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Mike Isaacson

@vulgareconomics.bsky.social

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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

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · Nov 18

Gonna nip this in the bud before it's a problem. Please don't put me in your starter packs or lists

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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 21m

Seattle is on track to have spent $85 million on homeless encampment sweeps during Mayor Bruce Harrell’s term by the end of 2025. He argues sweeps don’t solve homelessness, but they are necessary for public safety.

In Seattle Mayoral Race, Tensions Between Crackdown and Compassion on Homelessness

Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has ramped up sweeps of homeless encampments in his first term. In his reelection bid, he faces a progressive challenger who wants to curb them.

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Disabled Viago Truther @rhianthialritak.bsky.social · 53m

Bluesky is fun bc a Jewish person can post something like this and then a whole bunch of those exact kind of atheists all summon themselves to prove her point

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 1h

Atheist proselytizers are the religious proselytizers I’m most likely to come into contact with and they’re just as annoying as all of the other ones I experience

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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 1h

Outside of the Broadview ICE facility, a state trooper tells the delegation attempting to have communion with detainees that ICE has denied their request.

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Reality Winner @reazlepuff.bsky.social · 18m

It was better when the Chinese owned the app

They just took our data but not our freedom

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 20h

Huh: TikTok took down my 8-second video featuring this image of Debbie Brockman — the news producer just detained by Trump’s CBP agents — saying it violates the “joy of TikTok”

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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 25m

I'm not sure how poorer districts in any state will be able to stomach the costs from IEPs. I expect disability support staff (i.e. paraprofessionals) may be furloughed.

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 1h

⚠️ USAToday reporter confirms the office in charge of special education funding has been “decimated”:

Zach Schermele
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NEW: The Education Dept. layoffs continued overnight, w/ the main office in charge of special ed funding being
"decimated," as one person described.
"They cut just about everyone that works with IDEA funding," said another.
"I'm not sure how these programs exist moving forward."
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Boo!-per Lund @cooperlund.online · 57m

The car is a gateway to fascism everywhere, not just in America

David Klemperer @dmk1793.bsky.social · 1h

reading about the motorist rights party that just won a load of seats in Czechia

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 39m

Pogo stick

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Noah Berlatsky @nberlat.bsky.social · 45m

pro Palestinian protestors were at the RNC. pro Palestinian protestors were just in DC. pro Palestinian protestors interrupted Trump's dinner a couple weeks ago.

you know you're in the wrong here, and you're spinning and thrashing. it's a bad look.

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 3d

I’ve been circling a cursed thought for a while and it’s time to let it out: These guys are Disney Adults for fascism.

the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 4d

LMAO LOOK AT THIS PHOTOGRAPH
EVERY TIME I DO IT MAKES ME LAUGH

Kash Patel in his own merch looking fucking embarrassing as hell lmao

he’s so fucking ugly

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 1h

With friends like these, who needs enemies?

Thomas Harvey @tbh1910.bsky.social · 1h

Liberals never learn: when fascists attack the left, don't join them.

Trump sends the feds after protesters.

Democrats send state and city cops, while prosecutors seek max jail time.

This is history on repeat: You can't fight fascism with fascism lite.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Boston Prosecutors Invoke Law Used Against Anarchists to Charge Protesters

www.nytimes.com

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 4h

ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.

Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.

He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.

Houston, Texas

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1h

an experience I think about a lot: I was visiting a class in DC Jail shortly after Kim Kardashian visited and had brought in her camera team. I relayed critiques of her "performative", "virtue signalling" acts I had heard on the outside. the response was somewhere between a shrug and an eye roll

utopia deferred @utopia-defer.red · 21h

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

larry @larrrrrry.bsky.social · 1d

her advocacy for Palestinians doesn't bother me nearly as much as she is so desperately doing all this as an actual act of transparent virtue signaling, to fill the absence she has in depth of character

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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 5h

Argentina edition of Libertarian bible

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Daniel A. Horwitz @danielahorwitz.bsky.social · 5h

Yo this is wild AF

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 1d

PERRY COUNTY, TN — a man arrested and faces felony “threatening mass violence in a school” for posting an image of Trump with his own words in a facebook group after Charlie Kirk’s murder.

His son calls it “an egregious violation of his 1A rights”
www.instagram.com/p/DPoq7b9Fez...

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Curb Your Malthusiasm 2.0 @manucleardevice.bsky.social · 1d

Love that they gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the sentient version of this tweet

Jane
@Whooping_Jane
blonde-haired blue-eyed person named something like Sabine
Mengele-Eichmann: my country, Venezuela, yearns for freedom
1:40 PM • 2/3/19 • Twitter Web Client

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 5h

And then he proceeded to drone strike 9 countries

Teela @teela.bsky.social · 18h

Barack H. Obama had been in power for less than eight months when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009🥰

FYI - He didn't need to call world leaders and beg like a dog in heat like the felon😎

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 5h

www.dailytarheel.com/article/e9c7...

UNC ends Black Student Movement's 52-year 'co-ownership' of Upendo Lounge

BSM President Adam Sherif said administrators cited new federal guidelines that instruct all federally funded entities to ensure they are not engaging in "discriminatory practices, including those lab...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 2d

My gosh. After the US bombed multiple boats in the middle of the ocean, murdering people on grounds that they were allegedly "carrying drugs," the US Attorney General says "Just like we did with cartels, we're going to take the same approach, President Trump, with Antifa."

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 5h

I feel like you only need to skim Mosely's The Alternative to know the answer to this

Boris Ogon @borisogon.bsky.social · 13h

Possibly of interest to @drsarteschi.bsky.social, among others.

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Utopianism and Politics: Are There Right-Wing Utopians?| Journal of Social and Political Psychology

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 5h

Ah making it more useless

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 18h

CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

findmeatherapist.org

Find Me A Therapist

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jam @socialistboat.dad · 7h

Stella Sacco
@antlervel.vet
It's really funny that The Art of War is treated as this like alpha male book when it's clearly meant to be read by ancient Chinese failsons because it's all "please don't forget you have to feed your troops" and "if someone asks if you're going to attack them consider lying about it"
April 23, 2024 at 1:28 AM © Everybody can reply
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Ben Nevis @bennevis.bsky.social · 1d

María Corina Machado
– Called for a US military intervention in Venezuela
– sanctions on Venezuela, which have killed tens of thousands
– Supports Zionist genocide in Gaza
– Sought backing from 🇮🇱 for military intervention in 🇻🇪
– Celebrated 🇺🇸 extrajudicial executions of Venezuelans on boats

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 6h

The peacock is just the name of males of the species. The female is called a poopcock

Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 6h

Except he's not talking about a 650% discount. If you actually watch the full speech, he is referring to a graph showing the markup the US pays

Dr. Oz breaks down Trump plan to reduce prescription drug prices

YouTube video by WCNC

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