CandySez/Beatleness
@candysez.bsky.social
Sociologist, 1960s/boomers historian, author of Beatleness: How the Beatles and Their Fans Remade the World, defender of Democracy, Swiftie over Sixty, and embodiment of the New Old Age. CandyLeonard.com
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Teachers teach ...
Around 70% of the U.S. economy depends on consumer spending. As wealth concentrates in the richest 10%, the rest of America can’t afford to buy enough to keep the economy running.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
This is a huge problem — and even America’s most powerful CEOs are starting to sound the alarm.
Our Economy Is in Danger. Here’s Why
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 11, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Teachers teach ...
A great American open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
What my doctor told me, and what I said back
Friends,
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:36 PM
A great American open.substack.com/pub/robertre...
I sure hope the right people read this. Dem party needs to (quoting the Beatles) get back to where they once belonged. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Wrong voters, wrong message: progressives’ autopsy lays bare Kamala Harris failures
RootsAction report finds Harris courted moderates instead of working-class Democrats – and Gaza stance did not help
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
I sure hope the right people read this. Dem party needs to (quoting the Beatles) get back to where they once belonged. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
45 years gone. www.candyleonard.com/beatleness-b...
John Lennon: A Voice for Feminism? — Candy Leonard
Conventional wisdom about the Beatles is that they got people to think differently about gender in the 60s. Yes, they had a more androgynous appearance, and their lyrics were generally more posit...
www.candyleonard.com
December 8, 2025 at 2:13 PM
45 years gone. www.candyleonard.com/beatleness-b...
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This guy is awarding himself a fake "peace" prize coerced through quid pro quo with a global sports body, and most of legacy media just shrugs in response and doesn't call into question his mental health. What are we doing here?
December 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
This guy is awarding himself a fake "peace" prize coerced through quid pro quo with a global sports body, and most of legacy media just shrugs in response and doesn't call into question his mental health. What are we doing here?
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Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
December 4, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Yesterday the President fell asleep, yet again, during a televised fake Cabinet meeting staged so that each of his courtiers could heap praise on him, praise for which he couldn't stay conscious. He woke up just long enough to spew racism. Why is this not being treated as an emergency? >
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Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
December 1, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Remember: Almost all of us are the descendants of immigrants who fled persecution, or were brought to America under duress, or sought better lives for themselves and their descendants.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
Politicians who stoke fear and hatred over immigration want you to forget this.
Do not.
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In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Unchecked wealth and corporate power have led many to doubt that our system is fair,” Tim Wu writes. The ruling in the Meta antitrust case “only fortifies the impression that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations are above the law.”
“Unchecked wealth and corporate power have led many to doubt that our system is fair,” Tim Wu writes. The ruling in the Meta antitrust case “only fortifies the impression that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations are above the law.”
Opinion | How Can Anyone Seriously Doubt Meta Is a Monopoly?
All you need is common sense.
nyti.ms
November 23, 2025 at 10:40 PM
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
“Unchecked wealth and corporate power have led many to doubt that our system is fair,” Tim Wu writes. The ruling in the Meta antitrust case “only fortifies the impression that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations are above the law.”
“Unchecked wealth and corporate power have led many to doubt that our system is fair,” Tim Wu writes. The ruling in the Meta antitrust case “only fortifies the impression that the world’s wealthiest and most powerful corporations are above the law.”
May she be a role model for other older Democrats.
Passing the torch with class. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
Passing the torch with class. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
Nydia Velázquez, a New York Trailblazer in Congress, to Retire Next Year
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2025 at 12:29 AM
May she be a role model for other older Democrats.
Passing the torch with class. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
Passing the torch with class. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/20/n...
Chomsky? Really? 😢😡🙄😢
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Chomsky? Really? 😢😡🙄😢
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Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
World’s largest scientific review warns consumption of UPFs poses seismic threat to global health and wellbeing
Ultra-processed food (UPF) is linked to harm in every major organ system of the human body and poses a seismic threat to global health, according to the world’s largest review.
UPF is also rapidly displacing fresh food in the diets of children and adults on every continent, and is associated with an increased risk of a dozen health conditions, including obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Ultra-processed food linked to harm in every major human organ, study finds
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This Epstein Affair has shown a pattern where men of wealth and power created a zone of impunity that protected them for decades while destroying vulnerable people like Virginia Guiffrey…
hartmannreport.com/p/the-epstei...
hartmannreport.com/p/the-epstei...
The Epstein Affair Has Move From Sleaze to a Crisis for American Democracy Itself
This Epstein Affair has shown a pattern where men of wealth and power created a zone of impunity that protected them for decades while destroying vulnerable people like Virginia Guiffrey…
hartmannreport.com
November 13, 2025 at 4:33 PM
This Epstein Affair has shown a pattern where men of wealth and power created a zone of impunity that protected them for decades while destroying vulnerable people like Virginia Guiffrey…
hartmannreport.com/p/the-epstei...
hartmannreport.com/p/the-epstei...
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FACT CHECK: TRUE
November 15, 2025 at 8:08 AM
FACT CHECK: TRUE
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$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
Meta plans $1 billion data center in Beaver Dam
The facility is expected to be completed in 2027 and will support 100 jobs, according to state officials.
www.wisn.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
$1 billion data centre to maybe create 100 jobs. That's likely an overstatement.
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
It is truly not worth draining the living word for this vampiric tech and people are starting to realize it.
www.wisn.com/article/meta...
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As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Fascinating listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social and hearing how the rot here is spreading to the UK. So many sad similarities.
November 12, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Fascinating listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social and hearing how the rot here is spreading to the UK. So many sad similarities.
Telling it like it is open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
The Age of Democratic Centrism Must End
What has a useless, corrupt, ineffectual Democratic centrist done for you lately, except kiss up to the oligarchy, bear hug Netanyahu, and cave to Trump and the Republicans?
open.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Telling it like it is open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...
Meanwhile, the men designing these humanity-destroying tools continue to amass unprecedented power and wealth. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
Opinion | You Want to Throw Your Phone Into the Sea. Here’s a Better Way.
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Meanwhile, the men designing these humanity-destroying tools continue to amass unprecedented power and wealth. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/o...
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My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions.
We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.
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These are dark times to be sure. But I believe future generations will look back on this scourge and see not just what was destroyed but also what was born. Many of you are now sowing the seeds of fundamental reform. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a01JFFB_aE4
What Trump’s Tyranny Is Revealing to America
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 5:30 PM
These are dark times to be sure. But I believe future generations will look back on this scourge and see not just what was destroyed but also what was born. Many of you are now sowing the seeds of fundamental reform. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/a01JFFB_aE4
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A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy):
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
A Reagan-appointed judge has quit the bench so he can speak out against assaults on the rule of law (he is a senior judge so it doesn’t create a vacancy):
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Watch to the end
New York millionaires: threatening to flee the city since 2009
November 7, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Watch to the end