5LL #56 - Nuclear Waste, Bullying, Single-Payer, Plastic, Psychedelics

We Considered Ourselves to be a Powerful Culture
Aisling McCrea, Current Affairs
There is something different between the inventive, enthusiastic way the U.S. Department of Energy reacted to the nuclear waste problem in the 1980s, and the timid, bounded way it reacts to climate change now.
The Bully's Pulpit
David Graeber, The Baffler
On the elementary structure of domination
The Transformative Potential of Single-Payer
Timothy Faust, The Outline
Our neighborhoods have been made unsafe; our water has been made poisonous; we are hostages, trapped in our own bodies, to the billing departments of American healthcare.
Waste Only
Sharon Lerner, The Intercept
How the plastics industry is fighting to keep polluting the world
Turn On, Tune In, Rise Up
Emma Stamm, Commune
“Acid communism” represents the idea that psychologically profound experiences — including the use of psychedelic drugs — should be used to galvanize anticapitalist movements.
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