A new data set for better monitoring of the political podcast ecosystem brook.gs/3BnbYge via The Brookings Institution

Thank you for this thread, Leah McElrath Im a native NYer & also won’t forget that day of trauma & loss. The fact that ppl who hate NYC have made it a jingoistic war cry has always stuck in my craw. It’s pure American narcissism & helps nothing & no one.

Hard to say colonialism is a thing of the past when the monarch of England dying gets 100x the attention of a U.S. colony being flooded devastated by a hurricane while the privately owned power company the U.S. imposed fails utterly.

This right here.

Part of the reason it is so hard to convince adopted parents that they participated in and benefitted from a harmful system is that same system uses powerful propoganda to convince folks that buying a child is the most selfless thing imaginable.

One does have to wonder sometimes if states have been eager to decimate public gathering spaces because keeping communities fractured and people isolated works out so well for those in power

Christians inserting themselves into a crisis in order to steal kids under the guise of "helping"? Why i never! Paywall removed #adopteetwitter nytimes.com/2022/09/27/mag…

With care currently bbing criminalized, there is always DIY trans. Excellent article. thebaffler.com/salvos/doctors…

Two of my favorite replies to my article so far. Speaking for adopted people while claiming I, an adopted person, am using adoptees as pawns in my evil family preservation agenda and 'we need the ability to purchase poor people's children because infertile people exist.'

I fucking cannot with her. 3 weeks till Chicago's mayoral election and so many ppl running, fearing a complete mess. But bootlicking Lori has GOT TO GO.

I feel you.

So much of the CRT and anti-trans panic in schools is simply just adults who are afraid of change, and have decided to take out their insecurities on children.

Listen to Professor Jeffrey Sachs's damning indictment of the US political system: "US politics is basically a plutocratic state where public policy has been taken over by several powerful lobbies, each one devoted to its specific area (...) Democrats and Republicans, by the

Have we tried sending more billionaires to the bottom of the ocean? I don't mean for a rescue or anything. It just feels like we're off to a good start.

Daily Mail provides us with evidence that taxing billionaires could actually save their lives

This. All the respectability simps srsly need to stop guzzling kool aid