Dr. David Clawson recently wrote an insightful article for Psychology Today titled “Morbid Wealth”…
“From a societal standpoint,” he writes, “extreme wealth and wealth inequality are toxic. … Subjectively, we see the ultrarich and their descendants suffer from such things as anxiety, depression, addiction, and loss of meaning and purpose.”
(via #ThomHartmann)
[#]Inequality #MorbidWealth
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/trump-aclu-civil-rights “The incoming president’s plans to mass-deport millions of undocumented immigrants, his threats to pursue vendettas against his political enemies and his talk of mobilising the military for domestic purposes, are all squarely in the ACLU’s sights.” #Immigration #Authoritarianism #ACLU #CivilRights
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/17/abortion-pill-mifepristone-lawsuit-texas “A lawsuit that aims to restrict nationwide access to abortion pills can proceed, a federal judge in Texas ruled on Thursday, months after the US supreme court rebuked an earlier version of the lawsuit over a legal technicality.
The US judge Matthew Kacsmaryk is allowing the attorneys general of Idaho, Kansas and Missouri to continue a case that takes aim at the FDA’s regulation of mifepristone, a drug typically used in medication abortions”
[#]HealthCare #Health #Abortion
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A sign for these times #Community #Unions #Union
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https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/new-orleans-las-vegas-attacks-causes-20250105.html “But we should also worry about America’s powerful tendency for avoidance when it comes to the ugly truths about why such a seemingly prosperous nation is also so remarkably violent, the real reasons why mass murder keeps happening, the troubling overlaps with 2020s' U.S. (and world) politics, and what we can do about it.”
[#]Violence #Fascism #Project2025 #Corruption #WillBunch
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https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/commentary/new-orleans-las-vegas-attacks-causes-20250105.html “Two important things linger in the haze of pyrotechnics and death over Las Vegas and New Orleans. The first and most immediate is the clear intent for Trump and his allies to shamelessly use both justifiable fear and deliberate falsehoods, in an increasingly ill- or -uninformed America, to gain acceptance for their political agenda of starting 2025 with mass deportations of immigrants who had nothing to do with this.”
[#]WillBunch #Project2025 #Corruption #Fascism
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/05/heatlhcare-insurance-challenges “Health insurance in the US is a constant battle. You’re always trying to get stuff covered, you’re always told that things are being denied.”
The same insurance company later denied coverage for a standard chemotherapy drug with which her oncologist wanted to treat her stage 3 breast cancer, [Elizabeth from Maryland]said.
“My doctor persuaded the drug representative to donate the medication.”
[#]HealthCare #WealthCare #Corruption
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https://actionnetwork.org/letters/pikeplacemarketthatworksforeveryone Encourage Seattle’s Pike Place Market to restrict non-essential vehicles by installing removable bollards. Make the street adjacent to the market safe for pedestrians and create space for more vendors, outdoor dining etc #PikePlaceMarket #Seattle #PublicSafety #Health
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/01/timothy-snyder-trump-musk-russia-ukraine-putin “raising [$]for drone defense actually saved lives. Those…who are still alive…can go to a library later. So no, I don’t wrestle with it. On the contrary, I feel glad and privileged that I was given that choice.”
Snyder is discussing his role as an ambassador for United24, a fundraising platform set up by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine.There is more success to celebrate: funds raised to buy robots to remove Russian landmines.”#Ukraine #Russia #Landmines #War
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https://seattle.eater.com/2024/8/22/24226242/angry-beaver-hockey-bar-seattle-reopened The Angry Beaver can add surviving major flood damage to its evolving lore as a Seattle icon. After 12 years of being the city’s first..hockey bar, the Greenwood tavern unexpectedly shuttered in January when a pipe burst and flooded the place….#Canada #Hockey #Poutine little has changed…The hockey stick–toting beaver still sneers from the logo, the hockey team stools still sit around the..bar, and…poutine still beckons from the menu with three different gravy options
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https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/trump-president-musk-kay-granger-gerontocracy-20241224.html Trump himself…in Phoenix on Sunday, felt compelled to respond to…chatter that America suddenly finds itself with a “President Musk” calling the shots.
“No, that’s not happening...he’s not going to be president; that I can tell you,” Trump said…”He can’t be. He wasn’t born in this country.” He tried to..smile to suggest that Trump finds all of this humorous, but he looked instead more like a man in the throes of hemorrhoids.
—W.Bunch, nonprofit Ph.Inquirer 6mos sub for $1
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/25/kris-mayes-arizona-border-trump-immigration Kris Mayes, the attorney general of Arizona, has vowed to fight the incoming Trump administration over key aspects of its immigration policy, including any attempt to set up deportation camps on Arizonan soil or remove thousands of migrant “dreamers” who came to the US as children…Mayes said that any move …to unpick the rights of dreamers to remain and work in the US would be a “bright red line for me. I will not stand for an attempt to deport them” #immigration #DACA
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner%27s_dilemma The prisoner's dilemma models many real-world situations involving strategic behavior. In casual usage, the label "prisoner's dilemma" is applied to any situation in which two entities can gain important benefits by cooperating or suffer by failing to do so, but find it difficult or expensive to coordinate their choices—Wikipedia #community #inequality #PrisonersDilemma
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kleptoparasitism clepto-parasitism…meaning "parasitism by theft"…is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another. The strategy is evolutionarily stable when stealing is less costly than direct feeding, such as when food is scarce or when victims are abundant—Wikipedia
[#]kleptoparasatism #inequality #corruption
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https://www.kuow.org/stories/washington-state-aims-to-ban-english-ivy “It’s not a war on Christmas.
But two botanical symbols of the holiday — holly and ivy — face increasing controls in Washington due to the ecological havoc they can wreak when they escape into the wild.
The Washington State Department of Agriculture is proposing to ban the sale or transport of English ivy and its cousin, Atlantic ivy, by adding the plants to the state’s list of quarantined species.” -KUOW.org #InvasivePlants #NativePlants #Holly
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Is it time to implement age limits (65 years maybe?) for government leaders? Political progress and the well-being (& actual survival)of billions of people are being seriously impeded by elderly presidents, senators, congresscritters, etc who are well past their cognitive prime and have far much too influence over the quality of living for virtually all species on this planet #Gerontocracy #corruption #aging
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https://www.michaelmoore.com/p/a-manifesto-against-for-profit-health In the [US], we have…1.4 million people employed with the job of DENYING HEALTH CARE, vs only 1 million doctors in the entire country! …We pay more people to deny care than to give it…—Michael Moore
[#]Health #HealthInsurance #Medicare #Medicaid #corruption
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/13/rfk-jr-aaron-siri-polio Make polio great again??
[#]vaccinations #polio #health #misinformation #corruption “A key legal adviser to Robert Kennedy Jr, Donald Trump’s pick for health secretary, is at the center of efforts to push federal drug regulators to revoke approval for the polio and hepatitis B vaccines and block distribution of 13 other critical vaccines.
Aaron Siri, a lawyer who has been helping Kennedy select top health administrators as part of the Trump transition process…”
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Incoming fake federal government is really starting to take shape!!
[#]corruption #misinformation #disinformation
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https://jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/torching-the-truth-of-january-6th?utm_campaign=app-upsell-follow-author&triedRedirect=true “Rewriting” January 6, 2021
[#]misinformation #Disinformation #Corruption
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