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I don't even know anymore I'm not very good at any of this he/him
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The "AI" bubble won't pop, because the rich tech bros who are building & financing it all tacitly understand they're trying to enslave all humanity and be pharaohs. None of them will derail that project by demanding payment early. They'll suspend any law or rule to get to empire. Toss your Econ book
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if there's one conclusion that the study of both labor history and imperialism converge on, it is that the richest people in the world are happy to burn money on control, power, impunity. and the "everything is about profit" version of anti-capitalism does not survive serious contact with either
Adding to this thread: it’s a common mistake (I’ve made it myself, many times) to think of the motivations of the capitalist elites as essentially mercantilist: that is, that they are largely still motivated *entirely* by profit and loss, selling product, etc. This has not been true for a while.
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If we are seen conceding in advance to a fascist push to discriminate against a minority group, we lose a ton of our voter turnout to depression and despair, even if they still intend to vote. The answer is to focus on anti-discrimination messages and frame them in American Values terms.
I think this commentary is completely misunderstanding Newsom's argument But I very much doubt that the people who hold to this line are capable of hearing the truth This is how Trump/Fox defeated Harris, and Trump/Fox knows it It's such an unnecessary misunderstanding I fear it may be sabotage
I think this commentary is completely misunderstanding Newsom's argument But I very much doubt that the people who hold to this line are capable of hearing the truth This is how Trump/Fox defeated Harris, and Trump/Fox knows it It's such an unnecessary misunderstanding I fear it may be sabotage
I think this commentary is completely misunderstanding Newsom's argument But I very much doubt that the people who hold to this line are capable of hearing the truth This is how Trump/Fox defeated Harris, and Trump/Fox knows it It's such an unnecessary misunderstanding I fear it may be sabotage
I think this commentary is completely misunderstanding Newsom's argument But I very much doubt that the people who hold to this line are capable of hearing the truth This is how Trump/Fox defeated Harris, and Trump/Fox knows it It's such an unnecessary misunderstanding I fear it may be sabotage
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Minneapolis residents are facing a growing food crisis. Fear from ICE is keeping families—especially elders, parents, and the homebound from groceries. Feed Minneapolis funds trusted local food shelves and kitchens, with a goal of feeding 10,000 people in 2 weeks. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fe...
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It's about demonizing Somali Americans so MN GOP House Speaker Lisa Demuth can be governor. Demuth, her office staff, & MN GOP activist David Hoch brought in Nick Shirley to make a dodgy video lying about Somali daycares. Stephen Miller used it as an excuse to bring in ICE & CBP.
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This stunt where ICE releases people far from home with no proper clothing and no way home should be treated as attempted homicide. In this case, actual homicide. These cases are not accidental or based on misunderstandings. They are deliberate attempts to inflict bodily harm.
Here's a story about his death www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/25/b...
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Trump's SOTU speech reveals the strategy: using election lies to justify federal interference in the midterms. Local election officials, states, courts and others need to be empowered to stand up to these attacks and voters need information to help navigate around obstacles laid to suppress votes.
Here's the truth behind Vance's words: GOP megadonors plan to seize all the money in the Treasury that currently gets spent on The People That's what they mean by "preserve": they want us to stop making withdrawals so our savings can build before they steal them wholesale A big, beautiful theft
JD Vance: "Our social safety net will disappear unless we take fraud more seriously. So what I'm most worried about is that unless we preserve these programs for the next generation, they will disappear."
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The administration hasn’t backed off an inch from fucking with Minnesotans, and reporting that relies on federal sources to insist otherwise is contemptuous nonsense.
JD Vance: "We're announcing today that we have decided to temporarily halt certain amounts of Medicaid funding that is going to the state of Minnesota in order to ensure that the state of Minnesota takes its obligations seriously to be good stewards of the American people's tax money."
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My latest piece. On how the murders of Good and Pretti relate to the murder of a Black Lives Matter founder's cousin. How the concentration camps relate to our carceral system. And how if we don't learn to fight American fascism from the inside out, democracy will never last.
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IMHO, it is important that Woke 2 be deemed "excessive" by historians, "sweeping too broadly" with "punishments too severe." It cannot be merely a course correction, it must be an overcorrection. Nothing less will serve as an adequate deterrent against the fascists and their collaborators.
Woke 2 is going to absolutely bury these people. It is true that in the time between now and Woke 2, they are going to hurt a lot of people, some very badly. There’s no way around that. But then, again, Woke 2 is going to absolutely bury these people.
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