The ability to disagree with others without feeling personally attacked is a mark of healthy object relations and psychological maturity.

In this collectivist village in China, villagers are given the village dividends in cash periodically. Not all Chinese villages operate on this model, but those that do thrive. Please note, that for ALL of these villagers, there is no housing cost. They all own their own home

People outside the US are posting TikTok’s roasting Americans now that it’s banned here. LMAO.

The police are defunding you

Trump has repealed a Biden executive order mandating ethical behavior from administration employees. The order told federal workers to: -Not accept gifts from lobbyists -Not take other bribes -Not lobby for two years after government work -And more Now those rules are gone.

I hope everyone who noticed the Nazi salute also noticed the Biden admin backing a genocide for 16 months. Two sides of the same fascism.

The only way to *truly* billionaire-proof the internet is to a) abolish billionaires and b) abolish the system that allows people to become billionaires. Short of that, any levees we build will need constant tending, reinforcement, and re-evaluation. 1/

🚨 🚨 “Type the word 'Resign'...Hit 'Send'" The Blanket Purge That Tells Us Everything A 🧵 I couldn’t sleep last night. First, there was the heartbreaking tragedy of that airplane crash into the Potomac. 1/

If only workers knew the true power they hold.

A measles outbreak in Gaines County, Texas—24 cases so far in a county that voted 91% for Trump—illustrates a grim irony. Senate Republicans plan to vote today on RFK Jr.'s nomination to be HHS Secretary. If they seat him, it will be Republican families that suffer. 🧵

US Rep Al Green (D-Texas) should not have been the only one shouting and making good trouble tonight, holding his cane no less, making his fellow democrats look like the weak ones. They should be ashamed. We cannot continue to go high, and we must stop capitulating to the right.

Seriously who is this for???

Listen, if either American Party wanted to improve the material conditions of regular Americans, they would have done it by now. We're beyond voting.

The stock market is down but at least everything is more expensive and services are getting shittier. On the other hand we have more measles. To be fair, they are finally delivering the reductions in FAA and National Parks staff that people have been demanding.

WaPo under Trump: "151,000 jobs is solid" WaPo under Biden: "194,000 jobs is another weak month"

Innovating the authoritarian playbook by intentionally wrecking a robust economy to create plunder opportunities including for our country's enemies. Creating hardship, paralyzing the public sector, and spreading disease is part of the engineered collapse.

This chart seems to suggest that something is going wrong in the United States, specifically. (ft.com/content/7568e7… )

I just finished "Paved Paradise" by Henry Grabar, and boy does it have some gems. Lots of the solutions to our urban woes are already being put in place - look at Austin - but this should be read by every city council across America. My favorite quotes can be found here. 🧵

What “greater good” are these people so suddenly devoted to and willing to sacrifice for (and do they even know what “good”) that they then belligerently denounce if described as “universal healthcare”?

Everyone credits AC, but here's another reason the south started booming only post-war: it was full of malaria for centuries. The issue was not seriously tackled until FDR established the Office of Malaria Control, which later became the CDC. They eliminated the disease in 1951.