Socialist farmers decry free school lunches that serve their own government subsidized milk while they voted for Trump and are now wanting government to bail them out on taxpayers dime.

#SCROTUS enabling Trump to end Birthright Citizenship is no small matter (a.co/bqjdnZP). No citizen, naturalized or born, will be safe from the Mad King any longer (a.co/95Ge0dU). #SCROTUS will rule the Constitution unconstitutional so the Mad King can have his way.

Essential reading www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

Reality is far more complex than Wolfers and most economists are leading us to believe. I don't support Trump's approach, but the whole story is NOT being told. chatgpt.com/s/t_68d52146...

In fifth century B.C. Athens, it was a point of civic pride that comedians could say pretty much anything they wanted to the people in power. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/n...

[C]apitalism is not a monolithic form of economic organization but rather that it takes many forms, which differ substantially in terms of their implications for economic growth and elimination of poverty. a.co/dYk3Wqw 1/n

The #Marine #veteran behind this viral photo at the #Chicago #ICE protest. “Pain only hurts,” Curtis Evans said about the tear gas and pepper balls. Evans was taking part in protests against Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids at a facility in Broadview, just outside of Chicago on Sept. 19.

Did deeper.

The story is a bit more complex than it is being portraying in these articles. To balance such analysis (which is good) it should be viewed in light of the work in The Fissured Workplace: a.co/aOsTRZ2

I well remember when we were dat down in basic training and told we were not required to obey an illegal order.

America is a degenerate civilization that chose a moron for its Ambassador to Cananda. youtu.be/vuCNPpqGnVY?...

The measure of an advanced civilization is how it treats its women with basic human decency. youtu.be/qlNujHGgrOc?...

What drives conceptual advances in biology ? One perspective is offered by this excerpt from a Cell article by Michael Brown, Joseph Goldstein and colleagues: Explosive advances in biological knowledge are often triggered by episodes of conceptual convergence. 🧵

⚠️ Cowards falling in line. ➡️ Some #Republicans start rejecting the First Amendment’s #free #speech protections One #GOP senator said she used to believe the #First #Amendment “should always be sort of the ultimate right.” But now, “I don’t feel that way anymore.”

On modern autocracies. With Brad Carr youtu.be/mqXOLNnqoeA?...

Trump needs no help in that department.

The Disney brand, and the USA brand, sinking together. Parody from Dutch TV www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vRX...

bsky.app/profile/thom... The core issue must be faced.

Beyond fragile, American democracy has gone from anocracy to autocracy giving rise to American Fascism. bsky.app/profile/anne...

Pay attention America!

The scariest part of fakes isn’t that people can make them; it’s that eventually nobody believes the real thing either.

Charlie Kirk Dead Wrong on Every Debate Point. His lame defense of Trump has not aged well.

The key to development, form, and function in multicellular organisms is differential gene expression, & the most intimate knowledge of the genetic code reveals nothing about implementation of its information in space and time. —Reid, Robert G. B. (1985) Evolutionary Theory

Consistency (or logic) has never been MAGA's strong point.

#JusticeKavanaugh paves way for ICE by ignoring reality that ICE won’t say what it accepts as definitive proof of legal status and U.S. citizens and permanent have been swept up and deported or held for months. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

A country that values its democracy.

Sounds like Trump.

He who sows injustice shall reap misfortune. (Proverbs 22:8) a.co/6bRnVAq

America has swiftly passed from a semi-democracy, to anocracy, to autocracy of personal strong man rule all the while ignoring lessons well known from other failed states.

[S]ocial media platforms have proven to be a Pandora’s box. ... Charlatans, conspiracy theorists, trolls, demagogues, and anti-democratic agents who had previously been shut out of the media environment—or at least had great difficulty gaining a mass audience—suddenly gained traction. a.co/e0TlqK6

James Madison and Alexander Hamilton believed that if American democracy were to die, it would happen at the hands of a faction. The greatest threat to the republic, wrote the authors of the Federalist Papers, was not an outside adversary but a homegrown group ravenous for control. a.co/gqy1nLv

No Republican president in the past fifty years had ever pursued such an openly racist platform, or championed white, evangelical Americans at the expense of everyone else. a.co/28T9owY

America is full blown autocracy with a dictator. Let's stop pretending SCROTUS is anything but the handmaiden to a dictator.

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And he is the exemplar.

We will not understand life and living organisms until we understand emergence. -John Holland, 19982 a.co/feRNzOR

All dictators and fascists and demagogues follow a pattern. History repeats itself but with variations unique to each context. www.npr.org/2025/09/08/n...

In the world we inhabit, it appears both true that society as a whole has never been richer, and yet most of us seem to be working more.... Economics as it stands can’t seem to explain why the pressures of life appear to be intensifying, at the same time as income per capita is rising. a.co/hZlnj93

In the neoliberal playbook, intellectuals are inherently shady characters precisely because they sell their pens-for-hire to private interests: that is their inescapable lot in life as participants in the marketplace of ideas. a.co/5RMgTuS

I had to read these in grad school. I tried to get out of it. I don’t really do 20th Century. But it turns out it is unavoidable in American history. It must be understood.

So many questions and so few answers.

www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontli... Remember the Chickenshit Club (a.co/7kdqlQo)? Or To Big to Fail (a.co/14GH6Qg)?

An Insurrectionist President tried a coup; it failed, for now, but is ongoing. Now we are seeing how democracies die by different means. a.co/bZpMeA1

Some parts of society have always tried to downplay diseases. History has almost always proven them wrong.