Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
people do make this mistake a lot. but more often, people use "data" as a tendentious source of authority, even when they know better.
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@interfluidity.com
shame.
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i first read about this here, i don't remember from whom, my apologies to whoever posted. it derives from a report in Greek media, which may ultimately prove inaccurate. but i feel like it is a proposal we should mobilize to put under sharp public scrutiny. defence-blog.com/trump-shuts-...
Trump shuts down US base in Greece
Link Preview: Trump shuts down US base in Greece: U.S. President Donald Trump has reportedly ordered the shutdown of the U.S. military base in Alexandroupoli, Greece, according to Greek newspaper Dimokratia. The decision marked a shift in U.S. milita...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
politics is downstream from culture is downstream from material circumstance but material circumstance is more than just the distribution of income and wealth. (although God knows the distribution of income and wealth is important!) 1/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
material circumstance also includes our built environment and our media, the ways they put us in contact with one another or fail to do so or worse turn our lives into a parasocial hub-and-spokes with platforms and corruptible influencers at the center. 2/
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
there's nothing more political than the kind of work that eg @holz-bau.bsky.social does. /fin
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
yes! yes! yes! normalize impeaching the most lawless administration in american history. nothing should be more normal, like day follows night.
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Text: I’m sorry, but there’s a certain irony in the ruse of billionaires consolidating their power under the pretense of “reducing deficits” when it’s exactly the massive deficits of recent years that have boosted their income, profits, and financial market “wealth.” There’s a certain irony to see foxes with mouths full of feathers claiming that they’re defending the henhouse; minding the store while their fingers are deep in the cookie jar of government contracts and foreign quid pro quo. They’re selling a house of cards, and everybody’s merrily picking out furniture.
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Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
if you are intentionally making a gesture that resembles a Nazi salute because you know it resembles a Nazi salute, then you are making a Nazi salute. this movement bootstrapped itself on resentment of politically correct language but god forbid any plain-spoken characterizations of it. #pathetic
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i want to vomit.
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you can just do things. terrible things.
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i keep reading inequality is over, like it was a 2010s thing but it got fixed.
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where's DOGE when you need 'em? by @andrewperez.bsky.social @swin24.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea
Link Preview: Kristi Noem Says $200 Million DHS Ad Campaign Thanking Trump Was His Idea: Donald Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said he instructed her to make ads that “thank me for closing the border.”
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
people for whom sincerity and consistency are entirely orthogonal.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
from an excellent essay by @williamcb.bsky.social williamcullernebown.substack.com/p/between-ru...
Text: This darkness is a fear that both liberals and social democrats share. However, it is only the social democrats who have the capacity to reach out to the force likely to ultimately tip the balance in this contest - the working class. Thus the basic political arrangement that friends of freedom and democracy should adopt is a broad front led by social democrats.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“there’s egg on your face” is the new Prada.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
“there’s just no getting around the fact that a lot of people around the world are going to suffer and die in order to save the typical American taxpayer a negligible sum.” @dkthomp.bsky.social www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
can’t finance anybody’s primary from a prison cell.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
[new draft post] A few simple points https://drafts.interfluidity.com/2025/02/22/a-few-simple-points/index.html
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
if Trump bullies the Fed into cutting and offering forward guidance with high commitment to keep rates low no matter what, do long-term rates go down or up?
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
running the government on the management principles that built the 737 MAX.
Steve Randy Waldman
@interfluidity.com
Next e-mail from the Office of Personnel Management… SUBJECT: What R U Wearing?