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Old, tired intersectional social democrat. She/her. Not actively seeking followers but you can follow if you want.
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Nuzzi is an extremely obvious case of something that nobody on earth gives a fuck about except incredibly annoying, navalgazing media types. Which unfortunately means we still have to hear about her all the time.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Nuzzi is an extremely obvious case of something that nobody on earth gives a fuck about except incredibly annoying, navalgazing media types. Which unfortunately means we still have to hear about her all the time.
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"until scandal led her" - this is what we call the exonerative tense, like it was the force of some unstoppable scandal bearing down on her and not her sexting a sentient beef jerky with prion disease
November 17, 2025 at 2:56 PM
"until scandal led her" - this is what we call the exonerative tense, like it was the force of some unstoppable scandal bearing down on her and not her sexting a sentient beef jerky with prion disease
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Vanity Fair’s West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi has the incredible gall to try and profit off her equally impressive bad taste in having an affair with RFK jr, the man who is/will be responsible for many deaths as a consequence of his attacks on vaccination and public health.
You people disgust me.
You people disgust me.
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
www.vanityfair.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Vanity Fair’s West Coast editor Olivia Nuzzi has the incredible gall to try and profit off her equally impressive bad taste in having an affair with RFK jr, the man who is/will be responsible for many deaths as a consequence of his attacks on vaccination and public health.
You people disgust me.
You people disgust me.
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Christian Incest
United States, Census, 1930
United States, Census, 1930
November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Christian Incest
United States, Census, 1930
United States, Census, 1930
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popular writers used to exile themselves from public life for decades before attempting a comeback and we were a better country for it
November 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
popular writers used to exile themselves from public life for decades before attempting a comeback and we were a better country for it
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Also: not anywhere is there any independent assessment of SNAP fraud alleged here by a spokesperson to be “rampant."
the article has descriptions of how it “can” occur, quotes claims about how many deceased people were receiving benefits.
whatever happened to “get both sides of the story”?
the article has descriptions of how it “can” occur, quotes claims about how many deceased people were receiving benefits.
whatever happened to “get both sides of the story”?
one of the crueler cases of #AdministrativeBurden I’ve heard in a long time...
and also a good example of how much easier it is to cause harm once these essential services have been “paused."
this is abominable.
www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
and also a good example of how much easier it is to cause harm once these essential services have been “paused."
this is abominable.
www.newsweek.com/snap-benefit...
SNAP benefits update: Trump admin says ‘everyone’ will have to reapply
Agriculture secretary Brooke Rollins told Newsmax on Thursday the plan is to “have everyone reapply for their benefits."
www.newsweek.com
November 17, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Also: not anywhere is there any independent assessment of SNAP fraud alleged here by a spokesperson to be “rampant."
the article has descriptions of how it “can” occur, quotes claims about how many deceased people were receiving benefits.
whatever happened to “get both sides of the story”?
the article has descriptions of how it “can” occur, quotes claims about how many deceased people were receiving benefits.
whatever happened to “get both sides of the story”?
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And you just know that “AI” will be deployed to vet applications, again with predictable results, as we know from the work of Virginia Eubanks and others us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
Automating Inequality
WINNER: The 2019 Lillian Smith Book Award, 2018 McGannon Center Book Prize, and shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Jus...
us.macmillan.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:32 PM
And you just know that “AI” will be deployed to vet applications, again with predictable results, as we know from the work of Virginia Eubanks and others us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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One more point: was just teaching Carol Anderson’s One Person, No Vote, which described states requiring Black voters to periodically re-register to vote as another intentional voter suppression tactic.
Based on the exact same trumped-up claims of trying to prevent “fraud”.
Based on the exact same trumped-up claims of trying to prevent “fraud”.
November 17, 2025 at 2:38 PM
One more point: was just teaching Carol Anderson’s One Person, No Vote, which described states requiring Black voters to periodically re-register to vote as another intentional voter suppression tactic.
Based on the exact same trumped-up claims of trying to prevent “fraud”.
Based on the exact same trumped-up claims of trying to prevent “fraud”.
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The book $2 a Day explains how post-1996 changes to cash welfare benefits made them so hard to access that plenty of eligible people just don’t try. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
Living on $2 a day: Exploring extreme poverty in America
In their new book, "$2.00 a Day: Living on Almost Nothing in America," academics Kathryn J. Edin and H. Luke Shaefer reveal that there are nearly 1.5 million American households with practically no ca...
www.pbs.org
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The book $2 a Day explains how post-1996 changes to cash welfare benefits made them so hard to access that plenty of eligible people just don’t try. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
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Time and time again the architects of these policies have shown they would rather be seen as “preventing [exceedingly rare] fraud” than risk feeding the “undeserving,” even if that means letting people, including eligible people, go hungry. These benefits are also already bare bones.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Time and time again the architects of these policies have shown they would rather be seen as “preventing [exceedingly rare] fraud” than risk feeding the “undeserving,” even if that means letting people, including eligible people, go hungry. These benefits are also already bare bones.
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Freak Nobs
United States, Census, 1900
United States, Census, 1900
November 17, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Freak Nobs
United States, Census, 1900
United States, Census, 1900
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it's like the Galbraith line about the French Revolution, except the surrender here was about 1 percent of what Jacques Necker asked of the French nobility bsky.app/profile/ryan...
"People of privilege will almost always risk total destruction rather than surrender any part of their privilege." youtu.be/KGSID_Uyw7w...
The Age of Uncertainty Episode 1 - The Prophets and Promise of Classical Capitalism
YouTube video by sveinbjornt
youtu.be
November 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
it's like the Galbraith line about the French Revolution, except the surrender here was about 1 percent of what Jacques Necker asked of the French nobility bsky.app/profile/ryan...
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yeah. MeToo, the George Floyd protests, and an ~18 month period of very tight labor markets induced a mental breakdown across the power elite bsky.app/profile/laur...
it didn't even really provide me with any new information but that one email between epstein and some other random rich elite saying "when will the madness end" about the metoo movement felt like a key unlocking my brain that will explain every unforced institutional capitulation we've seen
November 17, 2025 at 2:45 PM
yeah. MeToo, the George Floyd protests, and an ~18 month period of very tight labor markets induced a mental breakdown across the power elite bsky.app/profile/laur...
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Some of you want life to go back to how it was in 2016. That's your version of The Good Time (tm), because it was before ICE raids, and DOGE, and before science funding cuts.
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
November 16, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Some of you want life to go back to how it was in 2016. That's your version of The Good Time (tm), because it was before ICE raids, and DOGE, and before science funding cuts.
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
But that's not what I want.
I want to go forward to The Good Times(tm), where Black folk don't get treated like this either
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In 2025, everyone has been getting a tiny taste of "Basic, level 1, beginner tutorial mode" of what Black people experience in this country in 2024.
And you've only been experiencing it for ~9 months.
And you're like, "No more! This is unbearable!"
You're right. It is unbearable.
And you've only been experiencing it for ~9 months.
And you're like, "No more! This is unbearable!"
You're right. It is unbearable.
November 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In 2025, everyone has been getting a tiny taste of "Basic, level 1, beginner tutorial mode" of what Black people experience in this country in 2024.
And you've only been experiencing it for ~9 months.
And you're like, "No more! This is unbearable!"
You're right. It is unbearable.
And you've only been experiencing it for ~9 months.
And you're like, "No more! This is unbearable!"
You're right. It is unbearable.
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I went to relatively good public schools that had much less reactionary history curricula than a lot of people my age had in high school, but the gist of the Holocaust education was that Hiter was an evil man, and the evil man was stopped by the good guys. As superficial as a superhero movie.
November 17, 2025 at 2:36 AM
I went to relatively good public schools that had much less reactionary history curricula than a lot of people my age had in high school, but the gist of the Holocaust education was that Hiter was an evil man, and the evil man was stopped by the good guys. As superficial as a superhero movie.
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One book-length treatment of this is Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman.
Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
November 17, 2025 at 3:01 AM
One book-length treatment of this is Hitler's American Model: The United States and the Making of Nazi Race Law by James Q. Whitman.
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Modern policing is derived from slave patrols. The "emergency" powers repeatedly invoked were primarily used for race "riots." The racial profiling of Latinos is Stop-And-Frisk. Civil rights activists up through even BLM have been arrested and targeted just as activists are now.
Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
November 17, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Modern policing is derived from slave patrols. The "emergency" powers repeatedly invoked were primarily used for race "riots." The racial profiling of Latinos is Stop-And-Frisk. Civil rights activists up through even BLM have been arrested and targeted just as activists are now.
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Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
November 16, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Racism is fascism practiced on Black people first.
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
Hitler based the Nuremberg laws on US Jim Crow. He invaded Russia because he wanted his own California.
The US shifting from a racist country to a fascist country basically means "Start treating everyone like you've always treated Black people."
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I need folks to understand some important things about this:
1) Black men are disproportionately targeted for Federal drug prosecutions.
2) Black men receive disproportionately harsh Federal sentences.
2) So an unbiased reduction in Fed drug prosecutions, disproportionately *benefits* Black men.🤯
1) Black men are disproportionately targeted for Federal drug prosecutions.
2) Black men receive disproportionately harsh Federal sentences.
2) So an unbiased reduction in Fed drug prosecutions, disproportionately *benefits* Black men.🤯
www.reuters.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:48 PM
I need folks to understand some important things about this:
1) Black men are disproportionately targeted for Federal drug prosecutions.
2) Black men receive disproportionately harsh Federal sentences.
2) So an unbiased reduction in Fed drug prosecutions, disproportionately *benefits* Black men.🤯
1) Black men are disproportionately targeted for Federal drug prosecutions.
2) Black men receive disproportionately harsh Federal sentences.
2) So an unbiased reduction in Fed drug prosecutions, disproportionately *benefits* Black men.🤯
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Mainstream press reporting on Nick Fuentes used to always label him as a Holocaust denier. Now that he's been given the Trump endorsement, the language gets softened to "antisemitic views." Soon he will just be "controversial."
President Trump dismisses concerns about Tucker Carlson’s recent interview with far-right activist Nick Fuentes, who is known for his antisemitic views.
Trump defends Tucker Carlson after interview with activist known for his antisemitic views
Fuentes appeared to appreciate Trump’s sentiment, posting “Thank you Mr. President!” along with video of his interaction with reporters.
nbcnews.to
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Mainstream press reporting on Nick Fuentes used to always label him as a Holocaust denier. Now that he's been given the Trump endorsement, the language gets softened to "antisemitic views." Soon he will just be "controversial."
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This is so cool. I interviewed Calvin Duncan - exoneree, and now Orleans Parish Clerk of Court - back in 2023 about his work as a jailhouse lawyer for the folks on death row in Louisiana. I remember being really struck by his words:
November 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
This is so cool. I interviewed Calvin Duncan - exoneree, and now Orleans Parish Clerk of Court - back in 2023 about his work as a jailhouse lawyer for the folks on death row in Louisiana. I remember being really struck by his words:
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This is why we're regressing as a society
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is why we're regressing as a society
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Also, the powerful men have the best access and when they cut us off from them, they cut us off from everyone else, not just the people who notice the lack of mentor, but people who’ve never met us or seen our work
November 16, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Also, the powerful men have the best access and when they cut us off from them, they cut us off from everyone else, not just the people who notice the lack of mentor, but people who’ve never met us or seen our work