June may be a day short, but it doesn't make this post much shorter, I'm afraid.
There were a lot of tweets about the first Democratic debates, the Democratic race for the nomination, and the presidential election in general:
Strange that there was never a birtherism movement for Ted Cruz, but there is for Kamala Harris. It's almost as if Kamala Harris and Barack Obama have something in common.Which flows into tweets specifically about Joe Biden and busing, beyond what happened in the debate:
Nick Jack Pappas
Y’all. Kamala Harris is both Black and Indian. That does not make her any less Black or any less Indian. Her parents being born somewhere else doesn’t make her any less American. Y’all gotta read a book or something because this is exhausting.
Brittany Packnett
A black woman calling a white man out for his documented role in racist violence and oppression will always be treated as an attacker (a) by the white men who have had a role in racist violence and oppression, and (b) by those who identify with those men.
@drbrowne
I say this because i like her: I hope Elizabeth Warren has a plan for making it right with Native folks.
heidi heilig
File under: Things I Don’t Understand - why the “Democrats shift left is a huge problem” narrative is accepted wisdom but “Republicans shift to the fringe reaches of the far right” is met with a nod, a shrug, or no-expression.
Jon Reinish
Do Liberal columnists spend their time writing "My 10 point plan for fixing the GOP" essays? i'm seriously asking because it seems that conservative writers spend most of their time writing the converse.
@prisonculture
Chuck Todd: “can you give me a glib take on guns?”
Warren: “we need to research this like the complex public health issue it is.”
Todd: “ok, but can you answer my facile, glib oversimplified question?”
Warren: “no.”
Points to Warren there.
John Pfaff
I think there are more candidates on stage who speak Spanish more fluently than our president speaks English.
Dan Rather
The fact that Buttigieg is at 14% and Harris is at 5% makes me want to punch a hole in the wall. That’s fucked up.
@AnnAnnChe
Joe Biden meets a voter’s granddaughter in an Iowa coffee shop and asks her age. She says she’s 13. He addresses her brothers. “You’ve got one job here, keep the guys away from your sister.”
Liz Goodwin
“Boys, don’t forget that the women in your family are your POSSESSIONS, and you have to prevent other men from accessing them sexually or these women will become the POSESSIONS OF THOSE MEN, because human relationships are a WEIRD SEXIST GAME of CAPTURE THE FLAG.”
Moira Donegan
i'm tellin' ya, it's the Green New Deal that's mainstream and it's Biden that's a dangerous civilization-threatening extremist
Eric Holthaus
Joe Biden was a funny ensemble member in the sitcom “Obama’s Presidency” but he can’t carry a spinoff.
Alison Bennett @bennettleigh
2020 is stacking up to be a fascinating race between women who want fewer people to die and elderly men who feel like a magical stone owes them a fucking sword.
Merlin Mann
The DNC's refusal to hold a Climate Debate because it is "single issue" highlights the deepest misunderstanding of our age. Climate is not an "issue" - it's the backdrop for all other issues. It's the fabric of life on Earth and it is unravelling. Candidates, be bold: defy the ban.
Naomi Klein
An important thing to remember is that all of the beltway pundits on TV and in print who say that Joe Biden is the only electable Democrat have a documented history of being wrong about everything.
Frank Conniff
I think Democrats are vastly underestimating the ways a corrupt and lawless president can use the powers of the presidency itself to cheat in an election. The president used "emergency powers" to throw FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS at agribusiness to make up for the effects of his trade war. Think about how that might be used in, say, October of 2020. The "sure I'd collude" stuff is just the tip of the iceberg He could also just order Bill Barr to initiate a criminal investigation of his opponent, and there's no reason to think Barr wouldn't do it.
Chris Hayes
If young people voted at the same levels as older people, they could transform this country.
Bernie Sanders
The notion that the left is leaning on "identity politics" while the right whines endlessly and petulantly about the persecution of white men is pretty amazing.
Elizabeth Spiers
"When a candidate tells you about all the things that aren’t possible, about how political calculations come first... they are telling you that they will not fight for you."
Dave Weigel
There was a time when Congress was full of segregationists, and perhaps it was necessary to work with them. Announcing a willingness to work with them in 2019 is announcing your willingness to see them return. And they want very much to return. What do you think MAGA means?
@JuliusGoat
Funny how in this discussion no one ever brings up Charlotte (Swann v Mecklenburg Co) or all the places across the South where busing was successfully implemented and with profound results. White journalists readily buy into this faux idea of busing because many of them would not enroll their kids in schools with large numbers of black kids either and it is easy to pretend the opposition was to the vehicle and not to Integration. Millions of white kids rode buses everyday to get to school and it was never a problem until it because a tool of desegregation. And today in diverse cities white parents opt to bus their kids everyday to *AVOID* heavily black schools....which runs into the recurring topic of racism, white supremacy, and police brutality:
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
Busing was a false issue the media, politicians and historians helped further. The vast majority of students, white, Black and Latino, were being bused before "busing" in part to maintain segregated schools. Over 85% of Boston high school students in Boston were being bused before 1974. The largest civil rights protest of the 1960s was not the '63 March on Washington but the 1964 NYC school boycott where nearly a half million students and teachers stayed out of school to protest lack of desegregation in NYC. The New York Times called it "unreasonable" and "unjustified."
Jeanne Theoharis
weird how before there was busing to desegregate there was busing to *segregate* and no white people had a problem with that
@ALTscoe
Biden didn't just misrepresent his position in the 70s and 80s. He described busing as "a liberal trainwreck" in the memoir he released before his *last presidential campaign* in 2007!
Eric Levitz
Biden's claim tonight that he only opposed federally mandated busing and did not generally oppose "busing in America" was a flagrant misrepresentation of his position in the '70s and '80s. He'd made crystal clear he opposed busing as a concept, as a matter of principle.
Daniel Dale
I find it both revelatory and infuriating that people say school desegregation was hard and unpopular, as if attempting to break apart 350 years of racial apartheid was going to be smooth, painless and easy. With busing, we actually tried and it was HARD. But segregation was worse.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
In 1970, an Assistant Attorney General in the Nixon administration actually drafted a constitutional amendment that would’ve banned busing. His name was William H. Rehnquist, and a year later Nixon put him on the Supreme Court.
Kevin M. Kruse
I was bused 4-6 grade to the black side of Greensboro in the 1980’s. It was all... just.. totally fine. And great for my worldview and capacity to contextualize difference.
The reason it stopped *working* (I perceived at the time) is because white parents found loopholes and work-arounds for the assigned schools that undermined the system (eg magnet schools and specialized schools.)
Claudia Calhoon
People often forget that Linda Brown sued for the right to attend her neighborhood school instead of the black one further away. White people were FINE with busing when busing was a tool for segregation. I wish journalists would study this history so it can presented correctly.
Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones
Racism isn’t about the heart of the alleged racist but about the impact on the affected group. “‘We’ don’t speak Spanish” ostracizes immigrants and others. Regardless of intent, that makes the statement racist. “I wasn’t trying to be racist” is no defense/excuse.There were quite a few tweets about the utter mess of our political situation, including the Supreme Court's decision on the gerrymandering cases:
John Pfaff
still taken aback by this idea that it is unfair for people affected by racist policies to talk about it
@jbouie
White men are always crying and they control everything still... What's going to happen when they actually lose some power.
@prisonculture
White privilege includes never feeling uncomfortable - especially on issues of race. During/post slavery, Black lives depended upon keeping Whites comfy at all times (or risk family separation, torture/death). White ancestral heritage includes the inability to hear past their feelings.
@AfroStateOfMind
Can someone explain to me why xenophobic midwest diner dwellers are the "ordinary voters"?
David Roberts
I’ve got family the same age as Emmitt Till would be. Who still referred to Obama as that n***** President, so yeah. John Roberts' VRA land is essentially Narnia.
lshultz82
There is no conversation to be had with people who want Jim Crow back. None. They want a mythical white supremacist norm presented in media to become a reality. Debating the humanity of people who are not white already happened. It doesn't need to keep happening. You fight neoConfederates. You fight Nazis. You fight the Klan. You don't coddle them. Because the only conversation they want to have is one that leads to extinction. Their utopia relies on genocide. That's the price. Who's going to pay it? So many "Don't be divisive" preachers won't be the ones facing the consequences of appeasement. And you should really ask yourself what sacrifices they are willing to see other people make so that they don't have to be uncomfortable. How many deaths to keep the peace?
Mikki Kendall @Karnythia
The first rule in White Supremacy Club is that the rule changes when we say so.
@rebel19
Racism is not simply an illness of the mind or of the heart; it's a system of *power*, *theft* and *wealth-hoarding* Reducing racism to an issue of love vs. hate between individuals ignores that racism is highly organized, maintained by government policy and enforced with police violence,
Bree Newsome Bass
"If you ever find yourself in a predominantly black neighborhood, wondering why everyone seems so poor, know this: It’s largely because white people, possibly even you or your ancestors, stole from them and their ancestors."
Eugene Scott
Reparations are a "handout" but an entire economy and society organized around white colonizers stealing land, life and liberty from people of African descent generation after generation for over two centuries and continuing into 2019 is...
Bree Newsome Bass
Among the more irritating parts of the GOP claiming the Democrats are the “real racists” is the implication that 90+% of black voters don’t know racism when we see it but a party populated by old white men is far more adept at spotting it.
jelani cobb
The House has picked up the reparations conversation. It’s about time. I’ve seen folks ask “What about Native reparations?” A fair question, but suspicious timing. We ALL have to be supportive of Justice. Period. We all have a vested interest in justice & equity. Reparations for the descendants of slaves is a step closer to reparations for Native people. Reparations for the descendants of the Native genocide is a step closer to reparations for the descendants of slaves. Either creates a precedent for the other. See the bigger picture. We can encourage justice and equity for all; if one oppressed community is getting attention, it’s possible to cheer that community on and yet still be advocating for our own community. There doesn’t need to be a competition for the oppressor’s gaze. That’s weird. And unhealthy.
@BigIndianGyasi
Again, per advocates for reparations, it's not about white people paying for slavery. It's about the federal government paying -- though it's interesting the two are often conflated
@AsteadWesley
All these "Elon Musk is a bad anime nerd" tweets are true, but it's important to remember that he's also a parasite billionaire whose inherited wealth is a direct result of South African apartheid and brutal colonialism.
@FOG_E
I sometimes hear (mostly) white educators claim that students of color can’t code-switch. The irony is that white people are probably the least adept at code-switching because they are the least expected to have to do it.
Nelson Flores
Trump on Don Jr.: This is a good young man.
Don Jr is a 41-year-old man with five children.
Stop allowing this man to infantilize these GROWN people!
Stop infantilizing white men when they do wrong, while adultifying black BOYS (and girls) when they do wrong.
Charles M. Blow
something that probably deserves a little intra-conservative analysis is the fact that the most popular black conservative pundit’s message amounts to “All the racist things you believe about black people? Guess what, they’re true.”
@jbouie
If we give you a gun and badge and let you imprison people at your discretion, you should get way more scrutiny and review and second guessing than any other job. Don't like the idea of that level of scrutiny, then don't take a position with that much responsibility.
kar nels
Reminder: All prisons, public or private, with prison labor or without, generate profit. It is simply a question of *who* profits. The horrors of the prison industrial complex do not hinge on a small percentage of its facilities that are straightforward about profit and greed.·
Puff the Magic Hater @MsKellyMHayes
Latinx individuals are half as likely as non-Hispanic whites to hold a bachelor's degree, and the gulf has widened since the early 2000s
Pacific Standard
I wish publications would stop saying any variation of "...an uncomfortable conversation about race..." when I can promise you nothing is more uncomfortable than experiencing racism--like as a systemic all consuming existence.
Octavia Butler knew... @N_I_K_Y_A_T_U
White men really believe White Privilege is well-intended. It's not.
Walter Rhett, Writer
Playing nice with Republicans doesn’t work. Go nuclear. Gerrymander the GOP out of existence wherever possible. Hope they eventually get sick of it and settle for fairness — in which case Democrats also win.And of course, there were many about immigration and the border travesty:
Hemant Mehta
So: Should blue states continue pursuing good government, nonpartisan redistricting reforms, in hopes that doing so will encourage more red states to follow suit? Or does combating the inequities in federal representation now require more shameless blue state gerrymandering?
Eric Levitz
It's clear that the struggle we face isn't to preserve this political system — it's to determine what shape the next one takes. We're at the end of the lifespan of this iteration of U.S. politics and revering its institutions and adhering to its rules is… pointless.
@yeahidrathernot
If the Supreme Court could say it knows pornography when it "sees it," it could have just as easily have said it recognizes over-the-top hyper-partisan gerrymandering when it "sees it." But, hey, the conservative justices don't want to undo the GOP's partisan gerrymandering
Steven Greenhouse
The Roberts Court’s enduring legacy is voter suppression.
phoenix_hawk
As tempting as it is to blame the current Supreme Court on people not voting, I must again remind everyone that Republicans refused to fill court vacancies during the Obama admin, thereby nullifying the people's vote. Voting matters but elections alone don't make a democracy.
Bree Newsome Bass
In state after state, GOP gets the minority of votes but huge majority of seats. This is fundamentally undemocratic. Extreme partisan gerrymandering is election-rigging and SCOTUS just gave it a huge green light:
Ari Berman
Kagan's conclusion. If the courts aren't going to intervene in a case where legislators entrench themselves against the wishes of electoral majorities, effectively denying them a remedy, the institution of judicial review is worthless
Scott Lemieux
Just so we’re clear on what just happened: Mitch McConnell STOLE a Supreme Court seat, ignoring the constitution to deny the SC appointment of a democratically elected black president. He then installed a white man who just voted to PERMANENTLY disenfranchise the black vote.
Mikel Jollett
The Oregon GOP is, effectively, a terrorist organization. The more they lose their grip on their supremacy, the more they’ll threaten violence, the more they’ll enact violence, and the more they’ll talk about civil war. They’re already talking about it a lot, many with relish. This isn’t alarmist. It’s the alarm. It’s the news.
@JuliusGoat
Queens has more people than 15 states and the U.S. Senate is a bad and anachronistic institution.
Nick Baumann
The most important statistic in American politics is 570,000 residents of the arbitrarily drawn rectangle of territory called Wyoming have the same power in the U.S. Senate as 40 million people who live in California.
Aaron Naparstek
The right wing using all means at their disposal, including the implied threat of violence and unrest to impose a minority view on a majority coalition is basically American politics right now in a nutshell.
Chris Hayes
I need folks to stop saying elections will solve things when:
1) we don't have free, fair and secure elections
2) Republicans are rejecting the notion and practice of democracy at every turn and level
3) simply having an election doesn't mean the government is a functioning republic
Bree Newsome Bass
This is real: 11 Oregon GOP senators have fled, and one is threatening to kill police officers, because *they don’t want to vote on a carbon tax*. This is what science denial and fossil fuel graft have brought us to. This is what we must fight if we want to save our future.
Phil Plait @BadAstronomer
The vast majority of us have BARELY ENGAGED in political struggle over these past few years and already everything is doomed and hopeless??? Come on now. We aren't powerless bystanders.
@prisonculture
Not really much more to say.
If we fight, we have a shot to win.
If we don't fight, we won't.
I choose to keep fighting.
THE END.
@prisonculture
Immigrants: pay more than 20% of their income in taxes (sales taxes and payroll taxes)And who can forget Mulligan... the rapist, the golfer, the no-nothing warmonger, the would-be president:
Trump, Amazon: pay 0%
Gabriel Zucman
Cartoonist Michael DeAdder was just fired from the newspaper for this cartoon:
Jason Chatfield
"The provision of federal law criminalizing unlawful entry into the United States...was crafted by an avowed white supremacist who opposed education of black Americans and favored lynching, which he justified by saying, 'to hell with the Constitution.'"
Josh Kruger (describing Section 1325, crafted by Coleman Livingston Blease, a proponent of lynching...which Julian Castro wants to repeal)
Remember: Trump is separating kids from grandparents at the border, and putting them in cages, because the Trump Admin changed the rules to say “grandparents aren’t family." Can you imagine how ballistic the RW media would go if Democrats tried to say “grandparents aren’t family”??
Alexis Goldstein
America hating immigrants is like a body rejecting its own blood.
Hari Kondabolu
A reminder that Anne Frank didn’t die in gas chambers. She died from sickness due to unsanitary conditions, specifically typhus — a disease spread by lice.
Kristin Mink
when you don’t understand globalization, imperialism and colonization, you can pretend everyone “immigrates” to the US “willingly” ... as if the border crisis RIGHT NOW isn’t partly because US destabilization of local economies and, thus, folks seeking asylum from violence.
@ashoncrawley
Wedding rings taken by Nazis at Auschwitz in 1945. Rosaries confiscated by the US government at the Arizona/Mexico border:
Simar @sahluwal
Remember when every conservative in the country was screaming “every child deserves a mother and a father”? So quiet now these “champions” of children.
Dan Savage
People in 2016: Trump is going to put people in concentration camps.
Media: That's absolutely preposterous.
People in 2019: These are concentration camps.
Media: Are they, technically, "concentration camps" though?
@transscribe
A man is on trial this week for giving migrants water and shelter at Arizona’s deadliest desert crossing, where hundreds have died of thirst. He faces a 20 year sentence. It would be the first time a humanitarian worker on the border was sent to prison.
Hannah Dreier
Today (June 12) would have been Anne Frank’s 90th birthday.
Daniella Greenbaum Davis
Just a little old lady on the Boston T ... if we'd let her in.
Angus Johnston @studentactivism
ATTENTION: The party that coined the term "death panels" in an effort to sink the ACA kindly asks that you stop referring to their immigrant detention camps as "concentration camps."
Heather Lynn Weaver
“You can’t make Hitler analogies until there are at least six million dead” say people who make Stalin analogies when the top marginal tax rate goes up by 3%.
Jacob T. Levy
The horrific thought running through my head this week: Trump's treatment of immigrants -- systematically dehumanizing people who are fleeing their homes out of desperation -- is our first glimpse of a fascist response to climate change. This is a waking nightmare we must stop.
Eric Holthaus
States with the greatest concentration of immigrants create the most jobs and biggest increase in personal income.
Bloomberg Opinion
Trump administration to hold migrant children at base that served as WWII Japanese internment camp.
Jared Keller
The President was credibly accused of rape by loads of women. Think of the message young men hear if he faces no consequences.This month, I'm going to try to separate the tweets that are mostly about climate change from the ones that are about climate change solutions... so first climate change:
almightygod
concentration camps, rapist president, just another day in America
Tom Tomorrow
If women were making up rape allegations for fame and fortune, 1. Some of these women would be rich and famous by now, 2. There’d be a million rape accusations against, say, Bill Gates, Tom Hanks, and hell, probably Oprah. You know why there aren’t? Because they don’t rape women
@JenAshleyWright
To all the MAGA folks angry about Bernie Sanders’ student debt cancellation proposal — let’s remember that your guy Donald Trump had the government cancel his companies’ debts four separate times
David Sirota
no one could have predicted that the evil fucker who created a fake charity and used it to steal money raised for children with cancer would be the same evil fucker who is now denying sick and imprisoned migrant babies access to doctors and medicine— or even soap, for fuck's sake
Jeff Tiedrich
The US president is accused again of sexual assault. Police are called to the home of the likely UK prime minister after a fight with his girlfriend. And we continue to argue about whether women are electable
Elizabeth Renzetti
Just so we’re clear: Bolton and Pompeo are ready to start a war with a nation of 80 million people over the shootdown of an *unmanned* aircraft, in a crisis that they helped trigger by withdrawing from the nuclear deal that Iran was complying with.
Nicholas Miller
When Trump is gone, a giant machine will go to work whitewashing everyone who enabled him. We'll be told to "look forward, not backward," just like after Bush Jr. It's inevitable. But by god I'm at least going to shout the truth in every available venue until the day I die.
David Roberts
Remember for a moment that we live in a country where one idiotic, authoritarian man has unilateral control of whether we enter into a shooting war with a country of 80 million over the destruction of a tin can deliberately violating their airspace. This needs to end.
Sen. Mike Gravel
John Oliver: “I can’t guarantee that impeachment will work out the way that you want it to...but that doesn’t mean it’s not worth doing. Because if nothing else, we’d be standing by the basic, fundamental principle that nobody is above the law.”
The Daily Beast
I’m sure I have now heard more about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s dress choices than I have heard about who paid off Brett Kavanaugh’s $92,000 country club fees plus his $200,000 credit card debt plus his $1.2 million mortgage, and purchased themselves a SCOTUS seat.
@Strandjunker
TRUMP: "I'm gonna do whatever the fukc I want because apparently the entire system is set up for me to get away with it."
MEDIA: "Can you believe he misspelled 'fuck'????"
@LiviaLove
The same guy who has been investigated for two years on allegations he was offered help by a foreign power and accepted it and then hid that from federal law enforcement — and who swore up and down every day he would never do that — just told the entire world I WOULD TOTALLY DO THAT
Seth Abramson
For people still marveling at the hypocrisy of the evangelicals supporting Trump, here’s what nearly anyone who grew up in the community can tell you: large swaths of it have become a white-identity movement that have been taught an apocalyptic battle is underway. Much of it started in the 1980s with Reagan’s apocalyptic appeals and the Religious Right felling families like mine they were fighting Satan. Now it’s Fox News singing the exact same tune.
Jared Yates Sexton
The President has devolved into this kid who walks down the hall randomly shoving smaller kids into lockers. Congress needs to step up now.
Charlie Quimby
"When the students poured into Tiananmen Square, the Chinese government almost blew it. Then they were vicious, they were horrible, but they put it down with strength. That shows you the power of strength. Our country is right now perceived as weak ..."
Michael Kruse (quoting a Playboy interview with Donald Trump from 1990)
Can Americans please adapt this line from Ms. Kendzior and put it on placards, signs, banners outside Congress: IF YOU DON'T HAVE IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS, WE'LL END UP WITH SHOW TRIALS. Does anybody down there feel like saving their country before it's too late? Seriously?
Jeff Pearce
Under Trump, stock market gains are only half as much compared to Obama’s first 2+ years. Job growth has slowed under Trump. Deficit is 80% higher now. Number of uninsured people has gone up by 1.3 million.
@ChrisLu44
An irony of DDay75: The leader of the country the Allies were fighting -- Germany's Angela Merkel -- today embodies the values those soldiers were fighting for more than the U.S. president. It reminds us how countries can change for the better and how they can lose themselves.
Anand Giridharadas
I spend a lot of time reading stuff on climate change from decades ago and feeling like a few folks with their fingers on the button literally froze time and sentenced us all to die. Today's example, a 1977 letter to Jimmy Carter that sounds like part of the Green New Deal today.Then there are solutions, particularly about sustainable cities and transportation:
Amy Westervelt
The fundamental, baseline dividing line in our society is one’s understanding of speed and one’s grasp of whether one’s personal self-interest lies in headlong moves to create competitive sustainable prosperity — or in maximizing one’s short-term returns on carbon bubble investments.
Alex Steffen
Oil and gas companies can definitely be part of the climate solution by voluntarily ceasing to exist.
Robin Garwood
We cannot manage the risks of climate change in a world of broken institutions.
@DrJaneFlegal
Human decency: an underrated but completely necessary climate adaptation strategy. Climate change happens in the world we build for it. In this one, we’ve built cages and camps.
Kate Marvel
We are unprepared for the danger our future holds. We face floods, wildfires, extreme weather, crop failure, mass displacement and the breakdown of society. The time for denial is over. It is time to #ActNow.
Extinction Rebellion
It's 50C in India today. Half way between boiling and freezing. The air feels like hot tapwater. People are dying in droves, most of them uncounted. In America it is too wet to plant corn over huge areas. The warnings are becoming reality. Nobody knows how to live in this world.
Vinay Gupta @leashless
I'm skeptical that North American cities — the same cities that failed for decades to build enough housing for their own citizens, driving millions into poverty an homelessness — are going to undertake the massive transformations needed to welcome tens of millions of climate refugees. If we can't even build housing for our own citizens today, we're very likely to be building more concentration camps for refugees tomorrow.
Alex Steffen
If you burn a lump of coal, the greenhouse effect from the carbon dioxide released from burning that coal will, over its lifetime in the atmosphere, heat the Earth about 100,000 times more than the thermal energy released from burning that coal.
Ken Caldeira
Just your regular reminder that a pledge of carbon neutrality by 2050 may be a bold goal — or it may be a big aspirational headline for a timid plan. The difference can almost always be discerned by asking "How much of this will happen in the next 5 years?"
Alex Steffen
This emergency is not waiting. Chennai, India -- a city of 8.5 million people, about the size of Chicago -- ran out of water today. "The destruction has just begun," an official said. "If the rain fails us this year too, we are totally destroyed." Climate change is a crisis of morality. Every day we wait, we make the problem worse. Every day the problem gets worse, we must push back against those with fascist ideations. We must insist on survival for each other. We must treat climate as the human rights crisis it is.
Eric Holthaus
Demanding climate advocates detail the "sacrifices" that regular people must make on climate, while ignoring the dire, immediate threats climate inaction poses to regular people's lives and well-being is a journalistic failure.
Alex Steffen
Exactly how much of an increase in GDP would it take to offset the loss of an ocean?
David Roberts
Greenland is melting faster than the upper-end of the IPCC's projections which suggests 1. we need new models 2. alarmism is reality 3. we need a rapid transformation in social and economic systems to stop earth tumbling down a hothouse pathway.
XR Cambridge
Don't thank us. Join us. It is not important. It is vital. #RebelForLife #RebelForLove
Isabelle Letellier
Climate change: Arctic permafrost now melting at levels not expected until 2090:
Melt ponds open in Arctic as permafrost melts at levels not expected… Permafrost has begun thawing in the Canadian Arctic more than 70 years early because of climate change, according to new research. A "series of anomalously warm summers” has dramatically accelerated.
Rob Hopkins
All I want for Father's Day is a future planet where my baby boy can thrive.
Alex Steffen
There’s a lot of talk lately about oil majors committing to a carbon price. Remember, the transportation sector is mostly immune to a carbon price.
Robbie Orvis
The climate crisis presents a stark choice: a world in which humans struggle together across borders or the dystopic fascist nightmare that is already taking shape.
Ben Ehrenreich
Whenever we discuss climate journalism and storytelling, we shouldn't forget the massive, well-funded interference of the Carbon Lobby. Orders of magnitude more communications professionals get paychecks from those groups than make their livings as climate journalists and writers.
Alex Steffen
can you imagine how many batshit homicidal armed conflicts and dirty wars the world would avoid by getting off of oil
Kate Aronoff
Our voices need to be heard! We rebel against government inaction on the climate and ecological crisis #ClimateActionNow:
XRMCR-Youth
Building a just and inclusive world that works for everyone is a job for EVERYONE. At this point in the climate emergency, it's the job of white men (like me) who've benefitted from the current system to share or cede power and take proactive steps toward transformative change.
Eric Holthaus
Cleaning up Alberta's oil wells could take 2,800 years, report says. So one generation gets the well, and 93 generations get the shaft.
Bill McKibben
The majority of the damage to the world coming from a countable number of banks, industries, individuals operating with centralized power. No matter what the repair of the planet is going to require billions of decentralized actions.
BuildSoil
The longer I think about DNC insisting no one hold a climate debate, the sillier it seems. We've literally never talked about this issue in a presidential debate, and we literally have to deal with it immediately. I don't understand why we shouldn't devote a night to it
Bill McKibben
Jebus, if I didn't already think so, today has convinced me beyond any doubt that arguments over Whether To Have Hope are the stupidest and most pointless in all of climate space -- which has no shortage fo stupid, pointless arguments. Just tell me the truth. I'll decide if I feel any hope, thanks.
David Roberts
A disturbing number of otherwise-intelligent people think we will "escape" into space, as if the realities of space colonization would not be orders of magnitude more brutal and unforgiving than even the worst-case ecological breakdown.
Alex Steffen
People like Greta Thunberg and AOC are often dismissed as ‘radical’ or ‘out of touch’. But the reality is: their radicalism is the future. While the planet is heating up, it's the so-called 'moderates' who are out of touch.
Rutger Bregman
I sometimes think that if people generally knew how terrified many (most) scientists are about climate change, then we might see more Climate Action.
P. Sean McDonald @pseanmc
That climate anxiety and grief you feel is a symptom of you going sane. Please nourish your raw and tender sanity with kindness, community, meaningful work, and play. Rejoice in your sanity and find other sane humans to work and rejoice with. You are not alone. We are many, and we are rising
Dan Rubin, PsyD
Cement is responsible for 8% of the world's CO₂ emissions
If the cement industry were a country, it would be the third largest emitter in the world
It contributes more CO₂ than aviation fuel 2.5% and is not far behind the global agriculture business 12%
Paul Dawson on Climate Change
Politicians insist there isn’t enough money to seriously combat catastrophic climate change that threatens the survival of the human species. At the same time, a handful of billionaires are sitting on $8.7 trillion.
David Sirota
Gradual urbanism — involving long consultation periods, slow trickles of investment in needed new low-carbon infrastructure and climate ruggedization, and the occasional building of a small number of heavily disincentivized homes — is immoral in a time of planetary emergency.
Alex Steffen
Fare evasion costs the MTA $2.75. This ad cost >$44,000. To be a worthwhile exercise it would have to singlehandedly deter 16,000 turnstile jumpers -- which it won't. Criminalizing poverty isn't budget-smart. But it is an easy way to pass the buck on tough policy issues:
Ames Grawert
Oslo’s Mayor says banning cars from the city centre was like banning smoking: people complained until they saw the result.....
createstreets
In the UK, about twice as many people are trampled to death by cows as are killed in collisions with bicycles. Anyone who carries on about cyclists being a menace, but never mentions cows, is dishonest or ignorant.
Stuart Helmer
This is embarrassing. Ohio, which won’t fund inner city rail or adequate transit, is giving Hyperloop, a private company, R&D money. Lots of magical thinking going on around this untested idea. These politicians that waste their time on flying cars and magical vacuum tube nonsense when people in their state don’t have sidewalks or ADA ramps or adequate bus service should be embarrassed. The Hyperloop has not carried a single person a single inch ever in its history. These easy marks in state government think it’s gonna revive Lansing Michigan. Good grief.
Angie Schmitt
A 30-pound scooter going 15 mph is “zooming” but a 4,000-pound car going 25 mph is “driving slowly.”
@dfwagoner
Complaining about bad transit/walking conditions is healthy, especially directed at the right folks. That's how drivers complaining about parking/congestion became the ultimate political shot callers most cities, I suppose.
Angie Schmitt
Bundled vs. Unbundled Parking:
Eric Saathoff
In 1940, the last year before US entry into WWII, Americans consumed (i.e., burned) 24.038 million gallons of motor fuel with a population of 132 mil. (Historical Statistics of US). That’s 0.182 gal/person. In 2018, Americans burned 142 billion (with a ‘b’) gallons of motor gasoline with a population of 329 mil. That’s 431.6 gal/person. (US Energy Information Agency). Each gallon of gas produces about 19 lbs CO2.
John Lloyd @boyonabike62
At a cycling conference I spoke at this year, a man came up to me to tell me how an e-bike totally changed his 93 year old father's life. Prior to the bike, he was very socially isolated. Now he's out in the community every day. Think about that the next time you shit on e-bikes.
Robin Mazumder
Where is biking most popular? In cities that are very flat. And bikers in Amsterdam, are they going super fast and sweating profusely? Nope, they go slow and they are in street clothes. Does anyone dunk on Amsterdam because they aren't working hard enough on their bikes?
kar nels (discussing the appeal of e-bikes)
Drivers in suburbs of Montreal will now be charged a $50 car registration fee—and the $100 million a year generated will go to funding transit.
Taras Grescoe
I can't wait for an all-electric transportation system. It's paramount, however, that we invest immediately in a global-class regional transit system and bicycle/micro-mobility infrastructure along with some human-friendly land-uses. Cars still kill, roads still cost.
Mary Morse Marti
It is a terrible tragedy that we have been lied to for so long, but yes,
- cars are killing us.
- flying is killing us.
- plastic packaging is killing us.
- fast fashion is killing us.
- industrial farming is killing us.
- actually most industries are killing us.
- etc...
Isabelle Letellier
Why do we keep prioritizing and subsidizing suburban national chains over local ‘mom and pop’ shops? Who is giving your city and community more value? Who is creating more high paying jobs?
@RadUrbanist
Car culture is war culture. Electric cars just means we're going to be invading other countries for a different mineral. Biking, walking, and public transit are our livable future. Cars are our deathly future.
@riotpedestrian
Denser, more affordable housing is a central part of climate action at the city level. Wealthy anti-density advocates often invoke "the environment" as a reason to push back on more inclusive zoning. This is perhaps one of the most maddening claims in light of all the evidence.
Mitra Jalali Nelson
This news about electric cars can’t be the only example of a ‘sustainable solution’ that just isn’t. It seems to me there is an urgent need to describe happy, healthy and fulfilling lifestyles, economies and societies that can within planetary boundaries.There were a couple on sexism and misogyny generally, and way too few about the threat to reproductive rights:
Iain Struthers
Amsterdam’s urban biking success has never been magic, or even a special culture. It’s always been about the WILL to change when faced with a huge challenge. That WILL continues — they’re cutting 10,000 car parking spaces by 2025, 1100 each year.
Brent Toderian
Many cities that inspire us had to first inspire themselves: Amsterdam, Helststraat 1978 vs 2015:
Brent Toderian
"An examination of Uber’s economics suggests that it has no hope of ever earning sustainable urban car service profits in competitive markets."
William Lindeke
Red bus lanes work better than bus lane stencils on bare asphalt. After the SFMTA painted the Third Street bus lane red, violations fell 51 percent.
TransitCenter
Current top arguments against free public transportation:
1. too expensive - (we show how it is cheaper)
2. people will stop walking (studies show more buses = more walking)
3. improve service first (something that will never happen)
4. In other words: they got nothin'
5. non-whites can come to your neighborhood. OK racists don't support us, fine.
6. homeless will ride. Oh! homelessness solved, just put fees everywhere.
Free Public Transit
People don't usually connect traffic deaths with policy. Even if they are personally and profoundly impacted. Certain safety standards for heavy trucks, for example. 0.08 BAC. The 85th percentile rule... Speed cameras. The debates about all of these just add up to hundreds of thousands of lives. One of the big problems we have with creating the political will for traffic safety improvements is the people who's lives were saved/taken by good/bad policies usually never know it.
Angie Schmitt
it's legitimately incredible that Uber and Lyft waltzed into cities across North America, massively worsening congestion and vehicle miles traveled, all because they just said they're not a taxi company. decades of regulations limiting the number of for-hire vehicles obliterated. the people running our cities are total cowards looking for any excuse to justify austerity measures so they can freeze property taxes and receive another round of donations and votes from the rich residents who regularly use ride-hailing, helping decimate transit in the process. "we're a technology company, not a transportation company." why? "because we said so. no reason to doubt our motives."
James Wilt
#1 reason most people don't ride bikes or walk is and will always be the stress caused by roads filled with cars. Not weather, not hills, not distance, not being sweaty, not having to transport kids or pick up groceries. It's cars and this is never discussed bc cars are normalized.
@absurdtriathlon
Antiquated zoning codes and land-use restrictions are making it near impossible to build housing stock that is attainable for individuals and families across the income spectrum.
Creative Housing
Good climate cartoon from @Avidor:
William Lindeke
This Uber article is brutal. "Uber's most important innovation has been to produce staggering levels of private wealth without creating any sustainable benefits for consumers, workers, the cities they serve, or anyone else." "A recent study of drivers for app-based companies in NYC showed... 20% required public income supplements like food stamps"
Ellen K. Pao
Nothing like reasonable constraints on dangerous driving to turn people into complete sociopaths.
Angie Schmitt
What I would love to be spending more time on as a council member: lowering speed limits on city streets, expanding safe bike/ped infra, awesome bikeshare, etc.
What I spend an inordinate amt of my time on instead, by de facto design of our cities: hearing countless arguments about parking
Mitra Jalali Nelson
If I was a university researcher, I'd do a study looking at traffic safety outcomes in little towns that are notorious speed traps, just to be a troll. I bet their safety records are abnormally good.
Angie Schmitt
Thinking about what constitutes “adventure” and how we’ve come to use carbon emissions as a proxy for a spirit of novelty, curiosity, risk-taking, open-mindedness, engagement, adaptability, and courage.
@happifydesign
Wind turbines myth of killing huge numbers of birds is not supported by data. Cars kill > 700 times the number of birds than turbines. And cats kill a staggering 1,850,700,000 birds per year in the USA - that is mass murder on a staggering scale:
@ProfMarkMaslin
The biggest issue I see is that electeds and some staff are really gung ho about “providing more options” for transportation, but aren’t willing to take the heat for actually restricting cars in any way. Unfortunately, the former is only effective when combined with the latter.
Alex Schieferdecker
When a driver rolls through a stop sign at 5 mph it seems fine — almost like a full stop — because they slowed down from 30. When a biker rolls a stop at 5 mph it's not nearly as big of a change — seems like they took less precaution. Same speeds, wildly different perceptions.
@dat_briguy
Right now, our public feedback system for urban planning and city transportation is the equivalent of formally inviting mostly cishet men to weigh in on what a less misogynistic world might look like. And it shows in the tepid choices we make. What if, and hear me out, instead of the city actively seeking out and prioritizing the feedback of property owners in its planning choices, it sought out and listened to the feedback of those of us are who're car-free and transit-dependent?
@happifydesign
Police Chief: "converting one-way streets to two-way was the best thing that's happened for public safety in my 22 years of service." Speeding is down, crashes are down, response time to calls is down.
@murphmonkey
NHTSA found the total societal harm caused by car crashes was $836 billion in 2015. There were 13 million total crashes, 32,000 fatal. There is no way the minor time savings we get from speeding, red light running, etc. is worth that price:
Angie Schmitt
Year-on-year sales growth of internal combustion passenger vehicles in China:
2000-2016: Booming
2017: Flat
2018 and 2019: Plunging:
Colin Mckerracher
The planet doesn’t simply need cleaner, greener, smarter cars. It actually needs cities that are designed that minimize the need to drive to undertake everyday tasks. Why? Manufacturing a new car creates as much carbon as driving it
@AklDesignChamp
Or because these men see women as trophies to show off to others, not as equal partners:Capitalism, wealth and income inequality, and a better way to do things:
Hemant Mehta
I always get bummed out when I’m at a party and someone asks me “Who’s watching the kids?” because then I have to follow them around for the rest of the night to make sure they ask every dad at the party the same fucking question
Julieanne Smolinski
When you see someone say something that is most reasonably and charitably interpreted as "there are men who..." and you choose to interpret it as "all men..." that's on you.
Angus Johnston @studentactivism
Men: Me Too has gone so far that now I’m afraid to mentor women.
Women: (walking to their cars at night looking over their shoulders with mace in one hand and and their keys laced through their fingers like Wolverine in the other) Wow it must be so scary to be a man these days.
The Volatile Mermaid @OhNoSheTwitnt
”ThE bABy YoU aBoRt cOuLDv’E cUrED CaNcEr”
The gay kid you bullied into suicide could’ve cured cancer.
The 14 year old dead after a school shooting could’ve cured cancer.
The baby you traumatized by putting it in a cage, could’ve cured cancer.
They had a heartbeat, too.
Ida Skibenes
The woman who is able to make her own choices and do what she wants with her life might be the lawyer who will eventually take down Pfizer and AstraZeneca, so that people can afford the cure for cancer when someone else finds it.
Linda Martin
Children killed in Idaho from faith healing had a heart beat and a full life ahead of them. Laws protect the people who chose to end their lives.
@silentcries01
History shows us time and again that masculine insecurity breeds fascism, allows fascist groups to gain power as they promise a return to glory and prominence. It’s the entry to radicalization.
Jared Yates Sexton
@womensart1
Looking forward to the day when economists stop interpreting constraints as preferences. E.g. women just choose to earn less at jobs that give them flexibility to do all of the caregiving and unpaid household work in their families!
Kate Bahn @LipstickEcon
Saw a job listing: degree required, 3-5 years experience preferred, the role begins as a “credited internship or volunteer position” where you might be asked to join the team based on performance. It’s stuff like this that’s dismantling young people & the economy. Not avocados.
Rainesford Stauffer
As in capitalism, so in higher education: the in-group of a class formation mainly talks about etiquette and meritocracy, the out-group mainly talks about political economy and insider networks.Education:
Trevor Griffey
There is no good US capitalism. The so called golden age of capitalism relied on shackling women to the home, bolting LGBT people in the closet, restricting immigration to Europeans, and segregating Black people into resource starved enclaves. Capitalism has always been the problem.
@KeeangaYamahtta
The hardest working person in the world likely lives in poverty. Hard work almost never translates to wealth. But exploitation of labor often does. The hard work myth needs to die
levantine
You know that thing where your coworker calls you in a panic wondering if you can cover their shift so they can stay home sick, and nobody else can do it? So you cancel your plans to cover them? That has been an intentional part of North American capitalism since the 1990s.
@lackingceremony
Wal-Mart, the company that pays it employees so little that they organize food drives; receives so many government subsidies that the public pays about $1 million per store in the US; and is estimated to avoid $1 billion per year in U.S. taxes.
CounterPunch
America 2019, where "child lunch debt" is a real thing and fully-employed workers live in their cars and dying cancer patients beg on the internet for strangers to pay for their medication so yeah, I'd say that late-stage capitalism is working out just aces for everyone
Jeff Tiedrich
Periodic reminder that employers steal more in wages than the total value of all robberies, burglaries, larceny, and motor vehicle theft combined.
Ken Klippenstein
Here's a statistic to get your class rage going: since 1989, the top 1 percent's net worth has skyrocketed by $21 trillion. And the bottom 50 percent's? It's plummeted by $900 billion.
Jacobin
The U.S. suffers from "anti-worker exceptionalism." It's the only industrial nation without national laws requiring paid parental leave, paid vacation and paid sick leave. To give US workers such basic protections, we need a Contract for the American Worker. Trump insists that he is pro-worker even though he has taken many steps that hurt workers--rolling back overtime protections & scrapping a rule to protect workers' 401(k)'s. Demanding that politicians endorse A Contract for the American Worker would show who is really pro-worker
Steven Greenhouse
I don’t care how many jobs you've created if your employees live in poverty.
Abdul El-Sayed
People who say making college free will “decrease the significance of a degree” are accidentally revealing a truth most of us knew: college is prohibitively expensive as a means of class and status maitenanceAnd finally, the best of the rest:
@jay_murph2099
America does not suffer from scarcity, America suffers from greed. By asking Wall Street to pay a small financial transaction tax, we can cancel all $1.6 trillion of student loan debt over a period of ten years. #cancelstudentdebt
Ilhan Omar
Even when benefits are thrown in, America's teachers were paid 13% less in 2018 than private-sector workers with similar levels of education.
Economic Policy Institute
Low wages, large class sizes and teaching loads, standardized tests and endless bureaucratic service demands are producing widespread K-12 teacher burnout and turnover. Low income districts/ regions are hardest hit. Our students deserve better.
Trevor Griffey
The average salary of a U.S. teacher was $58,950 in 2016-'17, which after inflation, is less than average teacher pay 20 years ago. AND that’s an average; a great many teachers make way less.
Keith Ellison
Leann Birch (1946-2019) showed that when kids are rewarded for eating an unfamiliar food (vs. just invited to try it), they come to dislike that food later. More proof of how rewards predictably lower interest in whatever one has to do to get them.
Alfie Kohn
Three years ago, I was in a bad spot with teaching. My students wouldn’t listen. I was always irritated. Today, I’ve never been more motivated. Why? I made a choice to care more about the kids than the content. We can’t control their learning. We can control our caring.
Kyle Wagner @GowagsKyle
If I had it to do over, no homework for my kids before 9th grade, and even then if should’ve been creative and independent instead of test prep. In current gig working at a University, I see where students benefit from self directed learning skills.
Shana Crosson
Why should it be so radical to say that every public school classroom should have no larger than a 12:1 student-teacher ratio as is the case at the $55,402-a-year Phillips Exeter Academy?
Nikhil Goyal
The amount of time devoted to national politics as infotainment for the virtual world is directly proportional to the inability of national politics to accomplish anything of substantive value for the real world.
Jason Segedy
Just so we’re clear, it looks to me like we could have changed every lead pipe in Flint for the cost of that one drone that was shot down, and still have tens of millions to spare
@notdred
the slow but very real progression into fascism as charted by the evolution of the Lego police officer:
@AliceAvizandum
Two tragic flaws about engineer thinking. First, they believe that people can be convinced solely with rational argument. Second, they believe they are wholely rational actors. Neither of these are true.
Charles Marohn
More than 70,000 Americans died from drugs in 2017. That is more than all the American soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam war
Tens of thousands of Americans die each year from opioid overdoses
The federal response remains sluggish and inadequate
The Economist
From Robert Gordon's "The Rise and Fall of American Growth": The computing power contained in the Cray-1 supercomputer in 1976 cost $36.9 million in today's dollars. In 2014, that amount of computing power cost $0.60.
Jason Segedy
There’s something really poignant about people who yell “read a history book!” but clearly have never read one on the topic they’re discussing.
Angus Johnston @studentactivism
One thing I am learning today is that in addition to the semantic fight over calling migrant detention “concentration camps,” we also really need to be reminding people that the people being incarcerated are asylum seekers — refugees — not “illegal immigrants.”
Jacob Remes
I really wish that every time a pundit mentioned that census data is legally not allowed to be used for nefarious reasons they were required to mention that historically it hasn’t always worked that way:
asiniiwiikwe @ziibiing
never ask an artist what their process is because they will probably punch you in the face and then say “it’s like that but inside my brain”
Aparna Nancherla
A strange spotted red bug with its young (Photo: Volcatzin):
@StrangeAnimaIs
New rule: every time a tech bro invents "libraries" they must pay a fine of 10% their annual salary to their nearest public library.
DrSinBin
Sometimes the extent to which philosophers are apolitical in discussing deeply political issues really, really depresses me.
Kate Manne
By the way, the biggest waste of our time is the waste of talent. Many bankers are way too smart to be working on Wall Street. Many coders are way too smart to be working for Uber or Amazon. They should be solving climate change, poverty, disease etc.
Rutger Bregman
Campaign Against Phony Autism Cures @AgainstCures
no one:
me: the 1970s were full of incredible films but most of the ones you think are 'perfect' are lessons in the fact that white male Hollywood mostly squandered liberation from the Hays code on making its misogynistic/homophobic/racist impulses more violently explicit
Saladin Ahmed
Friendly reminder: The USA is the only country in the world with "pre-existing conditions." Everywhere else it's referred to simply as your "medical history." "Pre-existing condition" is a term created by insurance companies as a means to defraud their customers.
@akkitwts
At the Tony Awards, Bryan Cranston, who won for his portrayal of Howard Beale, dedicates his award to "all the real journalists around the world." "The media is not the enemy of the people," he says. "Demagoguery is the enemy of the people."
David Gura
It's possible to increase public safety while decreasing the size of the criminal punishment system. Let's do it.
nyc law grrrl
In the future, everyone will have 15 minutes of private life.
Caitlin Flanagan
You probably already know that Chile is a rather long (or tall) country, but probably you ignore it is so long that it would stretch from the northernmost point of Norway all the way south to Morocco:
@Rainmaker1973
As a #smallbiz owner, managing the maze of #healthcare and #benefits is really just too hard. It shouldn't be this way. Let us focus on what we do best, and make healthcare access easy (and affordable) for everyone. #MedicareForAll
Samantha Strong @MorphMpls
Hear me out here. The thing I like about Robert's Rules is that there is a book you can read and learn the rules from, in a fairly easy way. If there wasn't a set system, it would just be one more space dominated by the unwritten rules of white supremacy.
asiniiwiikwe
Is there anything more pure than a sleeping, farting child?
Holly Besinger @mrstheclassical
Every time there's a mass shooting, the police and media frantically search for a motive. Here's the answer: the motive doesn't matter. The reason is guns. The solution is banning them. There is no other secret to find.
Joseph Fink @PlanetofFinks
lots of people claim to champion “free speech.” most of them are liars: what they want is to be able to spread hate unchallenged, and they cheerfully crush their opponents, via harassment, abuse, slander and mass reporting. it’s not hypocrisy, it’s strategy.
Talia Lavin @chick_in_kiev
Vaccines are just the changeling myth for a new era of hate against neurodivergence. They just swapped out religion for pseudoscience and sprites stealing and swapping out children for vaccines stealing their 'true' children and turning them into autistic ones.
Erin Ekins @QueerlyAutistic
Asking about the "ethics" of a new technology is usually a covert, often passive acceptance of its inevitability. ("Since it's going to happen anyway, lets ponder its consequences!") There are whole professions built around such "discourse."
Langdon Winner
FOX has done to our parents what our parents thought video games would do to us.
Allen Marshall
In 2018, US citizens paid $93 Billion more in taxes
In 2018, Corporations paid $91 Billion less in taxes
Peter W. Singer
Worldwide the suicide rate is down by 29% since 2000. In America it's up by 18%.
The Economist
moaning about "overpopulation" is a shorter way of saying "i see the earth as the titanic and as a westerner i deserve to get into the lifeboat first because i am more inherently virtuous for caring about this"
@DxGGEAUX
"there's more people than the earth can handle!!!"
*the gang demasks the monster*
"there's more people than our hierarchies of extraction and control can handle!!!"
Late Stage Anthropocene @rhisomn
A daddy longleg's eye magnified 20 times. (Photo: Charles Krebs):
Nature Is Weird
Roth, Updike, Bellow, Mailer, etc, are all going the way of Salinger - products of the of ivy-league taste machine that dominated publishing for 50 years but has no relevance to huge portions of modern America. They are not bad, but I think demographics have left them behind.
Boy Genius Ramberg @mramberg
Influencers visiting Chernobyl with a photographer and lighting team...jettison me off this planet:
@amanduhwhite
It's good if we disagree. We're not enemies. We disagree.
@prisonculture
MLK had a 75% disapproval rate. A lot of people today would like to think they’d be part of the 25% who approved, but I doubt it.
@Bussarebel
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