Hein Rikar Steen Michaelsen
@heinmichaelsen.bsky.social
Accomplished pedestrian. I like books, film, peer reviewed scientific papers and fernet branca. Free Palestine🕊️🇵🇸
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Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
May 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
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This stock market crash thing is so confusing. On one hand you have every economist and bank in the free world freaking out. On the other, there are some blue check accounts on Twitter with ancient statues as their profile pics doing 20 part threads on why down is the new up. 🤷🏻♀️
April 4, 2025 at 7:55 PM
This stock market crash thing is so confusing. On one hand you have every economist and bank in the free world freaking out. On the other, there are some blue check accounts on Twitter with ancient statues as their profile pics doing 20 part threads on why down is the new up. 🤷🏻♀️
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Pure evil. War crimes within war crimes, and with total impunity.
April 2, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Pure evil. War crimes within war crimes, and with total impunity.
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Progressives, rise up. Join Bernie and AOC’s tour. If you don’t fully agree with them you really need to put those differences aside right now because that might be your best chance of fighting back. I’m rooting for you all.
March 27, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Progressives, rise up. Join Bernie and AOC’s tour. If you don’t fully agree with them you really need to put those differences aside right now because that might be your best chance of fighting back. I’m rooting for you all.
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Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.
March 20, 2025 at 12:39 AM
Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.
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“Illegal immigrant” was their first success.
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
March 13, 2025 at 4:21 PM
“Illegal immigrant” was their first success.
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
Now comes
“Illegal boycott”
“Illegal protest”
“Illegal votes”
“Illegal posts”
Until the “illegal” is you. #3E
I mean it’s of course impressive and all but wouldn’t telling the whole world sort of defeat the purpose?
March 8, 2025 at 1:39 AM
I mean it’s of course impressive and all but wouldn’t telling the whole world sort of defeat the purpose?
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ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.
This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
March 3, 2025 at 3:45 AM
ProPublica looked into science grants that Ted Cruz's team flagged as "radical" and "neo-Marxist" and, uh.
This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
This would be good comedy if it didn't matter so much www.propublica.org/article/ted-...
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Capitalism, at its core, is built to prop up a parasitic elite, and keeping them on top is expensive - cutting jobs, wages, benefits, and draining resources that could otherwise go to the people.
On top of that, we’re paying in social costs:
On top of that, we’re paying in social costs:
March 1, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Capitalism, at its core, is built to prop up a parasitic elite, and keeping them on top is expensive - cutting jobs, wages, benefits, and draining resources that could otherwise go to the people.
On top of that, we’re paying in social costs:
On top of that, we’re paying in social costs:
Existing in 2025 is the daily painful realization that the age of enlightenment truly was a fad.
March 1, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Existing in 2025 is the daily painful realization that the age of enlightenment truly was a fad.
If «Every federal employee has to write an email describing what they did this week EVERY WEEK, to be read and approved by several bosses up the chain of command and allow me to repeat that this is due every single week» doesn’t spell efficiency, I don’t know what does! Jesus fucking mother of god
March 1, 2025 at 3:07 PM
If «Every federal employee has to write an email describing what they did this week EVERY WEEK, to be read and approved by several bosses up the chain of command and allow me to repeat that this is due every single week» doesn’t spell efficiency, I don’t know what does! Jesus fucking mother of god
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These three horsemen of the MAGA-tech-bro apocalypse are in the position of penthouse dwellers who think their top floor apartment doesn't rest on all the floors underneath... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows...
No One Knows How This Will End (But I Do Not Think It Will End Well for Them)
I can sum up the Trump/Musk/Vance theory of power in five words: "We have power; you don't." Alternative version in six words: "we can do anything we want." They seem to believe that nothing is really...
www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 16, 2025 at 11:31 PM
These three horsemen of the MAGA-tech-bro apocalypse are in the position of penthouse dwellers who think their top floor apartment doesn't rest on all the floors underneath... www.meditationsinanemergency.com/no-one-knows...
Imagine the message it would send if 75 million Americans set this as their profile picture tomorrow. And Germans, Brits, Norwegians - wherever the Putin puppet Elon Musk is peddling his anti-democratic fascist propaganda. Symbols have power. #cybertruckman
‘Cybertruck Man’
a cartoon in defiance of Musk
#political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen
a cartoon in defiance of Musk
#political #cartoonist #cybertruck #elon #musk #democracy #tiananmen
February 16, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Imagine the message it would send if 75 million Americans set this as their profile picture tomorrow. And Germans, Brits, Norwegians - wherever the Putin puppet Elon Musk is peddling his anti-democratic fascist propaganda. Symbols have power. #cybertruckman
So, a ton of professional adults with decades in civil service will now be «interviewed» by a 20-something year old infantile shit kid who has no idea how governments work as to whether or not they get to keep their jobs? This is so mind blowingly stupid I am at a loss for words.
February 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
So, a ton of professional adults with decades in civil service will now be «interviewed» by a 20-something year old infantile shit kid who has no idea how governments work as to whether or not they get to keep their jobs? This is so mind blowingly stupid I am at a loss for words.
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This is the kind of direct - and accurate - headline writing that these circumstances require. Don't obfuscate, don't euphemise.
February 5, 2025 at 5:27 AM
This is the kind of direct - and accurate - headline writing that these circumstances require. Don't obfuscate, don't euphemise.
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What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
February 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
What’s his beef against USAID in particu….oh. Wow.
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Elon Musk saying the Nazis were communist is clear proof that he is in fact *not* a genius. It is a breathtakingly ignorant claim. The Nazis were feverishly anti-communist, and massacred some one million socialists and communists for their political views.
February 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Elon Musk saying the Nazis were communist is clear proof that he is in fact *not* a genius. It is a breathtakingly ignorant claim. The Nazis were feverishly anti-communist, and massacred some one million socialists and communists for their political views.
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Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
Goodbye to the lost children of Gaza. You were loved, you are remembered, you did not deserve it | Nesrine Malik
There is no way to rationalise the horrors inflicted on Gaza’s innocent children. Now is the time to mourn them fully, says columnist Nesrine Malik
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Heartbreaking. Inexcusable. Infuriating.
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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.
Auschwitz took time.
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To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement:
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
January 21, 2025 at 6:28 AM
To the crowds cheering Trump's withdrawal from the Paris Agreement:
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
Do you think you live on a different planet, which climate breakdown does not affect?
Do you imagine only greens and progressives will be harmed by Earth systems collapse?
Do you believe you can win an argument with physics?
If
A: It was a real nazi salute (it was): Elon should not be anywhere near any government. He should be shunned and despised.
B: It was a «provocative joke»: see A.
C: It was «an accidentally similar gesture», which every sentient being born after 1945 whould never ever make: Still, see A.
A: It was a real nazi salute (it was): Elon should not be anywhere near any government. He should be shunned and despised.
B: It was a «provocative joke»: see A.
C: It was «an accidentally similar gesture», which every sentient being born after 1945 whould never ever make: Still, see A.
January 21, 2025 at 1:22 AM
If
A: It was a real nazi salute (it was): Elon should not be anywhere near any government. He should be shunned and despised.
B: It was a «provocative joke»: see A.
C: It was «an accidentally similar gesture», which every sentient being born after 1945 whould never ever make: Still, see A.
A: It was a real nazi salute (it was): Elon should not be anywhere near any government. He should be shunned and despised.
B: It was a «provocative joke»: see A.
C: It was «an accidentally similar gesture», which every sentient being born after 1945 whould never ever make: Still, see A.
The spineless centrist fucks spending the next weeks obfuscating Musk’s absolutely very real FUCKING NAZI SALUTE are the same useless fuckings cunts who enabled Hitler’s rise to power in the first place. On this fucking day, you are obliged to read Letter from Birmingham Jail. Read it and weep.
January 20, 2025 at 10:29 PM
The spineless centrist fucks spending the next weeks obfuscating Musk’s absolutely very real FUCKING NAZI SALUTE are the same useless fuckings cunts who enabled Hitler’s rise to power in the first place. On this fucking day, you are obliged to read Letter from Birmingham Jail. Read it and weep.
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Elon Musk goes masks off and does a Nazi salute.
January 20, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Elon Musk goes masks off and does a Nazi salute.
«What if you could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler» is presently a very achievable thing.
January 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
«What if you could go back in time and kill Adolf Hitler» is presently a very achievable thing.