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NEW: Why are so many right-wing accounts based outside the United States?
Simple: Republican oligarchs are outsourcing their media campaigns. www.peoplesline.org/p/blowback-a...
Simple: Republican oligarchs are outsourcing their media campaigns. www.peoplesline.org/p/blowback-a...
Blowback and the international troll industry
Why are so many Twitter reactionaries from outside of the United States?
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November 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
NEW: Why are so many right-wing accounts based outside the United States?
Simple: Republican oligarchs are outsourcing their media campaigns. www.peoplesline.org/p/blowback-a...
Simple: Republican oligarchs are outsourcing their media campaigns. www.peoplesline.org/p/blowback-a...
NEW: It looks increasingly like Trump is hoping to "freeze" the conflict in Ukraine - a non-resolution that will only guarantee more war in the future. www.peoplesline.org/p/trumps-pla...
Trump's plan for Ukraine won't bring peace
It kicks the can down the road with "freezes" and probably concedes too much for an opening bid.
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November 20, 2025 at 12:14 AM
NEW: It looks increasingly like Trump is hoping to "freeze" the conflict in Ukraine - a non-resolution that will only guarantee more war in the future. www.peoplesline.org/p/trumps-pla...
Capitalists argue that private charity can replace welfare programs like SNAP.
Food bank failures over just the last few days prove otherwise. www.peoplesline.org/p/snap-lapse...
Food bank failures over just the last few days prove otherwise. www.peoplesline.org/p/snap-lapse...
SNAP lapse proving that charity can't replace the welfare state
Families are already going hungry.
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November 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Capitalists argue that private charity can replace welfare programs like SNAP.
Food bank failures over just the last few days prove otherwise. www.peoplesline.org/p/snap-lapse...
Food bank failures over just the last few days prove otherwise. www.peoplesline.org/p/snap-lapse...
NEW: I regret to inform you once again that Matt Yglesias is lying about data
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Matt Yglesias is still lying about Democratic donors
Another swing at the Shor / Yglesias "rich people have made Democrats too progressive" schtick.
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October 20, 2025 at 10:26 PM
NEW: I regret to inform you once again that Matt Yglesias is lying about data
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NEW: Trump is using the IRS to target liberal-left organizations.
If you think Democrats will intervene to save them, it's time to remember what happened to ACORN. www.peoplesline.org/p/acorn-is-t...
If you think Democrats will intervene to save them, it's time to remember what happened to ACORN. www.peoplesline.org/p/acorn-is-t...
ACORN is the future of the Democratic Party
Don't count on Congressional Democrats to save themselves.
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October 16, 2025 at 1:56 PM
NEW: Trump is using the IRS to target liberal-left organizations.
If you think Democrats will intervene to save them, it's time to remember what happened to ACORN. www.peoplesline.org/p/acorn-is-t...
If you think Democrats will intervene to save them, it's time to remember what happened to ACORN. www.peoplesline.org/p/acorn-is-t...
NEW: Democrats are abandoning the liberal critique of federalism and resorting to Dixiecrat "states rights" arguments against Trump.
It's gotten so bad that Gov. Pritzker is now approvingly quoting Kristi Noem's warning of "war" against Biden.
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It's gotten so bad that Gov. Pritzker is now approvingly quoting Kristi Noem's warning of "war" against Biden.
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The federalist case against Trump is a terrible cop-out
Instead of fighting the political fight, liberals are abandoning their commitment to federal power.
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October 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
NEW: Democrats are abandoning the liberal critique of federalism and resorting to Dixiecrat "states rights" arguments against Trump.
It's gotten so bad that Gov. Pritzker is now approvingly quoting Kristi Noem's warning of "war" against Biden.
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It's gotten so bad that Gov. Pritzker is now approvingly quoting Kristi Noem's warning of "war" against Biden.
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NEW: Pritzker's grandstanding didn't do a thing to stop ICE from swarming Chicago. Do Democrats have a strategy to win besides vague calls to "fight"?
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Pritzker and resistance theater
Do you want epic press conferences, or do you want to win?
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October 5, 2025 at 12:29 AM
NEW: Pritzker's grandstanding didn't do a thing to stop ICE from swarming Chicago. Do Democrats have a strategy to win besides vague calls to "fight"?
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NEW: Trump is funding libertarians and defunding socialists; if socialists are going to win, we'll have to go global.
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Local socialism can't defeat global capitalism
If socialists want to win, they'll have to go international.
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September 29, 2025 at 4:56 PM
NEW: Trump is funding libertarians and defunding socialists; if socialists are going to win, we'll have to go global.
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NEW: Introducing our recommended readings page - a list of books, articles, and other texts and media that we think our readers would benefit from! And we've provided free links to *everything*.
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NEW: Reading recommendations
By popular demand...
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September 28, 2025 at 5:25 PM
NEW: Introducing our recommended readings page - a list of books, articles, and other texts and media that we think our readers would benefit from! And we've provided free links to *everything*.
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NEW: Cass Sunstein says that racists like Hayek and Reagan are liberals. He's right!
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Sunstein is right: there are indeed racist liberals
Another look at the inbox.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:21 PM
NEW: Cass Sunstein says that racists like Hayek and Reagan are liberals. He's right!
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NEW: Americans should meet evidence the government provides of left-wing violence with extraordinary skepticism.
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Is Trump going to false-flag the left?
If the administration can't find a pretext to crack down on us, they may invent one.
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September 24, 2025 at 5:08 PM
NEW: Americans should meet evidence the government provides of left-wing violence with extraordinary skepticism.
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NEW: Class analysis gives us a much clearer understanding of Trump's immigration policy than vague talk about "authoritarianism".
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Class analysis and "authoritarianism"
Two ways of explaining Trump's recent H1-B visa fee yield vastly different insights.
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September 22, 2025 at 8:39 PM
NEW: Class analysis gives us a much clearer understanding of Trump's immigration policy than vague talk about "authoritarianism".
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NEW: Rand Paul reminds everyone that you don't actually have rights under capitalism.
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Rand Paul brings back antiwoke capitalism
See how this works?
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September 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
NEW: Rand Paul reminds everyone that you don't actually have rights under capitalism.
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NEW: An insane passage on the murder of Charlie Kirk
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September 11, 2025 at 8:20 PM
NEW: An insane passage on the murder of Charlie Kirk
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NEW: In 2008, attempts to trivialize Obama as an "articulate" and "charming" smooth-talker were widely regarded as racist.
In 2025, liberals constantly say the same things about Mamdani - because they don't want to talk about socialism.
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In 2025, liberals constantly say the same things about Mamdani - because they don't want to talk about socialism.
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How capital wields race against Mandami's socialism
Beset on all sides by the woke and anti-woke, Mandami's campaign maintains its lead
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September 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
NEW: In 2008, attempts to trivialize Obama as an "articulate" and "charming" smooth-talker were widely regarded as racist.
In 2025, liberals constantly say the same things about Mamdani - because they don't want to talk about socialism.
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In 2025, liberals constantly say the same things about Mamdani - because they don't want to talk about socialism.
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NEW: The second of a multipart series on materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion.
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September 5, 2025 at 6:22 PM
NEW: The second of a multipart series on materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion.
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NEW: The first of a multipart series of materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-do-mat...
August 30, 2025 at 3:35 PM
NEW: The first of a multipart series of materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-do-mat...
Young liberals have plenty of career paths. That's not why liberalism is losing!
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The marketplace of ideas takes another L
Liberals are losing the argument, so Zack Beauchamp thinks they need to win with financing.
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August 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Young liberals have plenty of career paths. That's not why liberalism is losing!
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PROJECT 2029 UPDATE:
We have added H.R.51 "To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union" to Project 2029.
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We have added H.R.51 "To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union" to Project 2029.
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August 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
PROJECT 2029 UPDATE:
We have added H.R.51 "To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union" to Project 2029.
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We have added H.R.51 "To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union" to Project 2029.
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NEW: Americans and Ukrainians have very different opinions about the war against Russia.
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Ukraine's crisis of confidence
Ukrainians are losing trust in its government to end the war.
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August 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
NEW: Americans and Ukrainians have very different opinions about the war against Russia.
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NEW: Mamdani's campaign is exposing a significant rift in the party between black voters and liberals. www.peoplesline.org/p/mamdani-is...
Mamdani is winning the Democratic base
And no, the base of Democrats is not black voters.
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August 13, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW: Mamdani's campaign is exposing a significant rift in the party between black voters and liberals. www.peoplesline.org/p/mamdani-is...
NEW: The sixth and final installment of Carl Beijer's six part series on the past and future of capitalism.
PART VI: Capitalism's long future.
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PART VI: Capitalism's long future.
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Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part VI: The long future of capitalism.
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August 9, 2025 at 5:16 PM
NEW: The sixth and final installment of Carl Beijer's six part series on the past and future of capitalism.
PART VI: Capitalism's long future.
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PART VI: Capitalism's long future.
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NEW: Part V of Carl Beijer's continuing series on the past and future of capitalism.
What would late capitalism actually look like? The answer isn't in the present - it's in the past. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...
What would late capitalism actually look like? The answer isn't in the present - it's in the past. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...
Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part V: What would late capitalism actually look like?
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August 5, 2025 at 5:54 PM
NEW: Part V of Carl Beijer's continuing series on the past and future of capitalism.
What would late capitalism actually look like? The answer isn't in the present - it's in the past. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...
What would late capitalism actually look like? The answer isn't in the present - it's in the past. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...
NEW from Carl Beijer: Conservatives and liberals love inventing leftists to get mad at.
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Everyone cherry-picks the left
The right's Sydney Sweeney escort mission plays the same game that liberals play constantly!
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August 1, 2025 at 1:02 AM
NEW from Carl Beijer: Conservatives and liberals love inventing leftists to get mad at.
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The grotesque irony of Trump's victory is that elite Democrats would have never spoken out against the genocide in Gaza under President Harris.
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Would Yglesias have opposed genocide under Harris?
Democratic loyalists are happy to join the antiwar movement when their leaders aren't in power.
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July 31, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The grotesque irony of Trump's victory is that elite Democrats would have never spoken out against the genocide in Gaza under President Harris.
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