Actually, I’m not fun at parties
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Steve A retweeted
This clip, originally from my and Max Blumenthal's documentary 'Killing Gaza', has repeatedly gone viral on social media.
It represents the most poignant comment that I heard on America's role in Palestine during my time in Gaza.
The village of Khuza'a, where I filmed it, has been obliterated, but the elderly man who spoke so brilliantly is now surviving in a tent.
I've managed to contact his grandson, who is raising money to keep his family alive.
Please help, if you can: gofundme.com/f/help-get-this…
Steve A retweeted
it's possible empathy is not a sin, but rather a really necessary thing for a society to not collapse
Steve A retweeted
I spent twenty years growing vegetables commercially for the good people of this country.
The weather got exponentially worse, e.g., 7 weeks of rain everyday; 12 weeks with no rain, and so on. I know what is going to happen - not because of these particularly bad years, but because of the speed at which things are getting worse now.
The reason is obvious - we are standing by and letting the elites put carbon into the air between 8 and 30 times faster than at any time in the last four billion years of this planet's history. So what is going to happen to the good people of this country? If you are still asking that question you just haven't yet understood what is going on here.
"If we continue emitting CO2 and methane into the atmosphere and oceans, then we're cooked." @Sir_David_King, former Chief Scientific Advisor to the British government.
rogerhallam.com
New study 'shows that hotter and drier conditions are making food production more unstable, with more fluctuation in crop yields'
"farmers don’t live off of average harvests, they live off of the harvests from each year"
vancouversun.com/news/climat…
. @connorobrienNH @politico
greatly appreciate this article, wanted to suggest an edit… I re-read carefully and no prior sentence explains who “Jacobs” is
politico.com/live-updates/20…
Steve A retweeted
Yesterday, the Supreme Court used the shadow docket to lift a temporary order barring DHS from unlawful stop practices, which include racial profiling.
Steve A retweeted
Shreveport, which Johnson represents, has a total crime rate 144% higher than national average and 62% higher than Louisiana average. Its violent crime rate is 138% higher than the national rate and 44% above Louisiana's. Why isn't the military invading Johnson's district?
Steve A retweeted
Free-market capitalism creates oligarchic societies that, ironically, restrict freedom for most people.
This book by Stiglitz is a masterclass in explaining how the ruling classes on the right appropriated and misused the term ‘freedom’.
Steve A retweeted
In Aug 2023 I wrote about why the “defensive” weapons framing is a PR scam to fund despotic regimes. It was for Saudi Arabia and it, ofc, is for Israel. This is the new pseudo “break” from Israel and it is both meaningless and an obvious delay tactic
columnblog.com/p/biden-admin…
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Steve A retweeted
“Free speech is cognitively very unnatural. It doesn’t assert to people that it needs constant defense, otherwise we backslide into orthodoxy. Because what is natural—this is well established in cognitive psychology—is: the people on my side are self-evidently right; the people on the other side are spreading dangerous falsehoods. Therefore, for the good of society, we have to shut up the people who are obviously incorrect and immoral.
Of course, the people on the other side say the same thing, with the sides switched. And if you have a little bit of wisdom—if you can dislodge yourself from your own vantage point, and look down on yourself as a human being. You realize: hey, I’m not an angel. Yeah, I do believe these things, but maybe I'm wrong. How would I know I’m wrong unless I hear other opinions?"
Steve A retweeted
This tome of a book is excellent. I've always liked Stiglitz, but wished his books did more academic deep dives. This book does that, presenting the current research on inequality, as well as the corresponding models plus variations. Highly recommend.
Steve A retweeted
One of the most important things I've ever written is the chapter The Big Deception in the Copaganda book. I explain how this propaganda tactic--falsifying the intentions of powerful people--is so crucial across every domain of propaganda. It's vital that people study this.
Steve A retweeted
🇦🇷 Libertarianism = Monopoly capitalism. Since Milei took office, Argentina has lost 15,564 registered businesses, 99.7% of them are small and medium sized employers.
The free market inevitably concentrates capital in fewer hands. Marx is proven right once again.
Steve A retweeted
The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbrief.org/…
