Daily Harvest, September 13, 2019
I hold that there’s an international neoreactionary conspiracy to take us back to pre-enlightenment social structures. Misogyny, racism, and baked-in inequality are seen as virtues by those who want to install a new aristocracy, with themselves on top. And it’s very well funded.
— Charlie Stross (@cstross) September 10, 2019
Acoustic version of the new Hong Kong protest anthem, “Glory to Hong Kong.” https://t.co/noQxiMcUSa pic.twitter.com/ucTsaKeTHm
— Mary Hui (@maryhui) September 12, 2019
It’s a defining characteristic of Australia in 2019 that one of our foremost public intellectuals is a man we keep infinitely detained in the Pacific cc: @BehrouzBoochani
— maddison connaughton (@madconnaughton) September 11, 2019
Purdue Pharma, the biggest drug pusher in the United States of America, is getting off with a slap on the wrist in a country where people go to jail for life for dust in a baggie.
— Benjamin Franklin 🆘 (@benFranklin2018) September 11, 2019
Sexism is over https://t.co/X1Rgl9bg7a
— Liv (@LivvyFanon) September 10, 2019
FUN FACT: Monopoly was based on The Landlord’s Game, created in 1902 by Lizzie Magie to demonstrate the rampant inequality caused by capitalist greed. The idea was taken by a man and sold to Parker Brothers, who adapted it as the polar opposite of what Magie had intended. https://t.co/yBAry0BK6p
— andi zeisler (@andizeisler) September 10, 2019
“She’s got to be stopped.”
Jim Cramer and a @CNBC panel discuss Wall Street executives being absolutely terrified of Elizabeth Warren and how they’ve never seen anything quite like it before. This is the greatest Warren campaign ad possible. pic.twitter.com/VCrGOfxOX0
— Adam Best (@adamcbest) September 10, 2019
Geoffrey Boycott held a woman down and repeatedly punched her in the face and today was given a knighthood, Roman Polanski raped a 13 year-old and this week won the grand jury prize at the Venice Film Festival… so allegations ruin lives do they?
— Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack) September 10, 2019
A very strong companion article to the pretty good Vox primer. and re the “Death of Democracy” article that was flying around, I like how this points out that it’s not liberalism/democracy and … undetermined factors. There is an opposition, with agency, working against it. https://t.co/eWd11ijnEu
— John Rogers (@jonrog1) September 10, 2019
The righteous anger of the less powerful is always framed by powerful as ugly & dangerous. Meanwhile, anger of the powerful at their challengers is always framed as the upholding of crucial norms & niceties. Anyway, Good & Mad, now available in paperback: https://t.co/r0ujLdpHxi
— Rebecca Traister (@rtraister) September 10, 2019
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— Stephanie Miller (@StephMillerShow) September 9, 2019
The Civil War never ended. https://t.co/mOhlF4iJuf
— Steve Katz (@steve_katz) September 10, 2019
“[Washington] sold a slave to the West Indies for a hogshead of ‘best rum’ and molasses and sweetmeats…
[Jefferson] sold slaves on the open market.
To refer to [them] and the rest of those hypocrites as the fathers of *our* country is outright provocation.”
– Kuwasi Balagoon pic.twitter.com/gcXwB8Q7M6
— Black Socialists of America (@BlackSocialists) September 6, 2019
“[Washington] sold a slave to the West Indies for a hogshead of ‘best rum’ and molasses and sweetmeats…
[Jefferson] sold slaves on the open market.
To refer to [them] and the rest of those hypocrites as the fathers of *our* country is outright provocation.”
– Kuwasi Balagoon pic.twitter.com/gcXwB8Q7M6
— Black Socialists of America (@BlackSocialists) September 6, 2019
For context, here's how wealthy the 15 richest Americans would be today if a 10% wealth tax had been in place since 1982.
Vote now! pic.twitter.com/SjCSmukq3B
— Gabriel Zucman (@gabriel_zucman) September 8, 2019
A lot to unpack here in this piece, but for starters, I'm of the mind that we should start calling these places " slave labor camps" instead of romantic "plantations".
As plantations talk more honestly about slavery, some visitors are pushing back https://t.co/ufsmuD0fdk
— Karen Attiah (@KarenAttiah) September 8, 2019
I think she's got it, right here. https://t.co/jmAquszFzL
— William Gibson (@GreatDismal) September 8, 2019
always thought anime sucked but now I’m watching Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure and it is the best show I have ever seen in my entire life
— Lucy Valentine (@LucyXIV) September 7, 2019
One of the many virtues of Melinda Cooper’s Family Values is how it explains the 1%-friendly policy philosophy of the last 40 years as driven by intergenerational acquisition impulses as much as individual ones. pic.twitter.com/esgZ6eaKW0
— Quinn Slobodian (@zeithistoriker) September 6, 2019
For a man so opposed to socialism Boris Johnson seems to love getting publicly owned.
— Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack) September 5, 2019
One in 4 NSW women will have an abortion in their lifetime, yet the procedure remains a criminal offence in the state for both the doctor and the woman. This has been the case for 119 years. No other state in Australia has such laws …
— Emma Alberici (@albericie) September 5, 2019
any other trans girls occasionally feel bad that you couldn't get pregnant if you wanted to or is that just me
— sonya 🌶🏴 (@sonyaism) September 3, 2019
A Blueprint for an Anticapitalist Life https://t.co/QmQtagQCoz
— Jeffrey Levin (@jilevin) September 4, 2019
If you want to learn more about the truly baffling level of influence RW think tanks and billionaires have had on our political discourse, you should read "Invisible Hands" by Kim Phillips Fein or "Right Moves" by Jason Stahl. Jane Mayer's book on the Koch bros is also great./end
— Becca Lewis (@beccalew) August 31, 2019
The problem at this juncture, clearly, is not that that POTUS is engaged in brazen self-dealing of a sort expressly prohibited by the U.S. Constitution. It’s that absolutely no one appears interested in enforcing that law, fundamentally undermining U.S. rule of law as a whole. https://t.co/vghrWLxzHo
— Jasmin Mujanović (@JasminMuj) August 26, 2019
Black Hawk Down was about the US government waging an offensive war in Somalia to install their favorite war lord. https://t.co/BQJlgtVjqf
— Historic.ly (@historic_ly) September 3, 2019
No one:
Absolutely no one:
Me: The smell of cut grass is the grass releasing a wounding compound into the air to warn other plants that they were injured.
You are smelling their screams.
— Dr.unk Phytologist Swiss Army Biologist (@DrunkPhyto) September 1, 2019
Evidence that more than 3 million years ago, when Earth was 2 – 3°C warmer than the pre-industrial era, sea level was around 16 meters higher than the present day. We're already 1°C warmer, and rising.https://t.co/AynxIUZhdr
— Paul McAuley (@UnlikelyWorlds) September 2, 2019
Every time Trump attacked me on twitter, lied about me, and sent his thugs after me, I was in danger. I had to move from my apartment in NYC to another one, had to have protection when walking around NYC.
— Cheri Jacobus (@CheriJacobus) September 2, 2019
In my opinion Columbus Day should be changed to February 24 because it was that day in 1495 the first 550 Native Americans he enslaved were forced onto a little slave ship bound for the slave market in Spain. 200 died en route and the Spanish dumped their bodies in the sea pic.twitter.com/1qUyUHGX9G
— Brett Chapman (@brettachapman) September 2, 2019
‘Even The Queen’
PSA:
There is no medical reason, other than pregnancy, for which one must menstruate each month.
Taking a progesterone-only birth control pill (continuous intake: no sugar pills) makes the following symptoms virtually disappear: bleeding, cramps, mood swings.
YOU’RE WELCOME.
— rad • roopa (@RadRoopa) September 2, 2019
Somerset Capital management, part owned by Rees Mogg has been shorting the pound for months and will make millions if we crash out with no deal will make even more money. Of course he has moved SC to Dublin so he can clear the trades in the eurozone.
What an absolute shit !— Sarah Connolly 🌑 #FBPE 🇪🇺🔶🇬🇧 (@spconnolly) September 1, 2019
.@BetsyDeVosED is trying to hide that she wants to prevent hundreds of thousands of students defrauded by abusive for-profit colleges from having their debt cancelled. So she just released a new rule late on the Friday of a holiday weekend to keep everyone from seeing it. Rich. https://t.co/bdTmi9CFXe
— Abbie McDonough (@amcdonough1) August 30, 2019
my favorite trend is capitalists trying to describe socialism but just describing capitalism again
“you don’t get the full value of your wages, it’s given to people who didn’t work for it”
“there’s no individual choice, you’re just forced to work for a powerful elite group”
— venus (@socialistegirl) September 1, 2019