Elle Bogs

Mostly politics. A little pop culture. I’m having a podcast moment.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

I got The White Vault

[alexyquest.bsky.social @alexyquest]

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[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Noah Hawley attended Jeff Bezos's private Campfire retreat in 2018. His wife broke her wrist. He told Bezos directly - not as complaint, just as human information from one husband and father to another. Bezos looked horrified, an aide materialized instantly, and he was whisked away.

No "I'm so sorry." No "do you need anything." Just escape.

Hawley's thesis in The Atlantic is not that the ultra-wealthy are evil. It is something more precise and more unsettling: that moral reasoning develops through consequences, and the environment of extreme wealth systematically removes consequences from a person's life. When you can buy your way out of any mistake, fire anyone who disagrees with you, and exist in a social circle entirely composed of people who need something from you - the basic mechanism by which humans learn that other people are real goes dark.

This is different from classic narcissism, which typically masks insecurity. What Hawley is describing is something rarer: a self-definition in which the individual has genuinely grown to the size of the universe and the universe has contracted to fit. Elon Musk calling empathy "the fundamental weakness of Western civilization." Trump asked about checks on his power saying the only thing that could stop him was his own morality. Peter Thiel concluding that freedom and democracy are incompatible.

These are not poses. They are the logical endpoint of a psychology shaped by years of operating in a world that never pushed back.

The Bezos encounter is the piece's sharpest detail because it is so small. He was not cruel. He was not contemptuous. He simply could not locate, in that moment, the impulse to respond like a person who understood that another person's wrist hurt.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@FranksRedHot @CapFeathersaber Thanks for this tweet. I have some unopened best by Aug25 and had white lumpy stuff in the bottle. I was a little scared.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@TyphinaRex Pigskin picks

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

I have thought this for years. How did The Roman Empire lose democracy?

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

“The American people will have to decide what sort of human being they want to put in the White House. The implications for them and for the world of this choice will be profound. An American ‘Caesarism’ has now become flesh.”
https://t.co/bVfkKX5iNa

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@TyphinaRex 37… also https://t.co/WKW8IB1gRb could give a number

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@JoeBiden Thank you for your presidency. You have done it with honor.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@mattyglesias Trump’s go home Jan 6ers was also pretaped.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@savannahelisse Doing a post-doc might be the next thing. Get some first author papers and grants on the resume. Or maybe his references are not good.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@goldisacks I have to ice my butt to numbness for a progesterone shot to stay pregnant. It’s very convenient to use the ice machine at 6 am.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@sewistwrites Red Lily by Nora Roberts if you want a romance…with a ghost twist.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@SuzMcBrideBooks Paul

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@lisamayyoung @ParkdaleHaunt Apollyon - it’s sci fi and introspective on female aging; dust - short stories I like the one about a flight that lands on the future.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@MollyJongFast The ND capitol building has a hallway of famous NDakotan paintings. Many of the portraits there are in this similar style.

[Shulman - Youth Development Lab @LabDevelopment]

Know anyone in North America, aged 14 to 30, who might want to take part in an online study? Kindly send them our way.

https://t.co/rAaG1UkMV5

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

My take on Queen Camilla. It’s 100% great. She was a love of Charles’s life but bc outdated royal rules, he wooed Diana. Diana and Charles were a mismatch marriage. Why would ppl want Diana to be married to Charles today? She was miserable and deserved better.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

'Spring Ritual' Embroidery by Turkish textile artist Irem Yazici #WomensArt

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@content_grinder @AnneMurata I read this as brats- that is short for bratwurst.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@Sarah_Nicolas @JoshuaBegley1 You can be a snow bird.

[Elle Bogs @ElleBogs]

@DaniTrussoni Jurassic Park because I loved the science plus dangerous dinosaurs (exciting!). Reread The Hobbit for nostalgia of familiar characters.

[camme🏳️‍🌈🐾🙏🎶🌏🐞 @makenafan]

https://t.co/s2VMweKtD7 Iolani Palace Is Preparing For Hawaiian Royal Heiress Kawananakoa To Lie In State