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Joel Reinstein
@joelreinstein.bsky.social
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Labor organizer

"Would it not be easier for the government to dissolve the people, and elect another?"
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Pistons were trailing by more points than there were seconds left in the game, won in OT
A basketball game, the score reads Washington 126 Detroit 121 with 4.9 seconds left, as a player in blue prepares a 3-point attempt
November 11, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Screenshot of a LitHub article with the following text: 'Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. /Some people say this; however, others say this./ It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass. Only when you stand a little closer, or when circumstances make you a little less blinkered, do you notice the fact which then becomes blinding and finally crazymaking, which is just that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it. Instead, what you get is a piece making the various more or less bovine noises of studious grey-lady impartiality, with the labor of anything resembling “appraisal” surgically excised.'
November 7, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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"Moderate" and "left" are abstractions- what do they refer to? What would it mean to connect with people when they're getting bilked by healthcare executives and the rent is too damn high? Who has an interest in higher or lower civic engagement?
"What if the Democratic party’s problem is not that it is too left-leaning, or for that matter, too moderate, but instead is too disconnected from the lives of the people whom it wants to appeal to? If that is the case, then top-down efforts like the one that London proposes are likely doomed, regardless of ideology."
November 5, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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anime american guy appears to be a fan of the New Tork Tankees
cartoon man wearing a hat and pinstripe jersey for a team whose logo is a "T" crossing the middle of an "N"
November 4, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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There was no option in the ballot box to stop US support for Israel's genocide. Not Harris, not Trump, not abstention: we had no say in the matter.

There's good evidence that Gaza contributed to Harris' loss. Now we see headlines like this:
Screenshot of NYT opinion piece by Lydia Polgreen about Amy Klobuchar shifting away from support for Israel Al Jazeera headline about congressman Seth Moulton returning AIPAC donations
October 29, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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the good shit
small tubs of shaving cream on a counter, labeled "Royal Forest," "Tobacco Leaf" and "Sandalwood"
October 27, 2025 at 10:48 PM
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Article screenshot from hammerandhope.org reads "Since early in the year, Black organizers had noticed gaps in the campaign’s strategy for reaching Black voters. To address them, they led canvasses in working-class Black neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Queens, hosted their own outreach events, and took to social media to convince their peers to vote for Zohran and recruit new volunteers. By early October, Mamdani had taken a commanding lead over Cuomo among Black voters, according to a Quinnipiac University poll."
October 21, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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the "big tent" refers to kyrsten sinema's sleeves
Joe Manchin looking lot like Regis Philbin, next Kyrsten Sinema with weird sleeves
October 20, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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When I was at MSU a scrawny guy who always wore a 10-gallon cowboy hat was constantly doing shit like this
October 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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Cnn headline "some airports are refusing to play kristi noem video in tsa lines"
October 14, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Four panel comic of a cartoon man demonstrating how to make stovetop espresso
October 13, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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a wide-eyed tiger face painted with orange and blue against a white background
October 11, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Meaningless crap, worse than nothing
October 10, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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evergreen
a cartoon depicts three men. the man on the left is dressed as a worker, slapping the man in the middle and calling him "Traitor!" on the right, a monarch also slaps the man in the middle, calling him "Extremist!" The man in the middle is labeled: "Unhappy position of the liberal"
October 2, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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"Glory" is easily the best civil war movie to come out of hollywood, about the Mass 54th. and this painting of their charge at ft wagner by Keith Rocco is s tier imho
painting depicts soldiers in blue uniforms charging up a sand bank
October 2, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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The rats are triumphant
Headline about eric adams dropping out of nyc mayor race
September 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Really perfect description of "PC" debates prior to the trump era
"The norms of political correctness thus set basic ground rules for social life—at least, in politically mixed company. These norms lorded over a motley moral crew. The vocal opponents of PC culture included out-and-out bigots, of course, but also slightly more sophisticated ones who exploited the plausible deniability of abstraction in their appeals for the right to express—and the genuine or performed credulousness of helpful partners like Klein—to help clear social space for the overt stuff. The deniability was plausible because there were other sorts who opposed PC culture: those with libertarian leanings who simply and genuinely resented any imposition on their expression, edgelords who delighted in line-stepping who saw the minefields of conversation around race and gender as an exciting obstacle course, and those who seemed to afford their prejudices and their political values oddly equal weight. PC defenders were likewise heterogeneous, including some who genuinely found bigotry as such intolerable, social climbers and people-pleasers who had never found a rule they wouldn’t studiously mind, and hall-monitor types who enjoyed any pretext for putting people in their place."
September 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Most Democratic leaders rolled over completely to whitewash the white supremacism of Charlie Kirk. Now how do you talk about ICE?
NBC headline about shooting that killed an ICE detainee, with photo of rounds that have "ANTI-ICE" written on them Headline reads "Ted Cruz says politicians should stop 'demonizing' ICE"
September 24, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Ok tapping out here 😭
September 22, 2025 at 3:56 AM
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😁
September 22, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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couldn't help myself
a painting of the 20th Maine at Gettysburg with Curtis Evans from Evanston photoshopped in as the flag-bearer
September 20, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Zionism means sitting at the table with people like this
September 9, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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When it comes to the NYC mayor's race, Tom Suozzi, Hakeem Jeffries and other anti-Mamdani democrats are rowing in the same direction as the man in the high castle
NYT headline reads "Trump Advisers Have Discussed a Job for Adams to Quit Mayor's Race," lede explains Trump wants to clear the field for Cuomo to take on Mamdani 1:1
September 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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a father of one of the survivors
NBC news reads: '"Something is wrong with the culture," Francoual continued. "Nobody does anything and everybody's going to go pray, thinking of us, but it's not going to fix the problem here."'
August 28, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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Hard to make up something more evil than this
NBC news lede "Israel bombed a hospital, waited 7 minutes and then bombed it again. It's not the first time this has happened."
August 26, 2025 at 7:35 PM