Vannevar
Vannevar
@vannevar.bsky.social
The scene changes but the aspirations of men of good will persist.
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America is becoming a giant nursing home. And MAGA is hell-bent on reversing our primary source of population growth—immigration. What happens to an aging nation with a declining population?
For years, the U.S. labor market has been undergoing a structural transformation. As jobs in manufacturing have receded, slowly but steadily, the health care industry has more than replaced them, representing a third of all employment growth over the past year.
In the party of the ignorant, the halfwit with a thesaurus is the intellectual.
The @newyorker.com has a great new profile of fascist ideologue Curtis Yarvin / Mencius Moldbug, who's been praised by JD Vance. Yarvin insisted on wearing a bike helmet in college classes, and was dubbed "helmet-head" by his classmates. And it gets crazier! www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Trump’s doctors will tell you that the hardest part of giving him a colonoscopy is working around Ted Cruz. So when Lyin’ Ted has “concerns” about something Trump does, you can be sure there is trouble in MAGA-land and the magic is wearing off.
Ted Cruz: "I also think the plane poses significant espionage and surveillance problems ... I certainly have concerns."
It should be dawning on Netanyahu that he’s in a bidding war for Trump, and the Saudis, et al in the Arab world have a lot more cash than he does. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...
Great news for Santos, who now qualifies to be the 2028 Republican nominee for President. apnews.com/article/geor...
You can fool some of the people all the time, but you can’t fool the money any of the time. www.noahpinion.blog/p/this-is-ca...
Today! Social media posts are not going to be enough. We need to show up.
Dictators of all stripes hate solidarity. They’d prefer that we cower alone. They want us to feel powerless. This is why I encourage you to participate in the peaceful demonstrations planned for today across America. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/april-5-hands-off-our-healthcare
We can all sleep soundly knowing that the our national security rests in the safe hands of a nitwit YouTuber. www.cnn.com/2025/04/03/p...
This is the way. People in the street, in numbers too big to ignore. From 34,000 to 300,000 to 3 million. We can do this.
Tonight an unbelievable **34,000 people** gathered for our Denver rally to take on billionaires and win our country back. This was the largest political gathering in Denver since Obama in 2008. Also bigger than the 2024 DNC. And the largest ever rally in Bernie’s career (and obviously, mine too).
Elon Musk claims he’s “never physically hurt anyone.” The hell he hasn’t.
A friend drove two hours today for her breast cancer chemotherapy only to learn it was canceled due to NIH cuts. Clinical trial ended midstream. No treatment, no restart, no plan, no information. Her bro-in-law's chemo was also canceled.
@mcuban.bsky.social It would be amazing if the 10,000 CF affiliates could form a co-op and buy the company. A CrossFit by and for the community is what it really always should have been. Could you facilitate such an effort, perhaps in coordination with some of the top CrossFit athletes?
A preview of rulings to come? Roberts and Coney Barrett still take their judicial responsibilities seriously. Alito and Thomas are hacks. Kavanaugh and Gorsuch will probably go back and forth. So there’s still hope, assuming Trump obeys Supreme Court rulings. Not a given. apnews.com/article/supr...
Regarding tonight’s address to Congress: youtu.be/U8F5G5wR1mk?...
At least the WSJ is still Republican and not MAGA. Probably because they realize how bad fascism is for business.
WSJ editorial board: "But as with the war, Mr. Zelensky didn’t start this Oval Office exchange. Was he supposed to tolerate an extended public denigration of the Ukrainian people, who have been fighting a war for survival for three years?"
What DOGE is doing has nothing to do with efficiency and everything to do with vandalism and theft of data. 18f.org
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On February 28, buy from local small business only. And I’m going to use the occasion to cancel my Amazon Prime membership. I encourage you to join me.
Voted for Trump, now have buyer’s remorse? The Trump philosophy seems to be his version of FAFO. Don’t buy anything on the 28th unless you absolutely have to. #Resist
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Can we still use the present tense?
Three things that make the U.S. the envy of the world: 1) Professionalized military with strong norm of civilian control 2) Higher education and cutting-edge scientific research 3) Ability to welcome immigrants and attract the “best and the brightest” All three are under threat.
Google and Apple caved. The AP is standing strong despite retaliation by the Musk Administration. Please consider showing them your support, I did: apnews.com/donate
The White House blocked an AP reporter from President Trump's news conference with India's prime minister over AP's style decision to stick with the name “Gulf of Mexico." apnews.com/article/ap-w...
These are the people that have been given access to critical Treasury Department data and payment systems, including personal and classified information. There is no evidence that they have been subject to any kind of background check. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...
Let the conflicts of interest begin. Co-President Musk forcing NTSB (which oversees the safety of his Tesla vehicles) to use his media channel as its exclusive press outlet.
Plane crash notifications will be made on X going forward, NO information directly given to journalists! Guess X is state media now.😱 thedesk.net/2025/02/ntsb...
I would argue that this process has been going on for some time now, first with the rise of corporatism, then accelerated by the age of software and algorithms. The non-human overlords we’ve feared in science fiction are in fact already here, and we created them ourselves. gradual-disempowerment.ai
So much for “f*ck you” money. Turns out even a hundred billion dollars can be “lick boots” money. www.politico.com/news/2025/01...
Isn’t it about time someone introduced America’s tweens to QAnon and Hunter Biden’s sex video? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...