Leah Stokes

leahstokes.bsky.social

10 January 2025 07:55

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

emptywheel

emptywheel.bsky.social

17 February 2025 19:57

Again, Trump fired SBA Inspector General Mike Ware after he found $200 billion in fraud in Trump's COVID programs and returned $40B to the US Treasury. Instead, Trump brought in a bunch of fascist boys who know nothing about accounting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Popehat

kenwhite.bsky.social

18 February 2025 22:55

The Trump DoJ lawyers pushing this stuff can’t be humiliated enough for my taste. So many people should spit at their feet that they need galoshes.

George Monbiot

georgemonbiot.bsky.social

26 February 2025 17:06

For another troubling example, take a look at this interview with Noam Chomsky, a year into Russia's invasion of Ukraine. He claimed Russia was acting with moderation and restraint, as it had not engaged in large-scale destruction of infrastructure. Sorry, what? www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-...

George Monbiot

georgemonbiot.bsky.social

26 February 2025 17:06

To the vatniks, campists, fascists and self-described "pragmatists" saying "maybe Trump has got a point": There is one nation and one nation alone that should decide the terms for peace in Ukraine. Ukraine.