Preston Rudy
pordy24.bsky.social
Preston Rudy
@pordy24.bsky.social
Sociologist, retired professor; interests - unions, democracy as action, history as context, Int’l comparisons, languages, multicultural living, a sociological imagination.
Destroy society n the name of saving society. When you leave the social to engineers, who are blind to their dependence on the division of labor that feeds them.
November 27, 2025 at 7:45 AM
It was never about efficiency. They achieved what they wanted, destroying government agencies that institute more democratic outcomes.
November 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Dennis Ventry, law professor @ UCDavis proposed a similar change to feds and his proposal was sunk by Intuit.
November 26, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Intuit has been attacking the IRS for many yrs regardless of which party is in office. This is the latest chapter in that anti-democratic exploitation of tax payers. Joe Bankman of all people prosed an easy tax filing. Planet money 760: Tax Hero
www.npr.org/sections/mon...
Episode 760: Tax Hero
One professor had a way to make filing taxes easy and painless. It worked. People loved it. But then a big tax lobby heard about it...
www.npr.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Can’t let regular citizens in the US meet people from other countries and find out we all have the same complaints about autocratic rule, publicly available health care in every other country, and free education through college. Ignorance is a precious resource that must be protected.
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Reposted by Preston Rudy
Also from that interview w Z Smith:

"Your generation [millennials [added: & Gen Z]] has been so deeply screwed that the kind of sentimental eye roll I might have had for the generation above me isn’t sentimental anymore—it’s a matter of life or death."

Here is the article for others for reference:
Zadie Smith: "I Say What I See"
A conversation with the acclaimed author about her new essay collection, Dead and Alive.
www.thenation.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Thanks
November 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM