Kevin Sanchez
@captswing.bsky.social
Scrutineer and bloviator. #BadTakesSATX
Big Brother has come to Texas, and the outcome isn’t going to be good for anyone.
Joe McCarthy's Ghost: How Texas officials' bullying tactics chill free speech and cost taxpayers
Big Brother has come to Texas, and the outcome isn't going to be good for anyone.
www.sacurrent.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Joe McCarthy's Ghost: How Texas officials' bullying tactics chill free speech and cost taxpayers
Big Brother has come to Texas, and the outcome isn't going to be good for anyone.
www.sacurrent.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Reposted by Kevin Sanchez
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November 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Don't forget to NOT BUY STARBUCKS while we're on ULP strike, tomorrow and beyond!
Pledge to not cross a picket line - nocontractnocoffee.org
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"Why are all of the largest corporations in the world funding Trump's vanity projects?... they recognize that Trump has set up a system of corporate corruption that allows them to buy the policies they want."
perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo... via @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
#Corruption
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#Corruption
Trump's Corporate Colluders - More Perfect Union
We analyzed more than 150 top donors to Trump's inauguration fund and the White House ballroom construction to figure out which corporations are donating — and what they got in return.
perfectunion.us
November 3, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"Why are all of the largest corporations in the world funding Trump's vanity projects?... they recognize that Trump has set up a system of corporate corruption that allows them to buy the policies they want."
perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo... via @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
#Corruption
perfectunion.us/trumps-corpo... via @moreperfectunion.bsky.social
#Corruption
Politics is mired in big money, and that’s terrible for the future of our state and nation.
Bad Takes: Corruption is the antithesis of participatory democracy, and Texas proves it
Politics is mired in big money, and that's terrible for the future of our state and nation.
www.sacurrent.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:45 PM
www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak...
Sources: @jamestalarico.bsky.social @ericboehm87.bsky.social @reason.com @danalexander21.bsky.social @forbes.com @financialtimes.com @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social @propublica.org @nateraymond.bsky.social @reuters.com.
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Bad Takes: Corruption is the antithesis of participatory democracy, and Texas proves it
Politics is mired in big money, and that's terrible for the future of our state and nation.
www.sacurrent.com
November 2, 2025 at 10:33 PM
"Sometime in the 2030s, the program’s trust fund is due to run dry. Closing the loophole, along with eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners, could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for Medicare".
www.propublica.org/article/medi... via @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/medi... via @propublica.org
How a Decades-Old Loophole Lets Billionaires Avoid Medicare Taxes
Some of Wall Street’s richest and most powerful figures are using a legal loophole to avoid paying millions of dollars in taxes earmarked for health care, a ProPublica investigation found.
www.propublica.org
October 28, 2025 at 9:04 PM
"Sometime in the 2030s, the program’s trust fund is due to run dry. Closing the loophole, along with eliminating other ways around the tax for wealthy business owners, could raise more than $250 billion over 10 years for Medicare".
www.propublica.org/article/medi... via @propublica.org
www.propublica.org/article/medi... via @propublica.org
"In a Gallup poll conducted this year, 68% of Americans said they approve of labor unions, on par with pro-union sentiment from the late 1950s."
www.expressnews.com/business/art... via @maliyaellis.bsky.social & @expressnews.com
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What the end of the 40-day Hilton-Americas hotel strike means for Houston unions
Texas’ union membership rate is less than half the national rate, but Unite Here hopes to change that.
www.expressnews.com
October 22, 2025 at 10:36 PM
"In a Gallup poll conducted this year, 68% of Americans said they approve of labor unions, on par with pro-union sentiment from the late 1950s."
www.expressnews.com/business/art... via @maliyaellis.bsky.social & @expressnews.com
www.expressnews.com/business/art... via @maliyaellis.bsky.social & @expressnews.com
The Hilton Americas-Houston strike ended after 40 days with a $20 minimum wage contract. Unite Here Local 23 organizers hope to replicate its success. bit.ly/3KYwg6P
October 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
"We have the best political system right now that private money can buy."
youtu.be/xnbOGO26etA via @davidsirota.com, @levernews.com & @currentaffairs.bsky.social
#Corruption
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#Corruption
How the Rich Legalized Corruption in America (w/ David Sirota)
YouTube video by Current Affairs
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October 22, 2025 at 2:57 AM
"We have the best political system right now that private money can buy."
youtu.be/xnbOGO26etA via @davidsirota.com, @levernews.com & @currentaffairs.bsky.social
#Corruption
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#Corruption
“There has been no independent review, no public oversight and no guarantee that taxpayers will ever see a return on their investment. ...
Let’s be honest, this is corporate welfare.”
www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm... via @expressnews.com
#ProjectMarvel
Let’s be honest, this is corporate welfare.”
www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm... via @expressnews.com
#ProjectMarvel
There is little public benefit to a publicly funded Spurs arena downtown
It's clear how San Antonio Spurs ownership benefits from a publicly funded arena downtown. But how does the public benefit?
www.expressnews.com
October 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
“There has been no independent review, no public oversight and no guarantee that taxpayers will ever see a return on their investment. ...
Let’s be honest, this is corporate welfare.”
www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm... via @expressnews.com
#ProjectMarvel
Let’s be honest, this is corporate welfare.”
www.expressnews.com/opinion/comm... via @expressnews.com
#ProjectMarvel
Interested in a Burgis & McManus (@benburgis.bsky.social, @mattpolprof.bsky.social) response to this: youtu.be/YMfd3EoHfPI.
Kotkin dismissed the argument that Stalin was "a deformity whereas Marx was about freedom." He also called Zohran Mamdani "a complete idiot" for proposing a rent freeze.
Kotkin dismissed the argument that Stalin was "a deformity whereas Marx was about freedom." He also called Zohran Mamdani "a complete idiot" for proposing a rent freeze.
Stephen Kotkin — How Stalin became the most powerful dictator in history
YouTube video by Dwarkesh Patel
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October 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Interested in a Burgis & McManus (@benburgis.bsky.social, @mattpolprof.bsky.social) response to this: youtu.be/YMfd3EoHfPI.
Kotkin dismissed the argument that Stalin was "a deformity whereas Marx was about freedom." He also called Zohran Mamdani "a complete idiot" for proposing a rent freeze.
Kotkin dismissed the argument that Stalin was "a deformity whereas Marx was about freedom." He also called Zohran Mamdani "a complete idiot" for proposing a rent freeze.
NJ Robinson: National Security Presidential Memo 7 "has essentially defined all political dissent against MAGA ideology as potentially fomenting violence and directed state agencies to investigate and disrupt it."
youtu.be/cFTCOswwvlU via @kenklippenstein.bsky.social & @currentaffairs.bsky.social
youtu.be/cFTCOswwvlU via @kenklippenstein.bsky.social & @currentaffairs.bsky.social
Journalism, Media Capture, and Trump’s War on Free Speech (w/ Ken Klippenstein)
YouTube video by Current Affairs
youtu.be
October 14, 2025 at 8:14 AM
NJ Robinson: National Security Presidential Memo 7 "has essentially defined all political dissent against MAGA ideology as potentially fomenting violence and directed state agencies to investigate and disrupt it."
youtu.be/cFTCOswwvlU via @kenklippenstein.bsky.social & @currentaffairs.bsky.social
youtu.be/cFTCOswwvlU via @kenklippenstein.bsky.social & @currentaffairs.bsky.social
Reposted by Kevin Sanchez
NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...
He Wrote a Book About Antifa. Death Threats Are Driving Him Out of the US
Rutgers historian Mark Bray is trying to flee to Spain after after an online campaign from far-right influencers was followed by death threats. He was turned back at the airport on his first attempt.
www.wired.com
October 9, 2025 at 3:57 PM
NEW: A professor at Rutgers University who wrote a book about “antifa” almost a decade ago is trying—and struggling—to flee the US for Europe after a weeks-long online campaign against him by far-right influencers was followed by death threats. www.wired.com/story/mark-b...
One group has counted 16,000 public-school book bans since 2021, ‘a number not seen since the Red Scare McCarthy era of the 1950s.’
Bad Takes: It's up to San Antonio residents to push back at extremist book bans - San Antonio Current
One group has counted 16,000 public-school book bans since 2021, 'a number not seen since the Red Scare McCarthy era of the 1950s.'
www.sacurrent.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
www.sacurrent.com/news/bad-tak...
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Bad Takes: It's up to San Antonio residents to push back at extremist book bans - San Antonio Current
One group has counted 16,000 public-school book bans since 2021, 'a number not seen since the Red Scare McCarthy era of the 1950s.'
www.sacurrent.com
October 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
"Unions are a prime example of the kind of civic institutions that can save us from this pointless catharsis-seeking. They elevate workers from being powerless subjects of a boss to being participants in a democracy".
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o... via @hecubiandevil.bsky.social
#EffigyPolitics
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#EffigyPolitics
Opinion | Why Are My Fellow Baristas Being Used as Props in a Dangerous Culture War Stunt?
www.nytimes.com
October 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
"Unions are a prime example of the kind of civic institutions that can save us from this pointless catharsis-seeking. They elevate workers from being powerless subjects of a boss to being participants in a democracy".
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o... via @hecubiandevil.bsky.social
#EffigyPolitics
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o... via @hecubiandevil.bsky.social
#EffigyPolitics
“America is a very cynical place for a reason.”
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tyra... via @matthewstoller.bsky.social
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tyra... via @matthewstoller.bsky.social
Tyrants of the Algorithm: Big Tech’s Corrosive Rule and Its Consequences - American Affairs Journal
Twenty years ago, allegations that a large corporation was facilitating sexual predation of children would have been widely disseminated and the perpetrators punished, or at least noticed. But today, ...
americanaffairsjournal.org
October 3, 2025 at 1:45 AM
“America is a very cynical place for a reason.”
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tyra... via @matthewstoller.bsky.social
americanaffairsjournal.org/2025/08/tyra... via @matthewstoller.bsky.social
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The punitive approach favored by the law-and-order crowd can only take us so far in solving deep-rooted problems like this.
Bad Takes: San Antonio has a DWI problem. Let's tackle it in a smart way. - San Antonio Current
The punitive approach favored by the law-and-order crowd can only take us so far in solving deep-rooted problems like this.
www.sacurrent.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The punitive approach favored by the law-and-order crowd can only take us so far in solving deep-rooted problems like this.