one way to shrink the Federal government is by impeachment.
remember how they couldn’t endorse because they were failing to persuade the public of their neutrality and lack of bias, so it was essential to restore trust? https://social.marxist.network/@yogthos/114070829915547830
i love it when organizations i’ve given money to write me to tell me it’s my last chance to give them more money.
Yes. It looks like 1.1.1.1 and 1.1.1.2 resolve me, but 1.1.1.3 resolves to 0.0.0.0. Not good! Do you know how whether there's some means to understand or appeal this kind of filtering? Thanks!
Text: Although feeding dying babies should surely qualify for the vague foreign aid waiver issued by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the salaries of the staff and the cost of the fuel to get the therapeutic food to hospitals like mine are not. Without USAID employees, nobody can open the warehouses where the life-saving packets from the American people are stored. In Burundi, it will take us three months to get new supplies into the country. We might have planned for this had we known we would be cut off. But we were given no warning when the programs that support the care of sick and hungry children were sacrificed on the altar of “efficiency” in one harsh, abrupt stroke. Seeming indifference, from the American people.
[new draft post] A theory of Elons https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/25/a-theory-of-elons/index.html
if Europeans can get over their debt phobia (or tax the effing rich), a private sector depression would be a great opportunity to devote a few years to building the military they now urgently require.
on the left you have people annoyed they can't make rent and might die while they appeal their chemo denial. on the right you have people annoyed they'd get in trouble if they called someone "retard" and broadcast it to potentially millions of people. both sides have legitimate grievances.
a thing about cutting medicaid is it's the most cost effective piece of the American health care system, with the possible exception of the VA.
i worry Trump's fantasies with respect to the Gaza Strip may create incentives among hopefully credulous Israelis to create a similar circumstance in the West Bank.
"Trump clearly doesn't want to be president in the sense that it's a job. He wants to be president in the sense that it's a status, and would prefer to be king." @RebeccaSolnit https://www.meditationsinanemergency.com/how-the-stupid-coup-is-going-week-five/
this derives from a report in Greek media, which may ultimately prove inaccurate.
but i feel like it is a proposal we should mobilize to put under sharp public scrutiny.
https://defence-blog.com/trump-shuts-down-us-base-in-greece/
Text: I’m sorry, but there’s a certain irony in the ruse of billionaires consolidating their power under the pretense of “reducing deficits” when it’s exactly the massive deficits of recent years that have boosted their income, profits, and financial market “wealth.” There’s a certain irony to see foxes with mouths full of feathers claiming that they’re defending the henhouse; minding the store while their fingers are deep in the cookie jar of government contracts and foreign quid pro quo. They’re selling a house of cards, and everybody’s merrily picking out furniture.
you can just do things. terrible things.
people for whom sincerity and consistency are entirely orthogonal.
from an excellent essay by @williamcb.bsky.social https://williamcullernebown.substack.com/p/between-russia-and-america
Text: This darkness is a fear that both liberals and social democrats share. However, it is only the social democrats who have the capacity to reach out to the force likely to ultimately tip the balance in this contest - the working class. Thus the basic political arrangement that friends of freedom and democracy should adopt is a broad front led by social democrats.
“there’s egg on your face” is the new Prada.
“there’s just no getting around the fact that a lot of people around the world are going to suffer and die in order to save the typical American taxpayer a negligible sum.” @dkthomp https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/musk-terror-reign/681731/
can’t finance anybody’s primary from a prison cell.