Notices by janhoglund (janhoglund@mastodon.nu)

It is impossible to be both honest and optimistic when discussing the American future.
—Sarah Kendzior

Sarah Kendzior
https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/your-questions-answered-trump-term

Knowing you are unconditionally loved in a collapsing world goes a long way to withstanding the pain of it.
—Sarah Kendzior

Imagination, integrity, and compassion are all qualities an individual controls, even in a mafia state.
—Sarah Kendzior

They [tech oligarchs] want control not only over your material possessions and political activity but your imagination and privacy. Guard them with your life.
—Sarah Kendzior

When society is in denial, your best friends might be in books.
—Sarah Kendzior

You’re not your job or your grades: you’re how you treat people.
—Sarah Kendzior
#kindness

I do think there is a “silent majority”…
—Sarah Kendzior

I worry about self-censorship…
—Sarah Kendzior

I no longer know how to get accurate information except from direct witnesses who have proven to be reliable over time. But also trust your own observations — and write them down, because everything is designed to make you doubt your own recollections.
—Sarah Kendzior

Mafia states tend to move very fast when a new regime enters power.
—Sarah Kendzior

I don’t think there’s a way to protect yourself other than bowing down and being a mafia state lackey. Prosecution in mafia states is often launched on baseless grounds so you might as well speak your mind.
—Sarah Kendzior

…more people appreciate you and have your back than you realize.
—Sarah Kendzior

Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. … This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense.
—Dwight Eisenhower, The Chance for Peace (1953)

In 1856, scientist Eunice Foote attempted to publicize her research showing the link between carbon dioxide emissions and global warming in one of the earliest documentations of the deleterious effect of burning fossil fuels. …her research was selectively copied by men, misinterpreted, and ignored for a century and a half. The excuse men used…to dismiss her work was that she lacked institutional affiliation, which she lacked because of her gender.
—Sarah Kendzior, They Knew
#climatechange

#books #recommended

In 1981, ExxonMobil, the largest oil company in the world, composed some fiction of its own. The story was that the toxins it released into the world were harmless and that anyone claiming otherwise was a liar. … Exxon knew that developing the Natuna site [off Indonesia] would cause and accelerate permanent damage to the earth.
—Sarah Kendzior, They Knew
#climatechange

Over four decades, Exxon paid millions of dollars to over one hundred prominent lobbying groups and think tanks that promoted climate change denial.
—Sarah Kendzior, They Knew
#climatechange

…the world keeps turning as it burns.
—Sarah Kendzior, They Knew

Trump is part of a complex illicit network including individuals from Russia, Saudi Arabia, Israel, the United Kingdom, the United States, and more… The network is not uniform in its desires—some are in it for the money, some for territorial ambitions, some to satisfy their religious or white supremacist fanaticism. … They permeate the very institutions tasked to stop them. How that transpired—and what it means…—is the subject of this book
—Sarah Kendzior, Hiding in Plain Sight
#book