The amount Elon Musk just paid for Twitter ($44 billion) is nearly equal to Biden’s proposed climate budget ($44.9 billion)

The amount Elon Musk just paid for Twitter ($44 billion) is nearly equal to Biden’s proposed climate budget ($44.9 billion), in case anyone's wondering how seriously we’re taking the climate crisis

Hail Satan? - Official Trailer

Great film, to be paired with the Yes Men or Two Raging Grannies or Reverend Billy & The Church of Stop Shopping documentaries for a double-header/ marathon. And, for the record, I've never met a member of the Satanic Temple who wasn't a courteous, decent, upstanding citizen and patriot advocating for goodwill, peace and diversity among all sentient creatures on the earth.

Who's on the payroll of Peter Thiel's dark-money "influencer" campaign?

Who's on the payroll of Peter Thiel's dark-money "influencer" campaign?: Reporting in The New York Times on a new Rockbridge Network drops some intriguing clues on what the right has been up to.

Tucker Carlson’s Cock Doc and the Far Right’s Bogus “War on Masculinity”

Ehrlichman on Nixon campaign...

 “As John Ehrlichman, one of Nixon’s top domestic advisers, admitted years afterwards, “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people … We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.” Over time, though, it wasn’t weed-smoking white hippies who would bear the brunt of anti-drug policies; it was black Americans. Prison populations began to climb significantly by 1980, with major racial disparities in sentencing. Reagan announced his War on Drugs in 1982, and spending on antidrug law enforcement that mostly targeted black communities quickly skyrocketed”

Baldwin quote

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hate so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

-- Jimmy Baldwin

The Bad Days Are Coming - by Eoin Higgins - The Flashpoint

The Bad Days Are Coming - by Eoin Higgins - The Flashpoint: In many ways they're already here—but I fear this is just the beginning