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Jared Yates Sexton
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Hoosier, Political Analyst, newsletter Dispatches From A Collapsing State, author The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, adviser The Change Campaign / American Institute For Change

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Jared Yates Sexton is an American author and political commentator from Linton, Indiana. He was an associate professor in the Department of Writing and Linguistics at Georgia Southern University. .. more

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · Dec 17
The wealthy have intentionally destroyed class consciousness so that they can exploit the vast majority of people.

If we’re going to fight back and ultimately win this class war, it’s time we got familiar with how our politics actually work.

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A Thoroughly Confused Country: An Introduction to Class Politics and a Way Forward
Americans suffer from a lack of class consciousness, which makes them easy prey for manipulation
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d
Going off grid for a bit. Be safe.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d
Yes yes yes.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d
If we continue to just let crimes like the Trump Administration have committed go unpunished, they will continue and worsen. There is a direct line from last presidential offenses that were left alone and this one.

It may not seem like it now, but things can get even worse than they are now.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d
Trump and company have broken nearly every law imaginable, including trafficking, murder, assault. They’ve shredded the constitution. They’ve created a secret, unaccountable police. They’ve been bribed, misused public funds.

At some point you have to draw a line and saw this is unacceptable.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d
Democratic cowards can’t even bring themselves to call for Trump to be impeached, but this administration is a runaway train of corruption, grift, and abuses.

People want to hide behind civility, but if these criminals aren’t deserving of imprisonment who is?

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 3d
It’s not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box, these criminals need held accountable to ensure this will never happen again.

Anyone asking for our vote needs to commit to prosecuting Trump and his cadre of corrupt conspirators for their crimes.

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Lock Them Up: Send the Trump Administration to Prison
It's not enough to beat MAGA at the ballot box. There have to be consequences that keep this from ever happening again.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 4d
Welcome to the what happens when media consolidation meets resource hoarding meets the capitalist necessity for authoritarianism.
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An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.

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An Editor’s Note from 60 Minutes
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 6d
My advice is to start using a little bit more a critical eye or ear when it comes to what you read or listen to. Ask why your favorite personality is essentially parroting party talking points, why they get party figures as guests, why they’re getting invited on TV.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 6d
The main communication strategy in 2024 for the Dems was an abject failure. Hundreds of millions were shoveled into programs that didn’t work in the least. If we got the autopsy, we’d find out where that money went, who got rich, and who is bought off.

And that’s why we won’t get it.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 6d
That’s one of the big secrets that doesn’t get discussed much: plenty of the giant names out there hosting podcasts and livestreams are receiving giant checks from Democrat affiliated groups in exchange for not questioning the party and parroting talking points.

My guess is we’d find out who.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 6d
If the Democratic Party actually released an autopsy from 2024 we’d actually find out where all the money went, how billions were set on fire, and maybe find out which popular podcasts and liberal voices and personalities are being paid by the party.

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Where the Bodies are Buried: The Hidden DNC Autopsy
The DNC is choosing to hide what went wrong in 2024 and, in turn, is making future failure much, much likelier
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 7d
What’s awesome is that these assholes keep reading popular dystopian novels or watching sci fi movies or just absorb them through cultural osmosis and because their critical and moral reasoning skills are total shit they just use their power to make the nightmares reality.
factpostnews.bsky.social FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 7d
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"

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FactPost @factpostnews.bsky.social · 7d
Trump announces an "unprecedented four-day athletic event" with "one young man and one young woman from each state and territory"

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 8d
Have to imagine it’s a good sign that a historically unpopular, dictatorial president who has continually alienated and offended the military and its leaders is now announcing an out of nowhere bribe for them.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 8d
It’s incredible to just have a guy who gets to go on tv and just yell lies at us at a rate never seen before.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 8d
Reject any motherfucker who tells you we need to abandon a vulnerable population or person. They’re either a fascist or a fascist-in-waiting.

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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 8d
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 9d
Trump can be the rock-bottom of our vicious decline, but only if we start focusing on what we want the future to look like rather than what it is that we don’t want.

We deserve better than this, but we have to decide what better is and fight for it.

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What Do We Want?: Trump as Rock Bottom and Choosing a Better Future
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11d
The only people claiming academia is a leftist haven are people who haven’t stepped foot on a college campus in thirty plus years. It is the most corporatized space imaginable. And Democrats scapegoating groups because they want to be Republicans is some of the most shameful shit going.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11d
As a former academic, I always love the idea that the Democrats and politics are being pushed toward "Marxism and the extreme left" by a group of workers who are so exploited and live so precariously they're taught how to get on food assistance and are terrified to give low grades.
parsnip.bsky.social geoffrey (festively) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11d
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.” While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.

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geoffrey (festively) @parsnip.bsky.social · 11d
i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting
“This sense that Democrats lost touch with the middle class and the poor in favor of the cultural elite is a real problem,” said Podesta. “My shorthand is, we used to be the party of the factory floor, and now we’re the party of the faculty lounge. That’s not a California problem. It’s an elitist problem.” While Podesta isn’t backing anyone yet in the 2028 presidential contest, he praised Newsom for his efforts to not only buck Trump but the “leftist extremists” in the Democratic party.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 11d
One of the prevailing worries for years was that with misinformation or deepfakes or AI videos people wouldn’t be able to tell what was real and what was altered.

But what got missed was the larger problem: that people wanted and needed to believe the lies being fed to them.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 13d
I know everything is so fucked up and weird right now but I just want to remind everyone THIS IS SUPPOSED TO BE THE NEWS.
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this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen

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cameron @famousceleb.co · 13d
this is the cringiest shit I've ever seen

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 14d
Trump is a dying husk shambling through his presidency.

But he makes an ideal puppet for the wealthy because of his susceptibility to flattery and bribery, his instinct to crush innocent people, his laziness, and lack of loyalty to anything or anyone.

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A Dying Puppet: Trump as an Oligarchical Figurehead
We're living in the Mad King era
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 19d
There it is.

Radicalization among Middle and Wealth Class MAGA is partially driven by an unbearable and deep-seated unhappiness that they don’t understand, couldn’t name, and is being released through violent fantasies that will turn into actual violence.
rufus-hickok.bsky.social Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 19d
Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19d
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 19d
Sitting in a comfortable home with a steady income; living a life of almost unbearable tedium and routine; fantasizing about the psychopathologies potentially unleashed by the fall of civil society, the only freedom still possible for him.
sharonk.bsky.social Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 19d
that's cool, man, but have you tried the taste of a refreshing matcha latte
"I look forward to the day when liberals and conservatives go to civil war." "You liberals are not going to stand a chance against us." "Try to take us on and see what happens." That is going to be the ULTIMATE FAFO!!

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20d
Trump will die before the full realization of American fascism is reached. These are the birth pangs. It will get so much worse unless we do something. We should and we must.

Take stock of what this feels like, how unacceptable this is. Devote yourself to fighting it.

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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 20d
On behalf of the people who bribe and flatter Trump, he is more than willing to give in to his most base and disturbing impulses, which are cruel, fascistic, and abusive, meaning he will hurt anyone anywhere and use the full force of state power to serve the interests of those manipulating him.