An actual and truth-based primer on actual fascism.
A clarification of a widely-held misconception about what Fascists ACTUALLY believed youtube.com/watch
Chris Abraham
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All Cops Are Beautiful (ACAB)
For One Day Out of 10,950, They Finally Meant It the Other Way open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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RIP Barney Frank, King and Queen of Washington, DC
Barney Frank died Tuesday at 86, at his home in Maine, with his husband Jim beside him. I didn’t know him. I want to be clear about that—I met him once, briefly, as an 18-year-old freshman at George Washington University in 1988, newly arrived in DC with a PoliSci major and …
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Barney Frank died Tuesday at 86. I met him once, briefly, as an 18-year-old PoliSci kid at GW in 1988. He was everything I’d hoped Washington could be—wickedly smart, unpretentious, genuinely present. That memory held up. Rest easy, Congressman.
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Comedy Gold 🪙
AOC - “Opening Silo” instead of “Salvo” youtube.com/shorts/3s…
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Two Sets of Books: How the climate movement learned to keep one ledger for the public and another for the back office chrisabraham.substack.com/p/two-set…
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Knew it! Told you so! Suckers!
The Worst-Case Climate Scenario Is Dead RCP8.5 is officially retired, scientists say. www.bloomberg.com/news/news…
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Friedrich Engels
“And if we then ask what guarantee we have that necessary quantity and not more of each product will be produced, that we shall not go hungry in regard to corn and meat while we are choked in beet sugar and drowned in potato spirit, that we shall not lack trousers to cover …
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These are both terrible and beautiful.
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“Prices are like messengers conveying news” —Thomas Sowell
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Some light reading
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Fun fact: Elon Musk’s net worth is approximately $839 billion, making him the wealthiest person in the world by a significant margin.
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Blue Star Families is collecting military stories at Penrose Square Starbucks, Columbia Pike, South Arlington—today until 3pm & tomorrow 10am–3pm. You don’t need to have served. Any connection counts. Go share yours. #BlueStar250
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Only eagles get to talk about doves. Peace is a victory lap, not a strategy. You can’t olive-branch your way to the table—you earn the branch by already owning the sky. Also nobody’s ever gotten a dove tattoo to feel dangerous.
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Your Shadow Dossier
You Think You’re Ungoverned. open.substack.com/pub/chris…
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Damn! Foot-in-Mouth disease.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson admits to the New York Times that her comments about businesses were not helpful. youtube.com/watch
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#Tyrus doesn’t know when and how to use “#whom.”
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Is Deflation Bad for the Economy?
The standard line among most economists is that deflation is as bad or even worse than inflation. In reality, the economy needs deflation now more than ever. pca.st/episode/3…
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The K-Shaped Country: Why Nobody on Either Side Will Admit the Map Is Gone chrisabraham.substack.com/p/the-k-s…