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Stop following orders. Matters will not improve of their own accord. Lecturer, writer, & socent interested in inequality, politics, resource use, systems thinking, & sustaining democracies. Enjoy cooking, gardening, writing & wandering

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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · Nov 11

I'm noodling on the next Wicked Problems Collaborative project, so it feels like a good time to create a starter pack. It's been a huge honor to collaborate with this crew - so many great people who are trying to make things better.

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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 2m

Take it back

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 38m

Firm, but fair

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1h

a blue and white penguin with a yellow beak is waving

Alt: a blue and white penguin ponders

media.tenor.com

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1h

His audience?

Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 1h

This is grossly dark. These are broken people.

But it's also so politically dumb.

How do they think Americans will react to being told that anyone who doesn't support Trump is a terrorist?

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4h

Leavitt: "The Democrat Party's main constituency is made up of Hamas terrorists, illegal aliens, and violent criminals."

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1h

The vehicle doesn't appear to be moving and they hammered the driver side door. Looks like assault to me

Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 2h

A main organizer of VC Defensa in Ventura County was rammed in his vehicle by federal agents and taken into custody this morning. This video is from VC Defensa IG and shows the ramming. Organizers are thinking he’ll be taken to LA MDC—headed there now

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 8h

"From Gaza to the Amazon, lives are treated as expendable in a system built on sacrifice. Not everything that’s green shines. False solutions sustain colonial power. We must mobilise political will and move resources through just taxation to fund survival, not destruction.”

Alex Cobham @alexcobham.bsky.social · 10h

Global experts call for just taxation to fund climate action
taxjustice.net/press/global...

Global experts call for just taxation to fund climate action - Tax Justice Network

The conference called on governments to move beyond symbolic pledges and take bold fiscal action to reprogramme an economy that has pushed the planet to the brink of ecological collapse.

taxjustice.net

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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 9h

Brutal. Lololol

Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 21h

Andrew, we're voting you off the island and back to the suburbs.

Our new ad just aired during Survivor.

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 9h

Minor edit

Headline shortened to:
Pete Hegseth is a responding failure.

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 20h

The Voting Rights Act was a product of a mass movement

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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 16h

Oh my, yes

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 18h

*Justice Jackson waves at all of the things*

Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 1d

Griem goes there, arguing in response to Justice Jackson that there can be no race-conscious remedy absent a finding of intentional discrimination.

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 22h

Gotta love that chyron

Fox News chyron:

Mamdani: Will raise income tax on the wealthiest

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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 23h

Let's take it back

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 1d

It feels like the political overton window has shifted far to the Right because the wealth class controls our media and owns our politicians.

Meanwhile, the vast, vast majority of people belong to what would now be portrayed as “the extreme Left.”

It’s a perception game and narrative control.

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1d

We can run him off whenever we're ready

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 1d

BREAKING: The Trump administration is doubling its Argentina bailout to $40 billion.

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1d

Pretty stunning to see them lose Fox News on this. Feels like an opening

Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 2d

Solidarity is the only way

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1d

I'd love to know what jurisdiction they're claiming for this

Jeff Yang @originalsp.in · 1d

ICE arrested comedian Robby Roadsteamer for singing a parody of Rod Stewart’s “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy” in a Jeffrey Epstein the Giraffe costume outside their facility.

He sings “If you hate brown people / and you are a Nazi” and ICE thugs grab him and drag him into detention. No violence—just speech.

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1d

This is good stuff.

Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 2d

If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink.
In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.

I’m handing out pro-democracy grades to the media

The Guardian gets an A, the NY Times gets a C, CBS gets an F

www.stopthepresses.news

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1d

How long before investors realize the emperor wears no clothes?

John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · 1d

It’s not just an AI bubble. It’s a bathtub full of bubbles, all connected, that will pop together. And pop goes the economy. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-b...

The Frothiest AI Bubble Is in Energy Stocks

Concept stocks with no revenue have soaring valuations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has backed the biggest of these energy companies.

www.wsj.com

costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1d

Calling time of death for SciAm's credibility.

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 3d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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David Kaib @davidkaib.bsky.social · 1d

Next reading group book—People, Power, Change by Marshall Ganz. Sign up here:

People, Power, Change Reading Group Sign Up

Our next book is People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal by Marshall Ganz. We'll do this in two sessions, likely beginning in early November. There are definitely used copies out th...

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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1d

Start arresting them.

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costrike @costrike.bsky.social · 1d

"In financial markets, a bubble occurs when the level of investment in an asset becomes persistently detached from the amount of profit that asset could plausibly generate."
Getting that full to bursting vibe all over again.