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We'll hire the most decent, smart and competent humans to run every leadership position in every government department. We'll make being a civil servant one of the most prestigious and desirable jobs any young person could ever aspire to — a values-based calling.

We'll make sure that every court case wraps up within a year. Same with health care: no civilized country makes its citizens suffer waiting interminably to be attended to.

Trump fired 300,000 federal workers; we go in the opposite direction, we'll hire a million and make it work.

Don't think this can't be done. The fact is that it's never really been tried.

Any party that gives this kind of intimate person-to-person service to its citizens — and does it well — is sure to win the next election.

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Nat Turner was born in Virginia in 1800, the son of slaves and the property of plantation owners.

His rebellion, which was launched August 21, 1831, and lasted two days and two nights, saw the killing of some fifty-five white men, women, and children, some (including the family of the man who owned him) in their sleep. To begin with, the rebels numbered just six besides Turner, but by the end they had recruited sixty to their cause. The plan was to go from plantation to plantation, house to house, blazing a trail of terror on their way to the county seat, where Turner aimed to raid the armory for weapons and ammunition. Today the seat of Southampton County is known as Courtland, but back then it was called — what else? — Jerusalem.

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Be Changed
                      If you feel like Gaza has changed you

                      hold on to this feeling

                      it's humanity

                      insisting on existing
                    
                      If you are filled with rage

                      at Western atrocities

                      be not gaslit
                    
                      Fuck their bipolarities

                      you HAVE been betrayed
                    
                      Be crazy in love

                      with Palestine
                    
                      Do not mourn the death of the West

                      things are going south
                    
                      Terror feeds the culture war vultures

                      fat with futile phrases from cucked-up leaders

                      drunk on destruction, bent on denial
                    
                      If you feel your anger has changed you

                      hold on to that feeling

                      Fuck the tone police
                    
                      Find your new center
                    
                      Only solidarity softens the blow

                      We keep us safe
                    
                      That is our birthright

                      In our millions, in our billions
                    
                      Justice is the nectar of the sunbirds

                      In the name of all that might be holy
                    
                      We exist

                      To Co-Resist
                    
                      Free, free, Palestine
                    
                      — Kat Dodds

You be the force

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"Existence is a free gift from the sun."

Long before we humans existed, the lonely Earth cooled and the sun shone upon it until one day, Hallelujah, life strikes up out of the soup.

Three and a half billion years later here we are with the tools we've fashioned to make things easier for ourselves: Super computers and AI and UberEats and everything we could possibly want just the click of a button away. We've made art, built civilizations, unfurled the mysteries of the cosmos, and hell . . . didn't we make it all the way to the moon! And all because the sun was shining down upon us.

That's what makes what has happened in the last half-century so dispiriting. We've pushed life on Earth and squeezed it and expanded it and now we're destroying it.

How did things go from that to this? The Earth's simple gift of abundant sunshine to the takers we have become — voracious marauders who can't stop consuming, can't stop spewing carbon into the atmosphere, can't stop producing waste?

Frederich Hunterwasser's quote says it all. The history of our species in eight words. What came next is on us: the tragic coda of how we mucked it all up.

— KL

Western WEIRDness

Hot off the press is the newest report of the Global Flourishing Study — an ongoing project managed by Harvard and Baylor which checks in with hundreds of thousands of folks in 22 countries to see how they're doing. "Flourishing" might best be described as truly crushing this thing called life. You're happy, you're healthy, you're at peace. Once again this year, the Scandinavian countries came out on top.

The big surprise was who came out on the bottom: Japan, the UK, and the United States. Countries with among the highest GDP in the world.

WTF?

First you see one on a Coke machine . . . then on the side of a bus . . . then a bank window . . . then at your grocery store.

No explanation.

Just a big black spot.

Something’s happening. A wordless meme is taking hold, seizing the collective psyche . . .

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