@dlilajane.bsky.social
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"There isn't a reasonable scenario where we grant some rich people control over the planet's thermostat and everything turns out fine."
My latest:
My latest:
Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly
We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.
www.gravityisgone.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
"There isn't a reasonable scenario where we grant some rich people control over the planet's thermostat and everything turns out fine."
My latest:
My latest:
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"The US economy has grown by $20 trillion since 2000, to $29 trillion last year. About $7.7 trillion of that — or 36% of all the growth in GDP — is spending related to recovering from or preparing for disasters" www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
Disaster Recovery Is an $8 Trillion Driver of US Growth
Investors are on the hunt for companies powering the disaster industrial complex, which are fueling US growth and outpacing the S&P 500
www.bloomberg.com
October 22, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"The US economy has grown by $20 trillion since 2000, to $29 trillion last year. About $7.7 trillion of that — or 36% of all the growth in GDP — is spending related to recovering from or preparing for disasters" www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”
(Published May)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
(Published May)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
Red State Voters Approved Progressive Measures. GOP Lawmakers Are Trying to Undermine Them.
In the wake of ballot measures that increased abortion access and improved sick leave for workers, a coordinated effort is unfolding across the country to restrict direct democracy — and shift power t...
www.propublica.org
October 10, 2025 at 11:00 PM
“This is very much connected to the rise of authoritarianism that we’ve seen across the country,” said the executive director of the Ballot Initiative Strategy Center. “They can’t win fairly, so they’re trying to rewrite the rules to get their way.”
(Published May)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
(Published May)
By @jeremykohler.bsky.social
“First they came for the order of things, and my ashes said nothing, because I was a phoenix. Then they embezzled history, but memory’s account grew a forest, and that was when they came for time.” Fady Joudah
“First they came for my grandparents, but my parents lived. Then for me, but my children lived. Then they came for the media, and the media hailed the kingdom of nothing and severed our tongues.”
Truth Is Never Finished | Fady Joudah
They came back for the map, but the map laughed them off: Who bombs hospitals to inherit the earth?
thebaffler.com
March 31, 2025 at 10:45 PM
“First they came for the order of things, and my ashes said nothing, because I was a phoenix. Then they embezzled history, but memory’s account grew a forest, and that was when they came for time.” Fady Joudah
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really recommend this piece, and @resnikoff.bsky.social’s substack generally. A succinct summation of why it is such a pathetic betrayal for big law, media, and academia to bend the knee to authoritarianism. Because it reveals the premise of these institutions to be flatly a lie.
New post for the newsletter about the capitulation of big law, big media, and big academia to Trump, and what Hannah Arendt would say about all this. resnikoff.beehiiv.com/p/living-wit...
Living With a Murderer
On personal responsibility under the second Trump administration
resnikoff.beehiiv.com
March 28, 2025 at 4:20 PM
really recommend this piece, and @resnikoff.bsky.social’s substack generally. A succinct summation of why it is such a pathetic betrayal for big law, media, and academia to bend the knee to authoritarianism. Because it reveals the premise of these institutions to be flatly a lie.