corporations cannot be citizens in any sane definition of democracy

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science is not subject to edicts or repeals science.nasa.gov/climate-chan...

“Wherever a desired result is achieved by the co-operation of many, its existence as a fact is a pure consequence of the recursive faith in one another… without which not only is nothing achieved, but nothing is even attempted.” — William James

"We do not deserve our place in the distribution of native endowments. This... is a moral truism. Who would deny it? Do people really think that they deserved to be born more gifted than others ...that they deserved to be born into a wealthier rather than a poorer family? No." -- John Rawls

there's no dispute about the truth. it's there for all to see, from several angles. the question is what will be done about it if the answer is nothing, then we all know where we stand. the government now killing citizens with impunity there's no middle here. support or oppose? abolish ICE

A brilliant speech by Canada's Mark Carney in Davos: "The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy...The powerful have their power. But we have something too — the capacity to stop pretending, to name reality, to build our strength at home & to act together."

"The idea of freedom thus degenerates into a mere advocacy for free enterprise - i.e. the fullness of freedom for those whose income, leisure and security need no enhancing, and a mere pittance of liberty for the people... to attempt to gain shelter from the power of the owners..." - K. Polanyi

Recent history is somehow the easiest to forget.

this is an eventful sunday evening

"old man filled with dread over his looming mortality, The Presidency"

“legibility of a society provides for large­-scale social engineering, high-modernist ideology provides the desire, the authoritarian state provides the determination to act…and an incapacitated civil society provides the leveled social ter­rain on which to build.” - James C. Scott

A cultural signpost revisited: Truth, Justice, and the American Way

NO KINGS...

Trump: “We’re going to run Venezuela until a safe transition takes place.” An invasion.

less AI, more HI

"...the liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerate the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than their democratic State itself. This, in its essence, is fascism." -- FDR