Max Nichols
@max_dre_
Get your own opinions, cuz these are mine
I know a lot of people spending a lot of time looking for "the thing" that will light them up, give them a reason to get out of bed every morning, etc. If you're not finding it, it's probably own capacity for joy that is limited.
"Foreign military interventions carry within them the seeds of their own failure. The arrogance of the intervening powers humiliates and demoralizes their local partners and clients. The intervening powers are often most comfortable dealing with the most compliant and easily…
Editorial: Yemen’s ongoing economic collapse is a tragedy starring a myriad of actors, none of them innocent. As successive disasters feed into each other, it’s as if the government and the Houthis are competing over who can better fail the Yemeni people. sanaacenter.org/the-yemen-revi…
McNally Capital, a Chicago-based private equity firm, as well as its subsidiaries, positioned themselves to profit off contracts with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, now the main source of food in #Gaza. A look at the network of 💸, w/ @karendeyoung1 wapo.st/410qmqP
If you are an Abundance person claiming to want cheaper housing, and you're not talking about speculation in the housing sector as a major driver of increasing housing costs, you shouldn't be taken seriously.
Advocates want lower prices. Financiers want higher returns. And when prices fall, it’s the financiers who call the shots. Supply doesn’t go up. It collapses. Builders pull back. Lenders freeze. Risk becomes unmanageable.
This. The problems our economy is being designed to solve aren’t the problems we need to solve. An automated email writer is just a dumb thing to orient our economy around.
China's fastest growing sectors: solar energy, electric cars, electric batteries America's fastes growing sectors: essential oils, cryptocurrency, ponzi schemes
A storm rolls in over the plains of Colorado. Shot on my trusty Fuji after slamming on my brakes on I-70
When you lose Huckabee of all people, you know you’re in trouble @IDF
I work for ALL American citizens who live in Israel-Jewish, Muslim or Christian. When they are terrorized or victims of crime I will demand those responsible be held accountable w/ real consequences. Was in Taybeh today to meet with people of that village to listen & learn.
Cuomo claims to hate socialism but keeps getting publicly owned. Sad
For my financial inclusion twitter peeps: financial services for poor people and small businesses shouldn’t be profitable. If it is, it is extractive. Payments and credit should be provided at cost as a public good.
One of the more insidious types of self sabotage I do: I get 90% of the way there, give myself the endorphin hit of doing “the thing” and then never actually get there.
While canvassing for @ZohranKMamdani in Bay Ridge an old Puerto Rican homeowner told me that we can’t tax the billionaires to pay their fair share or they will leave. The fact that this argument is so ingrained is exactly why we must tax them: if they leave, we need to figure out…
Im going to share Arabic poetry for a while to show people like @BillAckman and @shaunmmaguire that in fact all humans are really the same
I am drunk on love and I have no comfort without it Whenever I call out: “O God!” My response is: “at your service…”
One of the fantastic perks of 20% of trucker drivers in the US being Punjabi Sikhs is you can get incredible Punjabi food in Kingdom City, MO