We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

A thousand times: Well, duh!

This is the pic I was looking for. Go Army!

Let's hope this translates to America as well

This is a fascinating idea that I've run across in the internetz several times in the past couple of weeks: www.noemamag.com/what-if-mone...

I think the Internet was at it's peak when we were using modems at 14.4K. Every "improvement" since then has just filled the pipes with excrement. It's like thinking of the old days when there were only 3 TV channels. Now there's 500 TV channels, but the information content is still "3 TV channels"

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

How to keep your head when all around you are losing theirs: www.axios.com/2025/09/12/c... I'd also add: - Get more, better sleep - Eat a healthier diet (see gist.github.com/techn0mad/eb...) - Cut down on screen time (www.betteroffline.com) To use the '60's phrase: Get real

Amongst the weary, insipid uproar from all sides regarding the Charlie Kirk assassination, I feel compelled to repeat this quote: "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Elizabeth Beatrice Hall, "The Friends of Voltaire"

With the growing level of social unrest and anxiety we are experiencing globally, I can't help but wonder: Is our food doing it to us? gist.github.com/techn0mad/eb...

Amazed that there's not more discussion of this topic. See also: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republi...

Brutally honest? In my opinion every Trump voter falls into three categories, Rich, Racist or Rubes. Rich people: I get it. If my sole goal was to get the highest score in life then I too would vote for the person who will cut my taxes or give my companies big fat government contracts. READ MORE:

one of the weird things about comparing the current era to the gilded age is at least during the gilded age the capital class was generally aligned with construction, rail roads, electrification - all trends that would radically improve human life. now they're 100% degrowthers

Well, can't disagree with much here. Better late than never.

That says it all!

"Realism is unimpressed with the notion that humans today are better, smarter, or wiser than those of the distant (or recent) past—man has been, and remains, a potentially very dangerous animal who, especially when pressed, can descend into barbarism." -- Jonathan Kirshner

"... a society characterized by radical polarization and an embrace of unreason—and described by Raymond Aron, an eyewitness, as a country defined by little more than its vehement internal divisions." -- Jonathan Kirshner

Is it just me, or are we seeing a replay of the digital music wars, only over in the energy sector? I keep seeing headlines about the breakneck speed at which solar energy is being deployed around the world, and our quivering, pearl-clutching fossil fuel industry runs to momma for handouts.

Senate Democrats: DO NOT FUND the government when the current continuing resolution expires at the end of the month. SHUT IT DOWN unless DC is funded, the troops are withdrawn from our cities, elections are protected, the Epstein files are released in full... SHUT IT DOWN.

Yeah, you should.

The scariest thing about this @vermontgmg.bsky.social post is how sober and un-hyperbolic it is. All points of fact are supported with links to reporting. No claims are exaggerated or twisted to meet his thesis. He just lays out where we are and what this country looks like right now.

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable – then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.” Noam Chomsky

"Ask any Mexican, any Puerto Rican, any black man, any poor person - ask the wretched how they fare in the halls of justice, and then you will know, not whether or not the country is just, but whether or not it has any love for justice, or any concept of it. 👇

One thing every American MUST read today - the diagnosis of our national malady by Heather Cox Richardson. Full text: belib.org/emXAH5d

Finally, some uplifting news

Some call us shortsighted if we focus on retaking Congress in the midterms rather than on what comes next. No! That’s like calling shortsighted those on the Titanic who focused on avoiding the iceberg rather than on the rest of the voyage. There’s no “rest of the voyage” if we hit the damn iceberg!

Kudos to the persistence of this researcher. We live in an era of data, and the enemy is not being careful with their data. It is an exploitable weakness.

How casually we discard the sacrifices of our ancestors.

My name is Graham Platner and I’m running for US Senate to defeat Susan Collins and topple the oligarchy that’s destroying our country. I’m a veteran, oysterman, and working class Mainer who’s seen this state become unlivable for working people. And that makes me deeply angry.

I thought this had been known for decades...

I’ve been in or around politics for over a half-century now. I’ve watched as corporations and the super-rich flooded D.C. with campaign cash and ransacked our system. It won't be easy, but here’s how we break the oligarchy and return power to the people. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP0pRIBRcDk

Carter was another of the great ancient prophets, that nobody listened to.

Hmmm, "commercial platforms and government institutions merge into a monstrous hybrid of business monopoly and state authority." Seems like a textbook definition of FASCISM.

This guy should be Canada's foreign minister, or ambassador to the US: youtu.be/9BptD9K1Bu4

We’re not done! I believe American ideals are still achievable despite the obstacles we’ve put in our own way. I still believe in the potential for us to become the more perfect union generations have dreamed of! I believe we’ve got a lot of work to do.

Ursula Le Guin: “The shift from denial of injustice to recognition of injustice can’t be unmade.... Once you see the injustice, you can never again in good faith deny the oppression and defend the oppressor. What was loyalty is now betrayal. From now on, if you don’t resist, you collude.”