Colin Gillis
@unionist.bsky.social
Nurse, unionist, educator, dog and cat enthusiast. 🌹
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So grateful for this kind of conjunctural analysis from @thedigradio.bsky.social It is both inspiring and useful. Don't know if I could keep doing the work organizing without it.
New Dig: powerful convo w Aslı Bâli and @gabrielwinant.bsky.social complexities and contradictions of emerging conjuncture. The fascist authoritarianism of Trump’s second coming; Dem establishment collapse; resurgent left. Recorded live @socialismconference.org www.thedigradio.com/podcast/note...
Notes on the New Regime w/ Aslı Bâli & Gabriel Winant
Featuring Aslı Bâli and Gabriel Winant on the emerging conjuncture: the Trump regime’s fascist and authoritarian second coming; the giant vacuum created by the Democratic establishment’s inability to ...
www.thedigradio.com
July 13, 2025 at 1:49 AM
So grateful for this kind of conjunctural analysis from @thedigradio.bsky.social It is both inspiring and useful. Don't know if I could keep doing the work organizing without it.
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Let’s hope new pope also hates Illinois Nazis
you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"
May 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Let’s hope new pope also hates Illinois Nazis
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“Do you even own a suit??”
April 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
“Do you even own a suit??”
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Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
March 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Instead of stealing Greenland from Denmark, let’s steal some of their policies.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
In Denmark:
- Health care and college are free.
- The starting wage is $22/hr.
- Paid parental leave is 1 year.
- Paid vacation is 6 weeks.
- All workers get pensions.
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Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:
March 12, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Wow. Watch this from Zohran Mamdani. It looks like the exact "fight" and "conviction" people are hopelessly asking for from the people in charge of the Democratic party:
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Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
February 22, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.
While there is much doom to scroll, Winston and I are doing our level best to focus on rest and relaxation this weekend.
February 23, 2025 at 4:59 PM
While there is much doom to scroll, Winston and I are doing our level best to focus on rest and relaxation this weekend.
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In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant.
Today:
Today:
February 20, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In 2024, the NLRB filed a complaint against Tesla for interfering in a union drive at their Buffalo, NY assembly plant.
Today:
Today:
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Every sentence of this:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
The Path to American Authoritarianism
What comes after democratic breakdown.
www.foreignaffairs.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Every sentence of this:
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...
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We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
Vance Says ‘Judges Aren’t Allowed to Control’ Trump’s ‘Legitimate Power’
The declaration by the vice president came as court orders have temporarily blocked parts of the Trump administration’s agenda.
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2025 at 11:36 PM
We all need to start using the word "coup." They're well past the point where Hitler starts dictates his Enabling Act. I talk to Very Serious People who actually believe courts telling Trump that they he is breaking the law will stop this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
Hey Canada, are you accepting new provinces?
February 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Hey Canada, are you accepting new provinces?
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I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
February 1, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.
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NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
NEWS: Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Wyden Demands Answers Following Report of Musk Personnel Seeking Access to Highly Sensitive U.S. Treasury Payments System
www.finance.senate.gov
February 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
NEW: Sources tell my office that Treasury Secretary Bessent has granted DOGE *full* access to this system. Social Security and Medicare benefits, grants, payments to government contractors, including those that compete directly with Musk's own companies. All of it.
Thinking with King Lear about pain and silence.
A case study about pain, part 3
This week we discuss King Lear. Much suffering takes place in this tragedy, and it includes some of the most powerful representations of pain and anguish in the English language. Insofar as we can exp...
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February 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Thinking with King Lear about pain and silence.
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National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
We Choose To Fight: Action Call · Indivisible
This Sunday night, February 2 at 8pm ET/5pm PT, you’re invited to join Indivisible, MoveOn, Working Families Party, and a coalition of other organizations for an action call. During the call, you will...
www.mobilize.us
February 1, 2025 at 1:37 AM
National call this Sunday to strategize with Indivisible, MoveOn, WFP, and a ton of other groups. We choose to fight. www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...
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i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
January 30, 2025 at 9:09 PM
i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country
Really hope there is a "find out" that follows this "fuck around."
January 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Really hope there is a "find out" that follows this "fuck around."
Hope those unpaid Medicaid bills get the same "Thanks to President Trump" banner that TikTok used.
January 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Hope those unpaid Medicaid bills get the same "Thanks to President Trump" banner that TikTok used.
The dominant response to catastrophe in US culture is to focus on how we respond as individuals, to mitigate our natural stress response. In my experience, the only thing at truly helps is to fight for a better world. You can do both. Practice mindfulness *and* join a national organization.
January 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
The dominant response to catastrophe in US culture is to focus on how we respond as individuals, to mitigate our natural stress response. In my experience, the only thing at truly helps is to fight for a better world. You can do both. Practice mindfulness *and* join a national organization.
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If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde appeals to President Trump to have mercy upon immigrants and minorities
YouTube video by ONEST NETWORK
youtu.be
January 21, 2025 at 7:45 PM
If you watch only one short video today, make it this one. Remarkable bravery, and the looks on the various faces could be material for a dissertation on gender, the family, and authoritarianism. youtu.be/gVInX42IQD8?...
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Hi @nytimes.com can you guess the meaning of the hand gesture I am making right now
this is the neworktimesiest headline that has ever headlined
January 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Hi @nytimes.com can you guess the meaning of the hand gesture I am making right now
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Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
Immigration Policy Tracking Project
A comprehensive and dynamic catalogue of immigration policies issued by the Trump administration since January 2017.
immpolicytracking.org
January 19, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Sharing an incredible resource for people looking to follow the legal changes on immigration under Trump. A law professor and numerous students at Yale Law and Stanford Law will be tracking and summarizing every change in immigration policy. immpolicytracking.org/home/
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WOW 👀 — A journalist is removed from Secretary of State Blinken’s press conference after asking questions about Gaza.
“Why aren’t you in the Hague?”
Everyone should watch this.
“Why aren’t you in the Hague?”
Everyone should watch this.
January 16, 2025 at 10:15 PM
WOW 👀 — A journalist is removed from Secretary of State Blinken’s press conference after asking questions about Gaza.
“Why aren’t you in the Hague?”
Everyone should watch this.
“Why aren’t you in the Hague?”
Everyone should watch this.
