HEAT WAVE DEATHS The poor, elderly, and disabled who are dying in the heat wave will be marked down as death from “natural causes.” The cause will not say “abandoned by their community.” Social murder will not be acknowledged. #ThisIsWhoWeAre

I was at the SCOTUS yesterday to hear decisions. When you can predict who wins before the justices announce the outcome just by knowing the identity of the parties & when 6-3 is the default setting,the system is broken.You could palpably feel the diminishment of the Court’s legitimacy & position.

Thinking about BlueSky versus Mastodon rn. Look at BlueSky’s investors and ask yourself what are they getting out of it? sacra.com/c/bluesky/

Please don’t ask #AI for medical advice www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/epis...

Perhaps the clearest explanation of how #Christianity went from “love thy neighbor” to the “prosperity gospel.” tl;dr blame Paul andrewspringer.medium.com/why-i-hate-p...

I went down a rabbit hole about the Canadian version of Donald Trump (Kevin O’Leary) who is spearheading the #StratosProject data center monstrosity in #BoxElderCounty, Utah. O’Leary biggest talent seems to be self-promotion & irony tbh 1/3

#KevinWarsh doesn’t have a PhD in economics. What he does have is a father-in-law who has been Trump’s pal since the 60s. “What Warsh brought to the Bernanke #Fed was not policy expertise but a Rolodex. He became the central bank’s primary liaison to Wall Street during the 2008 crisis” 1/2

A study directly connected the insect apocalypse with #FoodInsecurity and malnutrition www.livescience.com/animals/inse...

🧵A couple of thoughts & some questions: 🔺️We need global surveillance & response policies that everyone - including the US, which quit the WHO - follow. In today's world, where as many as 2 million people fly internationally each day, a DIY approach is asking for... www.cbsnews.com/news/cruise-...

LET THIS SINK IN—the U.S. now has no confirmed CDC director, no FDA commissioner, no Surgeon General, an NIH director with no medical license, and the last Acting CDC Director was a George Bush speechwriter. In fact—the only doctor/scientist we have in the White House is… Dr Oz.

I’m currently reading Adam Hanieh’s “Crude Capitalism” & it’s connecting so many dots about the way that the global economy developed & our dependence on #FossilFuels. #ClimateChange requires that we reevaluate pretty much everything 1/2

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Congratulations to our own @atg.wa.gov for understanding that a trade deficit is not the same thing as a balance-of-payments deficit. WA was the only state (out of 24) whose case was not dismissed by the federal court #TrumpTariffs apnews.com/article/trum... 1/3

This is a big reason why we can’t have nice things. It’s like burning the Library of Alexandria & substituting empty word salad

@mayamedia.bsky.social remember a while back when we were talking about being gifted kids who grew up & are stuck in the world we’re dealing with now? This song popped up on my play list and I thought of you youtu.be/6VsCKbcSNZ8?...

The latest Kafkaesque “legal” assault by Israel against the Palestinians amounts to officially sanctioned lynching. Analysis by the great Stanley Cohen www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/10/i...

The Trump administration is just a collection of foxes guarding our government henhouse. Just look at his lead for killing the #USForestService www.eenews.net/articles/tru...

I’m at capacity for my tolerance for the news. I guess it’s the overwhelming sense that everything everywhere is coming apart. I’ve always believed that it’s important to face things, to be informed, to understand fully…but my God it’s bad out there

MUST READ: “What #AIPAC was built to do…was advance the interests of a foreign government inside the American legislative and executive process while evading the legal classification that would require disclosure and accountability” #IsraelLobby www.frametheglobenews.com/p/how-israel...

The US has been at #war for most of its existence as a country. #Trump is just the most overt & extreme face of a system based on extraction of value from every living thing & siphoning it to the already wealthy. Ordinary people everywhere just want to live their lives youtu.be/yLQgkF_FsO4?...

@support.bsky.team I’m not sure how to report a bug on BlueSky, but I use kagi’s Orion browser & I tried to post from that, but for some reason the link to the source article didn’t appear (on my first post)

In this potential buildup to a senseless US ground invasion of Iran, people need to get familiar with the Gallipoli disaster

The Jetsons lied to us

“Fascism is colonialism turned inward” —Aimé Césaire 5 words describe perfectly the current environment that we face here in the US. #Trump is not the cause, he is just a symptom of a system that was always going to end up this way 1/2

“I was born in an analog world, and so far, I’ve adjusted to a digital one. With AI, it’s not just Gen Xers like me who are becoming obsolete. Mortal intelligence appears to be under threat for the sake of what economists call productivity” stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-ai-inte...

This is a must read article if you want to understand what will happen if #Trump & #Hegseth try to force US “boots on the ground” to take & hold #KhargIsland #Iran responsiblestatecraft.org/kharg-island...

It’s overwhelming to consider all of the ways that the US is coming undone & dragging the world along with it. Right now I’m thinking about a juxtaposition of the various over-the-top public appearances by #AlexKarp and the fact that the #Pentagon just made it’s union with #Palantir official 1/2

I’m sorry but this purported move by #Israel to ban #RamaDuwaji (the wife of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani) from entering the country based on old comments that she made on social media is just petty worldisraelnews.com/israel-eyes-...

BREAKING: Benjamin Netanyahu (or possibly an AI clone) has announced that American troops will die for Israel in a ground war and American citizens with no healthcare will pay for it ♥️

Just realized that my sister lives one county over from #Afroman after I finished listening to his lawyer’s brilliant closing argument. Absolute legend🔥

The best part of the Afroman case isn't just the original couple of videos about the bogus raid on his house. He then proceeded to make a bunch of others calling them out by name with all the highly damning dirt he found about all their numerous other crimes and history of extreme misconduct.

NEW: Transportation industry money has been pouring into the congressional campaign of Michael Alfonso, a 26-year-old political unknown from Wisconsin. His father-in-law happens to be Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy.

So Covid-19 may increase the risk of mononucleosis. Basically this is just more evidence that we don’t take viral persistence seriously enough

Are they any American bases in the region that are still open? Is Trump sending ANY defensive missiles to Gulf States? I think they’re ALL going to Israel. Iran issues evacuation warnings for Gulf energy sites after Israeli strike on Bushehr youtu.be/pdikj2yVZFQ

If you’re looking for a big picture source regarding the war on Iran being waged by the US and Israel, check out this master class by @attackerman.bsky.social americanprestigepod.com/episodes/180...

By @panaccindex.bsky.social

The FDA has asked Raw Farm to recall the cheddar cheese linked to the outbreak and "it has declined." But E.coli 0157 H7 is a very pathogenic bacteria. So buyer be aware and beware here. 1/3

#Trump selling not only pardons but also access to national security briefings?! Seriously? I wonder if anything at all will be done about this newrepublic.com/post/207749/...

The outlook at the federal level is grim. Last year, the Trump administration closed the Office for Long COVID Research and Practice and canceled grants for long COVID research. “There has been a societal move to go past COVID as if it’s not around anymore — but it definitely is,” McAuley said.

#Hegseth’s public statement about giving “no quarter” is a WAR CRIME. If he doesn’t retract immediately he should be removed from office by #Trump or impeached www.justsecurity.org/133970/legal...

Chris Hedges interviews Professor John Mearsheimer youtu.be/sl-sSsZnSP8

I think it’s disgusting that everything under the sun is monetized. It’s harder and harder to access information, paywalls prevent even cursory review of material. Today’s example is from academia. Just to read the full article I would have to shell out $56.00 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The image of that beloved little Iranian boy waving goodbye to his mom on his way to school is haunting me. We have killed MILLIONS of children like him, and are poised to kill millions more, and I don’t know how to bear it.

Bill Maher for the most part isn’t worth listening to, but he did say one thing that captured the essence of the #Trump admin: “I've heard of state-run TV; this is TV run state” www.newsweek.com/full-list-fo... 1/4

While #US politicians & pundits continue their same rhetoric about #Iran that largely mirrors Israeli propaganda, think about what just happened. In violation of the UN Charter prohibition on offensive war, the US & #Israel went forward without #UN Security Council Approval 1/5

The more Epstein documents you read, the more you see every innocuous email as a lost scene from 120 Days of Sodom. “They could have, though, eaten that girl” becomes a thought you have. Everything is plausible and nothing is, each sentence impossibly banal and somehow ten times worse for being so.

Breathless reporting from the New York Post & people like #TedCruz implausibly suggesting that #Iran will attack #California with #drones forgot to mention that their “drone expert” is in business with Trump’s sons www.msn.com/en-us/news/w...

Not all heroes wear capes.

If you’re like me & disgusted with #PeteHegseth, this will make you lol www.duffelblog.com/pentagon-rec...

How Strait of Hormuz closure can become tipping point for global economy www.cnbc.com/2026/03/11/s...