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Jamie Merchant
@jamiemerchant.bsky.social
Rock over London, rock on Chicago

WRITING
check out my book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame
MUSIC
youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@pathtopraxis?si=rzkAYWMS37_zkvpi
bandcamp page (originals): https://jamiemerchant.bandcamp.com/
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If you’re tired of the Democrats’ feckless failures and their vapid attempts to blame woke or w/e, and are looking for a critical history of the present that goes far back into the twentieth century to explain how we got into this mess, I got you

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Endgame
A new account of globalization’s decline as the natural outworking of market economics.   Globalization as we know it is over. Industrial policies dismissed as obsolete for decades have been embraced ...
press.uchicago.edu
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NEW: @propublica.org investigated the Chicago apartment raid where kids were zip-tied and citizens detained for hours. They find:

- NONE of the arrested were criminally charged
- NO evidence the building was "filled with TdA terrorists."
- ZERO legitimate reason for DHS to rappel from a Blackhawk.
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
The ongoing 'bailout' of AI covered here is just another aspect of creeping state capitalism in the U.S., and how even it's supposedly most "innovative" sectors can't survive without truly massive infusions of state money because they're not actually profitable

www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I got to work this morning to find a close coworker weeping.
They're in bad $ trouble bc of our bad pay & a weak social support network... $7 in the bank for a week.
I told them I could help bc my people help.
So I ask if anyone can spot $5 to my Venmo so I can transfer as a lump: @Kristofer-Nivens
November 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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"Solidarity is literally in LA's DNA."

"The goal: to weave a grassroots shield against ICE crackdowns and social services cuts and offer a model for how neighbors, not institutions, can bridge fear and isolation."
#California #USA #Policing #Deportation #EthnicCleansing
In South LA, Black and Latino neighbors unite against ICE as systems fail
As Trump-era immigration enforcement arrests hit 540 weekly and cuts to SNAP threaten families, neighbors are launching mutual aid hubs to keep each other safe.
lapublicpress.org
November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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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
November 13, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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German capitalism as we know it is coming to an end.
November 13, 2025 at 5:35 AM
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WE WON! After 42 days of striking we have a tentative agreement in hand that protects our existing 4 day work week, establishes a minimum salary, and adds protections against AI replacing jobs at our workplace!
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
absolutely cannot be stressed enough how incompetent and stupid these goons are. add the hundreds of detainees being released in Chicago today (& prolly more to come) because these morons were too dumb to think for a minute about what they were doing. self-defeating stupidity all the way down
The WSJ on how unbelievably stupid Noem and Lewandowski are.

I don’t care that I’m late to this; it’s to good to pass up.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
November 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
great news and great example of how the admin’s “move fast and break things” approach really just amounts to being so stupid and reckless they undermine themselves

www.nbcchicago.com/investigatio...
Hundreds of individuals detained by ICE, CBP in Chicago to be released after judge's ruling
‘Independence Day’ will be any time before Friday for hundreds of Chicago and Midwestern immigrants who were arrested and detained by U.S. law enforcement.
www.nbcchicago.com
November 12, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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As a forever night owl, this is sometimes my favorite time in the city.
www.chicagomag.com/chicago-maga...
Photo Essay: 2 a.m. in Chicago
We asked six photographers to capture a slice of the city at an hour when most Chicagoans are asleep. Here’s what they came back with one Thursday in September.
www.chicagomag.com
November 12, 2025 at 12:49 AM
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The crazy thing is that he’s the one who is right in this exchange

TRUMP: You have to bring in talent

INGRAHAM: Well, we have plenty of talented people in America

TRUMP: No you don't. No.

INGRAHAM: We don't have talented people here?
November 12, 2025 at 3:18 AM
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Rod Dreher putting on a hot dog costume as he sits down to type this out..
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
surprise, this entire federal immigration “enforcement” action is completely illegal

abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...
Judge considers releasing hundreds arrested in Chicago-area immigration enforcement 'blitz'
Attorneys for the National Immigrant Justice Center have argued hundreds of undocumented migrants arrested by federal agents were arrested in violation of a consent decree in place in Illinois and fiv...
abc7chicago.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Our next ILC Chicago member meeting will be on Sunday, November 16th at 2pm!

Non-members who would like to get involved are encouraged to attend, but we ask that everyone RSVP first. Location details will be shared with registrants a few days before the meeting.

RSVP: forms.gle/hdZXZN16XRT8...
November 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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If you want to help build independent working class power in Chicago and make some fantastic new friends, contact us! The Independent Labor Club of Chicago is new and growing fast. We'd love to hear from you! forms.gle/VWJurD3YHJsu...
CHICAGO INDEPENDENT LABOR CLUB
forms.gle
November 10, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Starbucks workers are kicking off a super ambitious, and EXTREMELY IMPORTANT nation wide strike this Thursday. The success of this highly visible strike, in this political moment, is likely to determine whether other workers have the confidence to organize and strike in their own workplaces.
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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ILC Chicago members are invited to next month's Bowling Night and Friendsgiving Potluck! We'll be gathering at Timber Lanes on Sunday, November 23rd at 4pm. Families welcome! Learn more and RSVP here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 6, 2025 at 1:31 AM
bovine and a clutch of his chucklefucks will leave Chi but leave behind a detachment as in LA
November 11, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Google AI is like an Eric Adams quote generator
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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“Worldbuilding” has become synonymous with the creation of endlessly exploitable IP. This doesn’t resemble what’s going on with Elysium, which is both too expansive in scale and too scathing in its analysis of our own reality to be so reduced.
The World’s Memory of the World | Gabriel Winslow-Yost
The world of Disco Elysium evokes both postrevolutionary melancholy and communist fervor for a more just world.
thebaffler.com
November 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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I finished this tonight, it's excellent, highly recommended, check it out!
October 27, 2025 at 6:31 AM
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THESE COLORS DON'T RUN
August 26, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Crying cat emoji
On X, Bovino has a comment
November 9, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Members of the community argue with federal officers during an immigration enforcement action in the Little Village neighborhood Saturday in Chicago.
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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I've been working on this fantasy project since the year 2000 (that's two thousand with three zeroes).
There are novels in the works - of which two are almost complete, with two others partly drafted.

The shorts on Patreon are free to read, but please support me if you feel inspired to do so. :)
November 8, 2025 at 10:19 PM