good thread. as @volts.wtf is always saying renewables and batteries are a *highly* disruptive technology in the old-fashioned sense, meaning a lot of pain imposed on comfortable vested interests
Newsom was basically treated as a favored pet by the Gettys as a child, and he will never not hear his master’s voice.
it’s weird acknowledging how much of our lives are driven by personal issues of individual men, but you have to understand Newsom’s childhood life with his single mom was hard, but divorced dad’s rich friends gave him cool fun adventures and start up money. He can never hate them.
Why I Don’t Use “Patient Zero”
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market.
Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today.
Four giants control 80% of meat processing.
The evidence of corporate consolidation is everywhere.
It means more power for them and less freedom for you.
Musk, Trump, Vance, even Susie Wiles saying she knew how to handle amTrump because of her alcoholic father - the 21st Century politics is “the rest of us suffer while some people work their shit out.”
NEW: How a man selling kratom, an addictive gas station drug, courted allies in Trump's cabinet. They included Sec. Kennedy, whose PACs got +$1M from the man, and Markwayne Mullin, an investor in the man's company. w /
@kenvogel.bsky.social
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