PSinTucson
@psintucson.bsky.social
Retired educator. Fan of bikes, dogs and people being excellent to each other.
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One thing about climate change: it disproves the capitalist ideology that poor people's suffering is their own fault.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
December 8, 2025 at 7:14 PM
One thing about climate change: it disproves the capitalist ideology that poor people's suffering is their own fault.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
Billionaires emit as much in a day as the world's 4 billion poorest emit in a yr, yet those 4 billion humans suffer most from climate impacts.
This is inequality, and it is evil.
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December 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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If you want to support indie media *and* give someone a unique gift, consider a paid subscription from this [by no means exhaustive] list of awesome outlets doing the work and doing it right:
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Huh. Today I learned; I was one of the many getting it wrong. Thanks to Kevin for setting me right.
Inspired by an exchange here yesterday, I wrote up a short piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about an infamous Lee Atwater quotation that just about everyone gets wrong.
Southern Strategies
This week, I saw someone on social media trot out a notorious quote from Lee Atwater that's wildly misunderstood. I went back to dust off my old Twitter thread about it, but I found that a lot of the ...
campaign-trails.ghost.io
December 7, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Huh. Today I learned; I was one of the many getting it wrong. Thanks to Kevin for setting me right.
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AZ Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper sprayed during Tucson ICE raid
"When I presented myself as a Member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed-aside and pepper sprayed."
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/az-rep-...
Video from @repgrijalva on Instagram.
"When I presented myself as a Member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed-aside and pepper sprayed."
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/az-rep-...
Video from @repgrijalva on Instagram.
December 5, 2025 at 10:54 PM
AZ Rep. Adelita Grijalva says she was pepper sprayed during Tucson ICE raid
"When I presented myself as a Member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed-aside and pepper sprayed."
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/az-rep-...
Video from @repgrijalva on Instagram.
"When I presented myself as a Member of Congress asking for more information, I was pushed-aside and pepper sprayed."
www.fox10phoenix.com/news/az-rep-...
Video from @repgrijalva on Instagram.
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Excellent work, sir
December 4, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Excellent work, sir
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December 2, 2025 at 6:12 PM
I hope my subscription is more than #4001. I encourage everyone to pay for the work that Marisa does, in this era of creepy oligarchs buying up news outlets to destroy their work.
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It’s wild that right wing grifting is so easy that you can screw up your homework on purpose or tie for 5th place at a swim meet and get a whole ass career out of it
December 1, 2025 at 8:58 PM
It’s wild that right wing grifting is so easy that you can screw up your homework on purpose or tie for 5th place at a swim meet and get a whole ass career out of it
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What a bunch of shady creepers.
December 1, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What a bunch of shady creepers.
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Marissa is running circles around establishment outlets with a fraction of a fraction of the resources--the least they could do is put some respect on her name!
It would be nice if @cnn.com acknowledged this story was broken last week by The Handbasket: www.thehandbasket.co/p/fema-emplo...
December 1, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Marissa is running circles around establishment outlets with a fraction of a fraction of the resources--the least they could do is put some respect on her name!
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btw, every "reasonable" person who's own posting stuff like "well, the prompt was unclear," or "she actually kind of did the assignment OK so maybe the TA overreacted"--you are also part of the problem! You're laundering the deliberate targeting of a TA and a blatant abrogation of academic freedom!
This thread is 💯. Labor precarity in academia means the evisceration of faculty governance and academic freedom, opening the door to administrative purges of the most vulnerable. And faculty-esp tenured faculty and academic leaders-who aren't defending their trans colleagues are enabling it.
So yeah, this is fundamentally about trans people and that cannot be elided, but the ways in which junior faculty are targeted and disposed of, while academic jobs are increasingly precarized, and political grandstanders seek to influence academic governance are fucking terrifying for everyone.
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
btw, every "reasonable" person who's own posting stuff like "well, the prompt was unclear," or "she actually kind of did the assignment OK so maybe the TA overreacted"--you are also part of the problem! You're laundering the deliberate targeting of a TA and a blatant abrogation of academic freedom!
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How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
December 1, 2025 at 5:17 PM
How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?
How quickly can we create AI shoppers? 🫠
“So the plan is to replace all their jobs with AI”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Five minutes later: “what do you mean, broke people don’t spend as much?”
Gen Z Shoppers Aren’t Spending Like Retailers Need Them To
More than other generations, 20-somethings are tightening their holiday-season budgets because of economic pressures.
www.wsj.com
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
How quickly can we create AI shoppers? 🫠
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Suddenly, the applause he gave on that red-carpeted airport tarmac makes a lot more sense. 🤡
“In days after Alaska, a European intel agency distributed a hard-copy report in an envelope to some of the continent’s most senior national security officials, who were shocked by the contents: Inside were details of the commercial and economic plans the Trump admin had been pursuing with Russia.”
Make Money Not War: Trump’s Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine
The Kremlin pitched the White House on peace through business. To Europe’s dismay, the president and his envoy are on board.
www.wsj.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Suddenly, the applause he gave on that red-carpeted airport tarmac makes a lot more sense. 🤡
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Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
MIT study finds AI can already replace 11.7% of U.S. workforce
Artificial intelligence can already replace 11.7% of the U.S. labor market, across finance, health care and professional services, according to MIT's study.
www.cnbc.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Headline: "AI can replace 11.7% of workforce"
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
Actual study: Anthropic paid MIT to use a "labor simulation tool" that said 11.7% of TASKS could be done by AI
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Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Everyone should read this terrifying thread about Hegseth’s published views wrt war crimes. It’s pretty fucking radical …. We needed to hear about this in his confirmation hearing.
A chapter in Hegseth’s book is literally titled “More Lethality, Less Lawyers.”
It’s almost as if there were signs!
It’s almost as if there were signs!
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war.
They voted to confirm him anyway.
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I hope it’s now (even more) obvious that having military in our streets, with instructions to ignore “stupid rules of engagement,” is not in any way intended to protect us or make us safer
November 29, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I hope it’s now (even more) obvious that having military in our streets, with instructions to ignore “stupid rules of engagement,” is not in any way intended to protect us or make us safer
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trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
November 29, 2025 at 12:01 AM
trump: “no see we HAVE to blow up those boats in the caribbean, they could be carrying drugs!”
also trump:
also trump:
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Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Your Black Friday reminder that Amazon...
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
-Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine
-Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund
-Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump
-Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump
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Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
Exclusive: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth gave an order to “kill everybody” in the first strike on suspected drug boats in the Caribbean. After two men survived, the mission commander ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions, according to two sources.
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.
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Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
November 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Why do so many feel like they've fallen behind?
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
It's not because of immigrants, trans people, DEI, the “deep state,” or any other bogeyman trotted out by the GOP.
It's because big corporations and billionaires have rigged markets and siphoned off most of the economy's gains.
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Helps if you remember that none of those sales are really sales to begin with. They've just been slowly raising the prices since August so they can make it seem like a big sale, hoping you're too stupid to notice.
Cannot emphasize this enough.
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
November 27, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Helps if you remember that none of those sales are really sales to begin with. They've just been slowly raising the prices since August so they can make it seem like a big sale, hoping you're too stupid to notice.
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We can do this ALL YEAR.
Cannot emphasize this enough.
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
If you shop on Black Friday, shop only at small biz, minority owned biz, women owned biz, or support independent media.
Do not give Big Box Retailers your money! #WeAintBuyingIt
November 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We can do this ALL YEAR.