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Mike Isaacson

@vulgareconomics.bsky.social

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Writer. Working on a book about the only nazi labor union in the US. Comms director Justice4Demi.org Philly sports. COYS. Anarchist politics. He/him or she/her not they/them. Website: creationsandstories.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · Nov 18

Gonna nip this in the bud before it's a problem. Please don't put me in your starter packs or lists

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 11m

“I’ve never seen anything like this before,” Matthew Wasserbach, brokerage manager of Express Customs Clearance, said of the UPS backlog. “It’s totally unprecedented.”

@cnbc.com $UPS
www.nbcnews.com/business/bus...

UPS is 'disposing of' U.S.-bound packages over customs paperwork problems

Shifting Trump tariffs have created a nightmare for UPS, as thousands of packages from overseas pile up at its hubs while they await customs clearance.

www.nbcnews.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 9m

There's a book Sabotage! by Albert Kahn and Michael Sayers that details Axis efforts at sabotage and espionage in the US, but it was published in 1942, so it doesn't have anything about this.

Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 14m

So I don't have any direct evidence of it yet, but based on my research, it very strongly suggests that this hate strike/race riot wave in the summer of 1943 was orchestrated by Nazi Germany through US-based hate groups

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 16m

Philly too, according to this article. They say "a score of American cities." This is fucking wild.

When Baltimore’s War Effort Tripped Over Race

Detroit auto plants shut down, Mobile shipyard workers riotedand Philadelphia was paralyzed with transport workers’ strikes. The so-called hate protests of World War II — walk-outs of w…

www.baltimoresun.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 28m

I'm just gonna Google every city name with 1943 race riot and keep finding them, aren't I? Those fucking Nazis and their industrial sabotage ops

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

Just learned about ANOTHER hate strike turned riot in the summer of 1943, this one in Baltimore. Now includes Detroit, Beaumont, TX, LA, Harlem, and Mobile, AL. This is fucking crazy. The nazi labor union was EVERYWHERE

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الكسندرا ميراي @lexialex.bsky.social · 1h

She's a U.S. sponsored opposition candidate and the daughter of a steel oligarch. Machado champions the privatization of Venezuela's oil, power, and steel industries.

Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 1h

New York Times:

“Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado awarded Nobel Peace Prize for “her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela & for her struggle to achieve a just & peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

Biden negotiated TWO ceasefires between Israel and Gaza, but sure Trump is doing more than him to end the Gaza war whatever

Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

Too bad she cheers on Trump's fight against "Maduro narcoterrorism"

Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

Just hoping no one in the administration finds out about the Torch Network

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Not Your Negress @notyournegro.blacksky.app · 3h

Black people have been asking this question for a very long time.

Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 3h

Do you really have any rights if they are openly saying they will just make up reasons to detain you?

thematthill.bsky.social @thematthill.bsky.social · 2d

Wow. Greg Bovino admits on camera that his agents can detain people if you look scared, change your demeanor, or grip a steering wheel too tight.

As his unmasked agents walk around with large guns to scare you, they may arrest you just for that — even if you're a U.S. citizen.

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

It's kind of insane that a country can demand another country's elected government step down as a condition for not continuing to blow them to smithereens?

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 3h

When a collaborator is targeted because her scientific findings that attribute extreme weather to human-caused climate change is being used (effectively) in climate lawsuits against oil companies, you know times are dark indeed.

ICYMI @davidho.bsky.social

www.eenews.net/articles/cli...

Climate critics try to discredit IPCC author for linking disasters to global warming

Roger Pielke Jr. and oil industry supporters are attacking climate scientist Friederike Otto, whose work has been used in lawsuits against polluters.

www.eenews.net

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Dana R. Fisher (aka the Apocalyptic Optimist) @fisherdanar.bsky.social · 2h

Important reminder here that the US is not the only place where fossil fuel interests are pushing back hard against climate science and clean energy 👇

Saint Vice @savic.bsky.social · 2h

BBC decided to cancel a podcast on heat pumps deeming the topic "controversial" because it presented that the technology could contribute to net zero reducing carbon emmissions.

In 2025 an anti-science posture is not only valid, but required in any debate to be considered "balanced" 😬

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Damon K @dadadrummer.bsky.social · 4d

The Living Wage for Musicians Act would claim a portion of streaming platform earnings for *human* recording musicians, which means if they choose to do nothing about AI slop, they pay us for the privilege weareumaw.org/make-streami...

Make Streaming Pay - United Musicians and Allied Workers — United Musicians and Allied Workers

United Musicians and Allied Workers celebrates the introduction of the Living Wage for Musicians Act – led by Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Jamaal Bowman – to Congress. By creating a new streaming royalty, ...

weareumaw.org

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

I'm sure Trump's ceasefire will hold

Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 1h

Weird bit of amnesia happening here with people seeming to claim that Biden never sought or secured a ceasefire while Trump did. Biden secured a ceasefire very early on, and it was violated by Israel within 4 hours.

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Enough Of That Now @andygilder.bsky.social · 2h

Every comedian coming back from Riyadh

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 2h

If you liked Trump bombing Venezuelan boats in the Caribbean, you're gonna love the new Nobel Peace Prize winner

Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 2h

He may as well have

Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 2h

Ah yes the Venezuelan domestic front to justify the bombing of fishing boats by the US is surely the model for world peace

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Jae H @considermycat.bsky.social · 2h

So… smartphones for teenagers are going to be *banned* in schools, but *mandatory* everywhere else. Got it. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Government to consult on digital IDs for 13-year-olds

There has been a backlash to the announcement a UK-wide digital ID scheme will be introduced by 2029.

www.bbc.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 9h

Hurts used to get more rush yards than all his backs combined. He would take off anytime the field opened up. He'd run a designed QB draw every drive. Now he's just throwing incomplete passes to players who aren't open.

Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 9h

What happened to Jalen's feet?

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Tom Coates @tomcoates.bsky.social · 11h

A friend sent me this article and genuinely it’s f***ing insane and I can strongly recommend reading it. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

futurism.com

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