nothing insightful here but just so deeply overwhelmed by how so many dark forces and broken systems are coming together in this moment to cause so much damage and suffering. it's honestly a bit hard to hold in one's head at once
militias organizing around platforms built for viral advertising that can't seem to detect calls for violence or act on them till its too late, communities exploiting the attention economy to incubate hatred until it spills into the real world. and that's just one tiny sliver...
...overlapping climate, economic, public health, racial justice crises all putting more pressure on the other crises. injustices pile onto other injustices. temp keeps rising. fever doesn't break. https://twitter.com/ClimateSignals/status/1298745282725904384?s=20
this feels like such a load bearing week — one that features a four day propaganda campaign by the president that is designed to put immense pressure on all of the country's emotional/political/cultural/social cracks.
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