A few classics: - Hope in the Dark, Solnit - Why We Can’t Wait, MLK - The Search for Common Ground, Thurman - Team of Rivals, Goodwin - Col Poems,Audre Lorde - Bhagavad Gita - Capital, Piketty - 100 Years of Solitude, García Márquez - Infinite Jest / Consider the Lobster, Wallace

The fight for Medicare for all will be opposed by all of the special interests—drug companies, insurance companies, Wall Street—who make billions from our dysfunctional health care system. They may have the money. But we have the people. theintercept.com/2018/11/20/med…

Borges’s Tlön is actually about how renaissance polymaths changed the entire world by creating new contexts for understanding the world by imagining “another world” & then that “other world” coming to replace our concept of “this world” & the two are now one & the same.

Most working people don’t want to be rich. They want economic stability and more free time with friends and family. Material security and family time is what capitalism robs from the workers.

The American health care system is broken. We spend 2x more per capita than most other countries, for worse outcomes. A rational health care system provides health care as a human right, not huge profits for insurance companies & pharmaceutical industry. pressherald.com/2024/05/18/ber…

My daughter just dropped a Stalin biography on my lap & asked me to read it to her lmao

It’s not a particular tragedy but a universal truth that no life is big enough to take all possible paths. It’s perfectly normal for one’s childhood dreams to fade and give way to new priorities as they get older, and perhaps that’s what happened for her.

“boys don’t have any positive male role models—“

History is the real science of science because every science has a history & its history determined its trajectory. You can learn something like algebra without knowing the history of algebra, but the history of algebra is immediately tied to Babylon & the problems of managing an

this is evil.

The NYPD just proved they have the resources to solve any murder by catching Luigi Mangione. Interesting they only seem to care to deploy them when the victim is worth $50 Million.

EssenViews Imagine a non clinical accountant telling your doctor they can't order a test or a treatment. You don't have to imagine, that's what pays these guys million+ dollar salaries

What’s Trumps plan for housing affordability? Doesn’t have one. While the average american is worried about how they’re going to make ends meet over the next four years, Trumps worried about… invading Greenland.

Trump places American citizens last. Ask yourself, why is renaming water more important than addressing the economy, housing crisis, healthcare, inflation, ect? Its because he does not care about you. MAGA, you have been conned.

Today marks what would have been the 100th birthday of the GOAT, philosopher Gilles Deleuze. Deeply devoted to the philosophical endeavor, his untimely metaphysics, thoughtful monographs, and innovative collaborations with Félix Guattari continue to inspire. HBD Gilles!

Today Trump's USDA nominee, Brooke Rollins, told Congress that she will force states to allow the sale of pork from crated pigs. States banned these sales to stop animal cruelty. The conservative Supreme Court upheld those bans. Only pork industry lobbyists want this change.

One of my high school and lifelong best friends passed last night, the phenomenally talented artist Tommy Patterson, who drew Game of Thrones. Prayers for T: Rest in Peace.