"Medicine and gymnastics truly care for the body, cookery and cosmetics pretend to but do not. Politics is the art that cares for the soul; justice and legislation are its branches, and the imitations of each are #rhetoric and #sophistry.
@CavemanOogUgh Good to hear from both of you! You guys are of course welcome to join us for paranormal live tweeting on bluesky sometime if you get a chance. hashtags ryanwrecker and georgeknapp.
At the moment, mansion-sized Asteroid 2024-YR4 has a one-in-fifty chance of hitting Earth in the next eight years.
Now might be a bad time to reduce spending on Science. Just sayin’.
Rampant forest fires, ice storms, hurricane approaching, pestilence over the land, equality marches, militia groups targeting, authoritarian in the WH and only savior is a career politician... Ugh living out an Art Bell show. 😩
America is a failed Democracy.
Our media failed us, our institutions failed us, our people failed us.
Worst of all, we now pose a major threat to the planet.
@MichaelEMann@olliemilman@guardian@GuardianUS Both appear to live in a control volume fantasy provided by affluence, where The 2nd Law of Thermodynamics doesn't appear to apply to them. $ makes it easier to be willfully ignorant as needed to maintain the fantasy.
@highbrow_nobrow Childless folks were worried their children would get stuck in a weird punk kid phase, continuing into adulthood, making bizarre diagnoses like they have a M.D.
Ordinary Americans get one vote apiece.
Billionaires get to contribute hundreds of millions of dollars to Super PACS that elect their friends & defeat political opponents.
If we believe in democracy, we must overturn Citizens United and begin the public funding of elections.