Armey Dean
@xarmeydean.bsky.social
Radical Leftist™ Author of the forthcoming book: No Confidence— How Democrats & Republicans Failed the Working Class & What We Can Do About It
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The only thing that's ever improved life for the poor and working class under capitalism is a strong redistributive social policy.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
There. Is. No. Ceasefire.
November 29, 2025 at 12:26 AM
There. Is. No. Ceasefire.
This is a totally legit pic of my two dogs.
November 23, 2025 at 6:06 PM
This is a totally legit pic of my two dogs.
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Inequality is the operating principle. And until the working class builds power outside the donor-captured parties that administer this arrangement, the machine will keep doing exactly what it was built to do since the founding.
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Inequality is the operating principle. And until the working class builds power outside the donor-captured parties that administer this arrangement, the machine will keep doing exactly what it was built to do since the founding.
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I wish publishers would focus on well-written books that reward the reader's intellect, instead of formulaic crap written at a fourth-grade reading level. Unfortunately, pandering to the lowest common denominator with "See Dick and Jane solve murder" makes the most money.
#writingq #WritingCommunity
#writingq #WritingCommunity
If you could change one thing about the publishing industry, what would it be? I wish that being a debut author was welcomed, not rejected #writingq #WritingCommunity
November 23, 2025 at 5:18 PM
I wish publishers would focus on well-written books that reward the reader's intellect, instead of formulaic crap written at a fourth-grade reading level. Unfortunately, pandering to the lowest common denominator with "See Dick and Jane solve murder" makes the most money.
#writingq #WritingCommunity
#writingq #WritingCommunity
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I think the thing about writing books that annoys me is that you have to keep relearning how to write them. Each book is different and asks different things of you. You have to keep growing and shit.
November 22, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I think the thing about writing books that annoys me is that you have to keep relearning how to write them. Each book is different and asks different things of you. You have to keep growing and shit.
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Rejected a short story submission and the guy wrote me back, "Suck me off, bitches." It is a glamorous life, I tell you.
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Rejected a short story submission and the guy wrote me back, "Suck me off, bitches." It is a glamorous life, I tell you.
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There is a book club organization out there emailing authors telling them the club will feature their work for a "modest fee" for "branded materials" etc. Do not fall for this nonsense. You should never, as a writer, have to pay for such things.
November 21, 2025 at 9:46 PM
There is a book club organization out there emailing authors telling them the club will feature their work for a "modest fee" for "branded materials" etc. Do not fall for this nonsense. You should never, as a writer, have to pay for such things.
"brief fact or counterpoint based on known data"
November 20, 2025 at 8:13 PM
"brief fact or counterpoint based on known data"
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Progressives have to stop treating the Democratic Party like a safe house. It's a filtration system built to strain out anything that rattles wealthy donors.
Progressives need to build power themselves with organizing networks that won’t collapse the second some consultant says “tone it down.”
Progressives need to build power themselves with organizing networks that won’t collapse the second some consultant says “tone it down.”
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Progressives have to stop treating the Democratic Party like a safe house. It's a filtration system built to strain out anything that rattles wealthy donors.
Progressives need to build power themselves with organizing networks that won’t collapse the second some consultant says “tone it down.”
Progressives need to build power themselves with organizing networks that won’t collapse the second some consultant says “tone it down.”
Inequality is the operating principle. And until the working class builds power outside the donor-captured parties that administer this arrangement, the machine will keep doing exactly what it was built to do since the founding.
Poverty is a policy choice. Concentrated wealth is a policy choice. Inequality is a policy choice. None of it is natural or inevitable. Remember: We have the power to build a system that serves the many, not the powerful few.
November 19, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Inequality is the operating principle. And until the working class builds power outside the donor-captured parties that administer this arrangement, the machine will keep doing exactly what it was built to do since the founding.
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The only thing that's ever improved life for the poor and working class under capitalism is a strong redistributive social policy.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The only thing that's ever improved life for the poor and working class under capitalism is a strong redistributive social policy.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
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im beginning to think it was a mistake to stake our entire economy on chatbots and fake internet money
November 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
im beginning to think it was a mistake to stake our entire economy on chatbots and fake internet money
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In the U.S., the word “utopian” is hauled out to describe as impossibly imaginary what other nations take for granted: affordable healthcare, reliable transit, wages that keep pace with the cost of living, a life without crushing debt.
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In the U.S., the word “utopian” is hauled out to describe as impossibly imaginary what other nations take for granted: affordable healthcare, reliable transit, wages that keep pace with the cost of living, a life without crushing debt.
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Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed.
The State Department had deleted history.
The State Department had deleted history.
Analysis | State Department deleted records about risk of inadvertent nuclear war
Key historical records about the incident during the Reagan administration, known as the Able Archer 83 War Scare, were removed without explanation.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 16, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Analysis: The Post found that documents recounting President Ronald Reagan’s relations with the Soviet Union in the early 1980s, one of the most dangerous periods of the Cold War, have been removed.
The State Department had deleted history.
The State Department had deleted history.
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A socialist analysis of the Epstein emails release should begin with the recognition that no society built on this kind of hierarchy can ever deliver justice appropriately.
November 14, 2025 at 8:21 PM
A socialist analysis of the Epstein emails release should begin with the recognition that no society built on this kind of hierarchy can ever deliver justice appropriately.
Progressives have to stop treating the Democratic Party like a safe house. It's a filtration system built to strain out anything that rattles wealthy donors.
Progressives need to build power themselves with organizing networks that won’t collapse the second some consultant says “tone it down.”
Progressives need to build power themselves with organizing networks that won’t collapse the second some consultant says “tone it down.”
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Progressives have to stop treating the Democratic Party like a safe house. It's a filtration system built to strain out anything that rattles wealthy donors.
Progressives need to build power themselves with organizing networks that won’t collapse the second some consultant says “tone it down.”
Progressives need to build power themselves with organizing networks that won’t collapse the second some consultant says “tone it down.”
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I will never vote for a party that gleefully attacks the vulnerable like this Labour government has attacked:
• refugees
• trans people
• disabled people
• children in poverty
Even if they claim some bogeyman wants to do it too.
There’s no point in Fascism Lite™.
• refugees
• trans people
• disabled people
• children in poverty
Even if they claim some bogeyman wants to do it too.
There’s no point in Fascism Lite™.
November 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I will never vote for a party that gleefully attacks the vulnerable like this Labour government has attacked:
• refugees
• trans people
• disabled people
• children in poverty
Even if they claim some bogeyman wants to do it too.
There’s no point in Fascism Lite™.
• refugees
• trans people
• disabled people
• children in poverty
Even if they claim some bogeyman wants to do it too.
There’s no point in Fascism Lite™.
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Starbucks Workers United rally in Brooklyn, NY, workers are on strike! Stay out of Starbucks! @sbworkersunited.org
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Starbucks Workers United rally in Brooklyn, NY, workers are on strike! Stay out of Starbucks! @sbworkersunited.org
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This is so odious and spiteful. But par for the course for these monsters.
🚨Dept. of Education proposes to exclude public health degrees from the “professional degree” category.
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
That means new public health experts could lose access to key higher ed resources, like loan limits & reimbursement.
A bold strategy to let infectious diseases win! 🦠
aspph.org/department-o...
Department of Education Proposal Excludes Public Health Degrees from “Professional Degree” Definition
Discover the new results and implications of Dept of Ed consensus regarding professional degree programs and public health education.
aspph.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:35 AM
This is so odious and spiteful. But par for the course for these monsters.
The only thing that's ever improved life for the poor and working class under capitalism is a strong redistributive social policy.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
November 14, 2025 at 8:45 PM
The only thing that's ever improved life for the poor and working class under capitalism is a strong redistributive social policy.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
Everything else: “free markets uplift everyone,” “entrepreneurship solves poverty,” is libertarian mythology. A comforting bedtime story.
In the U.S., the word “utopian” is hauled out to describe as impossibly imaginary what other nations take for granted: affordable healthcare, reliable transit, wages that keep pace with the cost of living, a life without crushing debt.
November 14, 2025 at 8:35 PM
In the U.S., the word “utopian” is hauled out to describe as impossibly imaginary what other nations take for granted: affordable healthcare, reliable transit, wages that keep pace with the cost of living, a life without crushing debt.
The donor-captured Democratic establishment has convinced progressives and leftists in their ranks that being heard is somehow equivalent to being in any way heeded or considered.
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
The donor-captured Democratic establishment has convinced progressives and leftists in their ranks that being heard is somehow equivalent to being in any way heeded or considered.