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Mike Isaacson@vulgareconomics.bsky.social |
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Content writer, independent researcher, sometimes journalist, former host of The Nazi Lies Podcast. Working on a book on the only nazi labor union in the US. Anyone want to start a book club? Email: michael.s.isaacson@gmail.com he or she not they
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🔪🔪Jonah 🔪🔪
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Fun fact! If you own a car there is nothing stopping you from buying a couple flats of water and driving around and handing them out at homeless encampments!
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Eileen Clancy
@clancyny.bsky.social
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Do you remember folks were picketing Supreme Court Justices' homes a couple of years ago? They're back! At Justice Roberts' home today.
Short thread with video on Twitter:
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It's Going Down
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Neo-Nazi "Active Clubs" in the US are attempting to both rebrand themselves as "patriots" while building connections with international fascist and white supremacist organizations. itsgoingdown.org/active-clubs...
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Emissary Of Night | ليلى
@diplomatofnight.com
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You think you just fell out a coconut tree? Men make their own history, but they don't make it as they please; they don't make it under self-selected circumstances but under circumstances existing already. You exist in the context of all in which you live and what came before you.
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It's Going Down
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On our latest podcast, we continue to speak with participants in the growing anti-war movement in solidarity with #Palestine, speaking with a striking #UAW member on the picket lines, an organizer in #Austin, and a professor fired from #Columbia. itsgoingdown.org/voices-from-...
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Mike Isaacson
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I eagerly await Elizabeth Warren's market based solutions to allow workers to better compete with AI for jobs
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Radley Balko
@radleybalko.bsky.social
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Jesus. Automated enforcement advocates really underestimate the potential for abuse with these cameras. The amount of information they collect is staggering, as is the ability to piece it all together to meticulously track individual people.
reason.com/2024/07/01/s...
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doodlemancy 🏳️🌈
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artist, designing a bongle with a lot of bingles on it: haha yeahhhh yeessss woohooo heehehehe artist, drawing all the bingles again later: WHY'D I PUT SO MANY BINGLES ON THIS BONGLE
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Ian Boudreau
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It's quite simple. We just need to find a very powerful wizard
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Mike Isaacson
@vulgareconomics.bsky.social
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Havarti is one thing Manchego's another I beg you don't parmesan brie muensterfucker
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Paperback Paradise
@paperbackparadise.bsky.social
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finance
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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They really meant it when they said they wanted to go back to traditional European values huh
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Mike Isaacson
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DAILI 🛷 DALL
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Mike Isaacson
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I love this new hell of AI generated sharebait I get from Facebook now
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EL BARTO ANTI-WORK
@elbarto.bsky.social
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"Authorities are not ruling out racist motives."
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🤖 AP Breaking News (unofficial)
@ap-bot.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Advocates submit double the amount of signatures needed to put a constitutional right to abortion on the ballot in Arizona.
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Kashana
@kashana.bsky.social
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Everybody freaking out about extrajudicial killings is going to lose it when they find out about the existence of cops.
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salem ⚧️
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“social construct” doesn’t mean “fake”. it means our understanding of reality is shaped by the way our culture makes sense of the world. reality shapes us, we shape reality.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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I remember where I was in May 2021 when the first legal challenge to the first ban (AR, still in court) dropped: at the TX state lege while folks were trying to stop their ban (it passed in 2023, was upheld last week). Hat's off to the New York Times, among others, truly. www.npr.org/sections/sho...
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Mike Isaacson
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Being a doomer is not about giving up, it's about shifting your priorities to the reality of the climate apocalypse
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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the world in which the president is throwing his opponents in jail is not a world where you can just ask a judge to let you out
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🌏🐶🦕🥳 Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻🥦💥🏠♫
@vegetablegremlin.bsky.social
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totally votepilled. partybrained. practical-idealismcore
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Mike Isaacson
@vulgareconomics.bsky.social
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Like the rapid ascent of fascism into state power is worrisome from a historical perspective, but I'm not sure it will matter much in a few years when supply chains are breaking down and clean water is controlled by a hodgepodge of regional warlords
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Andrea Grimes
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i said this before and i'll say it again gen z is gonna be the last generation that remembers what it was like to experience reality as a collectively shared public concept
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Mike Isaacson
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They gotta stop reporting climate apocalypse dates based on the model where we all stop burning fossil fuels tomorrow because we really don't have many decades left based on our current trajectory and I may be generous making decade plural
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Susan Kiddie
@susankiddie.bsky.social
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A democracy, if you can keep it.
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Hopeful Chump
@cousins.bsky.social
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If you have recurring monthly donations to, say, Planned Parenthood or the ACLU, please consider shifting that money to abortion funds where it can do the most immediate good
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Phil Lewis
@phillewis.bsky.social
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Students who enrolled at a fake university in Michigan set up by ICE have the right to sue the U.S. government, a federal court has ruled
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Fifty Shades of Whey
@fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social
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a cop shot himself and this is the headline they went with
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Mike Isaacson
@vulgareconomics.bsky.social
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Conspiracy theories happen because people think research starts and ends with theorizing about primary source documents and news articles
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Mike Isaacson
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They're more aiming for the 1st century
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Mike Isaacson
@vulgareconomics.bsky.social
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The task of the communist is not to save the state from the fascists but to destroy it before they can
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Mike Isaacson
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But also her contributions kind of fucking suck too. Nothing to be learned from horseshoe theory or taking Nazi war criminals at their word
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Mike Isaacson
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Worse, they see it as something that actively corrupts society
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Judith Butlerian Jihad
@xanindigo.bsky.social
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And if anyone wants to auto-check if writing was generated by AI, they pay even more money for AI to do that too.
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Molly Shah
@mommunism.bsky.social
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If it’s okay for presidents to just sign off on the murder of people we should elect presidents who don’t sign off on the murder of people… Stares into the camera
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Prisonculture
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Part of the 'conciergefication" of U.S. culture.
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Jonathan Cohn
@jonathancohn.bsky.social
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"The group’s data indicate it was the largest single appropriation approved since the 1993 Oslo accords at the start of the peace process." apnews.com/article/isra...
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Mike Isaacson
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It's their immunity too
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The Fig Economy
@figgityfigs.bsky.social
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The New York Times cultivated a liberal audience and now spends its time laundering its own shitty institutional prerogatives through an idea of “telling them hard truths they need to hear.”
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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constitutional lawyers use your fucking brain challenge www.politico.com/news/2024/07...
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Molly Shah
@mommunism.bsky.social
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Legitimately so much of what Democrats tell me is some version of “they’re just doing it to SOME people”
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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"In 2024, military force is still the foundation of the fossil fuel economy, both in terms of protecting the interests of fossil fuel firms and as an effective guarantor of demand."
turningpointmag.org/2024/07/03/t...
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Nora Reed (they/them ze/hir)
@nora.zone
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what if the uk and america traded governments. just to shake things up. like those TV shows where they switch wives
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ONeillJones
@oneilljones.com
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A job I was looking forward to just fell through because I requested a very basic “please don’t feed my work into the AI garbage chute pls” clause in the contract That was apparently against company policy and non-negotiable If anyone needs a book cover I have an opening in my schedule
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Bruno J. Navarro
@brunojnavarro.bsky.social
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She won a Pulitzer for exposing how the country's poorest state spent federal welfare money. Now she might go to jail. "The rabbit's got the gun now," said a lawyer for former Mississippi Gov. Phil Bryant, who is trying to force reporter Anna Wolfe to reveal her sources.
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Mike Isaacson
@vulgareconomics.bsky.social
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"No one's doing anything about X" is a confession, not an observation
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Mike Isaacson
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Was really hoping Bohm and Marsh would have come out this year for Pride. Maybe next year. Go Phils
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Mike Isaacson
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Can't vote, own a home, start a business, take legal action...
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Mike Isaacson
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It's awesome how there are so many things you can't do in this country if you don't want your home address to be a matter of public record
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