Andie Wyatt
My special interest is reality, where everything is interconnected, humans are Nature, and right relation matters most. 🌎 also climate & energy
- Reposted by Andie Wyatttoday's woke 2 take is that it is not enough to praise woke 1. it is not enough to criticize woke 1. woke 1 was a movement that changed the culture in profound ways. what is necessary is to understand both why woke 1 was so successful and why it ran out of steam
- Reposted by Andie WyattThis is really crucial in understanding today's right wing: it is an arena in which you can get attention, and become famous, without any skill or insight or knowledge. All you have to do is say outrageous shit. So it's become a collection bin for all these failed, flailing narcissists.
- Reposted by Andie WyattThis is really an instance of a very longstanding trend where secular pundits end up unwittingly aligned with fundamentalists in treating the crudest and most extreme version of any faith as the genuine article and everything else as somehow inauthentic.
- Reposted by Andie WyattVelociraptors had feathers
- Reposted by Andie WyattWilliam Nordhaus received the Nobel Memorial Prize for these flawed economic models, and Bjorn Lomborg built a highly lucrative career on them. They told rich and powerful people what they wanted to hear. While helping to consign us all to catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Unions don’t represent “workers” in some generic sense, they represent incumbent workers in incumbent industries. This can align them with management against larger societal interests, and other workers, quite often.
- Reposted by Andie WyattJeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.
- The important other part of Wilhoit’s Law gets a good thorough look here. Worth a read whether you know what I mean or not
- Reposted by Andie WyattThis is genuinely good news, and means that -- with some notable exceptions -- Democrats have now gone to the mat to protect trans people, in the face of the reactionary centrists trying very hard to get the party to throw them under the bus
- Side note: None of the spending bills passed in the "minibus" had any anti-trans riders. This includes the bill that funds the Department of Health and Human Services www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
- People do be very invested in categories being immutable and intrinsic. Kind of key to a lot.
- Reposted by Andie WyattPeople say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
- Reposted by Andie WyattYour daily reminder: the far right has never stopped talking about climate change. "Don't mention climate change" is a centre-right tactic designed to clear space for these people, not a good-faith piece of comms advice for the left.
- Reposted by Andie WyattA fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west
- Reposted by Andie WyattEpstein is the most garish and harrowing manifestation of this but oligarchy makes life miserable in a thousand other ways. A core point of democracy is that no one should have so much power that they can make themselves everybody's problem. We should have a political party that believes that
- The Epstein emails should really end the debate over whether society should have billionaires. "Do you want there to be a class of people so powerful they can fuck your kids and no one will even try to do anything" seems like an easy sell if everyone in politics wasn't trying to get on their payroll
- Reposted by Andie WyattA year ago, data center developers were focused on connecting to the grid. Today roughly 1/3 of all planned capacity is onsite power - and 72% of that planned capacity is fossil gas. Homer City PA's data center project could soon be one of the largest single sources of carbon emissions in the US.
- Reposted by Andie WyattIt’s not particularly sophisticated but I kind of think that the most straightforward way to understand trumpism is that we have a morally depraved group of fascists who have successfully persuaded a significant chunk of the public to accept their psychological projections as reality
- Reposted by Andie WyattHuh. This entire administration is an Epstein Island afterparty.
- JFC if there’s one thread in the history of social media I could force every clean energy industry person to read it might be this one (and it’s not that long!)
- Reposted by Andie WyattVery important vote. It makes repealing ICE surge funding the mainstream position in the party, with bipartisan support.
- Reposted by Andie WyattDuring a DHS shutdown, ICE and CBP continue to operate, but we begin to use up their slush fund from OBBBA. We also aren't stuck w/ a Sophie's Choice situation where SSI and Section 8 hang in the balance. It's a place of maximum (albeit still weak) leverage. We must ensure Dems do not squander it.
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- So astrology in the sense of “planet alignments cause things” is obviously nonsense but cyclicality at different time spans seems pretty reasonable, and some of those cycles are going to happen to align with planet alignments. Anyway astrology is less BS than dude-astrology (orthodox economics)
- No one is more hateful of “Western Civilization” than these right wing nutjobs who define it as conformity with a patriarchal bootlicking absence of empathy
- Chris Rufo is so upset about the Minneapolis protests that he is resorting to anti-Nordic racism christopherrufo.com/p/the-curse-...
- Reposted by Andie Wyattlegislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards
- Good thread. And it doesn’t map 100% onto left-right ideology but: No conservative unconditionally loves their children, because they consider children property and only of value to the extent they replicate the parent’s rigid definitions and values. All-consuming hierarchy is taught as reality.
- Reposted by Andie Wyattme, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...
- Reposted by Andie WyattThis is physically unsustainable for all life on earth. The plans for data centers - if they succeed - guarantee that we burn the world down and blow every climate tipping point. The fierce debate here is not just about "speed" but about who gets to decide and how we plan the entire economy.
- Smol bean fascism
- Reposted by Andie WyattThe immanent contradiction of dominance masculinity is that it both claims absolute authority and strength and also cannot countenance even the slightest challenge.
- Reposted by Andie WyattAn entire community of thousands, here legally, having been demonized with deranged lies about eating pets, is about to be arbitrarily DECLARED illegal so they can be forcibly ethnically cleansed. I don’t want to hear one more fucking word about comparisons to Nazi Germany being overwrought.
- While it’s probably true that all fascism is smol bean fascism, I hope this catches on. Fascists don’t mind so much being called plain old fascists because they think it sounds dominant. But trying to deny and out-tough smol bean-ness just reinforces the pathetic smol bean-ness of it all.
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- I propose an inverse Wilhoit’s Law: if you tolerate law that protects but doesn’t hold accountable in-groups, and that is weaponized against unprotected out-groups, you’re a right-wing conservative. Anti-conservatives need to take over the Democratic Party. Too bad conservatives currently lead it.
- Reposted by Andie WyattIf you’re Dems, please coalesce around Stephen Miller not having a job anymore.
- Dems coalescing around 5 restrictions on ICE, I'm told: DHS required to cooperate with state probes (big) CBP stays at border warrants for arrests IDs, bodycams ICE out of churches, schools "That package unites a lot of Dems," Sen Chris Murphy tells me on the pod: newrepublic.com/article/2057...
- An angry but also useful newsletter/post today on some topics we need to forcefully reclaim. Yes, MAGAts throw the words "evil" and "Western Civilization" around too, but they're *provably* evil, unwise, anti-civilization, and wrong about literally everything. It's not a debate.
- Reposted by Andie Wyatt"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
- Last week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- Reposted by Andie WyattLast week in Minnesota, I watched ordinary people risk their lives to protect their neighbors. In the process, they not only won a significant—though not final—victory against authoritarianism, they proved virtually every MAGA social theory wrong. (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
- This whole thread.
- Reposted by Andie WyattThe more I think about it, the more I’m convinced the Democrats have to push their hand immediately. The parallels with the delays and subsequent failures after January 6th are blaring warning signs about what will happen if they don’t go after the issues with ICE and CBP at the root RIGHT NOW.
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- Reposted by Andie Wyattif bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.
- “What took you so long” is an important substantive question. It means, “are you actually against fascism, or just its current aesthetics and the fact that it has reached people who look like you?” The sincere folks can answer it, apologize, and start to make amends.
- Reposted by Andie WyattThis is why we had Jim Crow instead of truth and reconciliation after slavery ended. People are so quick to absolve anyone who pays lip service to changing their mind about human rights violations instead of letting them live with the social consequences of their words
- Right. “Never punish a step in the right direction” is good advice (Wellstone), but if someone’s standing still in their bigotry and the right direction is just closing in on them, they still need as well as deserve negative social consequences. Making actual amends is the step before the off ramp.
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- Reposted by Andie WyattThis random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...
- Reposted by Andie WyattICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.
- Reposted by Andie WyattAt the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.
- Reposted by Andie WyattNote how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.
- Reposted by Andie WyattWise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
- Reposted by Andie Wyatt“It’s cold outside where I live today, therefore climate change doesn’t exist” is like saying “I had breakfast this morning, therefore hunger doesn’t exist”
- Thank you!
- Reposted by Andie WyattThey want you to think that there is nothing in the past but shame so that people flinch away from examining history. If you examine history, you will find good people. At every time in history, you will find them. Maybe not enough, but they were there. You can be this generation's good people.
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- Communicating a worldview and building a world where only zero-sum dominance and subjugation matters *is* the purpose. It’s psychological, material, and ultimately metaphysical all at once. We’re in a fight over the nature of reality itself and we’d do better if we recognized that.
- "The horrifying details of Trump’s rant aside, what strikes me about the Trump administration’s performance at Davos — not just Trump himself but his minions — was the utter lack of purpose. The whole Trump team seems to have gone to Europe with no goal other than to belittle and insult their hosts"
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- Yes, and. No need for binaries here. America has been this AND America has been not-this. We have bounded agency to collectively steer our future self-definition towards this or not-this. What America “is” is not a static essence but a complex ongoing story we’re all co-authoring from inside.
- Reposted by Andie WyattIf you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power
- To quote one source: “They’re terrified of being labeled anti–law enforcement. They want this to go away so they can talk about the cost of living more. Problem is, it’s not going away.” prospect.org/2026/01/21/j...
- Reposted by Andie WyattMafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it
- Reposted by Andie WyattRecently I've been spending some time with pro-democracy leaders from other countries organizing against national strongmen. Their stories of organizing against authoritarians are eerily familiar. Among the many clear takeaways: stand up to bullies and go on offense because defense doesn’t win.
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- Reposted by Andie WyattI wrote about how concentration camp regimes evolve and why it's not too late to stop this, even though we are deep in it now.
- Reposted by Andie Wyattjack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.
- Reposted by Andie WyattI’m going to keep hammering this point: the excesses of ICE we see now are entirely contiguous with our system of policing more broadly, and the reason that almost no politician wants to threaten real consequences for ICE agents is because it opens the door to making the same demands of the cops
- Reposted by Andie Wyatti think this MLK day the thing to focus on is the strategic focus and tactical brilliance of the civil rights movement and the way it was laser focused on a set of achievable goals
