREME COURT and justices HE appointed, re-posts call for 'Military Tribunal' for Obama
GET THE ALL-NEW COUNTDOWN PODCAST: tinyurl.com/mut9xyxx
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haha, if i’m supposed to be at work right now then how come i’m receiving last rites from a priest in this denny’s parking lot because i ate some clams that i found at a bus stop?
May 15, 2025 at 1:22 PM
haha, if i’m supposed to be at work right now then how come i’m receiving last rites from a priest in this denny’s parking lot because i ate some clams that i found at a bus stop?
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what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”
Interesting piece which reveals a lot of the tech bro ignorance of government: DOGEr comes in, expects to find lots of inefficiency, is at least willing to acknowledge he was wrong unlike the hard core ideologues.
May 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
what is fascinating to me is the number of people whose “knowledge” of government appears to just be an accumulation of cliches and stereotypes + an inchoate sense that if something is big and costly then it must necessarily be “wasteful”
Trump is now going after Energy Star. This program and others like it are extremely valuable to everyone and should not be cut. Here's why. wattmind.substack.com/p/more-than-...
More Than Savings: The True Value of Energy Efficiency
It's a true win-win for everyone.
wattmind.substack.com
May 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Trump is now going after Energy Star. This program and others like it are extremely valuable to everyone and should not be cut. Here's why. wattmind.substack.com/p/more-than-...
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Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
A whistleblower's disclosure details how DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data
A whistleblower tells Congress and NPR that DOGE may have taken sensitive labor data and hid its tracks. "None of that ... information should ever leave the agency," said a former NLRB official.
www.npr.org
April 15, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
Thoughts on Abundance, and how proceduralism threatens Democracy and empowers authoritarians. Shout out to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social for the thought provoking book.
The Risk of Doing Nothing
Thoughts on the book "Abundance" and confronting the gridlock that threatens democracy.
wattmind.substack.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Thoughts on Abundance, and how proceduralism threatens Democracy and empowers authoritarians. Shout out to @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @dkthomp.bsky.social for the thought provoking book.
These people are assholes. youtu.be/_65n6zJfgO4?...
‘Who voted for this?’: Trump guts funding for kids history contest
YouTube video by MSNBC
youtu.be
April 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
These people are assholes. youtu.be/_65n6zJfgO4?...
Setting fire to your house then putting it out before the entire thing is in ashes, insisting you thank me for my expert firefighting skills.
April 10, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Setting fire to your house then putting it out before the entire thing is in ashes, insisting you thank me for my expert firefighting skills.
Son, if you work hard, stay in school, and get good grades, one day you too can realize the American dream - 16 hour shifts at the textile factory berating unvaccinated children for their poor sewing skills. 🇺🇲
April 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Son, if you work hard, stay in school, and get good grades, one day you too can realize the American dream - 16 hour shifts at the textile factory berating unvaccinated children for their poor sewing skills. 🇺🇲
Seriously, what in the actual fuck is this?
Lutnick: "The army of millions and millions of human beings screwing in little screws to make iPhones -- that kind of thing is going to come to America."
April 6, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Seriously, what in the actual fuck is this?
Shitty tariffs or not, batteries are changing the game in energy. And it's happening faster than you realize.
The Battery Boom is Here
The energy transition will not be deterred by poor policy.
wattmind.substack.com
April 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Shitty tariffs or not, batteries are changing the game in energy. And it's happening faster than you realize.
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Feel like maybe @booker.senate.gov read The Sirens’ Call? Or at least he got the gist!
April 1, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Feel like maybe @booker.senate.gov read The Sirens’ Call? Or at least he got the gist!
Who did Mike Waltz intend to add? Obviously it wasn't Goldberg. So who was it? Someone with initials JG?
March 26, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Who did Mike Waltz intend to add? Obviously it wasn't Goldberg. So who was it? Someone with initials JG?
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EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found
EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland
EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good
EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland
EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good
March 25, 2025 at 1:02 PM
EXPLORER 1: what should we name this new land we found
EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland
EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good
EXPLORER 2: how bout Newfoundland
EXPLORER 1: damn that’s fucken good
It's time for the machines to take over.
POTUS.exe: America’s First AI President
An AI president, a broken Congress, and the end of democracy as we know it.
wattmind.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
It's time for the machines to take over.