"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Mammonite. One devoted to the service of Mammon, or the acquisition of wealth. First attested from 1855. I think we need to bring it back into use.

It won’t be long until the not-as-obscenely rich who have lost everything start jumping out of the Overton Window.

I ran across an interesting document. These parts seem especially relevant:

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He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.
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He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
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If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.

Trump's 3/27 executive order targets the Smithsonian for advancing "the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct."

Trump argues that the exhibit's statement, below, is unscientific. He's wrong. As a biology professor and population geneticist, I agree with every word of it.

The US military base that JD Vance visited in Greenland uses fuel that can only be delivered with the help of Canadian ice breakers.

I noticed he didn't say thank you.

#Canada #Greenland #cdnpoli #ElbowsUp

Externalized cost is theft.

Despair is compliance.

Link: https://buff.ly/4hHXART

Indivisible is urging people to visit their senators' local offices between now and Thursday to demand that they use every tool—including denying a quorum and blocking unanimous consent—to fight the confirmation of Project 2025 architect Russell Vought for head of OMB docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I think it’s time to stop comparing the current regime to Nazi Germany. That just validates them. Compare them instead to Stalin’s Soviet Union. Not a lot of difference (oligarchs will be oligarchs), and the Soviets were commies, don’tcha see.

I ran across a comment in the other place that my mind turned into “Addicted to feloin.”

Hats off to @gregpalast.bsky.social for this important report and his ongoing work on this project.

What a brave new world we live in just a few days after the assassination of a CEO. It’s always tough to wrangle with the lines between justice, murder, and ethics but we owe it to ourselves to try.

Girls sports and bathroom hysteria were just the convenient talking points to make people angry.

It was never about sports (they ridicule womens/girls sports at any other time, and resented Title IX).

I wrote about the need to rethink our approach to direct action in changing times.