Republicans, or somebody pro-Republican, is running ads that are trying to tell us Rep. Rob Bresnahan voting for the Big Boondoggle Bill was good actually. They’re trying to advance this false narrative that denying healthcare insurance coverage for some healthy young men and rarely use their healthcare is somehow going to make it better for disabled people.
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Partnering with AI tech tycoons who wanna be kings is not democracy.
Anyone trying to push for “managing” AI or “sustainably” supporting AI is not operating in reality.
Adding to the laundry list of reasons I’m disappointed with Josh Shapiro.
My letter to Josh Shapiro, Governor of Pennsylvania
Are people really so naive that they don’t know about astroturfing? Seriously?
I see people who have no idea why someone rich right-winger might fund something leftist. Did nobody ever hear of a strawman? People have seriously never heard the concept of being co-opted?
People have been misled about the opposition to public health, and the dangers of MAGA MAHA.
It was always the right-wing pushing everyone to the right. And politicians need to be pushed back, and the only people who can do that is constituents. Quite a catch 22.
2 things can be true at once, kids and phones discourse edition.
Two things or multiple things can be true at once. Social media is toxic, and kids should have access to phone service.
Labor precarity and the weaponization of communication.
People just don’t trust unknown funding, nor hiding stuff. And people don’t like to find out that someone they thought was speaking truth to power is actually towing a prescribed party line.
Democratic Party “leadership” poised to screw up massively in Michigan and elsewhere.
Nobody with sense who wants to win a senate seat for the party would tee up an uninspiring candidate who votes aligned with the fossil fuel industry and takes money from fossil fuels. They’re trying to thwart 2 candidates that are popular because they stand up strong for the values that the Democratic Party is […]
Don’t let them tell you we’re to blame for monstrosity AI data centers.
Don’t Wait For Everybody – Episode 029
“Killing Fields”
“Accusation in a Mirror (AiM) is a rhetorical practice in which one falsely accuses one’s enemies of conducting, plotting, or desiring to commit precisely the same transgressions that one plans to commit against them.”
When something is sold with a “trick” to get around safety regulations, that’s a big red flag.
There are tons of supplements sold with this trick, where they have influencers and mommy bloggers, and accounts that seem like randos on social media, making the claims, even when the label on the bottles say something else, something serious, because there’s a rule to try to protect people.
The Wellness Company is right-wing, and pushes covid quackery including anti-vax crap.
Deregulation of supplements has funded the right-wing greatly, so much so some think that regulating it would go a long way toward defeating the far right.
Of course messaging from leadership is a central factor in public health.
Anyone telling anyone that people refused covid mitigations because of personal choice based on rational rejection of vaccines, testing, masks, and remote work, is either lying or themselves a fool.
Funded advertising for the idea of state sponsored ethnic cleansing in America is not a good sign.
And I really don’t want my tax dollars paying for that bullshit, do you?
Greed and profiteering in AI is going to crowd out actual technological advances.
We know it will because it’s already been happening, we see it everywhere.
A Lyme Disease vaccine was stopped by people tricked by anti-vax propaganda.
But we’re not going to learn from that I guess and just do it again with Long Covid.
Rejecting data center inevitability in Tucson Arizona.
How Tucson fought back against Big Tech What an Amazon data center in the desert says about our economy Justin Stofferahn Aug 10, 2025 – You’re Probably Getting Screwed One of the political challenges decades of unchecked economic consolidation creates is a sense of inevitability. We might all be getting screwed in the second Gilded […]
If you want to encourage vaccination you don’t show photos that evoke unsettled feelings. This is basic marketing.
I’ve been complaining about this since the start of the pandemic…
Every wage ought to be a livable wage.
My letter to reps: Please hear me clearly on this, the republican leader of the pennsylvania house is a dipshit. Every wage should be a livable wage. That ahole’s 16 year old son also deserves to be able to save up for college or a car or whatever else, because heaven knows if he didn’t […]