wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 12hSometimes, eventually, violence is the answer. Classical art gets it. So does history. All the Cornells will too, unless they choose a different path. Artemesia Gentileschi, "Judith Beheading Holofernes", 1620 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 12h"And I said, "Hey kid, you think that's oil? Man, that ain't oil, that's blood" I wonder what he was thinking When he hit that storm Or was he just lost in the flood?" First Springsteen song I remember being aware of. Holds up pretty well. "Have you thrown your senses to the war?"youtube.comLost In the Flood (Live at the Hammersmith Odeon, London '75)YouTube video by BruceSpringsteenVEVO 010
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 13h"The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, which oversees many U.S. banks, wrote in a report to Congress this summer that AI has increased the “speed, scale, and sophistication of cyber-attacks targeting financial institutions.” www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...theatlantic.comAI’s Risk to Financial SystemsThe tech may soon become an existential risk to humanity, but it’s already a risk to many Americans in a more mundane way: their banks. 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 13h"The targets are Trump's political opposition, and the parts of American history that embarrass him. Museums to National Parks. Schools to the media. It's blatant. It can be shown to anyone. MAGA defends it every time, but their reasoning suggests they don't see it as censorship."therationalleague.substack.comThe Fastest Censorship Campaign in Modern History, and MAGA Calls It FreedomMuseums, newsrooms, and vaccine panels have all been gutted. Only one side of the country noticed. 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 13h"Within 10 days of the fatal shooting, supporters raised more than $1 million on GoFundMe and GiveSendGo. The GoFundMe organizer wrote that Ross was “1000 percent justified in the shooting”. MAGA sure was happy to open their wallets to see a government employee murdering people with impunity."cmarmitage.substack.comMAGA Raised More Than $1,000,000 For Jonathan RossThe evidence to charge Jonathan Ross has been public since February, and he has worked for ICE since three days after the shooting. 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 13h"The State Department records the administration intends to share include the private identifiable data of everyone who has ever applied for a U.S. passport." www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...democracydocket.comTrump administration will use passport data for voter citizenship checks, court filing revealsThe State Department records the administration intends to share include the private identifiable data of everyone who has ever applied for a U.S. passport. 010
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 13h"Spam calls are not only annoying but also risky because the line between marketing spam and a scam is often thin. And from the perspective of the person receiving these annoying calls, it doesn’t matter."onlinesafety.substack.comSpam Calls Are a Nuisance and a Risk. Your Phone Already Has Some Fixes.Spam calls aren't just annoying, they're risky. The good news is Apple and Google built pretty decent protection right into your phone. Here's how to use it. 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 13h"Baldwin was telling us that Black folks were raising children in a racist system that makes dead children possible without threatening the moral legitimacy of the nation itself. Nolan Wells, another Black child is dead."drstaceypatton1865.substack.comAmerica Loves Killing Black Children. When Will We Finally Believe It?This morning I am in Norfolk, Virginia attending the Association for the Study of African American Life and History Conference. 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 13h"Because the status quo is sustainable for each side, and because the parties lack the power to seize the upper hand, there will be no dramatic escalation, either. Tehran and Washington won’t be defeated. Yet no one will win." www.foreignaffairs.com/guest-pass/r...foreignaffairs.comThe New Forever WarWhy America and Iran fight on without victory. 110
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 13hWe all bear our ghosts. Thinking of them as history may be more comforting, but they still have faces and voices. And what they're telling us is becoming deafening. Jews of Kiev being forced to abandon their belongings and clothing before being murdered at Babyn Yar, 29-30 Sept. 1941. 100
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 14hEveryone repeat after me: "I will not be silenced by the continued threats of prosecution from the president or others."michaeldsellers.substack.comJack Smith Defiant, Says He Won’t Be Silenced by Trump’s Threats of ProsecutionMS Note: This morning’s post is short and to the point. 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 14h"If we label someone, we reduce them to that label. Once they are a label, they can be assigned all the characteristics we’ve added to that label. You are your label. And labels can be hated. Labels can be evil. And labels can be crushed by a state that is defending itself or its people."thedispatch.comThe Bosnian War and Negative PeaceWhat three recent deaths teach us about labels and hatred. 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 14h"The conservative complaint asked us to distinguish its worst elements from its respectable core. Its leadership issued the censure and the pardons. Continuing to treat that conduct as unrepresentative requires a conservatism that exists somewhere other than where conservatives exercise power."open.substack.comThe Press Was Too CharitableOn the respectable conservatism we were asked to keep looking for 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 14hThe Untold Story of How The Democrats Won Their Last Supermajority: The 50 State Strategy cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-untold...cmarmitage.substack.comThe Untold Story of How The Democrats Won Their Last Supermajority: The 50 State StrategyHow Howard Dean staffed all 50 states, and how that map produced the last filibuster-proof Senate 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 14h"The truth is they are not hiding this. DOGE and the rest of the America By Design data-heist team have been telling us what they’re doing in plain sight, duct-taping their handmade pipe bombs around us while daring us to keep faith with a country whose contract they have already torn to pieces."america.govAmerica.govFind answers from official government sources and clear next steps for the services you need with America.gov. 000
wellbillyboy @wellbillyboy.bsky.social · 15h"Equity is often conflated with “equality”. Equality ignores the fact that we don’t all start life with the same resources, whereas equity is about helping people get what they specifically need based on their situation so they have the chance to achieve the same outcome as anyone else."yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.comWhen “DEI” research is cut, what happens to community health?Health equity is caught in the crossfire 000
