Mike Isaacson
@vulgareconomics.bsky.social
Writer. Working on a book about the only nazi labor union in the US. Comms director Justice4Demi.org Philly sports. COYS. Anarchist politics. He/him or she/her not they/them. Website: creationsandstories.com
Pinned
Gonna nip this in the bud before it's a problem. Please don't put me in your starter packs or lists
Signal got polls before Bluesky
November 20, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Signal got polls before Bluesky
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Remember the horrifying text messages that showed a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month?
The government just abandoned their charges against the woman who was shot to avoid even *more* embarrassing texts being released, it seems. New @motherjones.com
The government just abandoned their charges against the woman who was shot to avoid even *more* embarrassing texts being released, it seems. New @motherjones.com
The feds suddenly want to drop charges against a woman shot by a Border Patrol agent
The move avoids the release of more messages from a Border Patrol agent whose previous texts showed he had bragged about shooting her.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Remember the horrifying text messages that showed a Border Patrol agent bragging about shooting someone in Chicago last month?
The government just abandoned their charges against the woman who was shot to avoid even *more* embarrassing texts being released, it seems. New @motherjones.com
The government just abandoned their charges against the woman who was shot to avoid even *more* embarrassing texts being released, it seems. New @motherjones.com
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Re last post, I've also been making a similar point as I have stressed that the fascists aren't actually having fun and that they aren't cool but desperately want to be. As I've said, they make bad art, host terrible parties, etc...
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Re last post, I've also been making a similar point as I have stressed that the fascists aren't actually having fun and that they aren't cool but desperately want to be. As I've said, they make bad art, host terrible parties, etc...
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November 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.
November 20, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.
HI-larious to claim that the antisemitism from the right is a "turn"
In order to figure out where all the antisemitism on the right has come from, we interviewed the most obtuse fool imaginable who is both Jewish AND built one of the key institutions that has served as an incubator of right wing antisemitism since its founding.
November 20, 2025 at 2:24 PM
HI-larious to claim that the antisemitism from the right is a "turn"
New Millennium Homes
Without saying Bulls on Parade, fav Rage Against the Machine song?
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
New Millennium Homes
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Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
Shabana Mahmood hits out at Tommy Robinson’s backing of Labour’s migration policy
Shabana Mahmood has said she finds it “deeply offensive” when MPs quote Tommy Robinson at her in the Commons, after the far-right activist backed the government’s sweeping asylum reforms. Asked about ...
www.independent.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Remarkably simple solution. If you don't want the backing of the far-right for your immigration policy, or to have people point out that you have their backing, don't base your immigration policy on the far-right's rhetoric and ideology.
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/shab...
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I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered.
The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.
apnews.com/article/immi...
The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered.
The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.
apnews.com/article/immi...
The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo.
apnews.com/article/immi...
Grok translated David Irving and Ernst Zündel into French?
French authorities are taking X to court because Grok is now doing straight up holocaust denial. Gas chambers intended for disinfection, cyanide residue tiny, ‘story’ persists because of taboo against critical examination. (Full translation in alt text)
November 20, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Grok translated David Irving and Ernst Zündel into French?
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An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame.
But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.
But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.
How right-wing superstar Riley Gaines built an anti-trans empire
The swimmer tied a trans woman for fifth. The MAGA industrial complex took care of the rest.
www.motherjones.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
An incident in a locker room has always been key to Riley Gaines’ anti-trans fame.
But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.
But @msjpauly.bsky.social spoke to swimmers who were present at the same 2022 meet. They shared a very different narrative.
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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he's certainly one of the minds of all time
*laughs in historian* “… ranks among the 10 minds in history, rivalling polymaths like da Vinci or Newton…”
November 20, 2025 at 11:56 AM
he's certainly one of the minds of all time
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My keen knowledge of statistics tells me these feet are merely suffering from survivorship bias.
November 20, 2025 at 9:59 AM
My keen knowledge of statistics tells me these feet are merely suffering from survivorship bias.
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The fear of not having enough money is familiar. But there’s a quieter struggle at the top: feeling uncomfortable with having too much, says money psychotherapist Vicky Reynal ⬇️
Why my ultra-rich clients are ashamed of their wealth
www.thetimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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“I know you came here 7 years ago and after rotting for 5 years we gradually admitted your claim was legit, but now we assume you had valuables so you owe us a gold watch and 4 gold teeth” is a helluva thing to write into law in an alleged democracy
Keir Starmer's spokesman insisted on Monday that "clearly these changes will not be retrospective" for those already granted asylum, as Reform have been demanding.
Now we learn they will be
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
Now we learn they will be
inews.co.uk/news/politic...
November 20, 2025 at 12:10 PM
“I know you came here 7 years ago and after rotting for 5 years we gradually admitted your claim was legit, but now we assume you had valuables so you owe us a gold watch and 4 gold teeth” is a helluva thing to write into law in an alleged democracy
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"Any such measure is likely to be very unpopular with those footing the higher bills..."
What a wording to discuss a small tax on wealth at a time when millions live in poverty...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
What a wording to discuss a small tax on wealth at a time when millions live in poverty...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
How could council tax change in budget – and who would be hardest hit?
Critics say current system is a ‘dog’s dinner’ – with homes in Blackpool paying more than in one of London’s wealthiest boroughs
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
"Any such measure is likely to be very unpopular with those footing the higher bills..."
What a wording to discuss a small tax on wealth at a time when millions live in poverty...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
What a wording to discuss a small tax on wealth at a time when millions live in poverty...
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...
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"U.S.-backed wars—both proxy and otherwise—lead to environmental damage that destabilizes whole populations and regions. The U.S. military is the largest institutional emitter of fossil fuels in the world, at about 1.2 billion metric tons from 2001 through 2018.”
prismreports.org/2023/11/28/c...
prismreports.org/2023/11/28/c...
COP28 must address militarization
As the earth approaches climate tipping points, world leaders must consider the world’s largest institutional emitter of fossil fuels: the U.S. military
prismreports.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"U.S.-backed wars—both proxy and otherwise—lead to environmental damage that destabilizes whole populations and regions. The U.S. military is the largest institutional emitter of fossil fuels in the world, at about 1.2 billion metric tons from 2001 through 2018.”
prismreports.org/2023/11/28/c...
prismreports.org/2023/11/28/c...
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"No COP discussion or agreement has ever suggested addressing root causes of climate change and ecological destruction—colonialism, imperialism—through demilitarization."
ray levy uyeda wrote this for @prismreports.org in 2023 and it's even more relevant for COP30
prismreports.org/2023/11/28/c...
ray levy uyeda wrote this for @prismreports.org in 2023 and it's even more relevant for COP30
prismreports.org/2023/11/28/c...
COP28 must address militarization
As the earth approaches climate tipping points, world leaders must consider the world’s largest institutional emitter of fossil fuels: the U.S. military
prismreports.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:22 PM
"No COP discussion or agreement has ever suggested addressing root causes of climate change and ecological destruction—colonialism, imperialism—through demilitarization."
ray levy uyeda wrote this for @prismreports.org in 2023 and it's even more relevant for COP30
prismreports.org/2023/11/28/c...
ray levy uyeda wrote this for @prismreports.org in 2023 and it's even more relevant for COP30
prismreports.org/2023/11/28/c...
The anti-MeToo people need to be reminded once again that Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act do in fact exist
November 20, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The anti-MeToo people need to be reminded once again that Title VII and Title IX of the Civil Rights Act do in fact exist
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Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
November 20, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …
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Republican Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison spearheaded a crackdown on drug use and possession. “Ann Davison was very punitive,” says a policy director at the Washington ACLU.
Davison lost her reelection bid this month to a progressive challenger.
Davison lost her reelection bid this month to a progressive challenger.
Progressives Win in Seattle, Changing Directions on Public Safety
Voters ousted a mayor who oversaw a surge in encampment sweeps, and a Republican prosecutor who pursued punitive policies toward homeless people and drug users.
boltsmag.org
November 19, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Republican Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison spearheaded a crackdown on drug use and possession. “Ann Davison was very punitive,” says a policy director at the Washington ACLU.
Davison lost her reelection bid this month to a progressive challenger.
Davison lost her reelection bid this month to a progressive challenger.