Thomas
@thomasratliff.bsky.social
Oklahoma goes to DC! Feminist Leftist working in service of and community with the unhoused.
@thesmiletheband.bsky.social
P.s. I bought the albums too! For when I don't have data to make Spotify pay y'all little dribs and drabs.
P.s. I bought the albums too! For when I don't have data to make Spotify pay y'all little dribs and drabs.
December 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
@thesmiletheband.bsky.social
P.s. I bought the albums too! For when I don't have data to make Spotify pay y'all little dribs and drabs.
P.s. I bought the albums too! For when I don't have data to make Spotify pay y'all little dribs and drabs.
I was an outsider to journalism when I first became part of a "newsroom". So I was a little shocked to see good journalists working at our leftist alt-news outlet citing NYT and WaPo as good standards. Then I realized they just hadn't been exposed to much besides the NYT-FoxNews false dichotomy.
January 4, 2025 at 11:17 PM
I was an outsider to journalism when I first became part of a "newsroom". So I was a little shocked to see good journalists working at our leftist alt-news outlet citing NYT and WaPo as good standards. Then I realized they just hadn't been exposed to much besides the NYT-FoxNews false dichotomy.
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WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
An endless cycle of funding US hegemony/wars & then providing mutual aid to some of the victims is NOT efficient! Educate yourself about theory & organize in an efficient way that gives workers leverage.
Please read & share! 📌📢
#freepalestine #news #politics #education
An endless cycle of funding US hegemony/wars & then providing mutual aid to some of the victims is NOT efficient! Educate yourself about theory & organize in an efficient way that gives workers leverage.
Please read & share! 📌📢
#freepalestine #news #politics #education
November 28, 2024 at 4:46 PM
WHAT IS TO BE DONE?
An endless cycle of funding US hegemony/wars & then providing mutual aid to some of the victims is NOT efficient! Educate yourself about theory & organize in an efficient way that gives workers leverage.
Please read & share! 📌📢
#freepalestine #news #politics #education
An endless cycle of funding US hegemony/wars & then providing mutual aid to some of the victims is NOT efficient! Educate yourself about theory & organize in an efficient way that gives workers leverage.
Please read & share! 📌📢
#freepalestine #news #politics #education
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Major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages down following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson www.404media.co/multiple-maj...
Major Health Insurance Companies Take Down Leadership Pages Following Murder of United Healthcare CEO
Following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, multiple major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages offline.
www.404media.co
December 6, 2024 at 2:32 AM
Major health insurance companies have taken their executive leadership pages down following the shooting of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson www.404media.co/multiple-maj...
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stop it i'm going to cry
December 3, 2024 at 6:05 PM
stop it i'm going to cry
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Remember in France when dissatisfied workers tore the shirts off their executives?
December 5, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Remember in France when dissatisfied workers tore the shirts off their executives?
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Hope my extended family is okay with not getting Christmas presents because I spent all our extra money on $25 gofundme donations lol
December 5, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Hope my extended family is okay with not getting Christmas presents because I spent all our extra money on $25 gofundme donations lol
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“Violence is never the answer” I say from the comfort of my home built on land stolen through genocide,
On my phone made with blood minerals pulled from the earth by child slaves,
while my neighbors sleep on the cold ground and die from lack of medical care.
On my phone made with blood minerals pulled from the earth by child slaves,
while my neighbors sleep on the cold ground and die from lack of medical care.
“Violence is never the answer,” I say sagely from the comfort of my home in a country that has over 800 military bases in 85 countries around the world.
December 5, 2024 at 1:55 AM
“Violence is never the answer” I say from the comfort of my home built on land stolen through genocide,
On my phone made with blood minerals pulled from the earth by child slaves,
while my neighbors sleep on the cold ground and die from lack of medical care.
On my phone made with blood minerals pulled from the earth by child slaves,
while my neighbors sleep on the cold ground and die from lack of medical care.
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Been sharing this a bunch, seems relative. Half of your net income on dubious insurance claims is sinister
December 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Been sharing this a bunch, seems relative. Half of your net income on dubious insurance claims is sinister
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Biden pardons his son, while Leonard Peltier has been unjustly held by the US gov't in prison for 50 years, repeatedly denied parole. Peltier is the longest held political prisoner in the US—framed by the FBI to repress his leadership in the Indigenous liberation movement .
FREE LEONARD PELTIER!
FREE LEONARD PELTIER!
December 2, 2024 at 6:16 PM
Biden pardons his son, while Leonard Peltier has been unjustly held by the US gov't in prison for 50 years, repeatedly denied parole. Peltier is the longest held political prisoner in the US—framed by the FBI to repress his leadership in the Indigenous liberation movement .
FREE LEONARD PELTIER!
FREE LEONARD PELTIER!
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in New York City 1,950,000 people are at or below the poverty line and live on $20,340 dollars a year (for a single adult). probably half of them (or about a million people) live on less than or around 10k a year. just insane.
December 2, 2024 at 8:12 PM
in New York City 1,950,000 people are at or below the poverty line and live on $20,340 dollars a year (for a single adult). probably half of them (or about a million people) live on less than or around 10k a year. just insane.
Yes! This is the obvious alternative explanation when some well-meaner starts explainering all the "wealth generated" by the "geniuses" of US industry post-WW2.
"You mean, after that moment when the US dressed itself in the dying husk of western European colonial exploitation of the global south??"
"You mean, after that moment when the US dressed itself in the dying husk of western European colonial exploitation of the global south??"
November 30, 2024 at 7:34 PM
Yes! This is the obvious alternative explanation when some well-meaner starts explainering all the "wealth generated" by the "geniuses" of US industry post-WW2.
"You mean, after that moment when the US dressed itself in the dying husk of western European colonial exploitation of the global south??"
"You mean, after that moment when the US dressed itself in the dying husk of western European colonial exploitation of the global south??"
I like you already!
But I don't know that this is so cut and dry. Animals and plants are quite prone to selfish violence.
Yes, there's also cooperation in nature! Tho still often in service of meeting material needs. I wish humans were innately good, but I don't think it's true.
But I don't know that this is so cut and dry. Animals and plants are quite prone to selfish violence.
Yes, there's also cooperation in nature! Tho still often in service of meeting material needs. I wish humans were innately good, but I don't think it's true.
November 29, 2024 at 10:56 PM
I like you already!
But I don't know that this is so cut and dry. Animals and plants are quite prone to selfish violence.
Yes, there's also cooperation in nature! Tho still often in service of meeting material needs. I wish humans were innately good, but I don't think it's true.
But I don't know that this is so cut and dry. Animals and plants are quite prone to selfish violence.
Yes, there's also cooperation in nature! Tho still often in service of meeting material needs. I wish humans were innately good, but I don't think it's true.
But of course. Since far Left analysis (materialist, feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer) is the most salient analysis of power structures humans have yet devised.
November 29, 2024 at 6:06 PM
But of course. Since far Left analysis (materialist, feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer) is the most salient analysis of power structures humans have yet devised.
US Leftists particularly suffer this fate since US capitalism prefers any other part of the spectrum of perspectives (center left, center right, far right) to the far Left, and thus excludes those perspectives above all others.
November 29, 2024 at 6:04 PM
US Leftists particularly suffer this fate since US capitalism prefers any other part of the spectrum of perspectives (center left, center right, far right) to the far Left, and thus excludes those perspectives above all others.
Right on! And often people who are saying *But what about..." have been watching the bigger discourse, as driven by forces more powerful than they are, distraught over certain terrible under-covered concerns.
November 29, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Right on! And often people who are saying *But what about..." have been watching the bigger discourse, as driven by forces more powerful than they are, distraught over certain terrible under-covered concerns.
We've mastered suspending a life in a state of hellish prison, often for decades, instead of hellishly ending it.
November 29, 2024 at 4:38 PM
We've mastered suspending a life in a state of hellish prison, often for decades, instead of hellishly ending it.
Worrying about Whataboutism is making the claim that the person who brought up the topic gets to keep the conversation on that topic just because it was the first topic brought up.
Fine in a structured debate, totally irrational in a conversational space.
Fine in a structured debate, totally irrational in a conversational space.
November 29, 2024 at 4:35 PM
Worrying about Whataboutism is making the claim that the person who brought up the topic gets to keep the conversation on that topic just because it was the first topic brought up.
Fine in a structured debate, totally irrational in a conversational space.
Fine in a structured debate, totally irrational in a conversational space.
"One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors may have been raped to death, recent revelations show."
Whatever is happening inside the borders of the US, we are aiding and abetting this outside our borders.
Whatever is happening inside the borders of the US, we are aiding and abetting this outside our borders.
Dying in ‘Hell’: The fate of Palestinian medics jailed by Israel
One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors may have been raped to death, recent revelations show. He’s not the only one.
www.aljazeera.com
November 29, 2024 at 4:31 PM
"One of Gaza’s most prominent doctors may have been raped to death, recent revelations show."
Whatever is happening inside the borders of the US, we are aiding and abetting this outside our borders.
Whatever is happening inside the borders of the US, we are aiding and abetting this outside our borders.
November 29, 2024 at 3:33 PM
This is an especially valid argumentative mode when the whatabouter has less power than the initial statement maker. It still has that ad hominem quality in that it questions whether the initial statement maker is choosing what to focus the debate on poorly. But that can be quite useful to question!
November 29, 2024 at 3:25 PM
This is an especially valid argumentative mode when the whatabouter has less power than the initial statement maker. It still has that ad hominem quality in that it questions whether the initial statement maker is choosing what to focus the debate on poorly. But that can be quite useful to question!