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I'm sorry to be bearer of this news, but if Bernie doesn't win the primary, the unavoidable conclusion for many on the left of center, especially the young, but also many who have resisted it until now, is that the Democratic Party is the main obstacle to reforming our country.
absolute masterclass by Bernie Sanders on Fox News. There is just no one else in America—no one—who can talk across party lines about the way our government can address the real needs of the people. Imagine what good he could do in a general election
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I actually can’t believe that I’m reading this. What kind of degradation of thought and moral sense is happening here.
Today in 'The Nazis weren't that bad actually'. Implicit in here is 'At least they were white'.
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I’ve heard:
“The Columbia AAUP held an emergency meeting today, called on the university to drop charges and reinstate the students.
They are organizing to move classes off campus Monday, boycotting graduation, and moving to vote no confidence in the president."
Good.
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One is tempted to compare this to one of the most infamous nights in German and Jewish history, but that would be misconstrued under the IHRA guidelines as anti-Semitic.
🧵 West Bank |
Israeli soldiers smashing shops & humiliating detained Palestinians and abusing them in several villages throughout the West Bank.
1. Ramallah.
“Who needs Sabotage we are here” says Israeli soldier Liad Abada. A workshop in the city.
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Totally random and unexpected that the three biggest US stock market collapses in our time —1987, 2008, 2020—occurred in the last years of an economically incompetent, fiscally reckless GOP Presidency.
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It seems undeniable to me that the Democratic Party establishment would prefer Trump’s re-election to a durable left turn in the party’s orientation. If they succeed, they will still turn around and blame the left for Trump’s re-election when they lose.
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Incredible.
“Allowing the site to harden. That’s my one regret,” said City College President Vincent Boudreau about on-campus protest encampments.
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Poor people who falsify their addresses to have access to better public schools will be sent to prison, but apparently it is legal for rich people to renounce their very parentage in order to get access to cheap college loans and scholarships for their children:
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The truth made plain: extracting surplus value is about controlling labor time, which for most people is just life time.
Jim Cramer melting down over Amazon union victory: “The unions will be in charge of time that you need to work, and that would be dreadful”
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Anyone really think private health insurance is a good idea?
U.S. health insurance premiums could increase as much as 40% next year if the coronavirus pandemic results in millions of Americans needing hospital stays, a new analysis warns
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Gorbachev announced Glasnost in 1985, and proposed a ban on all nuclear weapons by the year 2000 in 1986; the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. This is all just so pathetic and historically illiterate.
Exclusive: For Bernie Sanders, his 1988 trip to the Soviet Union was an effort to build diplomatic ties. For the Soviets, it was the start of a years-long propaganda effort to exploit his antiwar agenda, documents obtained by The New York Times show.
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Not saying this would be the correct conclusion. The GOP is obviously a terrible, intransigent obstacle. But there's only so many times we can watch the same movie where Democrats accept self-limitation, or move to meet the right half-way, out of fear, or fealty to the well-off.
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Legacy admission has always been the most consequential skew against any credible or functioning “meritocracy” to the benefit of white elites. It proceeds quietly even as affirmative action is constantly challenged.
More than 43% of white student admits at Harvard University would have been rejected if they were not children of faculty and staff, legacies, "dean’s interest list", or athletes.
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Tom Cotton talking about “nascent pogroms” on the upper west side, while actual mass Palestinian graves are uncovered under hospitals in Gaza and Israel invades Rafah. The upside down, gaslit world that we inhabit.
The nascent pogroms at Columbia have to stop TODAY, before our Jewish brethren sit for Passover Seder tonight. If Eric Adams won’t send the NYPD and Kathy Hochul won’t send the National Guard, Joe Biden has a duty to take charge and break up these mobs.
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Perfect encapsulation of the world-view that only virtuous American power stands between us and a corrupt, fallen world. Amazing that for most of my life this type of thinking was the hallmark of maturity and seriousness, all the while entirely oblivious about what it wrought.
Also: we might be tired of “forever wars,” but the Taliban are not tired of wars. The Pakistanis who helped them are not tired of wars. Nor are the Russian, Chinese, and Iranian regimes; nor is al-Qaeda. We might not care about any of these brutal thugs - but they care about us
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We took our 6 year old to the ER at NYU Langone on a Sunday in early March, fearing an acute appendicitis. (She's fine) We have expensive employer health insurance with UHC. The bill was almost $18,000; we're now on the hook for 5K. Tell me: what is the point of health insurance?
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What Israel is doing in Gaza -- the scale of killing, displacement, now starvation of a civilian population -- is so unjustifiable in the view of most of the world -- that those who support it, can only grow more coercive in its defense, which is exactly what we are seeing.
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It's been obvious for decades that the man responsible for killing Malcolm X is an anti-government, free-market, pro-family, patriarchal, ethno-nationalist, if that's not definitionally conservative, in the current context, I'm not sure what is. So maybe play spot the blindspot.
So Louis Farrakhan is now part of the, um, far right?
This
@washingtonpost
headline reveals a deep intellectual blindspot:
1) An inability to recognize left-wing authoritarianism.
2) Once its authoritarian element becomes impossible to ignore: the denial that it is left-wing.
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Final twist in the tale: former US soldiers retiring to Vietnam, for....healthcare.
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Racial capitalism is Janus-faced: it's not only "racist capitalism" (often the face of police); it is the capitalism that expresses solicitude for "racial justice" in every branding/philanthropic gesture while fighting tooth and nail to preserve the most brutal market dependency.
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They used to say welfare was a “hand out.” Now it’s running water. See how that worked?
Texan mayor saying the quiet bit out loud.
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I mean, good lord:
joe biden just said even if the democrats pass a m4a proposal through the house and senate, he doesn't know if he'd sign it into law citing "cost"
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Israeli officials reaffirm ethnic cleansing and the Palestinian national trauma at the origins of the Israeli state, while persuading Americans, including college presidents, to dwell on supposedly anti-Semitic pro-Palestinian slogans at student protests. The mind reels.
"We are now actually rolling out the Gaza Nakba," says Avi Dichter, Israel's Minister for Agriculture and former head of Shin Bet.
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Disqualifying.
I'm standing with the people of Israel who are coming under bombardment attacks, and condemn the Hamas terrorists. The people of NYC will always stand with our brothers and sisters in Israel who face down terrorism and persevere.
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Wild photo—apparently from somewhere in West Virginia—a sort of composite image of US settler supremacism today. Courtesy of
@Chris_arnade
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The undercount of COVID-19 mortality is likely staggering. This are the numbers from NYC over just 5 days in April.
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Embarrassing. Abolitionists were literally subject to mob violence, arrest, and murder, even in Northern venues where they built a sympathetic following. Black abolitionists like Douglass were forever in danger of being kidnapped and murdered by the agents of slave owners.
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Trump's ideas are basically a throwback to Anglo-white supremacist, eugenicist, immigration-restrictionist, race-suicide, 'decline of the West' discourse c. 1890-1940, that was temporarily defeated by pro-growth, civil rights, welfare-state liberalism c.1940-1970...
This is ugly.
Trump says that immigration is not "good for our country" because it is "changing the culture."
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Maybe it’s because I’m a physical coward, but as I said at the beginning of this wave, what surprises me the most is the willingness, even eagerness of ordinary people to physically fight the police.
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The authoritarian turn in elite universities — via administrative imperium, loss of faculty governance, and expansion of contingent labor has been long in the making, obscured by false, reactionary promotion/panic around DEI, which never touched these aforementioned tendencies.
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Mark Perry’s updated chart. If I read it right, over 20 years wages barely kept pace with cost of food + shelter. It became staggeringly expensive to care for children, remain healthy + educated. It's still cheap to drive; we got even cheaper media, communication, entertainment.
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The greatest benchmark of the West’s civilizational failure in my lifetime is the US and Israeli annihilation of Gaza under the gaze of a supine media. It is the kind of event on which history turns as once durable frameworks of moral and political rationality finally collapse.
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Nixon extended the Vietnam War for domestic political gain, secretly bombed Cambodia at the cost of 1,000,000 lives. Bush lied the country into war, broke the law by reintroducing torture, Trump is bad, and may yet do worse, but this kind of thinking does us all a disservice.
The biggest problem with Trump/Nixon comparisons is that they obscure the many ways in which Trump makes Nixon look like a Boy Scout. Trump’s betrayals of the country are infinitely worse. The case for his impeachment and removal is way stronger.
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Good thing the Democratic Party stood up for a system of employer backed healthcare.
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Smearing critics of Israel as anti-Semites is the perfect vehicle for center-right politics because it fuses accepted protocols of anti-racist identity politics with contempt for the left and racism towards Palestinians, Arabs (and Jews) that doesn’t need to be said out loud.
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Dipped into the debate to watch them gaslight Bernie. It was quite a set up - we're supposed to think that Biden also opposed the war in Iraq, and that Bernie (like Trump) is an obstacle to the dream of a woman president because of what he thinks in his heart. Obscene to behold.
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Slurring Rashid Khalidi as anti-Semitic is a new low, even for Larry Summers. I would encourage you to read this interview with Professor Khalidi instead:
My confidence in Harvard leadership’s ability and will to confront anti-semitism and the demonization of Israel continues to decline. Unfortunately, it is becoming ever clearer why Harvard ranks first on anti- semitism, even as it ranks last on upholding free speech.
Confronting
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Academia is bad in ways few understand. Conservative criticisms are off base. Teaching and research is quite good. The problem is bloated administration, broken hiring mechanisms, a depleted public sector, and radical individualism of professors that makes it impossible to fix.
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Joe Biden's raison d'etre is to allow people of a certain age leave this world with all their illusions in tact.
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Apparently, This is the kind of propaganda circulating in Georgia’s rural counties. It’s right out of the high Jim Crow era of red baiting+race baiting. I think Stacy Abrams looks glorious, but I’ve always had a soft-spot for socialist realism.
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The US is still a rich country, but wealth is hoarded. Marginal tax rates of 70% on incomes over 10 million is a modest, economically sound answer (assuming new spending priorities). The problem is political: most of the media/donor class would defect to actual fascism first.
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For those who got this far, let me just say, if Biden wins the primary and election, I hope he exceeds all of our expectations, and especially that he thinks and acts in a way that builds a lasting progressive political legacy. But not optimistic.
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The alignment of extra-judicial violence and police power against black life was a cornerstone of white supremacy in US history. It is hard not to observe a recapitulation of that history under these circumstances as that is what brought Rittenhouse to Kenosha in the first place.
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Historian of civil rights movement here. The idea that the fate of poor/working class white and black people are linked and integral to any durable movement toward economic and racial justice is a core idea of the black freedom movement, and the black radical tradition broadly.
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Stuart Hall's lecture "What is the "Black" in Black Popular Culture" (1991) opened/clarified a key line of thought in the critical study of race that couldn't be further from the DiAngelo/monolithic whiteness stuff. We need better intellectual history of how we got the second.
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Bizarre take when we've had black people in leading roles in the empire for 20 years, including President, National Security Advisor and Secretary of State. It's not that that the internal enemy isn't a thing, but military has also been leading edge of integration for 75 years.
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Neither military tactics, nor internationally directed organization and solidarity were the key to defeating apartheid in South Africa, the mass mobilization of labor and civil society made the difference.
Palestinians went on 48hr general strike, shutdown entire segments of Israel’s economy & within a day Israel stopped bombing Gaza
Almost as if capitalism only exists by exploiting workers & the most powerful tool in armoury of the dispossessed is striking in its generalised form
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Incredible.
Antony Blinken: "We can never let the crimes Russia's committing become our new normal... bombing schools and hospitals and apartment buildings to rubble is not normal"
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I really wish “defund the police” also meant defund the empire. Perhaps it could.
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Unreal. The prototype cancel culture reasserts itself and those who cried about the stifling of freedom of speech these past few years are nowhere to be found.
NEWS: Columbia University is suspending Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) as official student groups through the end of the fall term.
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A small, non-representative elite holding veto power over policies governing the country believe the US should be a low-wage country, it’s people subject to brutal market dependency inadequate healthcare, educational opportunity and public infrastructure. That *is* their vision.
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When someone tells you: “it’s unrealistic,” be aware that it is a performative statement, that is, one that seeks to produce the situation it purports to describe. It is a primary mode of centrist political speech, designed to paralyze political imagination, aspiration + action.
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"The left" is mostly the phantom-object of left disappointment, liberal management, and right hysteria.
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Whether or not is symbolic, I hope my colleagues at Columbia are organizing a no confidence vote in their president. What a travesty.
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Come on. Biden demonized the protesters in a way that gave a green light to this level of repression. There would probably be more opposition from liberals if Trump was doing it. I call bullshit.
So look, I think it’s a bad idea to arrest protestors and what is happening on college campuses is infuriating but Biden isn’t the one calling the cops and Trump’s plans to deploy the national guard and the military to round up and deport a million-plus undocumented people, ban
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A challenge for the crew already trying to lesser evil us into supporting Biden by claiming to champion the weak and vulnerable is that there is an actual candidate who champions the weak and vulnerable who they don't support, won't name, and is certainly not to their "taste."
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Your periodic reminder that black communists and socialists were the backbone the long civil rights movement, and among its most creative and committed organizers.
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Key storylines of the last 20 years: torture, rendition, drone warfare, mass civilian death, military atrocities, government and contractor graft, skyrocketing opium production, mission failure, and the economic and the ethical decay of our own society suggests otherwise.
“The worst capitulation of Western values in our lifetimes”
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Bret Stephens brands
@IlhanMN
an anti-Semite trying to "move the Overton window," but views Tucker Carlson engaging in free speech, professionalism and the battle of ideas; tells you pretty much everything you need to know about double-standards and cynical uses of anti-Semitism.
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The “new antisemitism” is any criticism of Israel that makes liberal Zionists anxious and ashamed by forcing them to choose between the ethnic cleansing of Palestine and the delegitimization of the state of Israel in its current Jewish supremacist form. It is merely a deflection.
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Bingo. Centrists across the world play the same cynical, double game -- they discipline the left by conjuring the threat from the right. But if the left comes anywhere near power, they move decisively against it, guaranteeing the outcome of right-wing rule they pretended to fear.
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Led by GOP controlled states, coordinated multidimensional reaction — to limit voting, criminalize protest, ban anti-racist education, strengthen police/prosecutorial power, and foreclose unemployment insurance — has now crystalized.
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By choosing to become an overwhelmingly white party devoted to race-baiting, gerrymandering and voter suppression in a rapidly diversifying electorate, the GOP is either hastening their extinction, or preparing to take even more extreme anti-democratic measures, possibly both.
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Some people in the media who have been crowing against white supremacy these past few years now seem discomfited by anything less than the affirmation of bloodthirsty American supremacy as if these are completely unrelated conceptual and political problems.
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Bacvich:"The Iraq war was not a tragedy. It was more like a crime, compounded by the stupefying incompetence of those who embarked upon a patently illegal preventive war out of a sense of panic induced by the events of 9/11." Why Did We Fight the Iraq War?
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@UsaidM16
@mkearley2008
McCain has Omar say: 'Jewish people hypnotize the world,' when Omar expressly said 'Israel hypnotizes the world.' The sleight of hand allows McCain to mouth anti-Semitic slander (she attributes to Omar) in the name of defending Jews, while dissimulating on Israel; quite a trick.
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The invasion of Ukraine will change the narrative, restoring credibility to US intelligence and martial purpose, particularly when it comes to Europe, and degrading Russian credibility about acting defensively, stemming back to NATO enlargement. Cold war nostalgia will never die.
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Four basic observations from working closely with men in prison. They know they are incarcerated because they are poor. Many have very strict views of crime and punishment. The biggest dream is to run a successful business; the main aspiration is to make amends to family members.
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The unanimity and enthusiasm with which US political establishment, legacy media and billionaire donors have embraced burning Palestinian civilians alive, tells you everything you need to know about the vacuousness of the US fascism debates of the past few years.
Nikki Hailey in Israel scribbling "FINISH THEM"on the shells that the IDF is about to fire into Rafah in defiance of the International Court of Justice. Biden provided the shells, Republicans autograph them. The US political class is united in its complicity with this genocide.
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Really important story.
The "worst problem you've never heard of" is the leading cause of Black land loss in this country. Over the years, it's seen Black families stripped of hundreds of billions $$$ in land. It's called "heirs' property."
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The essence of progressive neoliberal solipsism: power speaking truth to power.
"I have never shied away from speaking truth to power...that will be my charge as Director of National Intelligence," says Avril Haines.
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"Co-sign as an American," the liberal's version of "send her back."
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A lot of people seem to miss that my original claim is not prescriptive, but diagnostic. Also sure if Bernie loses, he'll endorse/campaign for Biden as he did Clinton, because he's a mensch; many of us will hold our noses/vote D like we always do; but times they are a changing.
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Gina Haspel now runs the CIA after running torture under Bush. This thread is not only poor on historical facts but simply evades the crimes of the last 20 years.
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The failures of the university Presidents are just the old failures of boardroom liberalism, which always tried to put a virtuous face on raw imperial power. Caught between an accelerationist right and morally uncompromising students with little to lose, they’re lost, bewildered.
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"Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party"; this time to prevent financial regulation of derivatives trading.
Kennedy asks about Omarova’s membership in a Soviet youth group.
“Everybody in that country was a member of the Komsomol... it was a part of normal progress in school.”
“Have you resigned?”
“You grow out of it with age.”
“Did you send them a letter, though, resigning?”
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Among my more pessimistic conclusions of the past years is that we no longer have access to a remotely convincing theory of change. All we have is attrition and salvage, reaction and normalization, opportunism and moral witness, against larger forces moving us on the board.
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The only cancel culture that really preoccupies me.
TODAY: A 63 y/o Black man will be caged the rest of his life for stealing hedge clippers. The Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the sentence. The lone dissent was Chief Justice Bernette Johnson. The only female & Black person on court. The rest are white men.
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The smart money center-right has always had a clear strategy: feed the far right to discipline the soft center against any leftward temptation. Occasionally, they will call-out right-wing excesses, pretending to be honest brokers, but they will always return to this rule.
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The staggering creative intellectual talent under 40 blocked from constructive, renumerative work while this noxious dreck is gilded is the most depressing feature of my little corner of the world.
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The states are laboratories of despotism.
JUST IN: Tennessee governor signs bill that would punish some protesters with loss of voting rights
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One of the biggest mistakes I see on here is people who think cancellation has a specific political valence. We just live in a culture and economy in which the threshold of disposability is exceedingly low.
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jfc -- low interest loans when interest rates are zero and the small business economy is in free fall.
What we’re proposing:
If you’re a small business owner suddenly facing cash flow problems, we would allow you to apply for low-interest loans and other forms of financial assistance that can offer relief quickly.
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The war on terror is evolving. The MS-13 scare is like the Bush Administration's weapons of mass destruction scare; family separation is of a piece with previous torture and detention scandals. It is not sudden norm erosion, but a long, coercive mutation of domestic governance.
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Zionists live in an upside down world. “Blood and soil nationalism” for me but not for thee. Your violent rhetoric of protest/resistance: a death cult, my murderous military defense of colonialism and apartheid: just good liberal values. But I think they will have to reevaluate.
People should simply read the beliefs and values of the pro-Palestinian activist groups. They're horrific.
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I don't see how you separate being on the left from a scrupulous commitment to universalism. Such a commitment need not be univocal, unlearning, inattentive to difference, or "unilaterally declared" (as Fanon put it). But I often feel old and out of touch for holding this view.
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The way conservatives talk about Critical Race Theory reminds me of how they used to talk about “Sharia Law.”
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The big lie is thinking there ever was a real ‘golden age’ of US capitalism; so obviously the bigger lie is thinking it is coming back.
For most of America’s history, when our companies did better, our workers did better – and America built a thriving middle class. The Accountable Capitalism Act will help realign our skewed market incentives so companies & workers can once again do well together.
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The irony of the forthcoming Barrett confirmation as her short acceptance speech indicated is that it will be all about identity theatrics which will stymie or force serious errors of many Democrats, when this is the type of substantive issue that should be explored.
In a recent dissent, Amy Coney Barrett wrote that the right to vote and serve on juries belonged "only to virtuous citizens." Her opinion also suggests that all civic rights are subject to virtue-based exceptions.
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good/bad muslim Islam=hate
drones torture
bad apples blue lives matter
outside agitators protesters=thugs
shoot to maim shoot to kill
pacify dominate
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A year since this started. I'm fine, lucky to have a job, close to those I love, all of them healthy so far. It's a challenge to see our neighborhood visibly deteriorate, but it could be far worse. But as far as mood goes, I feel brittle, near cracking, a shell of my former self.
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Official response to 9/11 was to recast the US as a blood and soil "homeland" surrounded by racial + religious enemies and to launch an adventurist war built on propaganda, lies, kidnapping, torture. Obama-style politics hoped to soothe the genie back into the bottle and failed.
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DeBlasio: NYC planning 22,000 lay-offs of municipal workers by Oct. 1 if no federal aid, or state borrowing, but no lay-offs of police.
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What if massive multi-racial protests show anti-blackness isn't a monolithic force structuring modern social life; instead revealing common recognition of how a long history of racist human sacrifice built a malevolent state-economy that coerces and imperils the great majority.
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