so is the Steve Miller Band going to change their name or what

we can probably trust men wearing robes

#RulesToSqueakBy #HashTagGames

To the radical, reasonable seems radical.

"We are currently in control by, simultaneously, the worst president and the worst supreme court in American history. And Congress ain’t no polished gem either."

~ Gene Weingarten

#Trump #SupremeCourt #BirthrightCitizenship #democracy #monarchy
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https://geneweingarten.substack.com/p/deep-doodoo

Even more urgently than a better government, we need better people.

@selzero you bet

What country do Britains think is the biggest threat to security... well no real surprise that everyone see's Putin's Russia as the number one international security problem...

But, in a dramatic shift in perception those seeing the USA as a threat have doubled from 36% to 72% of people quizzed for the most recent British Social Attitudes survey... and this was before the events of the last tow weeks.

Yup, more & more people see the US as a Rogue Nation.

#politics #InternationalRelations

Bomb science 101:

A scene of modern Britain

Boo-hooo! I can't enrich myself at the expense of the public because the big bad government and its regulations don't let me.

#biggovernment #regulation #antiregulatorystance

@pluralistic

"Some of y'all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal.
Regulations don't exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us."

cr: @EpiEllie

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Louis D. Brandeis

Theists:
God loves you.*

*Terms and conditions apply. Void where prohibited by common sense.

______________________
#atheism #faith #god

Protest is terrorism.
Genocide is defence.
War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.

I remember and miss the days when politics was supposed to be about making people's lives better rather then the voyeuristic spectacle of two billionaires having a catfight.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/06/possible-impacts-trump-musk-feud

The machine has periodically been mentioned in media, most notably making an appearance in Make Magazine in 2010.

https://archive.org/details/make-magazine/Make%20Magazine%20-%20Vol%2023/page/94/mode/2up

@falcennial Yes. Unfortunately, there are many adults that hold on to many such fallacies. Which would not be such a problem if they went... "Oh, of course, my bad." when they're pointed out.

We're all guilty of faulty thinking, but that's not an issue if we're happy to continually examine our thinking and correct as necessary.

I've changed my understanding of many concepts and opinions over time (and still do) when faced with new information / new perspectives.

Just How Many More Successful UBI Trials Do We Need? | by Katie Jgln | The Noösphere | May, 2025 | Medium https://medium.com/the-no%C3%B6sphere/just-how-many-more-successful-ubi-trials-do-we-need-64ed124c7001

kinda sucks how most of everything is about maximizing profit at the expense of literally everything else

Fascists like Mace know we are wired to accept premises, and so they construct questions in such a way as to win the venue. This is true *even if we disagree* with the person who is offering the proposition. We accept the frame, then we argue the contrary position.

But first we accept the frame.