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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Jun 22

The new official definitions of anti-semitism which seek to criminalize Israel criticism, this admin’s authoritarian tactics, and AI fueled surveillance via Palantir, will be marshaled to crush dissent in ways that were impossible in 2003.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Jun 22

Everyone should be prepared for the fact that whereas with Iraq, anti-war protesters were smeared as traitorous terror lovers, this time we will also be smeared as bigoted anti-semites.

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Thomas Piketty @thomaspiketty.bsky.social · Jun 9

Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
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World Inequality Lab @wid.world · Jun 9

🚨Global economic relations have long been defined by imbalances and unequal power, not by self-correcting market forces, NEW STUDY finds.

@thomaspiketty.bsky.social & @gatonievas.bsky.social call for structural reforms to the international monetary and exchange system.

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Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality - WID - World Inequality Database

In a new study, Gastón Nievas and Thomas Piketty examine patterns of global imbalances, current account surplus/deficit and net foreign wealth accumulation over more than two centuries.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 14

As Trump’s popularity drops and backlash mounts, he will turn even more authoritarian. The techniques he’s tested on immigrants will be turned on American citizens.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Apr 14

Trump to Bukele: "Home-growns are next. The home-growns. You gotta build about five more places. It's not big enough."

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 14

Oh yes that number is overwhelming

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 14

Centrists have caused a profound shift among the base of the Dem party through their cowardice in the face of Trump’s authoritarianism. In January Gallup found a plurality of Dems wanted the party to be more moderate, a new poll finds that the majority now want the party to be more progressive.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 8

Trump doesn’t give a shit about coal miners. His admin is destroying mine safety and ending black lung protections so that more young miners can slowly suffocate from this horrible disease. youtu.be/7XHir3o1SLY

Trump BETRAYS Coal Miners w/ Chainsaw to Black Lung Health

YouTube video by Breaking Points

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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · Apr 7

There's something weird happening where The Discourse about the tariffs is about how Trump is trying to return us to 1950's and 1960's, the manufacturing heyday of America, but he's not! He' been very very explicit about this. He wants to return us to the 1890's. That's a different project!

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 7

I'd be happy to support and help fundraise if someone can get the effort together. How much do you think would need to be raised?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 7

Would require a significant investment and money but would be a great idea.

Matthew Stiegler @matthewstiegler.bsky.social · Apr 7

When a person is abducted, there's a number to call to report & identify. A habeas petition challenging the abduction is electronically filed in that district, by a lawyer admitted in that district, within 30 minutes of the call. Anywhere in the country, 24 hours a day.

Nothing else is good enough.

Lulu the Puppy @luluthepuppy.bsky.social · Apr 6

hello! i am very curious if anybody is building a rapid response network to file habeas shell petitions for nice people before ice can take them out of state?

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 7

The Supreme Court has effectively sentenced more innocent people to be disappeared into Bukele's torture dungeon. Disgraceful capitulation to fascism.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 7

Tonight the Supreme Court made it possible to have m ore cases like Andry's, by requiring that people challenging Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act file individual habeas corpus lawsuits.

Many people in detention don't have any money to hire a lawyer. They won't be able to do this.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · Apr 7

Tonight we learned that it was indeed Andry, the gay man sent to El Salvador because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, who an American journalist saw sobbing as guards slapped him repeatedly and shaved his head.

He is an innocent. And Trump sent him to a torture prison.

Bring them back!

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 7

You have any sense of which way the decision on the merits is likely to go with SCOTUS?

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 5

This is only a partial list and the worst is undoubtedly yet to come. Your health, wealth, and freedom all under assault.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 5

He is using totalitarian tactics to crush universities, law firms, and media outlets. He has just levied the largest tax in history on working Americans and sent the global economy into a tailspin. He bragged about bombing innocents in Yemen and is prepping war with Iran.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 5

He gave the richest man on the planet a green light to plunder, destroy the safety net, and gut things like cancer research. He is disappearing innocents into a foreign gulag with no due process and refusing to obey the courts who try to stop them.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Apr 5

It’s hard for me to hold in my head the breadth of the destruction, chaos and outright evil from this administration. Trump is fully backing a genocide and threatening with arrest or deportation those who oppose it.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Mar 24

@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social wondering if I could interview you?

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · Mar 11

As Trump tries to dismantle the Department of Education, remember that his plan to cut the corporate tax rate to 15% would give the 100 largest corporations a tax cut larger than the entire department's K-12 budget.

Really think about how twisted this all is.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Mar 11

This person sicced a fascist government on a student protester and is now trying to nuance troll his way out of culpability.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Mar 4

MAHA UPDATE: the Trump admin just made a lawyer for Abbott Labs head of food safety. He (unsuccessfully) defended them from charges that premies became catastrophically ill from their formula. Same company caused a formula shortage when they shut down a plant for unsanitary conditions.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Mar 4

Don’t worry everyone! The famously selfless rich and powerful are just looking out for your best interest. Sure they’re crashing the econ, raising prices, gutting Medicaid, funding crypto scams and letting white collar criminals endlessly rob you but trust them, it is all for your own good!

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Mar 3

They are looting to benefit oligarchs while claiming they can’t afford Grandma’s social security check.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Mar 3

The ideological glue that holds Trump 2.0 together is literally just outright theft. Whether it’s taking Ukraine’s minerals, Elon stealing multi billion $ contracts or Trump forcing taxpayers to backstop crypto billionaires bags.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Feb 26

I think Elon's threats of funding primary challenges against any non-compliant GOP has may have fully ended the era of Tea Party/Freedom Caucus rebellion. Massie the last man standing on being an actually ideologically committed deficit hawk. Everyone else will just do as they're told by Trump/Musk.

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Krystal Ball @krystalball.bsky.social · Feb 26

When they say “free market” they mean monopolies, union busting, govt handouts for giant corporations and the ability for oligarchs to rob ordinary people with impunity.

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