Josh
@Internetjosh
Interested in ecology, evolution, mycology and behavior.
You might like
Last year I rowed over 1000 km, 100 days straight to start the year. This year, I'm focusing attention on my garden, educational volunteering and my best friend + partner, Alice. Wishing you all another great year and encouraging you to do something kind for someone unexpectedly.
15 years after Citizens United, which transformed every corporate treasury in America into a potential political slush fund, we now see the result: government of billionaires, by oligarchs, for plutocrats.
I attended Trump’s inauguration yesterday. Here are my thoughts:
Just a reminder that there are currently no major left-wing political parties in the country. There is a party that is entirely beholden to corporations and billionaires and another party that is nearly-entirely beholden to corporations and billionaires.
Our new paper on why people love sad art The key question: You probably wouldn’t enjoy it if someone started telling you about how she is addicted to drugs and her life is failing apart. So why do you love it when she creates a work of art about that very same thing?
It’s not just that the billionaires control the economy. It’s not just that the billionaires increasingly control our political system. It’s that these oligarchs also control the media and the information the American people receive. This is a very dangerous situation.
Washington Post Cartoonist Quits After Jeff Bezos Cartoon Is Killed nytimes.com/2025/01/03/bus…
I just want representatives in government that are capable of sympathy and empathy, willing to take on corporate greed to improve the average American's experience, favor honest + direct communication and have a moral/ethical background to stand on. We need that so bad.
Elon Musk is wrong. The main function of the H-1B visa program is not to hire “the best and the brightest,” but rather to replace good-paying American jobs with low-wage indentured servants from abroad. The cheaper the labor they hire, the more money the billionaires make.
Warner Bros. just uploaded Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon for free on YouTube. youtube.com/watch?v=VkDqDQ…?
This year I'm going to: forgive one person, tell my friends how much I love them, read a book w/o reading the synopsis, put love letters in my partners lunch box, go swimming in the Columbia, take the dogs for long walks, erg 1300km, and spray the weeds earlier in the spring.
It's almost impossible to grasp the magnitude of US wealth inequality & concentration: $100K saved for retirement is a 4.3-inch stack of $100 bills. $1M: 43 inches. $1B: 3,600 feet. 12 football fields. World's tallest building is 2,722 feet. Musk: $486B. 330 miles high. 60
Lynn Canal 2015. Missing the ocean. Missing being exhausted at the end of each day. Missing the salt, the spray, flocks of birds, sunsets and sunrises that don't end, but blend into one other. If you get a chance to adventure, do it!
It doesn't get any more corrupt than this… The richest man in the world wants a government shutdown, to lift the debt ceiling to get a tax break for billionaires. The Billionaires for Billionaires (B4B) train is chugging down the tracks.
1918 influenza pandemic aka The Spanish Flu was a variant of bird flu. It infected 1/3 of the population of Earth. It killed ~80 million people. npr.org/2024/12/18/nx-…
USA Playbook: Allow undocumented migrants in to be used as cheap labor for farms and businesses. Expel them when it becomes economically or politically favorable. Read about Project Wetback.
Oligarchy is not just a Russian phenomenon. It exists right here in the USA. In 2024, just 150 billionaire families spent nearly $2 billion to purchase candidates. We must stand together to save democracy.
United States Trends
- 1. Kash N/A
- 2. Tourette N/A
- 3. #AKOTSK N/A
- 4. Claressa N/A
- 5. Lakers N/A
- 6. #RHOP N/A
- 7. FBI Director N/A
- 8. #IndustryHBO N/A
- 9. #LCDLF6 N/A
- 10. #AKnightOfTheSevenKingdoms N/A
- 11. Payton Pritchard N/A
- 12. 960 SAT N/A
- 13. Celtics N/A
- 14. El Mencho N/A
- 15. Kelly Price N/A
- 16. Maekar N/A
- 17. Canadians N/A
- 18. México N/A
- 19. Puerto Vallarta N/A
- 20. Horacio N/A
You might like
Something went wrong.
Something went wrong.