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He/him Anarchist and freelance writer kevinacarson.org patreon.com/kevincarson independent.academia.edu/KevinCarson c4ss.org/content/author/kevin-carson Latest book: https://www.amazon.com/State-Theory-Praxis-Kevin-Carson/dp/B0BKHPZTS8

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · Mar 20

Patreon is my main source of income, and it's the only reason I'm able to regularly put out studies like this and write shorter commentary pieces as well. If you appreciate this kind of writing, please consider supporting me at www.patreon.com/kevincarson

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · Mar 20

I did a great deal of research putting this together, and I think it's highly relevant to current news on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
c4ss.org/content/60156

Landback

Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate: With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper –...

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Imd...

Rescue beavers making little dams out of assorted stuff is a top tier drug

Rescue beaver makes Christmas dam in house

YouTube video by Holley Muraco

www.youtube.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Look up Solar City in Buffalo, Elon and Cuomo made a deal to basically give him land to build a solar panel factory in a poor residential neighborhood for like $1 a year tax-free.

He ended up making like 200 solar panels, employed like 5% of what was promised, whole thing was a fucking boondoggle.

More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 2d

"For instance, CNBC found that one Microsoft data center in Illinois received more than $38 million in data center sales tax exemptions but created just 20 permanent jobs."

www.cnbc.com/2025/06/20/t...

In race to attract data centers, states can forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies

Amazon, Meta and Google are among the beneficiaries of state tax exemptions for data centers that help power AI.

www.cnbc.com

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · Apr 5

Remember when elon made a deal with Cuomo to lease land for a solar panel factory for $1, and then only made like 200 solar panels

That kind of grift is exactly what they envision when talking about "bringing back manufacturing jobs"

Gigafactory New York - Wikipedia

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maple cocaine @maplecocaine.bsky.social · 1d

There should be a negative follow button like a thumbs down that creates a 2nd bizarro feed of people you hate. You're welcome

Rose 🌹 @rose.bsky.team · 1d

The "follow" button confounds "I'm looking at your content" and "I endorse this content." We need two different ways to signal the difference between the two.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Both sides

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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 1d

Pam Bondi: we arrested the girlfriend's nephew's wife's dog trainer's husband's sister's friend's boss's husband's brother of the founder of antifa

Every journalist: yup sounds normal, no need for followup questions

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 21h

A federal grand jury refuses to indict a couple charged with carrying legal firearms outside of the Broadview ICE center.
Jury nullification comes to Illinois.
chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

In unusual move, federal grand jury refuses to indict couple found with guns outside Broadview ICE facility

Prosecutors moved to dismiss a criminal complaint against the couple but have not ruled out new charges.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 1d

Authorities have arrested a Florida man for intentionally starting the fire that burned Los Angeles's Pacific Palisades. So why does it feel like the fire was started by a cat-eating immigrant from war-ravaged Portland, Oregon?

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The Onion @theonion.com · 23h

White House Doctor: Trump Has Far More Bones Than Any Prior President https://theonion.com/white-house-doctor-trump-has-far-more-bones-than-any-prior-president/

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The Onion @theonion.com · 22h

Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 21h

newrepublic.com/article/2014...

Transcript: Marjorie Taylor Greene Tirade Wrecks Trump Shutdown Stance

As Greene admits the GOP is screwing the country on health care, a leading congressional scholar explains how Greene accidentally revealed the surprising weakness of Trump’s position in the shutdown s...

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 21h

Given what a fuckup Elon is, the funniest outcome would've been him accidentally decapitating himself and Milei

Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1d

I think of this image a lot

Elon Musk wielding a chainsaw, celebrating the starvation of human beings due to DOGE's coup of the U.S. government

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Denny Carter @dennycarter.bsky.social · 1d

I think of this image a lot

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Reconstructionist @unavaleable.bsky.social · 1d

Honestly wild how they're own people are starting to sweat the ACA credits while the WH staff is out here going "look how bad faith we are"

Marcus Bösch @boesch.bsky.social · 2d

Memes serve as a tool of dark participation and are used purposefully “to disrupt, undermine, attack, resist or reappropriate discursive positions pertaining to public affairs narratives in the news” (Peters & Allan, 2021, pp. 2–3)

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 1d

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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 1d

JUST IN: A federal judge has granted the New York Times’ demand for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

actually this is also the right rock

Revolution Rock

YouTube video by The Clash - Topic

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

america is a very large country and our interlocking federalism is hard even for americans to understand

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

government(s), really, for starters

James Hell Brooks @kleinman.bsky.social · 24d

I notice a lot of catastrophizing/defeatism comes from people who live in other countries and I get that a fresh set of eyes can be useful but also you should at least have to know how American government works a little bit before you say we're a step away from Radio Rwanda.

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

this is one of the sweatiest and most desperate documents the the united states government has ever produced

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

PORTLAND: Fake News Ignores Antifa Violence, Residents’ Pleas for Help

For years, an Antifa-led hellfire has turned Portland into a wasteland of firebombs, beatings, and brazen attacks on federal officers and property —

www.whitehouse.gov

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Joanne Freeman @jbf1755.bsky.social · 1d

Correct.

He’s staging “left-wing” attacks—or more accurately, trying to provoke them—to give him an excuse to use violence against his opposition.

Being Liberal ®🗽🏳️‍🌈 @beingliberal.bsky.social · 1d

“I co-wrote Trump’s first anti-terrorism plan in 2017-18. He’s not trying to stop ‘left-wing’ terrorism. He is staging it,” Taylor wrote. “His troop deployments are a false flag — meant to provoke a response..."

open.substack.com/pub/beinglib...

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

imagine if you tried to portray a city entirely based on the cranks who write three letters a week to the editor of the local newspaper

GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

this is one of the sweatiest and most desperate documents the the united states government has ever produced

Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 1d

"Antifa-led hellfire"

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/202...

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T. Greg "Antifa General Counsel (Retired)" Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 1d

Setting Klanners on fire was one of the highlights of Red Dead Redemption 2

Sad that Ubisoft chickened out on this tbh

Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 1d

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

COWARDS!!!!!!!!!!!

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 1d

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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GHOULLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 1d

nobody fucking believes this shit. people might believe that portland is run down, or crime ridden, but no one fucking believes this grandiose horseshit and anyone that says they do is lying.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

Trump on Portland: "It's like the movies you see for the kids, I guess not only the kids, adults also, where you have these bombed out cities and these bombed out people. It's like, worse than that."

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 21h

Trump's got a superfluous dick going in his left ear and coming out his right