Kathy

Denizen of a dying Empire
[email protected]
Live and die like God is your only witness.

[Kathy @kathyhmurphy]

No one can do everything.
Everyone can do something.
It is forbidden to do nothing.

Fr. Tom Lumpkin

[Kathy @kathyhmurphy]

@RogueKite Thank you!

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

These two stories trending together reveal a lot about who is the actual victim and who pretends to be.

[Kathy @kathyhmurphy]

@flrainh Thank you. Also, his markings are...remarkable...😊.

[Peter Daou @peterdaou]

Instead of reaching out to Zohran Mamdani to figure out how to pander to progressives, Kamala Harris should voluntarily surrender at The Hague and submit to a war crimes tribunal.

[Leslie SoCal ☮️📸 @Leslie64993617]

Sheba kitty joined a book club. 😸

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

In one region of Indonesia, malaria rates dropped from 16.5% to nearly zero. The fix wasn't pharmaceutical. It was fish.

Farmers there raise fish directly in flooded rice paddies, a practice roughly 2,000 years old. The fish eat mosquito larvae before they mature, which is what crashed the malaria rate. They also eat insect pests and weeds in the rice itself, and their waste fertilizes the crop as they swim through it. The rice gives them shade and cover in return. One field, two harvests, and a public health outcome nobody was trying for.

The numbers hold up under modern scrutiny. Studies have found rice-fish systems use 68 percent less pesticide and 24 percent less fertilizer than conventional rice farming, with equal or higher rice yields. Same land, fewer chemical inputs, plus a second source of protein and income from fish that were already doing the pest control.

The Green Revolution pushed rice farming toward chemical monoculture, and practices like this nearly disappeared in the process. It's coming back because it never stopped working. A flooded field isn't a factory. It's an ecosystem, and apparently it can out-perform a malaria program too.

[Russell @ATLCWorker]

You're "just not that into politics?" Your boss is. Your landlord is. Your insurance company is. And every day they use their political power to keep your pay low, raise your rent, and deny you coverage.
It’s time to get into politics.

[Kathy @kathyhmurphy]

@nutrition_facts Thank you for all your great work, Dr. Greger. Will you be tweaking the daily dozen app with all this new information?

[Kathy @kathyhmurphy]

Since its inception, facsism has been growing in the US.

[Max Blumenthal @MaxBlumenthal]

Watch our report on Monika Silva, the Ecuador-based activist found murdered weeks after providing the US embassy in Quito with a file on President Daniel Noboa's narco links

Noboa's US-controlled government falsely claimed Silva committed suicide, when she died from blunt trauma and strangulation

Meanwhile, the left-wing mayor of Guayaquil, opposition leader Aquiles Alvarez, is rotting in prison after announcing on national TV his plans to expose those behind the drug trafficking operations in his city's ports

Silva's death demands an international investigation which delves fully into the Noboa Trading scandal she attempted to expose

[Kathy @kathyhmurphy]

Life in the empire, in a nutshell. Please read. We need to wake up and stop compartmentalizing.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

Empire rots the soul at home.

Not with dramatic, visible corruption.

With the slow normalization of the unacceptable.

The homeless person outside the office building of the wealthiest corporation in human history. Normal.

The insulin-rationing. Normal.

The politicians who enter public service at a middle-class salary and leave as multimillionaires without anyone in the serious press treating this as something requiring serious explanation. Normal.

The children in the richest country on earth doing active shooter drills. Normal.

The veterans sleeping under bridges in the cities of the country that thanks them for their service at every football game. Normal.

Normalcy is the most powerful political force on earth.

Not ideology. Not propaganda.

Just the daily, accumulated, habituated sense that this is how things are, this is how they have always been, this is the weather, not the architecture.

Empire produces this normalcy deliberately.

It requires it.

A population that sees the abnormality clearly would ask questions about the infrastructure of the abnormality.

The infrastructure prefers not to be questioned.

So it makes the abnormal normal, and the normal invisible, and calls the people who point at it idealistic, naive, or dangerous.

And the rot continues.

Quietly. Politely. On schedule.

[Whitney Webb @_whitneywebb]

We've been quiet recently because Mark Goodwin and I have been working to write the most comprehensive investigation into Polymarket's origins and ambitions to date.

We found that Polymarket's "official" origin story, that Shayne Coplan founded the company alone in 2020 and then built "the company in his bathroom", is a lie. Polymarket really started years earlier as another company called TokenBnk that was deeply tied to Israeli interests, specifically a crypto company founded by Benjamin Netanyahu's niece and nephew. Coplan has actively tried to obfuscate this company from his story and it's not the only thing either.

In Part 1 of this two-part series, we unravel the real history of Polymarket, directly connecting the company to Peter Thiel's efforts to resurrect controversial DARPA programs from its now defunct Information Awareness Office. Polymarket appears to have been chosen by Thiel and his associates to succeed in resurrecting DARPA's Policy Analysis Market where another Thiel-linked company, Augur, had previously failed.

Stay tuned for Part 2, where we explore the current influence of prediction markets and Polymarket, including how an insidious effort to have prediction markets replace representative democracy as a governance model is already being slowly implemented by the White House.

Read Part 1 here: https://t.co/xTmU5RzoZz

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Many are asking me what do I make of last night and progressive wins across our nation.

I say the era of cliches delivered with charisma and charm is over.

This is a time for courage.

Voters want to know where you stand on the hard issues and whether you will fight for change in an unfair and lopsided economic and political system.

Are you for single payer healthcare?
For taxing the wealth of billionaires?
For taxing capital like we tax work?
For no more wars?
For recognizing the genocide?
For taxing agentic AI more than workers?
For a real living wage?
For abolishing and replacing ICE?
For money out of politics?

This is not an age for triangulation or obfuscation.

[Kathy @kathyhmurphy]

@InsightTweeting Teach me, please.

[Kathy @kathyhmurphy]

@InsightTweeting Holly Hunter is a driven tv news producer who is young and single. She sets aside a few minutes every morning to cry into her pillow, then she jumps up and continues her regimented day. William Hurt is in it, as well as Albert Brooks.

[Kathy @kathyhmurphy]

@InsightTweeting Did you ever see Broadcast News?

[Leslie SoCal ☮️📸 @Leslie64993617]

For anyone who didn’t see this. 💔

[Prof Zenkus @anthonyzenkus]

Mother's in Gaza: My children have been vaporized by Israeli bombs.

Mayim Bialik: My children saw a T-shirt.