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Patriotic liberal GenXer
Professional strategy nerd & amateur librarian
Iraq War veteran
Slava Ukraini! And Foxtrot Tango! 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
Professional strategy nerd & amateur librarian
Iraq War veteran
Slava Ukraini! And Foxtrot Tango! 🇺🇸🇺🇦🏳️⚧️
Weird coincidence. www.marketwatch.com/story/corpor...
As corporate profits near all-time highs, wages are near lows. Can this last?
The U.S. has very high corporate profits, very high asset prices, very high fiscal deficits, very high trade deficits, and very low wages versus history, notes Deutsche Bank. Does something have to gi...
www.marketwatch.com
February 6, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Weird coincidence. www.marketwatch.com/story/corpor...
Back at the writer’s desk, on an all new platform. First new piece is about a very famous hat, and what it tells us about our current politics. Napoleon’s Hat medium.com/@teri.holter...
Napoleon’s Hat
1/29/2025
medium.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Back at the writer’s desk, on an all new platform. First new piece is about a very famous hat, and what it tells us about our current politics. Napoleon’s Hat medium.com/@teri.holter...
You know who thinks the US taking over Greenland/Canada/Panama Canal is a fantastic idea? Xi Xinping and Vladimir Putin. Because if we can take what we want, then Taiwan, Ukraine, the Baltic States, South China Sea, Kinmen & Matsu Islands, eastern Poland, all of it is back on the table for them.
January 10, 2025 at 9:25 PM
You know who thinks the US taking over Greenland/Canada/Panama Canal is a fantastic idea? Xi Xinping and Vladimir Putin. Because if we can take what we want, then Taiwan, Ukraine, the Baltic States, South China Sea, Kinmen & Matsu Islands, eastern Poland, all of it is back on the table for them.
Just think. At noon on January 20th, all the things which are now somehow Biden’s fault will still somehow be Biden’s fault.
January 9, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Just think. At noon on January 20th, all the things which are now somehow Biden’s fault will still somehow be Biden’s fault.
Remember when DHS warned us about the increasing danger of radicalized veterans, and the right-wingers demanded an apology? Anyway, both of yesterday’s domestic terror incidents were conducted by Army veterans. www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-dom...
DHS' Domestic Terror Warning Angers GOP
Republican Lawmakers, American Legion Call Reference To Susceptible Veterans Unacceptable, Unfair
www.cbsnews.com
January 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Remember when DHS warned us about the increasing danger of radicalized veterans, and the right-wingers demanded an apology? Anyway, both of yesterday’s domestic terror incidents were conducted by Army veterans. www.cbsnews.com/news/dhs-dom...
Watching Love Actually with your wife is a great way to experience being in trouble for what Alan Rickman did to Emma Thompson. Ask me how I know.
December 25, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Watching Love Actually with your wife is a great way to experience being in trouble for what Alan Rickman did to Emma Thompson. Ask me how I know.
The Arctic is an increasingly important and highly contested region, and Greenland is key terrain, owned by our NATO ally, Denmark. If the MAGAts are serious about this, it can only mean Trump intends to withdraw from NATO.
CNN is hopelessly broken.
1. This "expansion" would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law.
2. It would violate several treaties.
3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations.
1. This "expansion" would require military invasions of several allies in violation of international law.
2. It would violate several treaties.
3. The Louisiana Purchase was the sale of land by a colonial power (France). These are sovereign nations.
December 24, 2024 at 5:53 PM
The Arctic is an increasingly important and highly contested region, and Greenland is key terrain, owned by our NATO ally, Denmark. If the MAGAts are serious about this, it can only mean Trump intends to withdraw from NATO.
As damning as the House Ethics Committee’s report is, detailing multiple instances of paying for sex, at least one of whom was a minor, it’s now all but certain that Matt Gaetz will be the Republican nominee for the next governor of the State of Florida.
December 23, 2024 at 3:08 PM
As damning as the House Ethics Committee’s report is, detailing multiple instances of paying for sex, at least one of whom was a minor, it’s now all but certain that Matt Gaetz will be the Republican nominee for the next governor of the State of Florida.
Propaganda is designed to provoke an emotional response, not a rational one. If you see something on SM that gives you strong feels, check the source. You are not immune to propaganda.
December 22, 2024 at 7:10 PM
Propaganda is designed to provoke an emotional response, not a rational one. If you see something on SM that gives you strong feels, check the source. You are not immune to propaganda.
If the new regime plans to slash spending and shrink the government, tell me again why they need unlimited debt? Explain it like I’m Trump, using the smallest words possible.
December 21, 2024 at 2:15 PM
If the new regime plans to slash spending and shrink the government, tell me again why they need unlimited debt? Explain it like I’m Trump, using the smallest words possible.
What form of government is it when the people’s elected representatives burn the whole system down less than a week before Christmas because an unelected billionaire threatened to have them removed if they don’t?
December 19, 2024 at 3:47 PM
What form of government is it when the people’s elected representatives burn the whole system down less than a week before Christmas because an unelected billionaire threatened to have them removed if they don’t?
The problem is not “wealth inequality.” That term is meaningless. The problem is “wealth concentration.” A small group of oligarchs are hoarding an ever-larger share of the world’s wealth, and all of us are poorer for it.
Wealth inequality is our number one issue. Put another way, 8 people own more wealth than 3.6 billion but sure a mother on food stamps is the problem.
December 16, 2024 at 8:07 PM
The problem is not “wealth inequality.” That term is meaningless. The problem is “wealth concentration.” A small group of oligarchs are hoarding an ever-larger share of the world’s wealth, and all of us are poorer for it.
Republicans are absolutely disgusted at the lack of empathy for the murdered CEO. Also Republicans:
December 16, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Republicans are absolutely disgusted at the lack of empathy for the murdered CEO. Also Republicans:
Reposted
There’s a poem for every moment. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...
The Second Coming
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and eve...
www.poetryfoundation.org
December 11, 2024 at 5:28 AM
There’s a poem for every moment. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/...
Just imagine how much shareholder value we can create once every job is automated and we’ve eliminated labor as a cost of doing business. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
'They hate people': Bleak tech billboards spark angst in San Francisco
Artisan's "Stop hiring humans" marketing campaign in San Francisco pits the company's AI tool against human workers. It's riling people up.
www.sfgate.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:35 PM
Just imagine how much shareholder value we can create once every job is automated and we’ve eliminated labor as a cost of doing business. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
If I owned a truck, I would name it “Fump.”
December 9, 2024 at 11:13 PM
If I owned a truck, I would name it “Fump.”
I could send out my four fastest ships, one in each direction, and still not find a more magical movie than The Princess Bride.
December 9, 2024 at 2:44 PM
I could send out my four fastest ships, one in each direction, and still not find a more magical movie than The Princess Bride.
Looking forward to hearing what the Syrian rebels find out about some of our own deplorables from the records in Assad’s palace.
Also, some day Putin will die and a contemporary version of the Mitrokhin Archive will make some America symps very unhappy.
December 8, 2024 at 3:43 PM
Looking forward to hearing what the Syrian rebels find out about some of our own deplorables from the records in Assad’s palace.
Thoughts and prayers for Tulsi Gabbard in this difficult time for her. apnews.com/article/syri...
Alone and broke against a renewed insurgency, is Assad's rule at risk of collapse?
As insurgents pursue a shock offensive that quickly captured not just Aleppo, but the key city of Hama, the Syrian President appears to be largely on his own.
apnews.com
December 7, 2024 at 3:48 PM
Thoughts and prayers for Tulsi Gabbard in this difficult time for her. apnews.com/article/syri...
It’s only class warfare when the lower classes fight back. When the oligarchs screw us over it’s “just business.”
The culture wars, the race wars, the gender wars...all smoke screens for the war they don't want you to fight.
The class wars.
The class wars.
December 6, 2024 at 5:34 PM
It’s only class warfare when the lower classes fight back. When the oligarchs screw us over it’s “just business.”
Work trip to California. Stopped in Morro Bay for seafood and a million dollar sunset.
December 6, 2024 at 4:19 AM
Work trip to California. Stopped in Morro Bay for seafood and a million dollar sunset.
Remember that time the Koch brothers commissioned a study to “prove” that Medicare for All was too expensive and it accidentally proved we’d save a couple trillion dollars? Pepperidge Farms remembers. theintercept.com/2018/07/30/m...
Koch-Backed Think Tank Finds That “Medicare for All” Would Cut Health Care Spending and Raise Wages. Whoops.
A Koch brothers-backed economist makes a $3 trillion error, but still finds that “Medicare for All” reduces costs and boosts wages.
theintercept.com
December 6, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Remember that time the Koch brothers commissioned a study to “prove” that Medicare for All was too expensive and it accidentally proved we’d save a couple trillion dollars? Pepperidge Farms remembers. theintercept.com/2018/07/30/m...
Same.
I hereby promise to start drinking heavily if Pete Hegseth becomes Secretary of Defense.
December 5, 2024 at 12:49 PM
Same.
If the “peace plan” is for Ukraine to give up large parts of its territory without meaningful security guarantees or the chance to join NATO, the likelihood of Ukraine re-acquiring a credible nuclear deterrent becomes a near certainty. They’d be fools not to. www.reuters.com/world/trumps...
Trump's plan for Ukraine comes into focus: Territorial concessions but NATO off the table
Advisers to Donald Trump publicly and privately are floating proposals to end the Ukraine war that would cede large parts of the country to Russia for the foreseeable future, according to a Reuters analysis of their statements and interviews with several people close to the U.S. president-elect.
www.reuters.com
December 4, 2024 at 8:57 PM
If the “peace plan” is for Ukraine to give up large parts of its territory without meaningful security guarantees or the chance to join NATO, the likelihood of Ukraine re-acquiring a credible nuclear deterrent becomes a near certainty. They’d be fools not to. www.reuters.com/world/trumps...