Eric J. Korpela @SETIEric@social.cleverlibre.org

How Can Democracy Possibly Work Under Such Conditions?
 
Pervasive pessimism and nostalgia, waning support for a racial reckoning, anti-feminist retrenchment, and so many conspiracies…
 
New piece: https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/how-can-democracy-possibly-work-under

“The first thing I would say is that we’ve now lived in the deregulated system for 40 years. What we ended up with was a system that failed to achieve the things that the deregulators said it would. We now have a system that is less competitive than it was even during regulation. The top four airlines collectively have a larger market share now than the top four airlines did in 1977. This system of markets and competition has led to massive consolidation and concentration”https://hls.harvard.edu/today/airline-deregulation-may-be-why-flying-is-such-a-miserable-part-of-holiday-travel/

The last Palestinian prisoner released from Israeli detention said she could not wait to get home to her cat 🐈‍⬛ ❤️.

insane how they rebranded manipulator to influencer and the public was just like sounds great

White suburbanites: WhY dOn'T tHeM pOoRs JuSt PuLl ThEsSeLvEs Up By ThE bOoTsTrApS?

So, I don't know how many people know this, but several Republican organizations, including the Heritage Foundation, Turning Point USA, the Family Policy Alliance, the American Conservative, and others are working with former Trump administration officials to develop a comprehensive plan to remake the entire federal government into Trump's image if he wins the election.

They published a playbook titled "Project 2025" this year in which they spell out how they're going to take on the "deep state" by stocking ever agency - FDA, State Department, DHS, USAID, EPA, NIH, etc. - with MAGA loyalists to cut every DEI program, end all support for LGBTQ+ people, eliminate food stamps, cut humanitarian aid to Palestinians, and so on.

All Republicans are at least as bad as Trump, if not worse.

#Fascism #USpol #politics #maga

https://www.project2025.org/playbook/

🏈 @cfb #CFB #CollegeFootball

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Sometimes the good tweets are hidden in the replies

The longer it takes the courts to hold Trump accountable for inciting violence against court staff and refusing to respond to a gag order, the more damage it does to the justice system and undermine the public’s belief in justice and the rule of law.

Michelle Alexander, author of The New Jim Crow, on the obligaqtion of people of conscience to speak now:

"We must speak when Jewish children are brutally killed in the name of liberation, when antisemitism and Islamophobia slip in through the back door of supposedly progressive spaces. When Palestinian children in refugee camps are bombed and killed, when schools and hospitals and entire neighborhoods are laid waste, we must speak."

#Israel #Palestinians

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/24/the_mandates_of_conscience_michelle_alexander

#fediverse #mastodon #bluesky #bsky

#BanalityOfEvil [repost] “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”

About the Palestinian children Israel sent to jail. An edited extract from “A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story”, which was recently published by Allen Lane.

“In her work as a doctor with #UNRWA, the UN relief and works agency for Palestinian refugees, Huda saw things that made her afraid for her sons. She had witnessed a soldier shoot a boy who threw a stone at a tank. The soldiers stopped her from going to help him as he fell to the ground. At home in Sawahre, listening to the nightly news of West Bank killings and closures, she had trouble sleeping. She knew Hadi was out throwing stones.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/sep/21/a-hidden-universe-of-suffering-the-palestinian-children-sent-to-jail

@israel
@palestine
@bookstodon
#OccupiedWestBank
#Israel
#Palestine
#ChildrensRights
#HumanRights

I love the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Happy Buy Nothing Day to those who celebrate.

Surprised the far right snowflakes aren’t offended by Black Friday and demanding all Fridays matter