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MLK: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom".

Tired and bleary. Exactly. All the Trump fatigue of a decade seems to have suddenly descended on us, and his behavior is like a toddler’s screaming tantrum at 2 a.m.

The mediocre destroy what they can't understand and the orange demagogue and his minions are 𝘢𝘭𝘭 mediocre, 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮! 😒 It's a prerequisite to admission! 💁 “Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.” - Sherlock Holmes via Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

They've thrown away so much soft power and trade, getting rid of USAID, lose-lose all round

it would be. but that world wont exist unless people are willing to be just a bit less stupid about how they deal with each other.

What is weird to me is the national labs were basically created because science was considered key to national defense. Other government funding went to research about things like crops, which were also seen as a national interest. Somewhere along the way the grift pushed out the science…

American healthcare is indentured servitude. Our politicians are always on the side of the corporate oligarchy.

It's like an author spending millions to do her best to make sure ::checks notes:: certain people don't get to just mind their own business.

Spending $5 to make sure $1 doesn’t go to someone that deserves and taking $20 from people that do.

It's the people who represent us, given that role by heavy gerrymandering, that vote against our interests because they're too interested in filling their pockets with money from insurance companies who would lose everything if universal healthcare is implemented.

"temporally embarrassed billionaires"...

I have learned that when someone asks ‘why doesn’t the US have’ …(some good thing) or ‘why does the US have’ …(some awful thing) the answer is always RACISM. Always. Always.

Money is never the barrier in the U.S. It’s insecurity. I.e., some Americans are so insecure they want to keep quality services from the poor, whom they feel are “less deserving” of nice things, mostly so they can feel superior about themselves. They are afraid of what equality might look like.

Wow, that makes Project 2025 all the more loathsome.

Well said. Agreed.

Yep. Not to detract from Katie's point, however, that the reason the US ranks poorly in many measures of quality of life is that powerful people want it that way, not that we can't afford it.

I write pretty much exclusive on this topic. Basically, I used math and political science to debug our systems. I posted a few relevant articles for you.

We never talk about our leader's lifespan & lifestyle. They can't serve themselves and us. They had to pick. So I ran the numbers. These people who govern us, do not give a shit about us open.substack.com/pub/mrnobody...

Why do we have a government? What is their actual job description? What are they doing instead?

Congress sold our republic, for money. open.substack.com/pub/mrnobody...

Would be a game changer, paying for each other’s healthcare. No longer bankrupting or exploiting the sick, holding them to ransom for their medication. Y’all might stop hating and scamming each other so much.

Let's not do cool shit now and again that engages the public positively in space exploration for the first time in what feels like decades, because you personally think only in dollar signs and deluded visions of campaign strategy (despite this mission planning preliminaries starting in 2017)

Haha, yeah fuck getting a future generation invested in space science or exploration. You're so right.

The countries that manage this best aren’t the ones cutting science budgets — they’re the ones who handle taxes, bureaucracy, and long-term priorities more effectively. The US has the resources for both. What’s really missing is consistent political will. 🔭 🧪 ⚛️ 2/2

Gil Scott-Heron catchin’ strays today.