you get fun pictures!

celebrated the fourth this year with a colonoscopy. felt about right. doesn’t look like i have colon cancer. maybe there’s hope for my country as well.

it’s hard to be an institutionalist when these are the institutions.

so, tomorrow is the 4th of July.

i hate feeling this way. but my god, what those motherfuckers have done today. and the “supreme court”.

ask Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Boris Berezovsky, etc.

no guard rails. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

because you can always rely on absolute power to keep what you take to be its word… sigh.

a thing i find weird is, was there even any meaningful debate on the whole new Gestapo thing? i know legislators talked about Medicaid, rural hospitals, deficits and baselines. but it seems like the new Gestapo was unproblematic, a shoo in, not any not even one of Republican legislators’ concerns.

#relatable

the Republicans will, in this indirect, kind of confusing way, provoke a crisis in Medicare and then argue the program is inherently broken and only some further austerity can “strengthen” it by “putting it on a solid foundation”. govern badly as proof that the state can do nothing good well.

Resilience is a dimension of epistemology we (at least I) have too little considered. However we know what we know, how resilient is it to interests that seek to snow us, or leave us without what had once been our capacity to know?

🙁

i regret to inform you you are no longer you.

what’s the inverse of Hanlon’s Razor? i think that’s what applies to the current Supreme Court.

@ryanlcooper.com on elite impunity: “any country that completely gives up on accountability for its political class will eventually produce someone like Trump. Open the door to criminals, and sooner or later one will walk through.” prospect.org/politics/202...

plutocrats are the ultimate degrowthers, because serious growth requires unpredictable change, and plutocrats want to fix current hierarchies in amber. you see this now in the Trump Administration’s reinforcement of fossil fuels and suppression of solar / batteries / etc.

you’ll know evil when you see what people will do in the name of god.

more money is more thugs in masks and incarceration camps that require air conditioning. i’d be grateful of these fund’s were earmarked for quality of conditions rather than quantity, but i don’t think that’s the intent of ~10x-ing ICE’s budget.