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Thomas Most
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writer, software developer in Brooklyn ~ technopagan is the term ~ play D&D & support your local mutual aid

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if nearchus of elea has a million haters, then i am one of them. if he has ten haters, then i am one of them. if he has only one hater then that is me. if nearchus of elea has no haters, then that means i am no longer on earth. if the world loves nearchus of elea, then i am against the world.
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Mamdani: "$5.4 billion is a very steep mountain to climb ... We want to work with Albany to raise personal income taxes by 2% on the 33,000 New Yorkers earning more than $1 million per year and to raise corporate taxes on the most profitable corporations."
February 17, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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Choosing to believe AOC is reading my posts like a child believes Santa reads their letters
February 17, 2026 at 11:33 PM
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“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

www.propublica.org/article/ice-...
February 17, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Right now we are at the nadir - so far - of Trump’s second term, as his catastrophic authoritarianism boils into death and chaos in the streets and the wreckage of our institutions is all around. If you’re not able to say “You know, I’ll be voting Democrat in 2028,” we need to have a blunt chat.
February 17, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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I've actually started a graphic novel for real! And that means I'm gonna have to make a lot of meaningful choices and Get Good at representing things fast. #graphicnovel #wip
February 16, 2026 at 11:49 PM
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they're calling it the most bluesky reply of all time (to the idea that it's baby-brained decadence to say a politician's job is to "delight" you before you're willing to vote for them)
February 16, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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What empire did Sparta have? Sparta's military existed mostly to keep their slave population under control. They hegemony after the Peloponnesian War lasted only 30 years. They then got obliterated by the Macedonians, turning their town into a tourist attraction for the Romans.
February 16, 2026 at 4:47 PM
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If you are wondering what words the all-male Congress found so "blasphemous" that they felt compelled to literally scrape them off the monument, they were: ''Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.''
On this day in 1921, Congress reluctantly accepted a sculpture memorializing women’s 19th A victory. Congress relegated the memorial to the Capitol’s crypt & painted over the feminist inscription. The statue stayed entombed in the crypt for 76 years. The inscription is still not restored. #WeTheMen
February 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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The virulent opposition to Bidenomincs from the owner class is all right here.

The people shitting on it from other classes significantly helped owners reassert total dominance.
“.. With the vacancy-to-unemployed ratio now below 1.0, bargaining power is again shifting back to capital and away from workers. .. This is a marked contrast with an overall economy that is running hot.”

@elerianm.bsky.social
www.ft.com/content/298a...
February 16, 2026 at 2:51 PM
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Let’s Make MAGA un-American, finally.

I wrote about the conflict over national identity, the need to reclaim patriotism from the Right, and the struggle between two traditions that are both authentically American:

White male supremacy vs. the egalitarian promise of democratic pluralism.
What is “Un-American”?
We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition. Make MAGA un-American, finally.
steady.page
February 16, 2026 at 2:48 PM
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fuck ice, fuck collagen-lipped nazis, come put me in a camp you dim toddlers
The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security has sent Google, Meta, and other media corporations subpoenas for the names on accounts that criticize ICE enforcement. The department wants to identify Americans who oppose what it’s doing. I’ll save them time.
A short note to Kristi Noem
To a current Cabinet secretary from a former one
robertreich.substack.com
February 16, 2026 at 2:05 PM
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The @ACLU has filed a class action damages suit against federal & state officers over an Idaho immigration raid last October. 200 armed officers raided a horse-race festival, detaining 400 Latinos for 4 hrs. All adults & many teens ziptied & searched.
1/8
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
#1 in Rodriguez v. Porter (D. Idaho, 1:26-cv-00075) – CourtListener.com
COMPLAINT against All Defendants ( Filing fee $ 405 receipt number AIDDC-3055371.), filed by All Plaintiffs. (Attachments: # 1 Cover Sheet Civil Cover Sheet, # 2 Cover Sheet Civil Cover Sheet Attachme...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 15, 2026 at 7:15 PM
this might be theater-kid chauvinism but I do think doing a production of URINETOWN with someone is a bond for life
apparently that is unusual! can’t say I’ve kept up with people from college or the Peace Corps either. not healthy probably
February 16, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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February 16, 2026 at 3:51 AM
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February 16, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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Again, "politics as consumerism" brain is a disease. This is such a narcissistic way of thinking about what voting is and it comes directly from treating the whole process as no different than deciding whether or not youre gonna shop at Target
I will crawl through broken glass to vote against a a Republican bc my life depends on it.
February 16, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Moxon is a fucking moron and his popularity will never fail to astound me. Great I’ll just get to the council of democrats who make these decisions and tell them to nix Newsom and also send you a box of chocolates and a card calling you the most handsome boy.
The reason people are concerned about lefties saying “I won’t vote for a moderate Dem” isn’t because they want Newsom. It’s because lefties keep not voting for moderate Dems!

I think all the scolding about it being years til the primary would hit a little harder if WE DIDN’T JUST GO THROUGH THIS
February 16, 2026 at 7:22 AM
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"Look at the behavior of some of the individuals who are best-positioned to lead the Republican Party in a post-Trump world, and you’ll see figures like Vance, Rubio, Cotton, and Lee offering full-throated defenses of Trumpism on everything from the murder of Renee Good to taking Greenland."
After Trump, the Flood
On the ending of things and the need for post-diluvian politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
February 16, 2026 at 1:01 AM
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The time for that is the primaries. After the primaries, hail satan is the only adult answer.

Like Jesus fuck, how many elections are we going to hear this excuse before we start treating it like the abdication of responsibility that it is.

“The democrats failed, not me!”
February 16, 2026 at 3:43 AM
I hate the take I see periodically float around that "it would have been better for Trump to win re-election in 2020 so that Democrats could be in office now"

A) you do not know that and
B) Biden's administration did a lot of really, really good things
February 16, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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Counterpoint: if the Prince of Darkness rises from a fiery portal at the Iowa Caucus and declares his opposition to Donald Trump, I will ride to battle with the host of Hell
February 15, 2026 at 6:08 PM
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fuck this guy forever
February 15, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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some past “multicultural economic zones” you may recall include the Roman Empire, the Holy Roman Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and the British Empire.

while all of these had significant problems “no one will die to defend them” was memorably not among them
1/3 What Musk is really referring to here is, of course “race” - that construct that served to define the hierarchies of wealth & power structured by modern colonialism. Like other far right racists though, he uses the word “culture” as a seemingly less pernicious synonym.
February 15, 2026 at 3:58 PM
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Love is love
February 15, 2026 at 7:27 PM