John Abbe

Healing within each of us, among us, & with the rest of the natural world.

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[John Abbe @johnabbe]

DEAR ADVERTISTERS:

If I see you advertising here on Twitter while it is under its current management, I will go out of my way to avoid purchasing your products.

[John Abbe @johnabbe]

@nikadubrovsky @elizabethknowl3 Barbara Ehrenreich's article & book on this got some traction when they came out in 1999, 2005. Now in 2026, may a critical mass of people step up to do more about it! https://t.co/7ubONhVwg0

[John Abbe @johnabbe]

@runsvolk @dahvnyc @NYJewishAgenda @amyspitalnick Some context: https://t.co/YdWw4PAPVU

[jack @8jackery8]

@emilderosa @GregGrandin @melissadderosa I can attest to Emil’s post as we were family friends in the 90s. Melissa was a normal gal growing up but turned into a demon once she suffered a traumatic brain injury from getting bucked by a bull. She now shares stories with the likes of TBI victims like John Fetterman

[Emil DeRosa @emilderosa]

@GregGrandin I try! She's blocked my number, our parents numbers. She was always a good girl growing up. Ever since she started with that damn Cuomo, we don't recognize her anymore! Melissa, come home. This isn't you. @melissadderosa

[Greg @GregGrandin]

Who’s going to call out Melissa DeRosa, democratic strategist, for calling Brad Lander a parasite, an historic antisemitic slur.

[John Abbe @johnabbe]

@realdonchin @EmpathyWarrior @GarrettShorr @xkcd Thanks for letting me know! I will share this on Mastodon, since that's an actual public square, vs. this XTwitPit.

Also a big fan of the Slow Web, which your post is an example of. #SlowWeb

[Don Chin @realdonchin]

@johnabbe @EmpathyWarrior @GarrettShorr @xkcd Did someone say Blackbelt Hamsters?!

https://t.co/N1xSZRn3Uf

[Labor Notes @labornotes]

The federal government on Tuesday arrested and indicted 15 people, many of them union activists, on conspiracy charges over the protests and massive strike against ICE in Minnesota last winter (story linked in thread) 1/5

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

@jaybaxter @kcoleman @audreyt The post below has been up for 10 hours. It is full of false claims from top to bottom, claims for which it does not even pretend to provide evidence. It has not been Community Noted, and it now has 1.3 million views. That's not a system that's working.

[from the MOON RACCOON @tunes_n_toons]

"We're all only temporarily able-bodied." - Liz Henry

[John Abbe @johnabbe]

@jy People start more blogs every year. "Social media" is just group blogging typically w crappy corporate algorithms layered on top.

Tumblr? Blogging.

Facebook? Blogging.

Blogging is the most popular medium from the Web. So far.

You started an indie blog! https://t.co/HtmJKNWCoI

[John Abbe @johnabbe]

@selenamarie I saw this and immediately felt some hope! Than I saw the date. Probably time to unpin it.

Curious if any of the staff whose positions were cut have new positions yet?

[Clare Hinchcliffe @Subversivite]

This Friday, 12 June, 4 young activists who broke into an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol - and were convicted of criminal damage - face sentencing AS TERRORISTS.

This is unprecedented in British legal history. We have to act now!

4 things you can do... 🧵

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

Hard to think of a greater honor than to be considered The Economist‘s intellectual enemy #1.

My work is “intellectual ballast” for the largest number of Americans since 1975 wanting government to “improve the standard of living” of the poor, cut their costs, raise their incomes and stop AI from wrecking society, they say. Dream of an endorsement. Thank you @TheEconomist!

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Florida paid a portable toilet company called Doodie Calls more than $92 million over six months to haul wastewater out of the Everglades. The state projected it would pay Doodie Calls $480 million over two years. For comparison, building a sewage treatment plant for a city of 10,000 people costs about $5 million.

That is one vendor. At one facility. Built in eight days on an Everglades airstrip using hurricane disaster funds because Ron DeSantis declared immigration a state of emergency in 2023 to access a $5 billion fund set aside for floods and hurricanes.

The facility costs between $1.2 million and $3 million per day to operate. A conservative estimate puts the annual per-capita cost at $500,000 per detainee. Florida spends $30,000 a year to house a convicted criminal in a state prison. The math on Alligator Alcatraz is not tougher than a prison. It is more than sixteen times more expensive.

Three quarters of the men held there have never been convicted of a crime. They are awaiting civil immigration proceedings. They are being held in kennels - cages with steel mesh sides, 16 bunks, three toilets, brightly lit 24 hours a day. Amnesty International documented what it called deliberate neglect designed to dehumanize, including credible allegations of men held in stress positions in direct sunlight without food or water for hours at a time.

Governor Braun opened the Speedway Slammer at an Indiana prison. The Cornhusker Clink in Nebraska. The Louisiana Lockup at Angola. The naming contest is ongoing. The cruelty is the point. The cost is someone else's problem. Florida's emergency fund has dwindled to $200 million. The facility cannot run to the end of the year.

The men in the cages are still there.

[Ollie Vargas @Ollie_Vargas_]

Bolivia's general strike against neoliberalism:

Workers in the Santa Cruz region have forced police & paramilitary forces to retreat after more than 4 hours of resistance on the highway in San Julián. The barricade blocking the road remains in place for now.

[Northwest Treaty Tribes @nwtreatytribes]

We’re thrilled to introduce the new and improved Rooted Futures platform, designed to illuminate pathways to careers working with natural resources. It won a Bridge-Builder Award for Equity at UW.

Check it out: https://t.co/Dbk2NTTAbf

[John Abbe @johnabbe]

I understand many are here because someone they care about or want to follow still has blogs only here.

But it's become inhumane.

Elon Musk saw the propaganda opportunity. And is so insecure, he was willing to lose billions of $$ just to inflate his tweets' numbers. 1/2

[John Abbe @johnabbe]

@margaridaeid1 @Lev_Lavan @TimesofIsrael Such accounts are only allowed here because this is now an open propaganda platform. There is no serious effort to make it a humane, or human place.

Elon Musk saw the propaganda opportunity. And is so insecure, he threw away billions of $$ just to inflate his tweets' numbers.

[Kal - Fear that party that fears your vote. @TruthJustis4USA]

@MikeLevin @AntiToxicPeople The Trump family is openly doing everything that Republicans spent four years falsely accusing the Biden’s of and on a scale that no one ever conceived or thought possible.

The silence from Republicans is deafing as the Trump’s use the presidency as a pin-less ATM.