I actually think the goal would become to make it exactly that complicated, so that people would fear becoming stateless at the hands of authoritarians and that would lead to greater acquiescence.

Re: Ezra Klein. Normally this is where I'd quote Chomsky but he's in the Epstein files so fuck him. Klein learned where his bread was buttered in the journalism space and has moved accordingly. See also: Matt Yglesias. Their moral center is attention and money.

This is part of the explanation for why politicians are retreating from talking about addressing the climate crisis even though the crisis is intensifying and addressing it is a broadly popular position.

Completely unacceptable for a public official to speak so dismissively about public opinion, that too on such a serious issue. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

Local government doing the right thing while most states do nothing, and the federal government actively pushes in the wrong direction.

Another irrational tecno-fetishist craze that bosses/top managers seem especially susceptible to.

This is illegal collection of people's private information by the government for unknown (almost certainly dangerous and harmful) purposes.

Trump should focus more on his circus of a presidency than our Mayoral candidate. The people have chosen @janeese4dc.bsky.social to take on this task and we said what we said. These “warnings” have as much depth as that money laundering reflecting pool. WE KEEP US SAFE.

This is the moderate option:

This is true of just about everything. Governments make the wrong decisions not because they lack information, but because powerful interests profit from the wrong decisions.

Seems the real problem centrist democrats are facing right now is the people are being very clear that they want leaders who will solve their biggest problems, and centrist democrats really don't want to solve their biggest problems and hate the people for wanting that. It's a real pickle for them.

We should trust climate solutions pushed by the fossil fuel industry even less than we should trust fire solutions pushed by arsonists.

Shame on so-called opposition party governors siding with the fascist regime.

In a real society, in a real country where laws were applied to everyone and consequences were a thing, saying "I will protect the pedophiles and crooks in this room from justice" would be the end of this guy's career and he'd be in jail

Fossil fuel oligarchs and their government accomplices are guilty of crimes against humanity.

The CA state government does not get to pose as a global climate leader, stepping in to fill the gap left by federal folly, while doing things like this.

Prominent US academic institutions can be just as corrupt as US government institutions (all 3 branches, all levels, both parties) and mainstream media. No wonder they're losing credibility with the public.

Maybe Ezra Klein needs to pay more attention to reality, period. If he did, we would be spared from having to deal with deeply flawed ideas like "Abundance."

And, the machines in question are creating demand for more fossil energy in the midst of accelerating global climate catastrophe.

The theory that “electable” means “work to appease right-wing bigots under the assumption that majorities agree with them, at least partially, and they prioritize it when voting” has been tried. It has failed. Try something else.

The media doing the fascists' dirty propaganda work for them.

Good. Drive the tech bro thieves out of business.

U.S. Park Police killed someone today in a high-speed chase near Woodley Park. DC leaders prohibited these chases — but last year, Congress overturned DC’s law as part of this regime’s psychotic desire to hunt people. DC leaders know what DC communities need. When Congress interferes, people die.

Lawfare by the federal government, intended to intimidate and chill dissent.

Happy Father's Day 🖤

So many cyclist deaths begin with a stationary driver blocking the bike lane. The disconnect between cyclists, who see this as a life-threatening reckless action, and drivers, who see this is a minor parking infraction, is what often leads to discord.

Weird how any negative framing of our auto culture is automatically anti-car & radical yet the billions of dollars spent on aggressive car ads and auto first infrastructure isn't framed as anti-pedestrian, anti-bike, anti-transit, anti-person, anti-senior, anti-child or anti-planet.

Unsurprisingly, outsourcing key cognitive functions to a machine erodes cognitive functions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Symptoms of techno-fetishism include ascribing god-like powers to technology, and assuming without evidence (or even in spite of evidence to the contrary) that all problems can be solved with technology.

TIRED: Environmental regulations are keeping us from building affordable housing WIRED: Environmental regulations are saving us from building concentration camps

The fantasy version of public opinion pushed by Dem party consultants (which happens to benefit fossil fuel and other corporate interests) influences the party's positions way more than actual public opinion.

We may need a total and complete shutdown of Stanford until we can figure out what the hell is going on.

“We found there’s this perfect one-to-one relationship. If a city increased its road capacity by 10% then driving in that city went up by 10%.” Still one of the best articles on why building wider roads leads to more cars stuck in the same congestion. Understanding #InducedDemand Via @wired.com

The institutionally-transphobic The Atlantic, edited by a former IDF prison guard, with a staff of never-trump fascists, bigots, abundance grifters, and whatever the fuck Thomas Chatterton Williams is, wouldn't know "left" if it came up and bit them on their privileged pompous asses.

Exactly. Liberals are outraged because Trump lost an illegal, immoral war. Not because he started an illegal, immoral war.

There is a thrill in this. There guys are PUSHING SO HARD. They’re relentlessly doing interviews, writing articles and pushing propaganda. They’re used to everyone buying their bullshit!! But this time everyone’s like “nah”. It must feel inexplicable for them and that is so satisfying.

Also if you have the means for diapers, formula and menstrual products to buy a container or two when you hit up big box retailer to drop off at mutual aid you should.

We were the only UNIONIZED employees he’d ever had, too. I am broke as hell now, but I’ll never regret saying this: EAT SHIT, YOU PATHETIC TWERP. No matter how much cash you accrue, you’ll never know the joy of solidarity. Your life is empty, and you’ll be remembered as a warning to children.

In what universe are Cory Booker, Wes Moore, and a literal tech oligarch like Reid Hoffman "left-leaning?" These media people live in some kind of alternate reality.

The people choose a livable future over billionares' schemes. Always.

Wow, garbage text generators designed by misogynist tech broligarchs give misogynist answers. Who could have predicted that!

This is what "law enforcement" in much of the US looks like. Murdering an infant to protect diapers.

FIFA has done a lot of terrible, disgusting things but this one really made my jaw drop.

FOFA should have moved all World Cup games scheduled for the US to Canada and Mexico as soon as it became clear that the US had turned into a xenophobic, authoritarian ethnostate. The US should not be cohosting the World Cup.

social media that's bad for minors is obviously bad for adults too. crazy to me that the move seems to be to just accept that and ban minors rather than regulate the obvious design patterns that were put in there on purpose which make it harmful to its users

If this is vital to national security, we should pay the people we are poisoning by allowing this to happen, shouldn't we? Or do we just sacrifice them so that Elon's child porn machine (I mean, Elon's vital security chat bot) can exist to keep us safe.?

When crooks run out of excuses to justify their own or their friends' unethical and illegal actions, they invoke "national security."

A great reminder that people power can topple autocratic regimes.

A new low in the US regime's depraved cruelty.

The reason these dudes are trying to present opposition as either dullard, flat-tone NIMBYism or absurd conspiracy delusions is because if they recognised a development can actually have negative impacts that open a crack that goes against their entire worldview