Simone de Beauvoir
@debeauvoir.bsky.social
Every war, every revolution, demands the sacrifice of a generation, of a collectivity, by those who undertake it.
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what will it take to make it clear to everyone (particularly the public) that social media and large online platforms are the root cause of much our current problems from fascism, to mental health, and the environment
October 16, 2025 at 7:46 PM
what will it take to make it clear to everyone (particularly the public) that social media and large online platforms are the root cause of much our current problems from fascism, to mental health, and the environment
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Blue State elected leaders need to really start talking about building, economic, and mutual aid blocks now that it’s clear the federal government is going to defund any state that is not capitulating.
Taxes need to be collected only by the states and the federal government must be left to rot.
Taxes need to be collected only by the states and the federal government must be left to rot.
October 2, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Blue State elected leaders need to really start talking about building, economic, and mutual aid blocks now that it’s clear the federal government is going to defund any state that is not capitulating.
Taxes need to be collected only by the states and the federal government must be left to rot.
Taxes need to be collected only by the states and the federal government must be left to rot.
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Raise your hand if being falsely indicted and eventually acquitted would bankrupt you
This is bad, but also vital to remember: it’s an EO.
It’s not a new law. It’s just instructions to his appointees. Who remain constrained by the Fed criminal code.
And, to preempt the doomers:
Those.
Laws.
Are.
Holding.
That’s why Trump’s losing it over Comey in EDVA.
It’s not a new law. It’s just instructions to his appointees. Who remain constrained by the Fed criminal code.
And, to preempt the doomers:
Those.
Laws.
Are.
Holding.
That’s why Trump’s losing it over Comey in EDVA.
September 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Raise your hand if being falsely indicted and eventually acquitted would bankrupt you
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I am just going to say this again bluntly: Blue states are going to need to become the federal government. Mutual aid compacts, mutual defense compacts, healthcare, taxes, trade the whole deal. Literally create a new system outside of the fascist federal system.
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I am just going to say this again bluntly: Blue states are going to need to become the federal government. Mutual aid compacts, mutual defense compacts, healthcare, taxes, trade the whole deal. Literally create a new system outside of the fascist federal system.
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Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
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The Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble
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July 21, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Newsletter: This is the Hater's Guide To The AI Bubble: genAI is nothing like Uber or Amazon Web Services, there are no profitable genAI companies, agents do not and cannot exist, there is no AI SaaS story, and everything rides - and dies - on selling GPUs.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-haters-g...
Organize offline, build hard power. Create print collectives, scale regional mutual aid networks, begin creating federated community defense, prepare to weather the worst economic cycle in history and outlast surveillance capitalism. They will destroy themselves and try to bring us with them.
Genuine question: what ideas do people have for real theories of change to fight surveillance in this moment.
Like, it's not like you can run a "tell Palantir to stop being Palantir" campaign or a "Tell ICE to stop being fucking fascists" campaign.
What is actionable, winnable? Where do we focus?
Like, it's not like you can run a "tell Palantir to stop being Palantir" campaign or a "Tell ICE to stop being fucking fascists" campaign.
What is actionable, winnable? Where do we focus?
July 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Organize offline, build hard power. Create print collectives, scale regional mutual aid networks, begin creating federated community defense, prepare to weather the worst economic cycle in history and outlast surveillance capitalism. They will destroy themselves and try to bring us with them.
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“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
June 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
“I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
"So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.
J.R.R. Tolkien
The D party is not a highly centralized entity. People like Schumer and Pelosi have the power they do because of the fundraising potential of their constituents. They can use those funds to put their finger on the scale of elections like this using superpacs.
June 25, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The D party is not a highly centralized entity. People like Schumer and Pelosi have the power they do because of the fundraising potential of their constituents. They can use those funds to put their finger on the scale of elections like this using superpacs.
This would be a lot more convincing if the nordics didn’t have have the same explosion of alt right support as the rest of the west in the last decade.
broke: the history of society is dictated by class
woke: the history of society is dictated by education
woke: the history of society is dictated by education
i think this is pure edpol
June 23, 2025 at 9:49 PM
This would be a lot more convincing if the nordics didn’t have have the same explosion of alt right support as the rest of the west in the last decade.
This is 100% my experience.
And these folks think that leftist politics is some amalgam of whatever fox hates and some bastardized hr politics. They don’t understand new or old left approaches. Now that they are starting to stew in the tiktok cesspool and rotting their brains faster than before
And these folks think that leftist politics is some amalgam of whatever fox hates and some bastardized hr politics. They don’t understand new or old left approaches. Now that they are starting to stew in the tiktok cesspool and rotting their brains faster than before
In my darker moments, I start to worry that what we’re seeing writ large here is an era when plenty of people want to identify as “leftists” but grew up marinating in the Fox News Cinematic Universe and all of their priors are grounded there.
June 20, 2025 at 3:25 PM
This is 100% my experience.
And these folks think that leftist politics is some amalgam of whatever fox hates and some bastardized hr politics. They don’t understand new or old left approaches. Now that they are starting to stew in the tiktok cesspool and rotting their brains faster than before
And these folks think that leftist politics is some amalgam of whatever fox hates and some bastardized hr politics. They don’t understand new or old left approaches. Now that they are starting to stew in the tiktok cesspool and rotting their brains faster than before
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So I’ve been thinking about this for the last couple days and I’m gonna say this as kindly as I can but…
These protest sure as hell are starting to look like they are not about popular pushback, but about recuperating radical energy and stopping actual rebellion against the fascists.
These protest sure as hell are starting to look like they are not about popular pushback, but about recuperating radical energy and stopping actual rebellion against the fascists.
June 12, 2025 at 3:12 PM
So I’ve been thinking about this for the last couple days and I’m gonna say this as kindly as I can but…
These protest sure as hell are starting to look like they are not about popular pushback, but about recuperating radical energy and stopping actual rebellion against the fascists.
These protest sure as hell are starting to look like they are not about popular pushback, but about recuperating radical energy and stopping actual rebellion against the fascists.
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Heckuva juxtaposition here.
Trump admin: “Work will make you free!”
Fascism scholars: “Um yeah, we’re outa here.”
Trump admin: “Work will make you free!”
Fascism scholars: “Um yeah, we’re outa here.”
May 14, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Heckuva juxtaposition here.
Trump admin: “Work will make you free!”
Fascism scholars: “Um yeah, we’re outa here.”
Trump admin: “Work will make you free!”
Fascism scholars: “Um yeah, we’re outa here.”
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Political demagogues turn workers abused by employers against each other - white against black/brown, male against female, native against immigrant - just so their anger does not turn against employers.
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
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Measuring the Income Gap from 1975 to 2023
The author extends the results of prior work on the income gap between the bottom 90 percent of workers in 2023 and what they would have earned with an even growth rate from 1975 to 2023. These worker...
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May 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Political demagogues turn workers abused by employers against each other - white against black/brown, male against female, native against immigrant - just so their anger does not turn against employers.
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
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Years ago, Jim Henley defined the proper approach perfectly: Eliminate the shackles before you eliminate the crutches. Eliminate all corporate welfare before you start on welfare for the poor. Cut taxes from the bottom up by raising the amount of income exempted, instead of cutting the top rates 1/?
Back in my Cato days I’d say stuff like “If you’re going to dismantle the government, figure out how to do it without hurting people. That should be your research program.”
Now we’re getting the mean, stupid, deadly approach instead, wrecking all credibility for future small government ideas.
Now we’re getting the mean, stupid, deadly approach instead, wrecking all credibility for future small government ideas.
100 days ago, we couldn't envision the toll of death and suffering this man would cause. Now scientists are estimating the body count, the new rise of infectious diseases once subdued. My latest for The Nation. @mathewkiang.com @nathanlo.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/poli...
May 2, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Years ago, Jim Henley defined the proper approach perfectly: Eliminate the shackles before you eliminate the crutches. Eliminate all corporate welfare before you start on welfare for the poor. Cut taxes from the bottom up by raising the amount of income exempted, instead of cutting the top rates 1/?
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"ban assault weapons" "guns mean small dick" and a bunch of similar shibboleths don't change the fundamental reality that if armed people want you dead and you don't have some way of opposing them you fucking die
April 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
"ban assault weapons" "guns mean small dick" and a bunch of similar shibboleths don't change the fundamental reality that if armed people want you dead and you don't have some way of opposing them you fucking die
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How #coops in #Rojava offer a vision of an alternative society built on #mutualaid, #genderequality and ecological #sustainability
Co-ops and resistance in Rojava
Co-ops in the region offer a vision of an alternative society built on mutual aid, gender equality and ecological sustainability
www.thenews.coop
April 26, 2025 at 12:35 PM
How #coops in #Rojava offer a vision of an alternative society built on #mutualaid, #genderequality and ecological #sustainability
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ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation | American Civil Liberties Union
Families disappeared and isolated without legal access; one child with cancer deported without medication and pregnant mother deported as well
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April 26, 2025 at 1:16 AM
ACLU says another three US citizen children were disappeared from their own country today: www.aclu.org/press-releas...
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NEW: The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday.
Hours later, a conservative judge who tried to intervene warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
Hours later, a conservative judge who tried to intervene warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday
A conservative judge on Friday warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
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April 26, 2025 at 3:48 AM
NEW: The Trump administration deported a 2-year-old U.S. citizen on Friday.
Hours later, a conservative judge who tried to intervene warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
Hours later, a conservative judge who tried to intervene warned of his "strong suspicion" that the administration "just deported a U.S. citizen with no meaningful process."
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The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy"
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
April 25, 2025 at 1:26 PM
The Justice Dept. has authorized law enforcement officers to GO INTO PEOPLE'S HOMES WITHOUT SEARCH WARRANTS if they suspect that someone is an "alien enemy"
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
I talked to @usatoday.com about Attorney General Bondi's "Guidance for Implementing the Alien Enemies Act," links below
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It's time to stop speaking only about WHITE Christian nationalism & WHITE evangelicals. Donald Trump is winning over NON-WHITE evangelicals.
@ryanburge.bsky.social has data + analysis.
Having observed this phenomenon for a while, I have theories... 1/
www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/2024-elect...
@ryanburge.bsky.social has data + analysis.
Having observed this phenomenon for a while, I have theories... 1/
www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/2024-elect...
April 24, 2025 at 3:54 AM
It's time to stop speaking only about WHITE Christian nationalism & WHITE evangelicals. Donald Trump is winning over NON-WHITE evangelicals.
@ryanburge.bsky.social has data + analysis.
Having observed this phenomenon for a while, I have theories... 1/
www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/2024-elect...
@ryanburge.bsky.social has data + analysis.
Having observed this phenomenon for a while, I have theories... 1/
www.graphsaboutreligion.com/p/2024-elect...
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It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
April 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
It's a high bar, but this from @radleybalko.bsky.social might be one of the most fucked up things I've read in the new Trump era. For context, this TX lawyer had just had an informal conversation with a family caught up in ICE raids.
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
Seriously. Read this. radleybalko.substack.com/p/the-courag...
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If you can, go watch Hypernormalisation, a documentary by Adam Curtis
How politicians, the media, including Donald Trump made the complex world seem simple
How politicians, the media, including Donald Trump made the complex world seem simple
February 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If you can, go watch Hypernormalisation, a documentary by Adam Curtis
How politicians, the media, including Donald Trump made the complex world seem simple
How politicians, the media, including Donald Trump made the complex world seem simple
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Dr. Lisa Anderson says she recently received a letter from the DHS telling her, “It is time for you to leave the United States."
Immigration authorities have been pushing noncitizens to “self-deport.”
But Dr. Anderson was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen. nbcnews.to/4jhI6Fx
Immigration authorities have been pushing noncitizens to “self-deport.”
But Dr. Anderson was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen. nbcnews.to/4jhI6Fx
April 17, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Dr. Lisa Anderson says she recently received a letter from the DHS telling her, “It is time for you to leave the United States."
Immigration authorities have been pushing noncitizens to “self-deport.”
But Dr. Anderson was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen. nbcnews.to/4jhI6Fx
Immigration authorities have been pushing noncitizens to “self-deport.”
But Dr. Anderson was born in Pennsylvania and is a U.S. citizen. nbcnews.to/4jhI6Fx