There's a reason the book is called, "Guns, Germs, and Steel."

Jesus, these guys are so wantonly stupid.

Make him take liquid glass with him on his way out.

This should be a much bigger story.

The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way.🧵

So Americans are paying a foreign oil company to shut down clean energy projects here at home, using money that was never supposed to be spent this way, with zero strings attached. That is illegal, unethical, and a scandal hiding in plain sight.

Saying "no man, you don't get to win this time" to evil people who have the power of the entire corrupt government behind them has to feel pretty fucking good

"When I started writing about the climate crisis in the 1980s I was in my twenties, and I didn’t fully comprehend that there could be a force on this planet so steeped in greed & power that it would sacrifice the earth & its inhabitants for its own narrow interests. But there is, and it’s Big Oil."

We’re in a society that rewards cons and grifts. Only suckers actually learn stuff or waste the effort to cultivate real skills.
You can be a blackout drunk with no experience AND FBI director or Secretary of Defense as long as you know the right people.

This random lady I know who does QA has her name on a PATENT for no good reason except someone has convinced people your tech resume looks more impressive if you’ve spent money to register a completely unenforceable patent for some total nonsense.

I've heard it exactly once, & it was used as a shorthand to discuss inmates & their family members trying to navigate the exploitative systems of prison communication & access. It wasn't meant to be "woke", it was meant to be a term that means "everyone affected by this expensive & broken nonsense."

could making a serial rapist the figurehead of the modern right have pushed women left?

no, it's the hysterical broads who went crazy

It’s really just fascist gaslighting to pretend they have some “greater ideals” driving them to be selfish, racist assholes who think they should own and control everything and everyone. They “need to destroy free society & democracy in order to save it” in some false version they can abide.

No, they are just engaged in fascist gaslighting about democracy and economic flourishing, while still boldly determined to end democracy and own and control everyone in a tech-feudal state.

I mean, some of us think racism, misogyny, bigotry, and faux Christian Nationalism are dysfunctional & regressive… but I don’t imagine that’s what he’s talking about. I’m all for throwing that shit in the dustbin of history along with the nazis like Thiel who currently espouse it.

And then you have the Trump administration actively trying to remove and suppress the contributions we have already identified and fairly recognized. Gee, wonder what that’s about Peter? 🤷‍♀️

And they just happen to never see or identify the contributions of groups that don’t fit the white supremacist narrative. Weird. 🙄

Yeah, I think they are really just zealots for a faux Christian Nationalist, White Supremacist, and pro-oligarchy ideology and they saw Trump as a vehicle for that agenda they needed to protect and enable.

I wish I believed in the kind of God who would immolate them all in wrath for this bullshit.

And that Trump is paying energy companies to give up the leases & permits they already obtained for offshore wind projects. Like are these assholes even for real?

Georgia Supreme Court challengers vow to take on corporate power Jen Jordan and Miracle Rankin say the state’s highest court doesn’t serve the people’s interest

Flipping these two State Supreme Court seats in Georgia next month will be a crucial first step towards flipping the entire court and putting the state on the right path.

Georgia, please vote for both @jenjordanga.bsky.social and Miracle Rankin on May 19th.

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Not going to lie, suffocating on his own vomit is probably too good an end for him.

Omg, the other day a captcha told me to identify chairs, and it wasn’t until I had already hit submit that I realized one chair was a PAPASAN, but I just thought it was some random macrame craft image as a filler. Then I just decided I didn’t want to visit that page anyways.

My garbage company has an app! For what? This same company can’t even get the automated texts right half the time when the service is going to be delayed outside the posted schedules, what can an app possibly do for me?

“Heads I win, tails you lose.”

It sure doesn’t sound like fairness or justice, does it? Or even a measured consideration of the balance of power and the law.

Congratulations, it is well deserved.

Preach.
I’d rather have municipal groceries and co-ops everywhere than needs one, than pay for another bomb in the hands of racist morons like Trump & Hegseth.

Just goes to show that at the end of the day conservatives can pretend they have principles and care about “tradition” and process, but when it comes down to it all they really care about is exercising power even if it will break everything.

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

There’s Trump-style corruption, which is all bullshit, bluster, bags of cash, and him daring you to stop him. And then there’s corruption of the John Roberts kind. It’s just as deliberate and destructive, but quieter, more genteel, like a cancer that grows in your bones rather than on your face.

Yeah? Is this a real rule, or one of those ones you can ignore like, “flag suspicious transactions because they could be evidence of sex trafficking and money laundering.” 🙄

They don’t want to invest in society or democracy, so why should be want to invest in them, even emotionally or aspirationally?

They are selfish losers who have lost the plot of being human.

Also, are the rest of us not supposed to resent that they think investing a trillion dollars in replacing people is a net positive, while they have spent the last 3 decades deliberately decoupling themselves from taxes and investment in things that benefit society and people?