The feds erected a large metal wall in the street around the Portland federal building, then the local police helped harass and beat journalists and bystanders alike.

Hopefully the debt train won’t get cut off.

It’s disconcerting which questions economists can answer with confidence, and for which they just throw up their hands.

A lost generation, common starvation, genocide? Economic and ecological collapse? IDK.

It can be deflective, or a foreign news style of having quotes around exact language. I noticed it with the BBC World News.

It’s hard not to be biased by the stability of the past. And for me, news about DC politics seems distant.

How would states stop the flow of taxpayer money out?

Budget Marlon Brando?

Referring to this? The Anti-Defamation League is a joke.

The judges all know Trump has just bull rushed around consequences for crimes against this county, and he’s a lot more powerful now. They won’t push their luck. The scotus majority will make nice, then the next distraction will come along.

How about Buttigieg?

I hope Putin doesn’t order a famine for US.

What if they reduce climate impacts by engineering a global famine?

I think billionaires finally admitted to themselves that the world’s economies, ecological systems, and countries population trajectories were fundamentally broken, and our flawed democratic institutions were not cut out for fixing any of these existential problems.

This is part panic, cannibalizing, and power consolidation.

Wild birds

That’s does seem to be the root of the problem.

I want to see big brick as a sponcer.

There is no good move to make. The problem is that we can’t even agree on the least bad options to slow it down.

And abuse is a key part of the plan.

Slow starvation is a popular selection.

It’s more about the resource extraction rights.

Of one is attacked, it might be 31 countries.