Marc Auerbach
@pugetopia.bsky.social
Pizza lover. Union guy. Brooklyn kid living in Seattle. Bella, ciao!
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis D. Brandeis
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis D. Brandeis
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Marc Auerbach
@pugetopia.bsky.social
· Apr 9
The Senate won't save us.
The House won't save us.
The Democratic Party won't save us.
The Supreme Court won't save us.
It's up to us.
The House won't save us.
The Democratic Party won't save us.
The Supreme Court won't save us.
It's up to us.
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I love this song so much: 🎵 Now it's making sense to me. 🎵
An acapella duet called "Build A Ballroom" 👀 sung by Ken Sandberg & A Gift From Todd
An extraordinarily creative way to say that Trump is building a 350 million bunker funded by his elite tech friends for when shit hits the fan.
An acapella duet called "Build A Ballroom" 👀 sung by Ken Sandberg & A Gift From Todd
An extraordinarily creative way to say that Trump is building a 350 million bunker funded by his elite tech friends for when shit hits the fan.
December 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
I love this song so much: 🎵 Now it's making sense to me. 🎵
An acapella duet called "Build A Ballroom" 👀 sung by Ken Sandberg & A Gift From Todd
An extraordinarily creative way to say that Trump is building a 350 million bunker funded by his elite tech friends for when shit hits the fan.
An acapella duet called "Build A Ballroom" 👀 sung by Ken Sandberg & A Gift From Todd
An extraordinarily creative way to say that Trump is building a 350 million bunker funded by his elite tech friends for when shit hits the fan.
Here's where things are WORSE than they've ever been... the difference between levels of well-being we COULD achieve with existing technology and productive capacity and actual levels of well-being. And that is the true measure of pur social arrangements.
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com
So much went wrong this year, our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. But “measured by child mortality, education, nutrition or women’s rights, we humans are probably in the best decade in the past 300,000 years.”
So much went wrong this year, our columnist Nicholas Kristof writes. But “measured by child mortality, education, nutrition or women’s rights, we humans are probably in the best decade in the past 300,000 years.”
Opinion | In Which I Try Valiantly to Cheer You Up
OK, 2025 wasn’t the best year ever. But we’re arguably still in the best decade in the history of humanity.
nyti.ms
December 28, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Here's where things are WORSE than they've ever been... the difference between levels of well-being we COULD achieve with existing technology and productive capacity and actual levels of well-being. And that is the true measure of pur social arrangements.
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“Anyone who has used a self-checkout machine has personally experienced this dynamic.
Rather than the machine supporting the human, the humans (both employees and shoppers) end up supporting the machine.”
techpolicy.press/how-augmenta...
Rather than the machine supporting the human, the humans (both employees and shoppers) end up supporting the machine.”
techpolicy.press/how-augmenta...
How Augmentation-Washing Hides Labor Automation | TechPolicy.Press
Sarah E. Fox and Samantha Shorey discuss how corporate “cobots” reduce control and intensify demands—and what policy can do to protect worker agency.
techpolicy.press
December 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
“Anyone who has used a self-checkout machine has personally experienced this dynamic.
Rather than the machine supporting the human, the humans (both employees and shoppers) end up supporting the machine.”
techpolicy.press/how-augmenta...
Rather than the machine supporting the human, the humans (both employees and shoppers) end up supporting the machine.”
techpolicy.press/how-augmenta...
Somebody leak that shit NOW!
Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
Jack Smith is calling for the House Judiciary Committee to release the recording of his full closed-door deposition before the panel.
"Doing so will ensure that the American people can hear the facts directly from Mr. Smith, rather than through second-hand accounts."
December 26, 2025 at 4:46 AM
Somebody leak that shit NOW!
Am I crazy to think that Schumer and Jeffries should be playing
Up this shit big time? Like public hearings (official or unofficial), press conferences, doorstepping the criminals?
Up this shit big time? Like public hearings (official or unofficial), press conferences, doorstepping the criminals?
Jacob Wohl is the guy of “I overheard people talking in a hipster coffee shop about how much they love Donald Trump” fame. He’s apparently now making six figures securing pardons for fraudsters.
GOP operatives Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, convicted election fraudsters, were paid $960,000 in the second quarter to secure a pardon for a former nursing-home operator who defrauded the government of $38 million. Trump pardoned the man, Joseph Schwartz, last month.
December 26, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Am I crazy to think that Schumer and Jeffries should be playing
Up this shit big time? Like public hearings (official or unofficial), press conferences, doorstepping the criminals?
Up this shit big time? Like public hearings (official or unofficial), press conferences, doorstepping the criminals?
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NFL broadcasts basically only work because TV has been a unionized business for a long time so naturally Netflix and Amazon look like children comparatively
December 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
NFL broadcasts basically only work because TV has been a unionized business for a long time so naturally Netflix and Amazon look like children comparatively
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Watching Casablanca and this scene hits harder this year.
a black and white photo of a man standing in a crowded restaurant .
ALT: a black and white photo of a man standing in a crowded restaurant .
media.tenor.com
December 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Watching Casablanca and this scene hits harder this year.
RESPECT!
"The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility."
"The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility."
December 25, 2025 at 1:57 AM
RESPECT!
"The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility."
"The show’s host, musician Chuck Redd, says that he called off the performance in the wake of the White House announcing last week that President Donald Trump’s name would be added to the facility."
Let's fucking gooooooooooooo
oooh oooh i have some thoughts on this...
1. abundant social housing
2. space for baugruppen and coops
3. a mixed use car-free ecodistrict w/ abundant open space and high quality public realm demonstrating what climate forward neighborhoods should do
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...
1. abundant social housing
2. space for baugruppen and coops
3. a mixed use car-free ecodistrict w/ abundant open space and high quality public realm demonstrating what climate forward neighborhoods should do
www.theurbanist.org/2025/12/24/s...
City of Seattle Purchases 18-Acre Laurelhurst Property, Scuttling Sprawl Plans » The Urbanist
# The $64 million sale of the hotly contested Talaris property in Laurelhurst surprised housing advocates who had long been fighting sprawl and pushing for a more forward-thinking urban vision. But wi...
www.theurbanist.org
December 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Let's fucking gooooooooooooo
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Erika Kirk is a liar (and schemer).
December 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Erika Kirk is a liar (and schemer).
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Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery
Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions
Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus
Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions
Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus
Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
December 23, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Turning Point USA was founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk and Bill Montgomery
Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions
Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus
Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
Two of their major policy pushes were a more prominent gun culture and zero COVID restrictions
Bill Montgomery died to the COVID virus
Charlie Kirk died to gun violence
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"Ferguson endorsed a millionaires’ tax on those who make more than $1 million in income in a single year — not people whose net worth reaches that amount based on, for instance, the value of their home." FINALLY!!!
Governor Ferguson announces support for millionaires’ tax
links-2.govdelivery.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
"Ferguson endorsed a millionaires’ tax on those who make more than $1 million in income in a single year — not people whose net worth reaches that amount based on, for instance, the value of their home." FINALLY!!!
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Seven of America's biggest healthcare corporations got $34 BILLION in tax breaks from the last Trump tax scam.
Their CEOs saved MILLIONS on their personal taxes.
So why does it make any sense that 20 million people are about to see their premiums rise?
We're being scammed.
Their CEOs saved MILLIONS on their personal taxes.
So why does it make any sense that 20 million people are about to see their premiums rise?
We're being scammed.
December 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Seven of America's biggest healthcare corporations got $34 BILLION in tax breaks from the last Trump tax scam.
Their CEOs saved MILLIONS on their personal taxes.
So why does it make any sense that 20 million people are about to see their premiums rise?
We're being scammed.
Their CEOs saved MILLIONS on their personal taxes.
So why does it make any sense that 20 million people are about to see their premiums rise?
We're being scammed.
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Oh, I had one of those! Except instead of being about how Elvis was a groomer, it was every time I posted that ULINE was literally run by theocracy-craving disinfo-peddling fascists and we should all stop using their services.
Think I'll post this link again! He hates it.
refuseuline.com
Think I'll post this link again! He hates it.
refuseuline.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:57 AM
Oh, I had one of those! Except instead of being about how Elvis was a groomer, it was every time I posted that ULINE was literally run by theocracy-craving disinfo-peddling fascists and we should all stop using their services.
Think I'll post this link again! He hates it.
refuseuline.com
Think I'll post this link again! He hates it.
refuseuline.com
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These nurses deserve a fair contract that ensures patient safety, nurses’ rights, compensation for nurses injured by workplace violence, and the union's strength. I hope the hospital will avoid a strike by agreeing to a fair contract. www.wsna.org/news/2025/se... @wsna.bsky.social
Nurses at Seattle Children’s Hospital voted overwhelmingly Monday to…
Patient and nurse safety, and nurse recruitment and retention among top priorities.
www.wsna.org
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 AM
These nurses deserve a fair contract that ensures patient safety, nurses’ rights, compensation for nurses injured by workplace violence, and the union's strength. I hope the hospital will avoid a strike by agreeing to a fair contract. www.wsna.org/news/2025/se... @wsna.bsky.social
Could this really be 3 hours of hating on Bill Maher? I guess Christmas came early this year!
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064: Who the Hell is Bill Maher? feat. Will Weldon | Posting Through It
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December 23, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Could this really be 3 hours of hating on Bill Maher? I guess Christmas came early this year!
www.patreon.com/posts/145713...
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James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people
December 21, 2025 at 9:08 PM
James Talarico: The Bible doesn't mention abortion or gay marriage, but it goes on and on about forgiving debt, liberating the poor, and healing the sick. The closest thing we have to the kingdom of heaven is a multiracial, multicultural democracy where power is truly shared among all people
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i guess we should just all share the PBS FRONTLINE & PROPUBLICA documentary on CECOT
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc
Surviving CECOT (full documentary) | Deported to a Maximum-Security Prison | FRONTLINE + ProPublica
YouTube video by FRONTLINE PBS | Official
youtu.be
December 21, 2025 at 10:29 PM
i guess we should just all share the PBS FRONTLINE & PROPUBLICA documentary on CECOT
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc
youtu.be/Lku5h9xjrqc
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The ways JD Vance could become president:
1) Trump dies in office
2) 2028-29 coup attempt succeeds
That’s it
1) Trump dies in office
2) 2028-29 coup attempt succeeds
That’s it
December 21, 2025 at 9:51 PM
The ways JD Vance could become president:
1) Trump dies in office
2) 2028-29 coup attempt succeeds
That’s it
1) Trump dies in office
2) 2028-29 coup attempt succeeds
That’s it
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the vice president is a klansman
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:22 PM
the vice president is a klansman
Wake me up
TOTALLY NORMAL
__Trump's remarks in North Carolina on Friday raised red flags...
"I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy. The first question is like what is this and they show a lion, giraffe, fish and a hippopotamus. And they say which is the giraffe."__
www.rawstory.com/trump-sundow...
__Trump's remarks in North Carolina on Friday raised red flags...
"I took cognitive tests. By the way, not easy. The first question is like what is this and they show a lion, giraffe, fish and a hippopotamus. And they say which is the giraffe."__
www.rawstory.com/trump-sundow...
'He's sundowning hard': Observers panic about 'incoherent' Trump's 'slurring' new speech
Donald Trump's latest speech set off a firestorm of people online saying the address was "slurring" and "incoherent."Trump's remarks in North Carolina on Friday raised red flags for many. One of the m...
www.rawstory.com
December 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Wake me up
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This is possibly the all-time greatest ~2 minutes of television.
A Unique Cat in Renton, WA - does anyone remember Tagrie?
YouTube video by NW Michelle
www.youtube.com
December 21, 2025 at 12:59 PM
This is possibly the all-time greatest ~2 minutes of television.
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Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers.
An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social
An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social
December 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Mass deportations don’t protect working people—they weaken labor standards, silence organizing and empower bad employers.
An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social
An attack on immigrant workers is an attack on ALL workers. @jimmy-iupat.bsky.social
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Latest test for US leadership.
Please identify the giraffe:
🦒
🐟
🦛
Please identify the giraffe:
🦒
🐟
🦛
December 20, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Latest test for US leadership.
Please identify the giraffe:
🦒
🐟
🦛
Please identify the giraffe:
🦒
🐟
🦛