Ragel
@blueblaze.bsky.social
Senate Parliamentarian pro tempore. Compost the rich.
Can journalists finally quit pretending rich people are somehow experts at every subject under the sun when so many of them are obviously inarticulate, uneducated idiots that just won the birth lottery?
One of the striking things in Epstein's emails is how fucking inarticulate he is, and how *every other billionaire is just as bad at communicating*.
They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.
They're the exact textual equivalents of any interview with Altman or Musk or Thiel etc just fucking babbling incoherent word salad.
November 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Can journalists finally quit pretending rich people are somehow experts at every subject under the sun when so many of them are obviously inarticulate, uneducated idiots that just won the birth lottery?
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The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
November 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.
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Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
October 29, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Remember: The richest 1% evade over $160 billion in taxes every year.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
That amount would fund SNAP for a year with money to spare.
Ask yourself who the real freeloaders are.
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We will not take down Trump—who is symptom, not cause—if we don’t also take down Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison as well as the cabal of little fascist billionaires like Bill Ackman, Miriam Adelson, Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, Peter Thiel, Ken Griffin, Jeff Yass, etc.
October 19, 2025 at 3:44 AM
We will not take down Trump—who is symptom, not cause—if we don’t also take down Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg, and Larry Ellison as well as the cabal of little fascist billionaires like Bill Ackman, Miriam Adelson, Richard and Elizabeth Uihlein, Peter Thiel, Ken Griffin, Jeff Yass, etc.
About time Illinois gives this a go.
WELL HOW ABOUT THAT
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
"A millionaire levy in Massachusetts has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing significant high-profile departures from the state."
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
October 21, 2025 at 11:46 PM
About time Illinois gives this a go.
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So can we call it occupation yet
October 15, 2025 at 12:56 AM
So can we call it occupation yet
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Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
September 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Remember: The GOP’s nonsensical culture wars are meant to distract you from corporate corruption and plunder. [Cartoon by Jace Avery]
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the thing that was terrifying to them about FDR wasn't so much the policies themselves (which were, of course, far short of socialism or communism) but that they were incredibly popular and lead to electoral dominance until FDR's death (and even somewhat after)
The Business Elite never forgave FDR for lifting millions out of poverty and they vowed to spend the next century destroying the country for it.
Just saw a video of Bill Maher calling Mamdani a “straight up communist” and I continue to be struck by the depiction of policies associated with the New Deal Order as far-left extremism, which goes along with a refusal to depict Trump’s unprecedented authoritarian actions as far-right extremism.
August 31, 2025 at 11:01 PM
the thing that was terrifying to them about FDR wasn't so much the policies themselves (which were, of course, far short of socialism or communism) but that they were incredibly popular and lead to electoral dominance until FDR's death (and even somewhat after)
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Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.
I'm totally baffled abt the markets. Where is Capital? Trump is messing w/ govt data; imposing tariffs; flirting w/ default; meddling in corporate management.
Where are the CEO complaints? The bond vigilantes? Where are billionaire hedge funders who trade on good data? Was Capital's power a mirage?
Where are the CEO complaints? The bond vigilantes? Where are billionaire hedge funders who trade on good data? Was Capital's power a mirage?
"Antoni is the chief economist at the Heritage Foundation. He has been a relentless booster of Trump’s policies on social media. And he has demonstrated time and again that he does not understand economic statistics." With embarrassing examples from trade, employment, LFP, UI.... [Dominic Pino, NRO]
August 26, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.
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Nobody who refuses to fight for themselves is going to fight for you.
June 12, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Nobody who refuses to fight for themselves is going to fight for you.
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We criticise sports stars, celeb, musicians, why don’t we do the same with executives? Juan Soto has a bad few weeks at the plate and the New York media wants to kill him. Microsoft sells multiple software products that constantly break and we’re still writing glowing profiles of Satya Nadella!
June 13, 2025 at 2:01 AM
We criticise sports stars, celeb, musicians, why don’t we do the same with executives? Juan Soto has a bad few weeks at the plate and the New York media wants to kill him. Microsoft sells multiple software products that constantly break and we’re still writing glowing profiles of Satya Nadella!
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A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.
June 9, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A rule of thumb that will rarely lead you astray in this country is to assume that a riot was started by the people who showed up armed and dressed for a riot.
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All we want is healthcare.
June 8, 2025 at 10:42 AM
All we want is healthcare.
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Instead of simply wishing people well this Memorial Day, here are five concrete policies that will protect servicemembers abroad and on the home front:
May 26, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Instead of simply wishing people well this Memorial Day, here are five concrete policies that will protect servicemembers abroad and on the home front:
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So yes, as currently written the House GOP budget will require half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare. That’s T as in trillion and “care” as in Medicare on top of the cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare. So how did this happen? As near as I can tell House Republicans and the …
May 22, 2025 at 12:07 AM
So yes, as currently written the House GOP budget will require half a trillion dollars in cuts to Medicare. That’s T as in trillion and “care” as in Medicare on top of the cuts to Medicaid and Obamacare. So how did this happen? As near as I can tell House Republicans and the …
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Absolutely begging libs to stop spreading these absurd "ICE agents are really militia members" conspiracy theories. It makes you look profoundly stupid, *and* it's a really great way to avoid confronting the reality of American policing. This is what cops are. This is what cops do. Accept it.
May 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Absolutely begging libs to stop spreading these absurd "ICE agents are really militia members" conspiracy theories. It makes you look profoundly stupid, *and* it's a really great way to avoid confronting the reality of American policing. This is what cops are. This is what cops do. Accept it.
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The reason they make it so difficult to get out of student debt, out of medical debt, out of rent, out of your auto loan, out of your mortgage — is because the more you owe, the more of your income that goes to paying off debt, the more docile you are. Debt is a discipline.
April 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
The reason they make it so difficult to get out of student debt, out of medical debt, out of rent, out of your auto loan, out of your mortgage — is because the more you owe, the more of your income that goes to paying off debt, the more docile you are. Debt is a discipline.
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"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
—Louis Brandeis
—Louis Brandeis
April 19, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
—Louis Brandeis
—Louis Brandeis
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We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party
New preprint finding that eliminating US global health funding over the next fifteen years would cause:
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
- 15.2m deaths from AIDS
- 2.2m deaths from TB
- 7.9 additional child deaths
April 17, 2025 at 9:44 PM
We all need to dedicate the rest of our lives to destroying the republican party
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The refusal to pay taxes has been a powerful form of resistance against war and imperialism in North America since before the United States even existed. It may provide a potential mode of resistance against American funding for violence in Gaza, too.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-ha...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-ha...
Could Tax Protests Defund the American War Machine?
The refusal to pay taxes has been a powerful form of resistance against war and imperialism in North America since before the United States even existed. It may provide a potential mode of resistance ...
www.currentaffairs.org
March 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
The refusal to pay taxes has been a powerful form of resistance against war and imperialism in North America since before the United States even existed. It may provide a potential mode of resistance against American funding for violence in Gaza, too.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-ha...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/what-ha...
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Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now
March 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now
Looks like the Dupage Policy Journal only removed the numbers from our street addresses from our voting records. Based upon my repeated attempts, Brian Timpone doesnt respond to requests to have our records removed from his pink slime site.
A publishing company sued by Democratic Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul for improperly publicizing personal dates of birth and home addresses for hundreds of thousands of voters has settled the case without admitting criminal wrongdoing.
www.wbez.org/politics/202...
www.wbez.org/politics/202...
Illinois Attorney General settles its lawsuit against a company that published personal information of hundreds of thousands of Illinois voters
A right-leaning online publication had posted the birth dates and home addresses of Illinois registered voters.
www.wbez.org
March 17, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Looks like the Dupage Policy Journal only removed the numbers from our street addresses from our voting records. Based upon my repeated attempts, Brian Timpone doesnt respond to requests to have our records removed from his pink slime site.
We in Illinois obviously need a recall mechanism right about now.
There is very little about this CR that I like—but there is even less I like about a government shutdown. With Trump & Musk taking a chainsaw to the government’s workforce & illegally freezing funding, the last thing we need to do is plunge our country into further chaos by shutting down the govt.
March 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
We in Illinois obviously need a recall mechanism right about now.