90 proof ink

[bowlby4]

[reading-writing-revolution]

The Justice Department now claims those it arrested in Minneapolis this morning in a series of door-to-door house raids, were members of "Antifa". There is no such terrorist organization anywhere in the world, called "Antifa".

The Trump administration is trying to manufacture enough justification to suspend our civil rights, invoke the Insurrection Act, and possibly stop the midterms.

Pay attention. As long as a few of you resist, everyone is vulnerable. Until we have numbers x10, nothing will change. We don't need some; bring everyone!

[thanosthedadtitan]

1965...

Dune told us in 1965 not to trust people pushing for AI.

[radicalgraff]

Graffiti spotted in Scotland

[cosmicretreat]

[bowlby4]

[smashedpages]

Today in 1986, Watchmen #1 by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons was released, introducing readers to a startling look at a world with superheroes.

[smashedpages]

Happy Watchmen Day!

[smashedpages]

“No. Not even in the face of Armageddon. Never compromise.”

[smashedpages]

“There is no future. There is no past. Do you see?”

[cosmicretreat]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Prophetic words written 36 years ago…

“The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth—that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community—and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.

This happens—it is happening—because the alignment of wealth and power permits economic value to overturn value of any other kind. The value of everything is reduced to its market price. A thing not marketable has no value. It is increasingly apparent that we cannot value things except by selling them, and that we think it acceptable, and indeed respectable, to sell anything.”

- Wendell Berry, Writing in The Hidden Wound

[robertreich]

Just an evergreen reminder...

[retro-scifi-and-fantasy-art]

Kilian Eng - The Black Hole (1979)

[kosmogrl]

this is so cool!!

[kosmogrl]

[robertreich]

Political power is a zero-sum game. The more it’s centered in a few hands, the less political power everyone else has. It’s almost impossible to separate wealth from power, because the wealthy turn their fortunes into campaign contributions to politicians who will change laws to their liking (and prevent laws they’d detest from ever seeing the light of day). By spending his fortune trying to stop California from taxing billionaires, Sergey Brin is making the argument for why we need to tax billionaires more clearly and articulately than anyone else possibly could. Thank you, Sergey.

[slipping-into-madness]

[bowlby4]

[robertreich]

All of this is happening because of the unilateral decision making of one man. The question is, will he pay the price for it during the midterms?

[robertreich]

Textbook corporate greed.