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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻

@tidypony.bsky.social

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Anti-capitalist; pro-Houyhnhnm. Career HS humanities teacher; servant to other people's horses. My only cult is the horse cult. Yes, that is hay in my hair. Love my n95 & libraries. Flogging AI, crypto? Expect a 🚫. #deleteZuck #banbillionaires

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 19d

How to Triumph Like a Girl
#AdaLimon

I like the lady horses best,
how they make it all look easy,
like running 40 miles per hour
is as fun as taking a nap, or grass.
I like their lady horse swagger,
after winning. Ears up, girls, ears up!
But mainly, let’s be honest, I like
that they’re ladies. As if this big
dangerous animal is also a part of me,
that somewhere inside the delicate
skin of my body, there pumps
an 8-pound female horse heart,
giant with power, heavy with blood.
Don’t you want to believe it?
Don’t you want to lift my shirt and see
the huge beating genius machine
that thinks, no, it knows,
it’s going to come in first.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 54m

Sshhh! Timing will matter.

The oligarchs fear a New New Deal, truly progressive taxation, functional courts, and anti-trust law far more than war, civil unrest or revolution.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1h

@sandibachom.bsky.social made this goddess famous on IG.
If you’re not following Bachom, do. She’s doing good work all over.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1h

My fave online horse forum posted this YT and I was like, Squee! Sarah Taber has been awesome for ages.

Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3d

If you've been thinking "How are they gonna run their farms after Trump arrests their workers?"

don't worry, they planned ahead for that 💀

youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-c0

ICE Raids Are Only Half The Story

YouTube video by Farm to Taber

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1h

Except, the WWII generation, i.e. my parents, were playing the tainted cards that Never Holding the Confederacy Accountable dealt them by their parents/grandparents.

Voting Rights was a start. We know how that’s going.

It could be tricky to hold much ground until we face our whole history.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1h

Pfft.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1h

Until we face our limits to growth, billionaires are absolutely “taking.”

Tho’ Adam Smith, OG economist, father of the Free Hand of the Market™️, couldn’t have described the precise limits we face now, he wrote clearly that extreme inequality was immoral & he would rail against our current system.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 6h

Signs point to, yes.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 7h

To put Edison, w/ nearly 1100 patents in his name alone, & 1000s more in colleagues' & proteges', in the same category as VC predators & sociopathic billionaires stretches false equivalence to its breaking point.

Half of Elmo's don't work & Bezos's would've been illegal w/ decent antitrust laws.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 7h

If only everyone, me included, could find the crisp But Actually™️ tone of @notpodium.bsky.social.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 8h

The existence of thousands of billionaires threatens the planet’s inhabitants of all species as much if not more than the currently stalling human population.
If you won’t read Becker, read Donella Meadows’ Limits to Growth.

donellameadows.org/the-limits-t...

The Limits to Growth–Now Available to Read Online!

donellameadows.org

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Young Republicans say they love Hitler. But what does that tell us about their politics?

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 19h

It's "far left" to think that billionaires should pay taxes and everyone deserves healthcare.

IDK what it would take to be considered far right anymore, other than saying you love Hitler.🤷‍♀️

Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19h

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.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 20h

…and read not nearly enough Dickens.

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Ian Weissman, DO @drianweissman.bsky.social · 1d

As antibiotic resistance continues to rise, we’re running out of treatment options. This has been accelerated by the massive use of antibiotics to treat humans, animals and food.
www.ctvnews.ca/health/artic...

Spread of drug-resistant superbugs surging, WHO warns

he World Health Organization sounded the alarm Monday over soaring numbers of drug-resistant bacterial infections, compromising the effectiveness of life-saving treatments and rendering minor injuries...

www.ctvnews.ca

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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 22h

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 23h

As we joked about aging
a friend said:
“I’m so old
my knees always hurt”

And another said:
“I’m so old
I tweak my back by standing”

Still another said:
“I’m so old
I can’t smell anything anymore”

And though it was my turn
instead I said:
“your loss of smell
isn’t from aging.”

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1d

🙄 “…appear to have disappeared…”
Forgive my tortured syntax, please.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1d

Camelids like llama and vicuna were domesticated in the Andes as draft, meat, and fiber animals at least 6000 years ago.
There are camel and horse fossils in the Southern California mountains above the canyon where I live.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1d

Yes & no.
Yes, bovids originated in Eurasia.
Equids originated in N. America, i.e. from Eophippus, the Dawn Horse up thru about 10,000 years ago, like 2 seconds ago evolutionarily, when most megafauna appear to have disappeared from the Americas.
Yes, Spaniards re-introduced a native species.
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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1d

If Congress would approve our rejoining the ICC, we could turn the Felon and his minions over.

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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 1d

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

U.S. Military Kills Another 6 People in 5th Caribbean Strike, Trump Says
In a social media post, the president said the people aboard a boat were suspected of smuggling drugs for an unspecified group his team had labeled terrorists.

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Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1d

Lol.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1d

In dollars, not proportion of disposable income.

Ergo, SS becomes, in effect, a regressive tax above the cap.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1d

Thank you.

Halfbroke Horsewoman 🌻🏇🏼🌻 @tidypony.bsky.social · 1d

People have no idea what they want.

It exists because free market fundamentalists maintain advertising as a business expense (tax write off) so there’s always someone selling a crap service or object in pursuit of the Almighty Dollar.