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Hi! How’s everyone? Here’s a big hug from me and Snowy, he’s sending you extra special magic puppy powers to get you through this…decade. 🐶

The Civil Rights, Anti-War, Feminist, and Gay Rights Movements were all characterized as extremist movements requiring violent crackdowns and being directed by “dangerous outside forces.”

It’s the same playbook over and over again. People need to get familiar with history. Fast.

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I'd like to hear ⁦❤️ Umair⁩ comment on #RFK .
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Hobbes famously noted that, without the strong Leviathan, life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish & short. What he didn’t say is that with the wrong Leviathan, life would be solitary, poor, nasty, brutish & shorter.
Hence, the case for democracy.

Go to Paris, fast

Thanks 😊 I honestly don’t even think I know how to tweet anymore tho. I think I’m gonna make videos to explain some shit in a real way maybe

That’s nice but at that rate it’d take like fifty plus years to get near the social cost of carbon. This is bad economics wrapped in foolish policies that are going to fail as in result in climate collapse big time

It’s only taken Dan Poulter 15 years to realise that the Tories are not to be trusted with the NHS.

“Trump’s legal argument is a path to dictatorship. That is not an exaggeration: His legal theory is that presidents are entitled to absolute immunity for official acts. Under this theory, a sitting president could violate the law with impunity, whether that is serving unlimited…

Latest data (from the World Inequality Lab) show inequality in India has reached alarming levels, last seen in colonial times.
The colonial masters had managed to persuade people that such inequality was good for them. Luckily, everybody couldn’t be fooled & colonialism ended.

Human survivability at its absolute limit in #Asia currently: #Thailand , #Myanmar , #Cambodia , #Vietnam , and the #Philippines . All hit temperatures above 40°C, with some places experiencing an incredible life-threatening heat index of up to 52°C.

It’s a measure of how far the far right has come that calling for an end to war, violence, disease, deprivation etc is now the “controversial” and or dangerous thing, not the just common sense and humane one

There are snipers on the roof of the school where I got my MA.

There are police beating students at the school where I got my PhD.

At each school, I studied authoritarian regimes and how they brainwash people into believing that state brutality is not only normal, but deserved.

Great comment. I find myself just way more…emotional…these days. Like way more.

Heh. I feel like both of them at the same time a lot these days

My four-year-old was watching CNN when he turned to me gravely and asked 'Daddy, why did the nice lady from South Dakota shoot her dog?' And when I told him 'Because the woke mind virus had turned the dog into a freeloader,' he started crying.

That was a rough one, here, have a hug from snowy

I wish I had these kind of happy glib white guy pundit answers for you. It’ll get better!! Just hang in there! Technocapital will save us!! But the stock market!! But I don’t. It just gets worse, faster and faster, from here, and we sort of rip each other apart all the way down