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greenspe.bsky.social@greenspe.bsky.social |
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cait
@cait.bsky.social
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when someone's entire social media presence is being loud and angry to "bad" people they eventually run out of "bad" people and just start being cruel to strangers who didn't do anything
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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we had a whole Situation getting the dog her pain meds last night because she was clearly so uncomfortable and I was worried she wouldn't sleep, and this morning I found that after all that she had spit it behind a door
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Melissa Gira Grant
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100% accuracy: “Open bargaining is good democratic hygiene, but it’s also a huge reality check on the way the world works. Few workers remain unmoved once they see how their bosses’ lawyer talks about them while rejecting a modest improvement to working conditions.”
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Dustin
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Incredible numbers Plus keep in mind, these numbers are being accomplished in consistent 90 degree weather. Multi-mobility for the win. Get those cars off our streets.
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In These Times
@inthesetimesmag.bsky.social
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In 2018, Jane McAlevey wrote on strikes as a tool capable of transforming our political horizons.
“The sooner we establish union democracy, the sooner workers will get to pull the lever for politicians committed to pro-working-class policies.” inthesetimes.com/article/elec...
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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thebaffler.com/latest/raisi...
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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me rn
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Soraya Nadia McDonald
@sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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What's weird is how much coverage there was of the surging right and a collapsing center and but no attendant deep coverage of the left? Not even to explain why news orgs seemed to be ignoring it other than stories accusing antisemitism b/v of opposition to Israel policy. So frustrating.
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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I think absolutely all the time about how most "major" writers from before, idk, 1995 or so have like 5 early novels you've never heard of unless you're a diehard
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Gillian Branstetter
@gbbranstetter.bsky.social
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As someone now closer to her forties than her twenties, no pair of ankle socks or skinny jeans or side part will make you look as old as trying to chase the trends of 20-year-olds
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David Forbes
@davidforbes.bsky.social
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Far-right chud in NYT: "They went about the ordinary business of life - laboring, raising children, worshipping their creator - untroubled by futile expectations of change." Medieval commoners: "I would rather the king and all kings were dead than that my son should be hurt on his little finger."
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Puff the Magic Hater
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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Fucking for real.
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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The whole album is actually pretty good, iirc
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Puff the Magic Hater
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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It’s time to lose all West Wing illusions about the thought work of the Democratic Party. They’re not smarter than the leftists who call them out. If they were, we wouldn’t be in this situation.
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Puff the Magic Hater
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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Losing to Trump should not be politically possible after the events of 2020, and Dem leadership has made it extremely freaking possible. They suck at everything. Let’s name that.
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Puff the Magic Hater
@mskellymhayes.bsky.social
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The Democratic Party has no good options because they opted to give the public no good options. This is a disaster of their own making and no one has a magic fix for the catastrophe they’ve created. That Trump could be so well positioned is an unthinkable failure of politics.
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Susan Rinkunas has a newsletter
@susanrinkunas.com
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If people don't understand how crucial local abortion funds are to folks actually getting their procedures or pills, here's the latest example: National Abortion Federation and Planned Parenthood are slashing patient grants from 50% to 30% of what callers need. Thirty percent.
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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In my circles, the biggest fears are around reclassification and mass firings of public sector workers/civil servants esp in regulatory agencies (EPA, FDA, etc)
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Prisonculture
@prisonculture.bsky.social
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the purpose of a system is not what IT SAYS IT DOES or what you want it to do but what it actually does.
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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It goes beyond just "lying." They also openly believe in double standards! It's not hypocrisy that they want to get abortions but not poor people, because they believe different rules must govern the laboring class to keep them disciplined
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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LRT: I would love it if liberals never talked about hypocrisy or "inconsistency" ever, ever, ever again
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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This isn’t “hypocrisy,” he was lying about what he believes so they would confirm him
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Clarence Thomas unquestionably committed tax fraud on his motorcoach deal and the president has the power to put him in handcuffs this afternoon, in his official capacity in charge of the IRS and federal law enforcement
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Luke O'Neil
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social
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There are around 50 million children age 6-17 in this country. I'm not particularly good at math but does a couple hundred surgeries and maybe a few thousand kids on hormone therapy a year strike you as a particularly large percentage of 50 million?
www.welcometohellworld.com/they-want-to...
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dan solomon
@dansolomon.bsky.social
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imo the most clarifying moment around how people feel about biden was during the campus protests over gaza, when a group there to harass the protestors at whatever school started chanting “fuck joe biden” at them and the protestors started chanting it right back
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Saoirse Ní Chiaragáin
@miseryvulture.bsky.social
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Maybe I'm just a nerd but it's so sad to me that people are using AI for assignments and stuff. Do you really experience no joy in constructing an argument? In reaching into a text and pulling out its guts?? You find no exhilaration there???
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Zoe Tunnell
@zoewithasword.bsky.social
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It truly is very funny to see her pick a very public, very aggressive fight with one of the most widely beloved celebrities in the entire UK who also has a deeply personal, compelling stake in trans rights via his child who he supports wholeheartedly. It's nice to see something she's gonna lose
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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And while there are obviously exceptions on either side, this is why I hate every iteration of "challenging literature/film/theory is classist" take --- lots of erudite people are that way bc it was their way out, and plenty of rich kids don't give a shit bc they don't have to
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Martin O'Neill
@martinoneill.bsky.social
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Received my hard copy of the new @bostonreview.bsky.social issue “What Is the State For?”, w/ a central essay “Giant Steps” by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social & a range of responses including @joecguinan.bsky.social & me on “No Substitute for State Power”.
Great to be part of such a vital conversation!
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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People's Parity Project and the LPE Project are two groups working on this (you may know this, so also sharing for others in your replies).
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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I think people (myself included) can feel depressed when you think "Nobody's doing anything!!!" Well, when you are in a well-run organization, most people are doing things
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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I think people (myself included) can feel depressed when you think "Nobody's doing anything!!!" Well, when you are in a well-run organization, most people are doing things
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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Let me say in response to everyon's despair--as a socialist prone to skepticism and critique, any time I ever, ever leave an organizing meeting I'm in a great mood! And not in an "opiate of the left" way but because you do see wins and are reminded how big and diverse your movement is
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Remember, this is America, the world's greatest democracy. If you're mad at John Roberts, don't protest at his house, focus on defeating him the next time he's up for reelection.
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Jaya Rajamani
@jaya.bsky.social
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i wish i could just throw my hands up and be like “HAVE FUN WITH THAT” but unfortunately i live here
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David William
@nrvscrcts.bsky.social
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Thinking of Aaron Swartz and the miscarriage of justice in light of this announcement.
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Bryce Covert
@brycecovert.bsky.social
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Compare the splashy $100 million spend to the $20 million abortion funds spent from July 2021 to June 2022 to make sure real people get the abortions they seek, and they usually don't cover the full cost that a caller faces nor help every caller in need.
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Luke O'Neil
@lukeoneil47.bsky.social
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I'm hearing from centrist and right wing democrats that money doesn't do anything in elections so I guess they'll stop texting us 15 times a day now begging.
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Matt Steinglass
@mattsteinglass.bsky.social
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People said Greenpeace was nuts in 2009 to predict 921GW of installed solar by 2030. Last year there was 1,419GW. Cost dropped 95% from 2008-20 and it’s dropping faster. There will be vast amounts of cheap clean energy in the future; we just need to use it.
www.economist.com/interactive/...
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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“Cultural vandalism” sounds histrionic but it’s hard to think of what else to call this. Just the gratuitous annihilation of human creativity.
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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It's wild to rewatch Close Encounters having seen The Fabelmans because they are the same movie
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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It's a very specific vibe, but it's the thought I have immediately every single time. Wario Kimmy Schmidt
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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I have yet to see a photo of that AI executive where she didn't look like someone who was rescued from a cult compound and then thrust into the limelight before she was thoroughly de-brainwashed
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Yell In a War
@jelenawoehr.bsky.social
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the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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I grew up in an evangelical church and I have said for years (and always felt people don't believe me!): they don't have or teach any sort of consistent theology! It's all dogmatic rules and social norms and some general ideas about heaven, hell and rapture.
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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oh and last night we watched Barton Fink which I guess is sort of about the same thing!
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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visiting my dad and we watched an unplanned but serendipitous triple feature of Double Indemnity, The Sweet Smell of Success, and Glengarry Glen Ross. Three truly great movies about the ways financial desperation turns people into rotten, pathetic cretins
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@greenspe.bsky.social
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there's this bizarre thing that's happened on social media in the last few years where anyone with a low wage job = secretly wealthy, but "real" working class people have 6 figure jobs somehow? most poor people I know are just fucking poor their whole lives!
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