Gabriel
@gabrielu.bsky.social
South American member of the educated middle-class, born in the closing decades of the last century.
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Possibly germane in the current context, something I wrote a few years ago about why the last Argentine dictatorship does not generate the degree of nostalgia one sees for its peers in Brazil or Chile
(tl/dr, terror and mismanagement ended up affecting the elite.)
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(tl/dr, terror and mismanagement ended up affecting the elite.)
cfalso.ghost.io/a-dead-gener...
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This is really scary: even former Tory Davie, the disproportionate coverage of Reform and relentless attention to right wing anti-immigrant talking points have not been enough. Right wing networks want complete capture.
Davie and Turness resignation statements in full www.bbc.com/news/article...
Davie and Turness resignation statements in full www.bbc.com/news/article...
Tim Davie and Deborah Turness resign: BBC statements in full
Director general says "mistakes have been made" but "allegations that BBC News is institutionally biased are wrong".
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is really scary: even former Tory Davie, the disproportionate coverage of Reform and relentless attention to right wing anti-immigrant talking points have not been enough. Right wing networks want complete capture.
Davie and Turness resignation statements in full www.bbc.com/news/article...
Davie and Turness resignation statements in full www.bbc.com/news/article...
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It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
This is fucking brilliant, and you should read it: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
It is, and what goes unsaid is that the piece in question a) opened with one of the most blatantly racist ledes I’ve read in years* and b) was by Jeremy Peters, who for the last decade has functioned as effectively a Heritage Foundation-type operative inside the Times newsroom
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If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
Memos of Blood and Fire | Peter Coviello
So if you ask me about the signature strength of the department where I work, I will tell you. It is world-caliber field-defining research, wedded to a fantastically dynamic practice of instruction, a...
www.nplusonemag.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:30 PM
If you liked that @lithub.com.web.brid.gy essay on not talking to the NYT about Mamdani, read this @nplusonemag.com piece by the same author on working class higher ed and its enemies.
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...
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When I was growing up my dad was in the ad business and had this movie on VHS, which was weird for an American, but this scene imprinted on me permanently. youtu.be/6iAecAtJVdE?...
Distortion of Truth by Association
YouTube video by Dim Sum
youtu.be
November 8, 2025 at 6:13 PM
When I was growing up my dad was in the ad business and had this movie on VHS, which was weird for an American, but this scene imprinted on me permanently. youtu.be/6iAecAtJVdE?...
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Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.
November 8, 2025 at 6:12 PM
Anybody who has watched the Times pull this shit for ages knows this game. Good piece.
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Why do you think they’ve laid waste to the postwar international system? They’ve done it because if it still had any force, then the most important leaders in numerous white person countries would soon be serving decades in jail for knowingly abetting war crimes.
November 8, 2025 at 3:42 PM
Why do you think they’ve laid waste to the postwar international system? They’ve done it because if it still had any force, then the most important leaders in numerous white person countries would soon be serving decades in jail for knowingly abetting war crimes.
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✨corruption💫
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
✨corruption💫
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"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
Target is now requiring its employees to smile more
As the holiday season fast approaches, Target is urging its employees to add a little more “jolly” to their work routine.
www.wilx.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:55 PM
"Store employees are now required to smile if they are within 10 feet of a shopper.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
They also must make eye contact with and wave to or greet the customer.
If they’re within four feet, the employee should ask how the customer’s day is going or if they need help."
🙄 Won't stop the boycott, y'all.
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It'd be nice if there was a natl paper that had a local beat with tons of feds but Bezos's rag is doing Furlough Fun puff piece BS
Anyway air traffic being snarled is a pain and SNAP is a travesty, but also not getting a paycheck for going on 6 weeks kinda sucks too, esp working for 4 of them
Anyway air traffic being snarled is a pain and SNAP is a travesty, but also not getting a paycheck for going on 6 weeks kinda sucks too, esp working for 4 of them
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
It'd be nice if there was a natl paper that had a local beat with tons of feds but Bezos's rag is doing Furlough Fun puff piece BS
Anyway air traffic being snarled is a pain and SNAP is a travesty, but also not getting a paycheck for going on 6 weeks kinda sucks too, esp working for 4 of them
Anyway air traffic being snarled is a pain and SNAP is a travesty, but also not getting a paycheck for going on 6 weeks kinda sucks too, esp working for 4 of them
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I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources
Hell yeah
Developing a fall back option of camping on Senator Foghorn Leghorn's front lawn when I get foreclosed on, I am a constituent after all
Developing a fall back option of camping on Senator Foghorn Leghorn's front lawn when I get foreclosed on, I am a constituent after all
GOP SEN. JOHN KENNEDY: It may be 2026 when we'll come out of the shutdown.
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
REPORTERS: 😳
KENNEDY: I'm not kidding, you guys. I mean, you see what I see. Okay? This shutdown is going to last a long time. What's going to get us out of it?
November 8, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I know everyone thinks all feds are like GS-15s in NoVa with a consultant spouse pulling down six figures, but in reality land shit is starting to Get Bad even for those of us with decent financial resources
Oh wow. Instant pre-order, even tho' publication date August of next year.
Nicholas Mulder - The Age of Confiscation
Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World
À paraître en août chez Allen Lane
Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World
À paraître en août chez Allen Lane
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Oh wow. Instant pre-order, even tho' publication date August of next year.
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Nicholas Mulder - The Age of Confiscation
Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World
À paraître en août chez Allen Lane
Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World
À paraître en août chez Allen Lane
November 3, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Nicholas Mulder - The Age of Confiscation
Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World
À paraître en août chez Allen Lane
Making and Taking Property in the Creation of the Modern World
À paraître en août chez Allen Lane
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This guy is a blowhard? GASP!
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
Supermarket Billionaire Reacts To Mamdani’s Win
Big Apple billionaire John Catsimatidis planned to move his business to New Jersey if Zohran Mamdani was elected mayor. Now he’s reconsidering.
www.forbes.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This guy is a blowhard? GASP!
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Ordinary American workers do not share the financial and media elites’ euphoria over the Trump economy.
Forget affordability, Republicans got shellacked on Tuesday because the labor market sucks deanbaker22.substack.com/p/the-cult-o...
The Cult of Affordability and the Labor Market
The weakening labor market played a central role in the Republicans' shellacking
deanbaker22.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Ordinary American workers do not share the financial and media elites’ euphoria over the Trump economy.
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people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
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state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws
people hate hearing this but it's 100% true, creating a huge pay gap between political leaders, their staffs, and other elites is a recipe for corruption. of course the flip side of that is taxes on the rich should be jacked way the hell up
The Mayor of New York only makes $260k. I bet there are police that make more than that in NY with overtime.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
We need to pay elected leaders more money and stop pretending it's some sort of calling. They're managing hundreds of billions of dollars in investments and millions of people's lives.
November 7, 2025 at 3:29 PM
state legislators should be paid more. otherwise the legislatures are full of dilettantes, cranks, and nepobabies. this is why you keep hearing about the craziest fucking state laws
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DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
November 7, 2025 at 3:23 PM
DHS confirmed it has stopped automatically storing officials' text messages.
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
Instead, officials are supposed to take a screenshot, send that to their work email, download it onto their work computer and run a text-recognition program on it. Every time.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...
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It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...
Government Shutdown Delays US Jobs Data for Second Month
YouTube video by Bloomberg Podcasts
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:31 PM
It’s truly a loss today. First time since 1948, the government didn’t collect information on unemployment. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6isk...
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Medicare for All is baseline government health insurance — and we already pay for it. But right now, that money pads CEO bonuses instead of covering hearing, vision, and dental.
November 7, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Medicare for All is baseline government health insurance — and we already pay for it. But right now, that money pads CEO bonuses instead of covering hearing, vision, and dental.
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November 8, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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I explained that unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
"Okay when do I get my stuff back [from civil asset forfeiture]? When does the [prosecutor and judge] apologize to me and tell the world I did nothing wrong?"
"Okay when do I get my stuff back [from civil asset forfeiture]? When does the [prosecutor and judge] apologize to me and tell the world I did nothing wrong?"
November 8, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I explained that unfortunately it doesn't work that way.
"Okay when do I get my stuff back [from civil asset forfeiture]? When does the [prosecutor and judge] apologize to me and tell the world I did nothing wrong?"
"Okay when do I get my stuff back [from civil asset forfeiture]? When does the [prosecutor and judge] apologize to me and tell the world I did nothing wrong?"
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Can't emphasize enough how central Andreessen is to so much that is going wrong right now.
Here's the book length treatment fintechdystopia.com
Here are academic article versions illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-20...
southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/07/05/f...
Also, why is his head cropped?
Here's the book length treatment fintechdystopia.com
Here are academic article versions illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-20...
southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/07/05/f...
Also, why is his head cropped?
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Can't emphasize enough how central Andreessen is to so much that is going wrong right now.
Here's the book length treatment fintechdystopia.com
Here are academic article versions illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-20...
southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/07/05/f...
Also, why is his head cropped?
Here's the book length treatment fintechdystopia.com
Here are academic article versions illinoislawreview.org/print/vol-20...
southerncalifornialawreview.com/2025/07/05/f...
Also, why is his head cropped?
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man
November 8, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.
November 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.
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I have to say, what an incredible cunt this man is, when he gave Patrick and Gabriel a massive spiel in about 2020 explaining how he personally concocted the Labour Whistleblowers out of nothing into a massive national scandal with John Ware at the BBC. And now denies it all. What a cunt this man is
This is remarkable because Patrick and Gabriel quote Watson directly in their first book explaining how the much-vaunted but probably criminal “Labour whistleblowers” BBC Panorama bullshit came directly from him, as a stunt he personally orchestrated and forced on the public as a terrifying scandal.
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
I have to say, what an incredible cunt this man is, when he gave Patrick and Gabriel a massive spiel in about 2020 explaining how he personally concocted the Labour Whistleblowers out of nothing into a massive national scandal with John Ware at the BBC. And now denies it all. What a cunt this man is