James A. Robichaux
@jamesrobichaux.bsky.social
I am working to purge the dishonest and destructive mythologies of Monetarism and taxpayerism from people's brains.
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
You can read my essays on those subjects here:
https://jamesarobichaux.substack.com/
"Taxpayer" identity and thinking dehumanizes people deemed "taxpayers" in the same way that Male Supremacy dehumanizes men and boys.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...
Why 'Taxpayer' Identity And Thinking Is Morally Bankrupt In Every Context
'Taxpayer' identity and thinking is not appropriate even when discussing measures at the state and local levels.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:26 PM
"Taxpayer" identity and thinking dehumanizes people deemed "taxpayers" in the same way that Male Supremacy dehumanizes men and boys.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/why-taxpay...
Remember Andrew Yang?
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Remember Andrew Yang?
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Almost every day the fascist stories are accompanied with stories about record anxiety and stress and uncertainty and loneliness and hardly anyone wants to connect the obvious dots.
Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.
Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Almost every day the fascist stories are accompanied with stories about record anxiety and stress and uncertainty and loneliness and hardly anyone wants to connect the obvious dots.
Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.
Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.
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It is admission that is only possible due to some combination of protests, threatening to withhold votes, and actually withholding votes.
www.mediaite.com/politics/we-...
www.mediaite.com/politics/we-...
'We Should've Done More': Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Former Vice President Kamala Harris told pro-Palestinian protestors that the Biden Administration should have publicly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over War in Gaza
www.mediaite.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:31 PM
It is admission that is only possible due to some combination of protests, threatening to withhold votes, and actually withholding votes.
www.mediaite.com/politics/we-...
www.mediaite.com/politics/we-...
Good morning!
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Good morning!
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I get this, and I think it’s true and sad that this kind of thing has been so empowered. I also think it is anti-persuasive and normal folks seeing the Trump administration trying to destigmatize the swastika are going to be absolutely repulsed.
It's not a sophisticated reaction, but my response to both "quiet, piggy" and the Coast Guard okaying swastikas and nooses is a deep sadness that the compassion we're working so hard to foster in our children will not just be challenged by schoolyard bullies but by the highest levels of society.
November 20, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I get this, and I think it’s true and sad that this kind of thing has been so empowered. I also think it is anti-persuasive and normal folks seeing the Trump administration trying to destigmatize the swastika are going to be absolutely repulsed.
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Ignore the performative, disingenuous cries of "antisemitism" Trump & GOP have so cynically used as a political shield. Look instead at what they're actually doing: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols
The military service, which falls under the Department of Homeland Security, has drafted a new policy that classifies such items “potentially divisive.”
www.washingtonpost.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Ignore the performative, disingenuous cries of "antisemitism" Trump & GOP have so cynically used as a political shield. Look instead at what they're actually doing: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
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None of us would know what we do about the Epstein network—much less have reached this point—without the courage of the survivors and the years of tireless investigation and reporting by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social.
BREAKING: House overwhelmingly passes Epstein bill www.miamiherald.com/news/politic...
House votes to release Epstein files, nearly 20 years after first sex charges
It now moves to the Senate, where 17 Republicans would need to vote with Democrats to reach the 60-vote supermajority required to pass it.
www.miamiherald.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:27 PM
None of us would know what we do about the Epstein network—much less have reached this point—without the courage of the survivors and the years of tireless investigation and reporting by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social.
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From October of last year:
“Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model, claims Trump groped her in 1993, while Jeffrey Epstein, who was later convicted of sex offenses, looked on.”
www.npr.org/2024/10/25/g...
“Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model, claims Trump groped her in 1993, while Jeffrey Epstein, who was later convicted of sex offenses, looked on.”
www.npr.org/2024/10/25/g...
Former model Stacey Williams is latest woman to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct
Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model, claims former President Donald Trump groped her in 1993. She recounted the incident to CNN. Trump's campaign denied the allegations.
www.npr.org
November 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM
From October of last year:
“Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model, claims Trump groped her in 1993, while Jeffrey Epstein, who was later convicted of sex offenses, looked on.”
www.npr.org/2024/10/25/g...
“Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model, claims Trump groped her in 1993, while Jeffrey Epstein, who was later convicted of sex offenses, looked on.”
www.npr.org/2024/10/25/g...
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I believe that you would be wise to hedge any bets that you have placed against me.
November 19, 2025 at 10:47 PM
I believe that you would be wise to hedge any bets that you have placed against me.
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You cannot take on, let alone beat, your opposition when you credit their story of who is to blame for voters' troubles.
Run against your opposition. Not the people that opposition tries to shame, blame and destroy.
Run against your opposition. Not the people that opposition tries to shame, blame and destroy.
A Government of cowards.
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
Rather than tackle inequality - they've gone for pensioners, disabled people and now it's people fleeing war and persecution.
They can't get away with this.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 17, 2025 at 11:19 PM
You cannot take on, let alone beat, your opposition when you credit their story of who is to blame for voters' troubles.
Run against your opposition. Not the people that opposition tries to shame, blame and destroy.
Run against your opposition. Not the people that opposition tries to shame, blame and destroy.
Participants in a MAGA civil war are still MAGA.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Participants in a MAGA civil war are still MAGA.
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It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
November 15, 2025 at 5:10 AM
It's a great cosmic joke that neurodivergence both runs in families and gets diagnosed based on parent reports. I was diagnosed at 30 because a man who has eaten potatoes every day for 57 years and a woman who collects loose buttons decided I was a perfectly normal child.
This post from Livingston five years ago today was quite prophetic, though the signs definitely were there.
I had plenty to say about it then and have plenty to say about it now, all here:
substack.com/profile/7855...
Thanks.
I had plenty to say about it then and have plenty to say about it now, all here:
substack.com/profile/7855...
Thanks.
November 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
This post from Livingston five years ago today was quite prophetic, though the signs definitely were there.
I had plenty to say about it then and have plenty to say about it now, all here:
substack.com/profile/7855...
Thanks.
I had plenty to say about it then and have plenty to say about it now, all here:
substack.com/profile/7855...
Thanks.
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I hate living in the bad timeline from Back to the Future 2
The Athletic polled hundreds of players from across the NBA, NFL, MLB and NHL about their opinions surrounding how sports betting impacts players — the responses were haunting.
November 15, 2025 at 3:50 AM
I hate living in the bad timeline from Back to the Future 2
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I appreciate the problems of moderating at scale, because it’s impossible if you’re not willing to spend millions of dollars on moderators and their therapists
HOWEVER
This smöl bean site is TO THIS DAY ignoring its own moderation policy when it comes to government accounts posting snuff videos.
HOWEVER
This smöl bean site is TO THIS DAY ignoring its own moderation policy when it comes to government accounts posting snuff videos.
I sometimes genuinely do wish people could have the experience of seeing what gets reported and taken down so they could viscerally understand what an unmoderated space on the internet looks like, because however bad you can imagine it is, the reality is far worse.
November 15, 2025 at 7:42 AM
I appreciate the problems of moderating at scale, because it’s impossible if you’re not willing to spend millions of dollars on moderators and their therapists
HOWEVER
This smöl bean site is TO THIS DAY ignoring its own moderation policy when it comes to government accounts posting snuff videos.
HOWEVER
This smöl bean site is TO THIS DAY ignoring its own moderation policy when it comes to government accounts posting snuff videos.
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The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, they’re just another enemy I have to fight after I finish off my first enemy. Embracing disaffected Republican defectors is how we went from the party of FDR to the party of Chuck Schumer and John Fetterman. No more of that.
November 15, 2025 at 5:02 AM
The enemy of my enemy is not my friend, they’re just another enemy I have to fight after I finish off my first enemy. Embracing disaffected Republican defectors is how we went from the party of FDR to the party of Chuck Schumer and John Fetterman. No more of that.
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I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
Trump: “I am withdrawing my support and Endorsement of ‘Congresswoman’ Marjorie Taylor Greene…”
November 15, 2025 at 3:21 AM
I am begging America to not be stupid enough to embrace a racist and an antisemite because Donald Trump thinks she's a meanie. Just grab some popcorn and watch the Nazis fight.
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Quite often, advocates for universal healthcare and other similar measures preface their argument with a phrase like this:
"in the richest country in the world,"
I wrote here about why that phrasing is really, really bad and should be avoided.
substack.com/@jamesarobic...
Thanks.
"in the richest country in the world,"
I wrote here about why that phrasing is really, really bad and should be avoided.
substack.com/@jamesarobic...
Thanks.
James A. Robichaux (@jamesarobichaux)
This is a generally good essay, and Hartmann is great at generating and articulating insights, but I really wish that fellow advocates of universal healthcare would stop prefacing the argument with “I...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Quite often, advocates for universal healthcare and other similar measures preface their argument with a phrase like this:
"in the richest country in the world,"
I wrote here about why that phrasing is really, really bad and should be avoided.
substack.com/@jamesarobic...
Thanks.
"in the richest country in the world,"
I wrote here about why that phrasing is really, really bad and should be avoided.
substack.com/@jamesarobic...
Thanks.
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👀 Trump lame duck watch
November 13, 2025 at 6:59 PM
👀 Trump lame duck watch
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"The notion that Fuentes’ rhetorical violence is a bridge too far, while Heritage provides the infrastructure for the administration’s actual violence, strains credulity. It is reminiscent of the Citizen’s Councils condemning Klan violence, but bailing them out and serving as their lawyers."
I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.
The Heritage Foundation, Groypers, and the Narcissism of Small Differences
Fuentes is the fly born of Heritage’s maggot.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 14, 2025 at 1:24 PM
"The notion that Fuentes’ rhetorical violence is a bridge too far, while Heritage provides the infrastructure for the administration’s actual violence, strains credulity. It is reminiscent of the Citizen’s Councils condemning Klan violence, but bailing them out and serving as their lawyers."
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Your theory of money is your theory of social relations, and Monetarism is a conservative-libertarian moral framework.
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
The 'Collection Plate' Narrative Of Taxation Is Poisoning Society
The most common progressive-liberal narrative about taxation actually exists wholly within a conservative-libertarian framework and is paralytically myopic, and the consequences are deadly.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Your theory of money is your theory of social relations, and Monetarism is a conservative-libertarian moral framework.
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
The Commodity Theory Of Money is wrong.
The Credit Theory Of Money is correct.
jamesarobichaux.substack.com/p/the-collec...
Don't let this get lost in the onslaught of other news, because this is a big deal!
Why?
Because it shows that shouting loudly and harshly criticizing these people, threatening to withhold your vote from them, and actually withholding your vote from them WORK!
www.mediaite.com/politics/we-...
Why?
Because it shows that shouting loudly and harshly criticizing these people, threatening to withhold your vote from them, and actually withholding your vote from them WORK!
www.mediaite.com/politics/we-...
'We Should've Done More': Kamala Harris Slams Biden Admin Over Netanyahu Support and Praises Pro-Palestine Protesters
Former Vice President Kamala Harris told pro-Palestinian protestors that the Biden Administration should have publicly criticized Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over War in Gaza
www.mediaite.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Don't let this get lost in the onslaught of other news, because this is a big deal!
Why?
Because it shows that shouting loudly and harshly criticizing these people, threatening to withhold your vote from them, and actually withholding your vote from them WORK!
www.mediaite.com/politics/we-...
Why?
Because it shows that shouting loudly and harshly criticizing these people, threatening to withhold your vote from them, and actually withholding your vote from them WORK!
www.mediaite.com/politics/we-...