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I know. But I do not approve. And I am not resigned.
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Indeed. I was particularly struck by this flow in the stack.
Flow chart illustrating, from left to right, taxpayers, government depts, tech companies, venture capitalist firms.
December 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
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Who knew that Wormtongue was AI generated? Perhaps that should be the new name for Grok.
An aged grey king to the right of a pale man with oily dark hair who is dressed all in black.
November 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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We need single-payer universal healthcare.
Medicare for all.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Although healthcare expenditure per capita is higher for the United States than any other country, over 37 million Americans are entirely without health insurance and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Whereas ongoing efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act would exacerbate healthcare inequities, a universal system, such as that proposed in the Medicare for All Act (MAA), has the potential to transform the availability and efficiency of American healthcare. Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion as well as savings that would be achieved through the MAA, we calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually. The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is currently incurred by employers and households through healthcare premiums, as well as existing government allocations. This shift to single-payer healthcare would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households. Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring healthcare access for all Americans would save over 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year.
November 18, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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It's part of the system.
Circular workflow diagram: Grassroots Left mobilization happens, to Mobilization becomes a threat to the the status quo, to Democrats find representatives of the most moderate elements, co-opt and hire them, to Co-opted leaders use the language of popular movement to funnel energy back into the electoral system, to NOTHING FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGES, and back to Grassroots left mobilization happens, repeat.
November 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
pilgrimsoul.bsky.social
We need single-payer healthcare.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Although healthcare expenditure per capita is higher for the United States than any other country, over 37 million Americans are entirely without health insurance and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Whereas ongoing efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act would exacerbate healthcare inequities, a universal system, such as that proposed in the Medicare for All Act (MAA), has the potential to transform the availability and efficiency of American healthcare. Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion as well as savings that would be achieved through the MAA, we calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually. The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is currently incurred by employers and households through healthcare premiums, as well as existing government allocations. This shift to single-payer healthcare would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households. Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring healthcare access for all Americans would save over 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year.
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
pilgrimsoul.bsky.social
Single-payer healthcare (Medicare for All) is a more cost effective solution.
"we calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually."

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
Although healthcare expenditure per capita is higher for the United States than any other country, over 37 million Americans are entirely without health insurance and 41 million more have inadequate access to care. Whereas ongoing efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act would exacerbate healthcare inequities, a universal system, such as that proposed in the Medicare for All Act (MAA), has the potential to transform the availability and efficiency of American healthcare. Taking into account both the costs of coverage expansion as well as savings that would be achieved through the MAA, we calculate that a single-payer, universal healthcare system is likely to lead to a 13% savings in national healthcare expenditure, equivalent to over $450 billion annually. The entire system could be funded with less financial outlay than is currently incurred by employers and households through healthcare premiums, as well as existing government allocations. This shift to single-payer healthcare would provide the greatest relief to lower-income households. Furthermore, we estimate that ensuring healthcare access for all Americans would save over 68,000 lives and 1.73 million life-years every year.
November 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
pilgrimsoul.bsky.social
And don't forget how they try to get the system to work.

We can demand better. Let's do the work.
Circular workflow diagram: Grassroots Left mobilization happens, to Mobilization becomes a threat to the the status quo, to Democrats find representatives of the most moderate elements, co-opt and hire them, to Co-opted leaders use the language of popular movement to funnel energy back into the electoral system, to NOTHING FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGES, and back to Grassroots left mobilization happens, repeat.
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The status quo of the house of lords.
Circular workflow diagram: Grassroots Left mobilization happens, to Mobilization becomes a threat to the the status quo, to Democrats find representatives of the most moderate elements, co-opt and hire them, to Co-opted leaders use the language of popular movement to funnel energy back into the electoral system, to NOTHING FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGES, and back to Grassroots left mobilization happens, repeat.
November 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
pilgrimsoul.bsky.social
Senators up for election in 2026:
(www.senate.gov/senators/Cla...)
List of Democratic and Republican senators who are up for re-election Nov. 2026. See link in the main post.
November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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They took the wrong lesson from Gibson's Jackpot.
City skyline, post apocalyptic London, with 6 colossus figures that are symbols of corporate and kleptocratic power. From the series The Peripheral.
November 8, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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Tricked down economics..
October 1, 2025 at 3:06 AM
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Future shock. Some of us have the imagination and resilience to adapt and embrace the potential of society and technology. And some don't.
September 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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September 11, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Hmmm
A man in a Nazi prison blue striped uniform.
September 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Look up appeasement in Wikipedia. Chamberlain is the poster boy.
September 2, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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I get a Bagdad vibe from Trump's interior design taste.
Multiple men meeting in a tackily gilded white house room.
August 28, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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Trump is beta to Epstein's alpha.
July 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Man in a bird mask and a long robe
July 12, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Amache, in Colorado.
Let's not do this again.
July 2, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Queen of Diamonds from a deck of cards
June 17, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Fiddle dee dee. It's Scarlet O'Hare.
A woman with dark hair raises one eyebrow higher than the other in scepticism or disgust.
June 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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History, literature, poety, anthropology, art.
Removing books to comply with an order that undermines the society of country is submission to the false god of white supremacy and misogyny.
History taught us once... And here we are again.
Empty shelves. Empty minds.
A man, his back to the viewer, throwing books on an already raging bonfire of books. Germany. 1933 A glass view window embedded into the cobblestone strees of Berlin where the book burnings took place. The underground view is of employ book shelves, painted white.
April 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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Row of workers in an Apple phone factory. All in whir. Sitting in chairs aligned along a green line.
April 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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Two cats, cream with dark seal points. One inside on a table and one outside the window on a porch. The outside cat is a neighbor.
March 15, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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General Petain negotiating with those guys. It went so well.

Time to form up the maquis?
Petain, head of the Vichy government, meeting with invading Nazis.
March 14, 2025 at 1:07 AM