Myron Tuman

Myron Tuman

@mtuman.bsky.social

Lit critic - writers & family trauma; 2 most recent books, THE STUTTERING SON & THE HIDDEN D.H. LAWRENCE Then there's my real passion, NO Pelicans!

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Jacobin
@jacobinmag.bsky.social

Advocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision while building up a military-industrial complex with a vested interest in aggressive wars that never cease.

jacobin.comThe Permanent War Economy Doesn’t Benefit WorkersAdvocates of “military Keynesianism” present it as a boon for the working class. In reality, it diverts resources away from social provision while building up a military-industrial complex with a vested interest in aggressive wars that never cease.

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Sam
@samd.bsky.social

the Democratic Party is just completely broken right now

Amanda Litman@amandalitman.bsky.social

That Clyburn thinks Andrew Cuomo is part of the future of the Democratic Party - and points to his character!!! — is the problem with the current Democratic Party leadership in a nutshell. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/n...

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CavsKermit
@cavskermit.bsky.social

This is more than possible. It's the likely outcome. You're talking about a President who reverses himself on domestic policy a half a dozen times in a single week. That's not how war works, of course, but Trump is dumb enough to believe he could proclaim it over after launching an attack.

Nicholas Grossman@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social

"It’s also possible the Israelis thought their attack on Iran could jam Trump, and drag the U.S. into a larger campaign against Iran’s nuclear program, or even a regime change war. Maybe Trump wouldn’t bomb when they asked, but would if they were under attack, or if Iran fired at American forces."

arcdigital.mediaNetanyahu's Aggression, Trump's Weakness, Khamenei's ConfusionIsrael launched an unprecedentedly large, direct attack on Iran, sending the Middle East into it's riskiest moment in years

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Asawin Suebsaeng
@swin24.bsky.social

The president of the United States in our time is not supposed to wield armed troops and even station marines on American soil because of political speech and assembly he doesn’t like, that is typically not allowed and no I don’t care if any of it is technically “legal”

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Matu Mureithi
@matuclouds.bsky.social

UBI isn't a handout; it's a tool for economic justice and social protection. It's also an investment in human potential that enables millions of individuals and whole communities to escape poverty and create wealth, in turn boosting economies and reducing inequality. It's a win-win.

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Scott Santens
@scottsantens.com

Vision 2029: Universal basic income, single payer healthcare, Universal pre-K to college w/ media literacy, wealth taxes, reverse Citizens United, abolish gerrymandering, proportional representation, DC statehood, automatic voter registration, nonpartisan primaries, ranked choice general elections…

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Nicole Tersigni
@nicsigni.bsky.social

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

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Jeremy Konyndyk
@jeremykonyndyk.bsky.social

So - I've actually led Ebola outbreak response at USAID. This is bunk from Elon. They have laid off most of the experts, they're bankrupting most of the partner orgs, have withdrawn from WHO, and muzzled CDC. What's left is a fig-leaf effort to cover their asses politically.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Elon Musk: "We will make mistakes. We won't be perfect ... so for example, with USAID, one of the things we accidentally canceled very briefly was ebola prevention."

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Mark Harris
@markharris.bsky.social

One thing Democratic leadership could do right now is to name an alternate HHS secretary--someone to provide ongoing public updates and health information. And do it for other departments too. Start showing voters what a Democratic government would look like--press conferences, speeches, all of it.

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Naomi Klein
@naomiaklein.bsky.social

Folks are shocked that their institutions, after professing commitments to climate justice and DEI, are now caving to Trump and scrubbing all references. It's brutal. And it's the smallest taste of what our students felt when their universities called in the cops b/c they protested a genocide.

Myron Tuman
@mtuman.bsky.social

Bold look at how the PMC is hurting the country

Adrienne LaFrance@adriennelaf.bsky.social

The Atlantic's latest cover story is out now and it is fascinating. @yappelbaum.bsky.social on why Americans stopped moving—and why that's a much bigger deal than you might realize: www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

theatlantic.comHow Progressives Froze the American DreamThe U.S. was once the world’s most geographically mobile society. Now we’re stuck in place—and that’s a very big problem.
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@mtuman.bsky.social

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Dr. Crystal A. Kolden@pyrogeog.bsky.social

Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵

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Albert Pinto@70sbachchan.bsky.social

7/ Between the pandemic & california mega fires & american dysfunction 2020s has been the great Mike Davis' cassandraesque decade. But every time you think he hit Peak Bleak, turns out he was still ascending... Everyone thinking of his LA book 'Ecology of Fear'... rosalux.nyc/california-f...

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Mark Cuban
@mcuban.bsky.social

Why are Bezos, Zuckerberg, Musk, Pichai and Tim Cook visiting and giving money to Trump ? Because they are in “The Race “ to become the dominant platform in the world. Amazon/Anthropic vs FB/LLama vs Google/Gemini vs Twitter/Grok, vs IPhones/ChatGpt is the penultimate global power war ever.

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Garrett M. Graff
@vermontgmg.bsky.social

The fact that the FBI didn’t hold a press conference announcing the largest seizure of self-made explosives in history tells you everything you need to know about race and ideology of the suspect. Wanna guess? www.nytimes.com/2024/12/31/u...

nytimes.comF.B.I. Says It Found Largest Cache of Homemade Explosives in Its History at Va. FarmInvestigators discovered more than 150 devices, mostly pipe bombs, on a property outside Norfolk, court papers say.
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Amanda Marcotte@amandamarcotte.bsky.social

Under Obama, Republicans acted like healthy food was murder. Under RFK, they're suddenly pretending to care about nutrition. The shift is vaporware, as I show. (They are still anti-health.) But this aesthetic shift is about gender and class. www.salon.com/2024/12/20/m...

salon.comMAGA hated Michelle Obama's healthy food agenda — here's why they changed their tune under RFKUnsurprisingly, misogyny plays a big role

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Chris Hayes
@chrislhayes.bsky.social

I’ve really been wrestling with how to articulate the feelings of dread and despair I get from the UHC murder. This great piece by @caseyjohnston.bsky.social gets at one angle but inspires a question I can’t find a clear obvious answer to so figured I’d ask here. www.shesabeast.co/back-injury-...

shesabeast.coThe devil and Luigi MangioneLuigi Mangione appeared to try everything for chronic pain from a back injury that hampered his physical livelihood and dating life, and struggled to receive support even as he tried to provide it f...

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jamelle
@jamellebouie.net

i think it is important to clarify that this — the exclusionary distribution of benefits on some sort of ethnic or national basis — isn’t socialism. it’s, you know, something else.

Ryan Broderick@ryanhatesthis.bsky.social

After years of talking to Trump supporters my view of them has become very simple: They want socialist, even sometimes progressive reforms but they want them from someone who makes those reforms feel powerful and masculine and they want to make sure the people they don't like don't benefit from them

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NBABeau
@nbabeau.bsky.social

“Imagine” is my political philosophy

Beth Sutton-Ramspeck@bsutton-ramspeck.bsky.social

Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do; Nothing to kill or die for And no religion, too. Imagine all the people Livin' life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer But I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us And the world will be as one. John Lennon, 10/9/40-12/8/80

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Jordan Chariton
@jordanchariton.bsky.social

🧵Unlike 99% of corporate pundits bloviating that "Dems just need their own Joe Rogan," I leave the studio & have reported on-the-ground & have interviewed thousands of working class people across the U.S. for a decade... Dem lost not bc of what podcasts they do or don't do...

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