David Samson

Architectural historian interested in USA modernism and its roots. Author of Hut Pavilion Shrine: Architectural Archetypes in Midcentury Modernism (Ashgate).

[Kelly @broadwaybabyto]

The moment we start debating the “worth” of others, the fascists win.

We all have value.

You don’t need to produce for capitalism in order to matter.

You don’t need to be healthy, rich or productive.

Every person matters.

The ruling class benefits when we forget that.

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

Sascha Riley’s description of how trump raped him as a young boy, makes your skin crawl in disgust. He says he’s in the Epstien files. The Epstein files make his story certain. Our hero veteran is telling the truth. Trump must be forced to resign today. Release the files.

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

As a newer immigrant to this country, coming from a country of ancient civilization, I immediately recognized, very early on, that bribery in the US is practiced in secret, disguised as capitalism advancement. What trump did was that he blew the lid off, and made bribery legal.

[middleclassparty @middle_class_us]

It's not just your job or your industry.

Employers give workers 29 hours a week on purpose.

At 30 hours they would qualify for health insurance and sick leave.

So they cap it at 29.

Rents are outpacing wages in every city.

In America today a low wage job is homelessness waiting to happen.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

When Citizens United allowed the corporations paying poverty wages to buy seats for politicians.

[Briana Mills, LMFT ♿️🏳️‍🌈🍉 @theBrianaMills]

Therapy helps but let’s be clear. You can’t CBT your way out of capitalism. You can’t mindfulness your way out of racism. You can’t self care your way out of oppression. You can’t journal your way out of ableism. This isn’t about coping, it’s about deconstructing the systems.

[Richard P. Arter @arter_richard]

ABSOLUTELY he did

[EuropeanPowell @EuropeanPowell]

Peter Thiel has said the successful way to run your company is to run it like a cult or mafia.
These people are extremely dangerous, and an absolute menace to democracy and society at large.
Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan are key figures and advocates of ‘The Network State’ where the interconnected wealth, influence and power of these lunatics is now more powerful than nations, ‘a fortress of capital’ engineered to create their own states of free zones and charter cities.
This is not hyperbole, this is happening right now.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

I still feel that it should have been a bigger story that the Trump administration used the situation room to cover up the presidents involvement in a sex trafficking pedophile ring 🤷

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Police DON’T prevent crime. They respond to it. Higher wages, guaranteed health care, food security, high quality child care, housing, good schools, and addiction treatment prevent crime.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

The National Guard is now guarding the algae in the Reflecting Pool to protect against an utterly deranged conspiracy theory Donald Trump thought up on the can

We are so far beyond America being *just* a global joke

There are simply no words anymore for how pathetic all this is

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

Gorgeous Joan Mitchell painting, much smaller than her usual work, in a private collection which has never been seen by the public (!)

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

We are living in a time where one of the most dangerous forms of anti-intellectualism is not simply a lack of information, but a willful ignorance that assumes it is already informed.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

They’ve arrested more people for touching the peeling paint at the Reflecting Pool than they’ve arrested from the Epstein files.

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Lucy Culliton, contemporary Australian artist, known for her paintings of landscapes and still life #WomensArt #Saturday

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Ladies and Gentlemen,

May I introduce to you, systemic white supremacy 👏👏👏

Secret Vetting and Blocked Promotions: Inside Hegseth’s War on Diversity https://t.co/7AGEAWAIKe via @NYTimes

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

We are suing to prevent Donald Trump from controlling mail-in voting by dictating to the Postal Service of whose ballot they will and won't deliver. All of this is laddering up to Trump trying to dictate who gets to vote and who doesn't.