John Franz
@angryoldleftist.bsky.social
We will never fix the problems we face without confronting the underlying problem, capitalism. Prove me wrong.
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Activists have a plan to lower Americans’ energy bills: public power. It’s a proven alternative to utilities that have squeezed billions from ratepayers, showing our infrastructure can serve a public good, not a private profit. From James Baratta: trib.al/a1roqYL
Lightning in a Bottle - The American Prospect
Regulatory capture is at the root of the affordability crisis in electricity. Public power could offer a way out.
trib.al
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Activists have a plan to lower Americans’ energy bills: public power. It’s a proven alternative to utilities that have squeezed billions from ratepayers, showing our infrastructure can serve a public good, not a private profit. From James Baratta: trib.al/a1roqYL
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The answer to all this capitalist shit is socialism. Marxism, but y’all aren’t serious people so you do this revisionist shit instead.
“We can save the democrat party.”
🙄
I’m tired of you mfs.
You know that, right?
“We can save the democrat party.”
🙄
I’m tired of you mfs.
You know that, right?
December 2, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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When people ask why I focus so much on Red States and Red Districts, I think of seeds.
All the seeds that are just below the surface, waiting to be watered and warmed up and loved on.
All that potential just waiting to be unleashed.
Good to remember as we watch TN-07.
All the seeds that are just below the surface, waiting to be watered and warmed up and loved on.
All that potential just waiting to be unleashed.
Good to remember as we watch TN-07.
Growing In the Dark: Seeds and Water and Warmth and Time
...And politics
open.substack.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:57 PM
When people ask why I focus so much on Red States and Red Districts, I think of seeds.
All the seeds that are just below the surface, waiting to be watered and warmed up and loved on.
All that potential just waiting to be unleashed.
Good to remember as we watch TN-07.
All the seeds that are just below the surface, waiting to be watered and warmed up and loved on.
All that potential just waiting to be unleashed.
Good to remember as we watch TN-07.
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Agree or disagree?
November 30, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Agree or disagree?
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If you see this, post a monster
November 27, 2025 at 3:38 PM
If you see this, post a monster
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“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
November 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
“If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.” ~ Henry David Thoreau
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People often ask me: How are you holding up in these difficult times?
I'm okay — but I want to hear how you're doing. Please let me know in the comments.
I'm okay — but I want to hear how you're doing. Please let me know in the comments.
November 27, 2025 at 3:21 PM
People often ask me: How are you holding up in these difficult times?
I'm okay — but I want to hear how you're doing. Please let me know in the comments.
I'm okay — but I want to hear how you're doing. Please let me know in the comments.
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On National Day of Mourning, we reject the genocidal “thanksgiving” holiday.
November 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
On National Day of Mourning, we reject the genocidal “thanksgiving” holiday.
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While Leticia James and James Comey get their federal charges dropped targeted Mexican American activists continue to prosecuted on bogus federal charges for breathing on a sidewalk near ICE in Portland, Oregon.
We are fighting for our families to stay together. We need help and legal support.
We are fighting for our families to stay together. We need help and legal support.
November 24, 2025 at 7:14 PM
While Leticia James and James Comey get their federal charges dropped targeted Mexican American activists continue to prosecuted on bogus federal charges for breathing on a sidewalk near ICE in Portland, Oregon.
We are fighting for our families to stay together. We need help and legal support.
We are fighting for our families to stay together. We need help and legal support.
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I’ve never seen a clip of this man speaking that didn’t make me want to throw things.
Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.
Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.
Bessent: "You know the best way to bring your inflation rate down? Move from a blue state to a red state. Blue state inflation is half a percent higher."
November 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
I’ve never seen a clip of this man speaking that didn’t make me want to throw things.
Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.
Snide, condescending and deeply dishonest. Feels like a villain from a bad 80s teen comedy.
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🌆 From Crisis Mode to Civic Mode
Treat shelter as something we steward together, not something we chase alone. 🍐
The tone of a city shifts from scarcity noise to everyday stability; quiet, durable, humane. 🫡
→ thelibertypear.com/2025/09/02/s...
Treat shelter as something we steward together, not something we chase alone. 🍐
The tone of a city shifts from scarcity noise to everyday stability; quiet, durable, humane. 🫡
→ thelibertypear.com/2025/09/02/s...
How Socialists Can Fix the Housing Crisis (Video)
This video explains socialist housing approaches, with examples, and suggests ideas (soon to be) New York policymakers like Zohran Mamdani can apply.
thelibertypear.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:40 AM
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
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It’s 5:45 EST and the Sherbet Pervert hasn’t Truthed a single time today.
Something must really be bothering him.
Something must really be bothering him.
November 13, 2025 at 10:46 PM
It’s 5:45 EST and the Sherbet Pervert hasn’t Truthed a single time today.
Something must really be bothering him.
Something must really be bothering him.
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it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 PM
it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet
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Hating the ruling class is not going to be enough. We need to be guided by great feelings of love towards our fellow working class members. It is this love that will see us through the hardships that we will be forced to face in the days to come.
November 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Hating the ruling class is not going to be enough. We need to be guided by great feelings of love towards our fellow working class members. It is this love that will see us through the hardships that we will be forced to face in the days to come.
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The majority of the Democratic party is captured by billionaire donors.
This is why we need worker owned corporations and to tax billionaires for all their money.
Until we ditch capitalism the owner class will continue to destroy our democracy in order to extract wealth via the labor of workers.
This is why we need worker owned corporations and to tax billionaires for all their money.
Until we ditch capitalism the owner class will continue to destroy our democracy in order to extract wealth via the labor of workers.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The majority of the Democratic party is captured by billionaire donors.
This is why we need worker owned corporations and to tax billionaires for all their money.
Until we ditch capitalism the owner class will continue to destroy our democracy in order to extract wealth via the labor of workers.
This is why we need worker owned corporations and to tax billionaires for all their money.
Until we ditch capitalism the owner class will continue to destroy our democracy in order to extract wealth via the labor of workers.
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ICE is absolutely swarming Portland public schools today ☹️
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
ICE is absolutely swarming Portland public schools today ☹️
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If you see someone stealing food, diapers, formula, or tampons, no you didn't.
Move along and mind tour own business.
Move along and mind tour own business.
November 4, 2025 at 5:07 PM
If you see someone stealing food, diapers, formula, or tampons, no you didn't.
Move along and mind tour own business.
Move along and mind tour own business.
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I've been pondering what Venezuela and Nigeria have in common.
a blue oil rig with a palm tree on top of it
Alt: an oil rig with spurting oil
media.tenor.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:11 AM
I've been pondering what Venezuela and Nigeria have in common.
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Another side effect is that denying people SNAP will lead to more poor people having to steal food so it'll give justification for the regime to "restore order from out of control crime"
November 2, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Another side effect is that denying people SNAP will lead to more poor people having to steal food so it'll give justification for the regime to "restore order from out of control crime"
Just like Iraq, there is only one reason we seem to be going to war with Venezuela. Oil. Aren't we tired of this yet?
www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-rese...
www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-rese...
Oil Reserves by Country - Worldometer
List of world countries by proven Oil Reserves in million cubic feet (MMcf), and per capita.
www.worldometers.info
October 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Just like Iraq, there is only one reason we seem to be going to war with Venezuela. Oil. Aren't we tired of this yet?
www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-rese...
www.worldometers.info/oil/oil-rese...
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Everything you need to know to prep for a general strike
www.youtube.com/live/u6q-9P5...
youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social @ronplacone.bsky.social
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youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social @ronplacone.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Everything you need to know to prep for a general strike
www.youtube.com/live/u6q-9P5...
youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social @ronplacone.bsky.social
www.youtube.com/live/u6q-9P5...
youtu.be/LwhC7F4gcPQ
@generalstrikeus.bsky.social @ronplacone.bsky.social
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Yeah, the real problem is both parties do not give a single 💩 about the working class.
If they formed a platform of abolishing ice, universal healthcare, and unconditional universal basic income, while taxing the rich and corporations, they would be popular.
If they formed a platform of abolishing ice, universal healthcare, and unconditional universal basic income, while taxing the rich and corporations, they would be popular.
October 28, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Yeah, the real problem is both parties do not give a single 💩 about the working class.
If they formed a platform of abolishing ice, universal healthcare, and unconditional universal basic income, while taxing the rich and corporations, they would be popular.
If they formed a platform of abolishing ice, universal healthcare, and unconditional universal basic income, while taxing the rich and corporations, they would be popular.