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Swoletariat
@swoletariat.bsky.social
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Market Socialist and industrial policy enthusiast, former protein alchemist.
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brigaded by the vile socialists again, simply for deliberately provoking them with lies and insults.
Vermont did this and it was totally insolvent within 3 years If Vermont can’t do it, no state can Socialists complain about this framing because Vermont never fully implemented its system, it was stillborn. That’s because there was no feasible way to roll it out. Vermont didn’t have the $2 billion for its first installment. So the nascent program was quietly killed.
November 28, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Assuming the information is right, the author's home institution indeed has a department of art design.
Anhui Vocational and Technical College of Press and Publication Anhui Vocational and Technical College of Press and Publication is a public full-time general higher vocational technical college approved by the Anhui Provincial People’s Government. It is affiliated to the Anhui Provincial Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television Bureau. It is an integration of production, education and research established by the Chinese and German governments in the field of cultural media. The college currently has more than 4,500 students. It has six teaching institutions, an experimental training center, and a book information center, including the Department of Printing and Packaging, Department of Journalism, Department of Art Design, Department of Economics and Management, Department of Basic Teaching, and Department of Ideological and Political Theory Courses. A teaching assistant institution, opening 30 majors for news and publishing, new media technology, art design, economic management, printing and packaging and other industries and fields to meet the needs of positions (groups) in the entire industry chain,
November 27, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Slipping this graph into my next presentation to see who's paying attention.
Fake graph
November 27, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Happy Turkey liberation day to all who celebrate.
Turkatron
November 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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It amazes me that people think you need a car in a postage stamp sized city with robust public transit.
It amazes me that San Francisco still believes if you build housing without parking, people will sell their cars.
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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The high water mark of Biden's foreign policy.
Lula and Biden
November 25, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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My "I don't love Hitler" T-shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.
Congressman Lawler does not "love Hitler" or joke about gas chambers
November 25, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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And considering this same admin is hostile to lab grown meat this clearly isn't about animal welfare but dismantling the states capacity to do science.
Bill Gates, Richard Branson, Hollywood actors, venture capitalists — they’re all pushing lab-grown meat as solution to world hunger + sustainability, but scientists last week told a panel of experts they have serious concerns about the product’s safety
November 25, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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People are going to die because of this.

They're shuttering ongoing studies and have no validated methods of replacing these kinds of experiments with an animal that's only sperated from us by 25 million years.
Since President Donald Trump took office in January, the heads of several U.S. research agencies—including the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the Environmental Protection Agency, and NIH—have announced plans to reduce their reliance on animal studies. Instead, the agencies aim to invest more in organ chips and other “new approach methodologies.”
November 25, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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Semafor trying to "Our plans are measured in centuries" meme their way into accepting a murderous oil cartel monarch. My God.
The murder of columnist Jamal Khashoggi will likely follow him forever in the Western press, as was evident during his Washington visit last week. But that’s not the metric by which his subjects will judge a reign that could stretch across half a century. Journalists tend to like tidy narratives, and early impressions often stick. When his father became king in 2015, Prince Mohammed was portrayed as impulsive — launching a war in Yemen, dragging the country into tiffs with Canada and Germany, and famously cracking down on fellow princes and billionaires. For most Saudis, however, that turbulent stretch also included a reshaping of daily life: new jobs, expanded social freedoms, and an economy increasingly wired into global capital and poised to become the world’s biggest construction market.
November 25, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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The urban commons of suburbia?
what if i told you that in the actually existing world, blanket upzoning is in fact exclusionary because it expands the commodification of housing to serve real estate and rich people while further enclosing the urban commons
November 25, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Say it with me now.
No blood for Oil
November 24, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Time to read up on the classics I see.
War is a racket, general Smedly butler
November 24, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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He's out here building "Socialism in One City", pic unrelated.
Molotov-Ribbentrop pact
November 24, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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Oh you wanted healthcare? Best we can do is increase paperwork and funnel dumb money into the stock market.
What we're hearing: Trump plans to propose a framework that would address spiking premiums by extending for two years the enhanced ACA tax credits, which are due to expire at the end of the year, according to sources familiar, speaking anonymously because of the sensitivity of the talks. It would put an income limit on who's eligible for the tax credits and require recipients to make a minimum premium payment, eliminating $0 premium plans that Republicans say fuel fraud. The plan also would encourage people to buy lower-premium options on the ACA exchange. For individuals who downgrade their coverage, the difference in costs would be distributed to an health savings account provided with taxpayer dollars.
November 24, 2025 at 4:26 AM
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San Francisco has some unbeatable views.
San Francisco sky line
November 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Example, the idea that state run grocery stores isn't a useful way to address costs because of low margins is something you say when you think you understand economics without checking the relevant data.
Mamdani was apparently one of the few to draw the more obvious conclusion from Trump’s remarks, which was that instead of making fun of him for talking about groceries (in a tone of often insufferable superiority), maybe the left should also be talking about groceries. So he made it one of the major promises in his campaign – a pledge to lower the price of groceries in New York by creating publicly-owned, city-run grocery stores. Of course, like most educated people, he probably knows that profiteering by grocery stores is not actually the cause of high food prices. It’s not difficult to find data showing that grocery stores in New York operate with pretty slim margins, and that the major costs occur further up the supply chain. The problem is that a “supply chain” is an entirely abstract concept, which means that for most people it might as well not exist. Obviously, if one wanted to develop a plausible plan for lowering the price of food, it would make sense to think about agricultural subsidies, or transportation costs, or retail overhead, but you’re not going to get the average person excited by talking this way. Sometimes you hear "but grocery is a low-margin business!" and I think the correct thing is to say it *was* a low-margin business, until the pandemic One thing that's been notable about grocery stores during the pandemic is that their earnings behavior has been empirically different from the rest of retail. Whereas margins in other retail popped fast then came back down, grocery margins slowly rose & have stayed stubbornly high
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Claiming that populism is "Ackchually" against wonkish ideas is something you say when your main concern is upholding your own intellectual self perception.
"The crucial thing to understand about populism ... is that it is a revolt directed against cognitive elites, not economic elites." Cognitive elites have been struggling against understanding this for a decade. I expect the struggle to cotinue.
November 24, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Pictured, why the median SF house price is over a million dollars.
Picture of Bernal in 1953 vs 2025
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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"Jewish people stood by us, which is why I'm putting a Jewish nation state before actual people."
As a Black conservative, I will NEVER forget that debt. I stand with Israel. I stand with the Jewish people. History didn’t stutter, and neither will I
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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"I'm not a black conservative except for Israel"
Booker G. Washington @BookerGWash I’m not a Black conservative at all. But these are just facts.
November 22, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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It doesn't matter what leftist or centrist commentariat say, Mamdani is now officially part of the "The Brand"™.
@theDemocrats
November 22, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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"No meaningful subsidies"
Energy Department Announces $625 Million Investment to Reinvigorate and Expand America’s Coal Industry The U.S. Department of Energy today announced a $625 million investment to expand and reinvigorate America’s coal industry, aiming to boost energy production and support coal communities nationwide.
November 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Yes.
Have you ever seen a Democrat embrace Trump like this? Trumps with Clinton's Newsom with Trump
November 22, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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👇 Didn't watch "Who framed Rodger Rabbit?"
Mountain Ğeneral @MountainGenera Mf said bad traffic is caused by billionaires lmfao Quote Pramila Jayapal @PramilaJayapal · Nov 20 Fixed it for you.
November 22, 2025 at 1:51 AM