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Justjessicaok
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Human geographer/GIS
Probably going on abt the Geography of tech culture or Climate Disinfo/propaganda | former film/tv coordinator | suburban GA mom of 2 | voting rights are human rights |
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November 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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This narcissism is typical of how Trump reacts to American suffering. When the foreclosure crisis and the recession destroyed the American economy, he thought only of how he would profit, saying, "People have been
This narcissism is typical of how Trump reacts to American suffering. When the foreclosure crisis and the recession destroyed the American economy, he thought only of how he would profit, saying, "People have been talking about the end of the cycle for 12 years, and I'm excited if it is. I've always made more money in bad markets than in good markets."4 His predatory mind-set is evident in his obsession with nuclear weapons, which he believes can be used to create profitable catastrophes, and also evident in his interest in causing civilian deaths abroad. When told in 2018 that the CIA had delayed a drone attack until a target left his family, Trump asked, "Why did you wait?"s Even as commander in chief, he cannot contain his apathy toward the deaths of others: from US citizens to foreign civilians to US troops whose names he can't remember and whose families he insults.
November 14, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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November 14, 2025 at 12:32 AM
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I don’t know why she was kicked off this site, but today is a good day to buy some Kendzior books.
November 13, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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I highly recommend this book that notes how people choose to be misinformed bc it’s what they want to believe, they want to choose the lie over the truth bc it fits who they are so to assume people will be different if they have all the facts is wanting them to change who they are and you can’t
Big Lies: from Socrates to social media by Eric zelz book with a wooden Pinocchio puppet shrugging on the cover
October 31, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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Again going to recommend this book. The introduction explains the Conservative Revolution of which Schmitt was a leading figure.
Book titled PHILOSOPHERS OF THE RADICAL RIGHT A WORLD AFTER LIBERALISM By Matthew Rose modernist thinking. Its chief figures included Carl Schmitt, Ernst finger, Arthur Moeller van den Bruck, and Oswald Spengler. Most of its members rejected the Nazi regime and its racial doctrines, some at significant personal cost. But they also sought a path for the West beyond the twin evils of Anglo-American liberalism and Soviet communism, whose ideals they blamed for the political chaos and cultural decadence of the Weimar Republic. They argued that human life had been debased by political ideologies that aimed at nothing higher than the peaceful resolution of conflict and the efficient management of consumption. Liberalism had drained politics of meaning, they argued, and its appeals to justice and equality could not summon real human loyalties or inspire true human greatness. But if these thinkers were disgusted by modern culture, they did not believe a return to the prewar status quo was possible or desirable. The Conservative Revolution sought a conceptual framework that accepted many of the assumptions of modern thought but rejected its conventional political implications. If human reason is unable to know universal truths or absolute moral values, they ar-gued, authority and myth are even more important in politics; if the pursuit of power is a basic drive of human nature, a pacified world is not a human world. They therefore envisioned a conservatism that emphasized the irrational aspects of human nature, celebrating our need for risk and danger. They also stressed the need for a ruling elite that could inspire the masses to pursue values beyond individual happiness. What was striking about these views, and what distinguished them from the clerical and monarchist right, was that they did not seck to reverse the process of modernization. They sought to accelerate it, believing that new political possibilities, previously hidden or forbidden, would be revealed in its development.
October 29, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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I read this 2018 book to write about the economic geography of crypto a few years ago and i think maybe i could now write a follow up book on the economic geography of digital networked crime. Or someone else can… but it should be written.
Book title: the economic geography of organized crime by Tim hall with a cover picture of someone’s hand gripping cash in different currencies
October 23, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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Again going to recommend this book for those who haven’t read it.
book with red triangle on black background titled PHILOSOPHERS OF THE RADICAL RIGHT A WORLD AFTER LIBERALISM By Matthew Rose
October 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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This is what they’ve been waiting for, why this court was installed.
BILL MOYERS: Paul Weyrich is the man I remember saying- PAUL WEYRICH: I don't want everybody to vote. Elections are not won by a majority of people. They never have been from the beginning of our country and they are not now. As a matter of fact, our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populous goes down. BILL MOYERS: He was essentially saying, as a newly anointed leader of the religious right, what their philosophy was. The fewer people vote, the better their chance. ANNE NELSON: That's right. And from the beginning, in terms of their electoral tactics, it has been a matter of weaponizing certain churches and pastors and really exerting tremendous pressure on them to use churches as instruments of a radical right ideology. And then using similar tactics to suppress votes for Democrats, especially in key battleground states. BILL MOYERS: So that's why you conclude in your book they were to the right of the Republican Party. They were not just an offshoot of the Republican Party. They were not just fundraisers for the Republican Party, but they were ideologically and organizationally taking the Republican Party far to the right. ANNE NELSON: Absolutely, and somewhat to my surprise, I found that their prototype was the Southern Baptist Convention, where they decided wat in order to move it to the right, they had to use questionable tactics to elevate their supporters to key positions of influence and purge the
September 29, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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I don’t recommend this book but if you want to read some of the insane philosophy this is a terrifying, but quick read.
Book called artificial you: ai and the future of your mind by Susan Schneider.
September 9, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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This book is a wealth of good info of what the south was really like pre/ during the civil war. I would say the lawlessness is a the biggest indication of pre-social unrest.
September 8, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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What are you reading tonight #booksky ?

- 📖 Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis
Book entitled Dreadful by Caitlin Rozakis. The cover has a red background with black letters over grey ribbon. Behind the ribbon is a black spooky tower with tentacles and books stacked in the doorway.
August 30, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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They want to crash the economy. 2014 "You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disaster. Then you'll have a [chuckles], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great."
You can look to the president-elect himself for a vision of what is to come. He has told you his plans all along, though most chose to downplay or deny them. You can even look back to before his candidacy, when in February 2014, he went on Fox News to defend Russia. Why a reality TV host was on Fox News defending Russia is its own story, but here is what he said about his desired outcome for the United States: "You know what solves it? When the economy crashes, when the country goes to total hell and everything is a disas-ter. Then you'll have a [chuckles], you know, you'll have riots to go back to where we used to be when we were great."
July 16, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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A system that concentrates people into camps without trial?
WIKIPEDIA Concentration camp Not to be confused with Extermination camp. A concentration camp is a prison or other facility used for the internment of political prisoners or politically targeted demographics, such as members of national or ethnic minority groups, on the grounds of national security, or for exploitation or punishment. (1] Concentration Camps (in German, Konzentrations/ager). Camps where the Nazis imprisoned their victims without trial. Although the term "concentration camp" is often used as a term for all Nazi camps, there were in fact several types of camps in the Nazi system, of which the "concentration camp was just one". Other types include labor and hard labor camps, extermination camps, transit camps, and prisoner of war camps. As the war progressed, the distinction between concentration camps and labor camps became blurred, as hard labor was also performed in the concentration camps. The concentration camp network played a pivotal role within the Nazi regime, which developed over time. Chronologically, the use of concentration camps can be divided into three distinct periods; from 1933 to 1936, 1936 to 1942; and 1942 to 1944-1945. The first period corresponds with the Nazis' rise to and consolidation of power. During this time, concentration camps were primarily established for the detention of political opponents to the Nazi Party. Following Hitler's rise to power in January 1933, the Nazis commenced arresting political adversaries and placing them in camps. By the end of July 27,000 people had been taken into what the Nazis called "protective custody." In Prussia alone, 20 camps were established for these prisoners. In the fall of 1933, the Nazis began detaining other victims, including persons whom the Nazis considered to be"asocial elements," such as beggars, tramps, and chronic criminals.In July 1934 SS chief Heinrich Himmler named Theodor Eicke (who was serving at the time as commandant at the Dachau concentration camp) "Inspector of Concentration Camps and SS Guard Units". These guard units, became known as "Death's Head Units", and performed the brutal work of guarding the concentration camps. In his new post, Eicke was in charge of the concentration camp prisoners' routine and punishments. During this phase, the main goal of the camp system was to deconstruct the oppo…
July 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Best story I’ve read this year is the Divine Rivals/Ruthless Vows Rebecca Ross series . ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Recommendations for more writing this fantastic welcome. ✨

#booksky
Digital book jacket of Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross
June 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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But like fish don’t exist, the order they believe in is a chosen reality they think they can build through violence and surveillance.
Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
June 11, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Finishing Elif Shafak’s Island of Missing Trees for a book club.
Beautifully written. Highly recommend.
Fig Tree A tree is a memory keeper. Tangled beneath our roots, hidden inside our trunks, are the sinews of history, the ruins of wars nobody came to win, the bones of the missing. The water sucked up through our boughs is the blood of the earth, the tears of the victims, and the ink of truths yet to be acknowledged. Humans, especially the victors who hold the pen that writes the annals of history, have a penchant for erasing as much as documenting. It remains to us plants to collect the untold, the unwanted. Like a cat that curls up on its favourite cushion, a tree wraps itself around the remnants of the past. When Lawrence Durrell, having fallen in love with Cyprus, decided to plant cypresses behind his house and took his spade to the soil, he found skeletons in his garden. Little did he know that this was by no means unusual. All around the world, wherever there is, or has ever been, a civil war or an ethnic conflict, come to the trees for clues, because we will be the ones that sit silently in communion with human remains.
April 26, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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History rhymes.

Don’t ignore his ramblings about taking over sovereign countries, too.

He believes everything he says.
Their commitment to withdrawing from the world economy, from trade deals, and from all the financial arrangements that were part of the gold standard, was explicit. As early as the Twenty-Five Points, the Nazis had been clear that noncitizens, including refugees and all Jews, could not count on remaining in Germany after a Nazi takeover or on having, any political or civil rights. Even before 1933, the Nazis paramilitary forces were deploying themselves covertly for defense of the eastern border. The Nazis left no doubt at all that they would ban the Communist Party and that all Communist activists would be subject to arrest, or worse. Since the early 1920s, Hitler had talked about the need for Germany to claim Lebensraum, or "living space," in the east. As people such as Journalist Ferdinand Fried had recognized, if autarky were going to work, it would be necessary for Germany to expand the territory it con-trolled. Hitler agreed completely, He thought that Germany's security 1/2 was endangered by "market fluctuations," and that "commercial treaties afforded no guarantee for their actual observance." In fact, he said, countries that depended on foreign trade were militarily weak. Germany's own trade had to be carried on sea-lanes dominated by Britain. "The only remedy," said Hitler, "and one which might seem to us visionary, lay in the acquisition of greater living space." This "living space" could be found only in Europe, and only in one direction: east, toward the Soviet Union, with its Ukrainian black earth. In his public pronouncements before he came to power, Hitler left the full implications of this idea in soft focus.
April 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
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‘Member when the cigarette companies figured out that selling to women using “feminism” would boost sales lost after people started figuring out it was killing people… this has that vibe.
April 5, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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This is the philosophical foundation of the right, and we need to see the crash as intentional. They are restructuring the world economy bc they believe that “fascism isn’t enough.”
It’s Brave New World: they want as few as possible to own anything, to let them decide what you deserve.
Evola sharpened his critique of liberalism in the years leading up to the Second World War, during which he edited a series of right-wing magazines and newspapers, including the influential Il regime fascista. He argued that liberalism is false to human nature and blind to human experience. It conceives of human beings as individual bearers of rights, who can define and pursue for themselves an understanding of the good life. But the law of life is in-equality, Evola argued, and most human beings are born to obey, not to rule. They find happiness and dignity in the comforting continuities of Tradition, not in the unending debates of parliamentary democracy. Liberalism is perniciously disorienting. By encouraging people to think and act apart from the guidance of authority, it renders them unable to see the naturalness, goodness, and even beauty in long-standing customs and inequalities. "Freedom can only exist when there are masters opposed to slaves," Evola protested, "when there are proud leaders and followers that boldly and generously put their lives and destinies in their hands."22
April 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Just posting this everywhere today… for no reason...

From Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior
This narcissism is typical of how Trump reacts to American suffering. When the foreclosure crisis and the recession destroyed the American economy, he thought only of how he would profit, saying, "People have been talking about the end of the cycle for 12 years, and I'm excited if it is. I've always made more money in bad markets than in good markets."* His predatory mind-set is evident in his obsession with nuclear weapons, which he believes can be used to create profitable catastrophes, and also evident in his interest in causing civilian deaths abroad. When told in 2018 that the CIA had delayed a drone attack until a target left his family, Trump asked, "Why did you wait?"' Even as commander in chief, he cannot contain his apathy toward the deaths of others: from US citizens to foreign civilians to US troops whose names he can't remember and whose families he insults.
April 3, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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From Hiding in Plain Sight by @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
This narcissism is typical of how Trump reacts to American suffering. When the foreclosure crisis and the recession destroyed the American economy, he thought only of how he would profit, saying, "People have been talking about the end of the cycle for 12 years, and I'm excited if it is. I've always made more money in bad markets than in good markets." His predatory mind-set is evident in his obsession with nuclear weapons, which he believes can be used to create profitable catastrophes, and also evident in his interest in causing civilian deaths abroad. When told in 2018 that the CIA had delayed a drone attack until a target left his family, Trump asked, "Why did you wait?"' Even as commander in chief, he cannot contain his apathy toward the deaths of others: from US citizens to foreign civilians to US troops whose names he can't remember and whose families he insults. From Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior
April 3, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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Just posted this on another post: from Hiding in Plain Sight by Sarah Kendzior.

It should surprise no one that the kleptocrats are stripping the car they stole for parts.
This narcissism is typical of how Trump reacts to American suffering. When the foreclosure crisis and the recession destroyed the American economy, he thought only of how he would profit, saying, "People have been talking about the end of the cycle for 12 years, and I'm excited if it is. I've always made more money in bad markets than in good markets." His predatory mind-set is evident in his obsession with nuclear weapons, which he believes can be used to create profitable catastrophes, and also evident in his interest in causing civilian deaths abroad. When told in 2018 that the CIA had delayed a drone attack until a target left his family, Trump asked, "Why did you wait?"' Even as commander in chief, he cannot contain his apathy toward the deaths of others: from US citizens to foreign civilians to US troops whose names he can't remember and whose families he insults.
April 3, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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This is another excerpt from her book. They always intended to crash the economy.
This narcissism is typical of how Trump reacts to American suffering. When the foreclosure crisis and the recession destroyed the American economy, he thought only of how he would profit, saying, "People have been talking about the end of the cycle for 12 years, and I'm excited if it is. I've always made more money in bad markets than in good markets."* His predatory mind-set is evident in his obsession with nuclear weapons, which he believes can be used to create profitable catastrophes, and also evident in his interest in causing civilian deaths abroad. When told in 2018 that the CIA had delayed a drone attack until a target left his family, Trump asked, "Why did you wait?"' Even as commander in chief, he cannot contain his apathy toward the deaths of others: from US citizens to foreign civilians to US troops whose names he can't remember and whose families he insults.
April 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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When Bostrom tried to convince us we’ll live in a simulation, who knew it would be Oregon Trail?
March 19, 2025 at 3:05 AM