The Widening Gyre

[Prof. John McLaughlin @Harvard1988]

🚨This will be remembered as the most consequential decision to end our federal government.
His plans to de-construct our federal government always hinged upon this final step.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Read this. Izzy Aly is dying of kidney disease because he is in a U.S. concentration camp.
https://t.co/li2K1lOeun

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 A chilling media purge is happening right now in the most famous newsroom in America. After a prominent Trump ally took over CBS’s parent company, a brutal firing spree began, targeting some of the most respected journalists on television.

But they never expected legendary anchor Scott Pelley to fight back. In a packed staff meeting, Pelley looked his new boss dead in the eye and accused the new leadership of intentionally murdering "60 Minutes." He was fired for cause days later, ending a 40-year career. He chose the truth over his job. Click the link to read his explosive, defiant words: 👇
https://t.co/BRknZuIhuz

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Lawless plunderers are in control of the US government. I warned about Trump's desire to "get" Greenland in my book #Strongmen. Rubio is the just the latest enabler.

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Katie Phang on the murder of 60 Minutes: "What the Ellisons have done to CBS has now transcended just being a red flag — it is a huge honking warning sign of what is to come to CNN. And look, you may not be a fan of CNN, but we should always be rooting for the independence of our media. And yet we've seen time and time again, mainstream legacy media bending the knee and capitulating to the demands of a fucking toddler in the White House."

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

monstrously stupid

jackass grifter unfit for his job

[The Widening Gyre @HistMaterialist]

@ProudSocialist You get more S by reducing V.
That’s the divergence of interests.
That’s the conflict.
It’s which side of the bread gets the butter.

[The Widening Gyre @HistMaterialist]

@ProudSocialist People often posit confusing arguments about how much wealth constitutes class differences.
It’s not about wealth at all.
It’s Marx’s analysis of C+V+S = M.
V is variable capital (wages).
S is surplus value (capitalist profit)
Therein lies the antagonism.
For a given M…

[The Widening Gyre @HistMaterialist]

@ProofofMaro In his book Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty explained that every year about 5 trillion dollars goes missing from the books.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I swear to God we are living in Idiocracy. Everyday I think 'This can't be real.' But it is.
You couldn't write a satirical movie like the insane shitshow we are being forced to live through in real life.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

It’s so depressing that this moment in history is the exact time that the Trump admin went for anti-vax insanity. Any delays now will cause so many needless deaths.

[The Widening Gyre @HistMaterialist]

@GregoryKBovino @Clock_Hypocrisy It’s not choosing illegal aliens over US citizens. It’s because we are US citizens and we expect our government to treat people with basic human decency.
It’s about who we are, not who they are.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

DOGE was just a cover for the largest robbery of the American people in history.

[The Widening Gyre @HistMaterialist]

@rocknrollofall Achilles Last Stand

[Greta Berlin @Truegreta]

I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.

Credit - Mathew Reed

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm

[The Widening Gyre @HistMaterialist]

@skumWgmi All this bullshit attempting to divide our society along generational lines is engineered to protect the ruling classes.
Don’t fall for it.
In fact, expose it for what it is- reactionary propaganda.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"We should be clear: Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes. She is doing so not out of incompetence or foolishness, but with malice aforethought. She is doing it at the behest of her corporate patron."
https://t.co/ptjRbzqB0k

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

It’s about the grift. It’s always about the grift. Along with the narcissism.

[Joseph Allen @j_g_allen]

RFK, Jr tried to collapse mRNA vaccine research