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[Abbott Elementary @AbbottElemABC]

No such thing as too cool for school(house). 📚🎶 #AbbottElementary returns Wednesday October 7 on ABC, and stream on Hulu.

[adam mahoney (he/him) @AdamLMahoney]

NEW: 5 Black family homes worth $2.1M burned to the ground
The insurance check? $297,000
One sister dead
Investors circling the ashes
This is what “disaster capitalism” is

Read what they did to Altadena’s Black families & what that signals for all of us: https://t.co/aRo3MhuEGq

[André Guerra @aguerraal]

Pensar que o estúdio que produziu os dois maiores fenômenos dentre as superproduções originais de autor do último ano, que só com eles acumula quase 30 indicações ao Oscar, está sendo vendido pra uma plataforma de streaming. Tempos estranhos.

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

Venezuela killed the US. Or rather, it revealed it was already dead.

In the history of the US’s relation with Latin America, what just happened in Venezuela is hardly unique: the U.S. government has intervened to change governments in Latin America a total of 41 times (https://t.co/3CDBc7fbez).

What is unprecedented however is the brazenness, the unabashedly predatory nature of the intervention.

Trump is not pretending this is about anything else than resource extraction. He explicitly stated "we're going to be taking out a tremendous amount of wealth out of the ground" and that this wealth would “go to the United States of America in the form of reimbursement for the damages caused us by that country." (https://t.co/5ZVibGjEBd).

Stunningly, the US isn’t even insisting on regime change. They’re quite happy for the Chavista government to stay in place under acting president Delcy Rodríguez as long as she “does what we want,” (said Trump: https://t.co/Mm8rSftT1f), vowing to bomb the country again if she didn’t.

In other words, there is absolutely zero pretense there: submission to the U.S.’s will is the only variable that matters.

Never before in its entire history has the U.S. been so nakedly… bad.

This might sound almost trivial. “So what if they admit they’re bad, at least they’re not hypocritical about it anymore,” you might tell yourself. Some might even find that refreshing in its honesty.

Quite the contrary. The story a nation tells itself is not trivial - it is everything.

We, human beings, for better or worse, are structured by mythology and self-deception.

Think about yourself, what drives your own behavior? You have, doubtlessly, ideals you want to live up to. If you have kids you have ideals of what a good parent ought to be. If you have a spouse you have ideals of what fidelity and partnership mean. If you have a job you have some conception of integrity.

You probably fall short - we all do - but the ideals still structure your behavior. They give you something to reach for, they provide the terms in which you can be criticized - including by your own internal dialogue. They make it possible for you to do better tomorrow.

The hypocrisy - the gap between ideal and reality - is not the problem. It's the proof that the ideal still has a hold on you, that you can still be called back to it. As the saying goes, hypocrisy is the tribute vice pays to virtue.

Now imagine you renounce all this. Imagine you stop being a hypocrite in the sense that you abandon your ideals entirely, that you start owning up to your worst self and become comfortable with your vices. You cheat on your spouse and stop pretending it bothers you. You neglect your children and make peace with it.

Have you thus become “refreshingly honest”? Maybe. But you’ve also died inside. You’ve become something deeply broken - beyond shame, beyond appeal. You’ve lost the internal architecture that makes moral life possible. The little light that said “this is not who I want to be” is extinguished.

That is what the United States just did.

The consequences of this are, frankly, terrifying. What happens when a nation stops telling itself it should be good? This is precisely what I try to answer in my latest article: https://t.co/KNoPdy028H

[Casual Geopolitics @Casualgeopol]

BREAKING: 🚨 Ben of Ben & Jerry’s says Unilever has STOPPED Ben & Jerry’s from creating a flavor for Palestine

So he’s doing it himself! He’s asking the public to name the flavor, suggest ingredients and even design packaging!

Bravo @YoBenCohen ✊🏼👏🏼

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

Just to be clear, you are defending a Heil Hitler salute that was performed and repeated for emphasis and clarity.

People can officially stop listening to you as any sort of reputable source of information now. You work for them. Thank you for making that crystal clear to all.

[Mayor Karen Bass @MayorOfLA]

We’re launching a new, simple intake system to report price gouging — call @MyLA311 to report illegally hiked rents and prices.

We have no tolerance for it.

[GNCordova @GNCordova]

Whew. You won’t often see me saying that men in general are owed apologies but a lot of you owe Black men some apologies. The rhetoric that came out of this election cycle was some nasty work.

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Elections have consequences. The Supreme Court will be changed for a generation. I’ll never see a moderate court again in my lifetime. Alito and Thomas will step down and Trump will appoint 40 year old partisans to the bench. The damage he is about to inflict on our institutions the next 2 years will be irreparable.

[a. rye @angela_rye]

Regardless of the outcome of the 2024 election…

Fascism
Racism
Sexism
Xenophobia
Misinformation

Have a CHOKEHOLD on more than half of this nation’s citizens. THAT is a sick reality.

[Meeksism⚒️ @nyctophil3]

Latinos and white women watching yall blame black men

[AJ+ @ajplus]

People in Ghana are protesting illegal gold mining, which has poisoned over 60% of the country’s bodies of water.

If illegal mining continues at the current rate, experts say the entire country may be importing water by 2030.

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

As the City of LA goes broke, one of the many questions we get is:

"WHERE ARE OUR TAX DOLLARS GOING?" 🤔

The City just started a new fiscal year & if you want to know how the Mayor & a majority of City Council increased or decreased departments' operational budget, see below:

[follow @bencollins on bluesky @oneunderscore__]

https://t.co/XCapYTfOoq

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina inmate Freddie Owens dies by lethal injection in state’s first execution in 13 years.

[World Athletics @WorldAthletics]

They did, they absolutely did.

#Paris2024 #Olympics

[LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @lacontroller]

HOW TO BUDGET BADLY 📝

The City of LA spent $247M on Liability Payouts in FY2024 but budgeted ONLY $87M for FY2025.

One month into FY2025 (July 2024) & we've already spent $39.5M or 45%.

TOP LIABILITY PAYOUTS (JULY 2024):
🚔LAPD: $22.8M
🤕 Misc: $11.9M
🚌 Transportation: $2.4M

[The Olympic Games™ @Olympics]

This is everything.

[Ms. Andry Noir, PhD @keatingssixth]

Track & Field has never ever EVER measured a win based on whose foot crosses the line first. And they not about to start now.

It’s always been the torso beloved! No one was robbed!