Category Archives: Komprosplat

Do we need to reactivate the word “defenestration”?

From Harper’s Weekly Review: The last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, passed away at the same hospital where the chairman of Russia’s second largest oil producer, who had called for a speedy end to the war in Ukraine, fell … Continue reading

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A few more good things

♥ Katie Porter posted this on Twitter just now: “We’ve been charging oil and gas companies the same royalty rate to drill on public lands for 100+ years—until yesterday. The Biden Administration has raised the rate to the amount I’ve … Continue reading

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What kind of people support authoritarian leaders?

This kind: “It is a less-educated, older part of the population, mainly living in rural areas or in small and medium-sized cities, where the population is poorer and more dependent on power,” he said, referring to those who rely on … Continue reading

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