Uphold Karl Polanyi Thought
@highestmarx.bsky.social
Political theorist and anonymous adjunct, planting seeds beneath the snow.
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Our biggest problems as a country are all downstream of our failure to hang Jeff Davis from a sour apple tree.
As the wheels continue to fly off the wagon, this is an argument that needs to be made. The present administration is illegitimate. All of its acts are illegitimate. The whole tawdry monstrosity is an act of treason.
every time I read this, I get apocalyptically apoplectic about how clear it is. it is instant. it does not require explicit congressional action to invoke, it instead only requires that to remove.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
January 20, 2026 at 7:29 PM
As the wheels continue to fly off the wagon, this is an argument that needs to be made. The present administration is illegitimate. All of its acts are illegitimate. The whole tawdry monstrosity is an act of treason.
False. Social media is a mechanism for generating novel personality disorders.
January 19, 2026 at 10:10 PM
False. Social media is a mechanism for generating novel personality disorders.
A country of little men who own gigantic trucks they can barely afford
Cruz: "When it comes to Greenland, I want to commend President Trump for being single-mindedly focused on America first... I believe it is overwhelmingly in America's national interest to acquire Greenland... the whole history of America has been a history of acquiring new lands and new territories"
January 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM
A country of little men who own gigantic trucks they can barely afford
Looks like ICE is sending reinforcements to Minneapolis
i didn't know you were in town until i saw your car, give me a call next time
January 18, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Looks like ICE is sending reinforcements to Minneapolis
The “we’re going to win” mindset is aspirational cope (laudatory). It’s a mantra for wartime. You need it most when this is the reality you face.
this crystallizes why, despite truly heroic solidarity and activism, i can’t quite get in the “we’re going to win” mindset right now. the harm is so active and there’s so much violence we don’t even know about. people are being turned into ghosts.
January 17, 2026 at 6:01 PM
The “we’re going to win” mindset is aspirational cope (laudatory). It’s a mantra for wartime. You need it most when this is the reality you face.
Brilliant work here
🎵Come out La Migra goons
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
In your stumbling platoons
Tell your wives how you ate shit on ice for quotas
Tell her how despite your guns
all you ever did was run
from the cold and frozen streets of Minnesota!🎵
(now brainstorming 'Come Out ICE and CBP' after my wife played Black & Tans driving into town)
January 13, 2026 at 8:19 PM
Brilliant work here
“They’re our neighbors, you’re invaders” is outstanding work
Feds backed up a tiny bit. More media arriving. Someone starts a chant of "they're our neighbors, you're invaders!"
Asked rec center staff how many kids they have inside right now. He told us "a decent number" and they're closing up soon, have locked the front doors.
Asked rec center staff how many kids they have inside right now. He told us "a decent number" and they're closing up soon, have locked the front doors.
January 11, 2026 at 9:22 PM
“They’re our neighbors, you’re invaders” is outstanding work
This is very cathartic
January 11, 2026 at 6:38 PM
This is very cathartic
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we were now in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the heart of every commotion
January 10, 2026 at 9:47 PM
we were now in that enchanted calm which they say lurks at the heart of every commotion
My very first musical memory was a Raffi concert in Los Angeles in 1988 when I was four years old. I’ve known his music longer than anyone else’s. I take real solace in knowing what a standup guy he is.
REGIME CHANGE 🇺🇸
January 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM
My very first musical memory was a Raffi concert in Los Angeles in 1988 when I was four years old. I’ve known his music longer than anyone else’s. I take real solace in knowing what a standup guy he is.
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These guys really just ain't built for this. Where is Thaddeus Stevens. Where is Ulysses S. Grant. Where is Frederick Douglass. Where is William Jennings Bryan. Where is Shirley Chisholm. Where is Robert La Follette. Where is John Lewis.
Q: Is there anything stopping state law enforcement from conducted an independent investigation even if the feds don't want it?
JACOBSON: Without assistance from the FBI, we would be at a loss to be able to initiate & conduct a thorough investigation. It would be very difficult if not impossible
JACOBSON: Without assistance from the FBI, we would be at a loss to be able to initiate & conduct a thorough investigation. It would be very difficult if not impossible
January 8, 2026 at 6:47 PM
These guys really just ain't built for this. Where is Thaddeus Stevens. Where is Ulysses S. Grant. Where is Frederick Douglass. Where is William Jennings Bryan. Where is Shirley Chisholm. Where is Robert La Follette. Where is John Lewis.
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Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
January 8, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.
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two ICE guys grab someone near a protest and start beating him. “Stop hitting me,” he shouts, “I love Stephen Miller!” “Don’t fuck with us, buddy,” says ICE. “NOBODY loves Miller.”
January 8, 2026 at 5:39 PM
two ICE guys grab someone near a protest and start beating him. “Stop hitting me,” he shouts, “I love Stephen Miller!” “Don’t fuck with us, buddy,” says ICE. “NOBODY loves Miller.”
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ICE just murdered a woman here in Minneapolis. A legal observer. Shot her multiple times while she drove away as ordered. She was a US citizen.
Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo.
Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.
Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo.
Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.
January 7, 2026 at 5:37 PM
ICE just murdered a woman here in Minneapolis. A legal observer. Shot her multiple times while she drove away as ordered. She was a US citizen.
Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo.
Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.
Absolute, unequivocal, cold-blooded murder by Trump’s gestapo.
Abolish ICE, jail for everyone in charge. This is the lowest bar we accept now.
DC National Guard you have a chance to redeem yourselves. Do it and be legends.
Scores of now-pardoned Jan. 6 insurrectionists will gather from 11:45am for a march to the Capitol starting at the Ellipse.
One insurrectionist who says he's attending: Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to prison until 2045 until Trump intervened.
One insurrectionist who says he's attending: Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to prison until 2045 until Trump intervened.
January 6, 2026 at 4:57 PM
DC National Guard you have a chance to redeem yourselves. Do it and be legends.
Madness everywhere you look
If you use it as a dialogic thinking space where you externalities thought and use it to hold, reshape, question, extent, perturb your thinking. Just like a good teacher or mentor could, except you need to set and guide the interaction style.
December 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Madness everywhere you look
Huge affront to FIFA
Merry Christmas!
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
The President of Peace just bombed Nigeria.
December 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Huge affront to FIFA
China Mieville’s Bas-Lag novels
OK, less contentious post:
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
You've been placed in charge of a movie studio, and have an unlimited budget to adapt any work of your choosing that has never been made into a live-action TV series or film. What are you picking?
For me: PC Hodgell's Kencyrath Cycle and there's no close second
December 25, 2025 at 2:31 AM
China Mieville’s Bas-Lag novels
These! Guys! All! Need! To! Swing!
“.. We need to get better at treating this like a business,” ICE acting director Todd M. Lyons said .. as efficiently as Amazon moves packages: “Like Prime, but with human beings.”
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
@washingtonpost.com
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
December 24, 2025 at 6:19 PM
These! Guys! All! Need! To! Swing!
Gonna need James Elroy’s reaction asap
An amateur sleuth codebreaker says he’s found evidence linking the Black Dahlia murder to the Zodiac killings.
Investigators have not confirmed the finding, but two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved. Here's what we know.
Investigators have not confirmed the finding, but two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved. Here's what we know.
An amateur codebreaker may have just solved the Black Dahlia and Zodiac killings
Two retired LAPD homicide detectives say that both notorious cases are solved -- with a single culprit -- thanks to the work of a novice sleuth.
www.latimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Gonna need James Elroy’s reaction asap
David Brooks? The noted feuilletonist?
It’s always the ones you just assumed
David Brooks, who wrote in the NYT last month, "The Epstein Story? Count Me Out" is... in the latest Epstein photo dump published by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
He should absolutely be fired by NYT for this. Major conflict of interest that he didn't disclose.
December 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
David Brooks? The noted feuilletonist?