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skeeting(?) and skeeting(?) in the widening gyre
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I think we’re seeing a reorganisation of the Australian right, which could emerge in a full-blown MAGA version after this election
Moves by Peter Dutton could see One Nation emerge as the leading voice on the right. And he's received plenty of assistance from the mainstream media.
Dutton’s One Nation preference swap a new low aided by a feckless media
The decision — like the 'concerns' over Welcomes to Country — tells us less about the presumed change in One Nation and more about the Dutton-era change in the Coalition.
www.crikey.com.au
April 28, 2025 at 6:12 AM
I think we’re seeing a reorganisation of the Australian right, which could emerge in a full-blown MAGA version after this election
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Ok, here's the long-thread of everything I've written about NZs right-wing anti-trans movement since February 2020.
Identity Crisis - Feb 13 2020 - The Free Speech lot are extremely bad faith, a new anti-trans group sounds a lot like white supremacism.
postingdad.medium.com/identity-cri...
Identity Crisis - Feb 13 2020 - The Free Speech lot are extremely bad faith, a new anti-trans group sounds a lot like white supremacism.
postingdad.medium.com/identity-cri...
Identity Crisis
Identity politics. It is, apparently, what is wrong with the left.
postingdad.medium.com
April 23, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Ok, here's the long-thread of everything I've written about NZs right-wing anti-trans movement since February 2020.
Identity Crisis - Feb 13 2020 - The Free Speech lot are extremely bad faith, a new anti-trans group sounds a lot like white supremacism.
postingdad.medium.com/identity-cri...
Identity Crisis - Feb 13 2020 - The Free Speech lot are extremely bad faith, a new anti-trans group sounds a lot like white supremacism.
postingdad.medium.com/identity-cri...
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“If I see the Gospel in a sociological way only, yes, I am a communist, and so too is Jesus.”
- Pope Francis
- Pope Francis
April 21, 2025 at 10:49 AM
“If I see the Gospel in a sociological way only, yes, I am a communist, and so too is Jesus.”
- Pope Francis
- Pope Francis
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Appreciate the pātai. Te Pāti Māori won’t let Aotearoa import UK/US-style hate.
We reject attacks on trans, non-binary and takatāpui whānau. That’s not who we are.
Our Te Tiriti commitment means protecting mana, inclusion, and whānau safety.
Whakapapa over wedges. Manaakitanga over fear. Always.
We reject attacks on trans, non-binary and takatāpui whānau. That’s not who we are.
Our Te Tiriti commitment means protecting mana, inclusion, and whānau safety.
Whakapapa over wedges. Manaakitanga over fear. Always.
April 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
Appreciate the pātai. Te Pāti Māori won’t let Aotearoa import UK/US-style hate.
We reject attacks on trans, non-binary and takatāpui whānau. That’s not who we are.
Our Te Tiriti commitment means protecting mana, inclusion, and whānau safety.
Whakapapa over wedges. Manaakitanga over fear. Always.
We reject attacks on trans, non-binary and takatāpui whānau. That’s not who we are.
Our Te Tiriti commitment means protecting mana, inclusion, and whānau safety.
Whakapapa over wedges. Manaakitanga over fear. Always.
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If only police were putting half the effort into monitoring the local far-right that they are putting into this peace group
thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-0...
Activists raise concerns over police obtaining CCTV footage of meeting at university | The Spinoff
The evidence led to two people being taken into custody for breach of bail conditions.
thespinoff.co.nz
April 14, 2025 at 9:41 AM
If only police were putting half the effort into monitoring the local far-right that they are putting into this peace group
thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-0...
thespinoff.co.nz/society/14-0...
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🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.
March 29, 2025 at 11:26 PM
🧵Masked ICE thugs attempted to abduct the school nurse at Cooke Elementary School, located in the densely populated Adams Morgan section of DC. Workers at the school intervened, demanding a warrant and holding up their phones and ICE scurried off without making their arrest.
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While the left might screech about dismantling the giant robot we’ve built to shred immigrants, I am both proud of the improvements my fellow centrists and I have made to its immigrant-shredding capabilities and secure in the knowledge that nobody will ever flip the big switch that lets it shred me
March 30, 2025 at 2:57 AM
While the left might screech about dismantling the giant robot we’ve built to shred immigrants, I am both proud of the improvements my fellow centrists and I have made to its immigrant-shredding capabilities and secure in the knowledge that nobody will ever flip the big switch that lets it shred me
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I wrote about the goblins in charge, an old boss who bit me on the arm, and the use and abuse of contempt. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
Kingdom Of The Biters | Defector
The summer after I got married, one of my bosses bit me on the arm. I had a lot of jobs that summer, and a lot of bosses; at the time, I was recreating the sort of interchangeable, poorly paid jobs I’...
defector.com
March 28, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I wrote about the goblins in charge, an old boss who bit me on the arm, and the use and abuse of contempt. defector.com/kingdom-of-t...
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I just published a new Luigi Mangione document the press is withholding, an NYPD intel report warning of “disdain for corporate greed" and the "online reactions to the shooting"
Read the NYPD’s Mangione report the media won't publish
Post-Luigi, the "extremist" threat is you
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 26, 2024 at 10:18 PM
I just published a new Luigi Mangione document the press is withholding, an NYPD intel report warning of “disdain for corporate greed" and the "online reactions to the shooting"
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it is truly a blessing to watch the conservative America First guys come to the slackjawed realization that yes the their tech oligarch overlords view them as an expendable resource in the capitalist death machine to the same extent as everyone else
Conservatives are finding out in real time that Elon Musk was always lying about "free speech" on Twitter 🐆
December 27, 2024 at 3:21 PM
it is truly a blessing to watch the conservative America First guys come to the slackjawed realization that yes the their tech oligarch overlords view them as an expendable resource in the capitalist death machine to the same extent as everyone else
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if you're at all familiar with what the wall street journal comments section is generally like, this is the writers' room of Der Sturmer singing La Marseillaise
December 5, 2024 at 4:18 PM
if you're at all familiar with what the wall street journal comments section is generally like, this is the writers' room of Der Sturmer singing La Marseillaise
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New podcast out for all! Both parts of our double episode about direct action illegal coalminers in Pennsylvania during the great depression are out now, with recordings of miners themselves. Listen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple or go to our website: workingclasshistory.com/podca...
December 5, 2024 at 3:08 PM
New podcast out for all! Both parts of our double episode about direct action illegal coalminers in Pennsylvania during the great depression are out now, with recordings of miners themselves. Listen and subscribe on Spotify or Apple or go to our website: workingclasshistory.com/podca...
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one of the things that the South Korean crisis has brought into sharp focus is how American elites are cowards.
even America's most "progressive" (read: not really progressive) cable news network is responding to authoritarianism by becoming even more feckless
David Frum Accuses MSNBC Of Giving Into Fear Of Trump After Mika Brzezinski Apologizes On-Air For His Comment
“I write these words very aware that I’m probably saying goodbye forever to a television platform that I enjoy and from which I have benefited"
www.mediaite.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:10 PM
one of the things that the South Korean crisis has brought into sharp focus is how American elites are cowards.
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this country yearns for the years of lead
December 5, 2024 at 4:24 AM
this country yearns for the years of lead
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Read a post by a nurse who said UHC would routinely deny coverage for a seizure med for infants & children, insisting they try & "fail" UHC's preferred med 1st. So these babies would have seizures sometimes for months until UHC agreed they failed their med & covered the one the doc prescribed.
December 4, 2024 at 11:32 PM
Read a post by a nurse who said UHC would routinely deny coverage for a seizure med for infants & children, insisting they try & "fail" UHC's preferred med 1st. So these babies would have seizures sometimes for months until UHC agreed they failed their med & covered the one the doc prescribed.
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When news finally broke about the DOJ investigation, the company lost almost $25 billion in value. But CEO Brian Thompson had already cashed out
Slain UnitedHealthcare CEO was sued by a firefighters' pension fund in March for insider trading and fraud. The suit alleges he sold $15 million in company stock while failing to disclose a DOJ investigation into the company. Read the lawsuit: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/lawsuit-ag...
www.kenklippenstein.com
December 5, 2024 at 3:00 AM
When news finally broke about the DOJ investigation, the company lost almost $25 billion in value. But CEO Brian Thompson had already cashed out
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Obviously the worst people in the country are psyched for another Trump term, but the extent to which people are pissed off in the present—I'm thinking about the wild response to that health insurance CEO getting shot, but also overall—is something I'm trying to see as promising.
December 5, 2024 at 12:35 AM
Obviously the worst people in the country are psyched for another Trump term, but the extent to which people are pissed off in the present—I'm thinking about the wild response to that health insurance CEO getting shot, but also overall—is something I'm trying to see as promising.
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not only is it not worth mourning the murder of a piece of shit who profited from a firehose of human misery, if it made the other healthcare execs think even a little about the consequences of their actions it will 100% absolutely have saved lives
December 5, 2024 at 2:10 AM
not only is it not worth mourning the murder of a piece of shit who profited from a firehose of human misery, if it made the other healthcare execs think even a little about the consequences of their actions it will 100% absolutely have saved lives
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To be fair Sam Altman does represent the most iconic American figure: a guy who lies constantly who never faces any accountability for his actions, enriching himself in the most obvious, chaotic, needlessly destructive and craven ways available
The chief executive of OpenAI told The New York Times’s DealBook re Elon Musk: “Elon will do the right thing "and "It would be profoundly un-American to use political power to the degree that Elon would hurt competitors and advantage his own businesses.” www.nytimes.com/2024/12/04/b...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman Downplays Dangers of A.I. and Elon Musk
The chief executive of OpenAI said the technology would boost productivity and rejected worries that his rival mogul could use his political influence to harm competitors.
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2024 at 2:06 AM
To be fair Sam Altman does represent the most iconic American figure: a guy who lies constantly who never faces any accountability for his actions, enriching himself in the most obvious, chaotic, needlessly destructive and craven ways available
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Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.
December 5, 2024 at 1:24 AM
Lol. One week after the Economist published this chart showing the dude can't stop tweeting in the middle of the night, Elon removes time stamps from tweets.
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NEW NEWSLETTER: Democrats have the chance to secure a majority at the NLRB and continue their popular defense of workers' rights. But with less than two weeks left on Chairwoman Lauren McFerran’s term, time is running out. Where’s the sense of urgency? therevolvingdoorproject.org/why-wont-dem...
Why Won’t Democrats Defend Their Legacy On Labor? | Revolving Door Project
It’s December; the lame-duck period continues to wind down and Democrats are at risk of squandering their little time left in power.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
December 4, 2024 at 6:25 PM
NEW NEWSLETTER: Democrats have the chance to secure a majority at the NLRB and continue their popular defense of workers' rights. But with less than two weeks left on Chairwoman Lauren McFerran’s term, time is running out. Where’s the sense of urgency? therevolvingdoorproject.org/why-wont-dem...
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United Health just deleted this page from their website lol
December 4, 2024 at 9:33 PM
United Health just deleted this page from their website lol
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my favorite thing about the UHC CEO getting shot dead is the number of posts reading something like "are we sure the bullets inside of him weren't a preexisting condition?" it's funny every time
Try not to live a life that has most people celebrating your death
December 4, 2024 at 7:24 PM
my favorite thing about the UHC CEO getting shot dead is the number of posts reading something like "are we sure the bullets inside of him weren't a preexisting condition?" it's funny every time