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My latest @locusmag column is "The Swivel-Eyed Loons Have A Point," about all the ways that I agree with the Right's paranoid fringe, whom I mostly *disagree* with:
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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
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The impetus for the article was a widely reported, bizarre protest against the plan to create a #15MinuteCity in Oxford, England.
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Supposedly, the #SiliconValleyBank #bailout wasn't a bailout: in a bailout, the *investors* get public money; but with #SVB, it was the depositors. But, of course, SVB's owners were also depositors in their bank. All in all, SVB's owners are entitled to $2B in public money. 1/
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When #Biden said, "investors in the banks will not be protected. They knowingly took a risk and when the risk didn’t pay off, investors lose their money. That’s how capitalism works," he was ignoring the fact that this isn't how *the law* works. 3/
No, Richard Morrison, it's not hypocrisy to end a fossil fuel sponsorship in 2023.
The Royal Opera House should have done it sooner.
And if you'd taken the time to join the dots, it would be obvious why... 🧵 1/x
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The Royal Opera House should have done it sooner.
And if you'd taken the time to join the dots, it would be obvious why... 🧵 1/x
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He writes that cultural orgs 'that benefited from money from the #Sackler family were right to erase their links'.
But not long ago, he called them 'hugely generous arts benefactors, but from a fortune partly derived from making addictive opioids.' 🧐2/x thetimes.co.uk/article/our-cu…
But not long ago, he called them 'hugely generous arts benefactors, but from a fortune partly derived from making addictive opioids.' 🧐2/x thetimes.co.uk/article/our-cu…
And that gets us to the heart of the issue.
It was actually that the #Sacklers/Purdue profited from *intentionally* misleading people about Oxcontin's addictiveness and breaking the law.
Cultural philantropy deflected the spotlight and rehabilitated the Sackler name. 3/x
It was actually that the #Sacklers/Purdue profited from *intentionally* misleading people about Oxcontin's addictiveness and breaking the law.
Cultural philantropy deflected the spotlight and rehabilitated the Sackler name. 3/x
Record Numbers of Americans Dying of Overdoses. Instead of Justice, We Get Theater👨⚖️
"Whole thing is kabuki theater, It ought to be about money" said Ausness. "About who pays what & instead they want to make Sacklers listen to people complain about them"
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"Whole thing is kabuki theater, It ought to be about money" said Ausness. "About who pays what & instead they want to make Sacklers listen to people complain about them"
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Guggenheim joined several other museums last week w/an announcement they are removing the Sackler nameplate from their arts center,
Once again victims are being offered busy work as though it were meaningful reform.
#opioids #medtwitter #sacklers #HarmReduction @praddenkeefe
Once again victims are being offered busy work as though it were meaningful reform.
#opioids #medtwitter #sacklers #HarmReduction @praddenkeefe
We are in the midst of the opioid crisis, an addiction & overdose crisis fed by the ubiquity of illicit & deadly fentanyl in the black market,
over 108k people died from an opioid overdose in 2021,
npr.org/sections/healt… #opioids #addiction #news #twitter #CrimesAgainstHumanity
over 108k people died from an opioid overdose in 2021,
npr.org/sections/healt… #opioids #addiction #news #twitter #CrimesAgainstHumanity
