Will Shetterly
@willshetterly.bsky.social
I like cats, socialism, civility, and art that’s for both the people and the privileged.
If you are losing an argument with me and are too proud to admit defeat, feel free to insult me instead.
If you are losing an argument with me and are too proud to admit defeat, feel free to insult me instead.
Citizenship no longer matters in the US.
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More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
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October 17, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Citizenship no longer matters in the US.
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
www.propublica.org/article/immi...
Bad news for IQ fetishists:
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Major IQ differences in identical twins linked to schooling, challenging decades of research
A new study in Acta Psychologica reveals that schooling largely explains IQ differences in identical twins raised apart. When their educations are very dissimilar, their IQ scores can be as different ...
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October 13, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Bad news for IQ fetishists:
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Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown
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Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown
How buying a T-shirt led to government monitoring
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September 16, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Charlie Kirk Assassination Sparks Social Media Crackdown
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“uncanny resonances between ,,, the murder of vom Rath and … the murder of Kirk. Then as now the deportation of racialized “illegals” is and was a salient issue, and then as now we have a sexual scandal that the regime wishes to distract the public from.” open.substack.com/pub/davidliv...
The Assassination of Charlie Kirk
A warning from history
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September 12, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“uncanny resonances between ,,, the murder of vom Rath and … the murder of Kirk. Then as now the deportation of racialized “illegals” is and was a salient issue, and then as now we have a sexual scandal that the regime wishes to distract the public from.” open.substack.com/pub/davidliv...
“Imagine saying “every person in this country is going to be equal” and then also saying “several hundred people will own significantly more wealth than 65 million entire households.” Kind of ridiculous, no?”
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All the Things That You Need a Billion Dollars to Buy Are Bad
One way to think about inequality.
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September 4, 2025 at 3:41 AM
“Imagine saying “every person in this country is going to be equal” and then also saying “several hundred people will own significantly more wealth than 65 million entire households.” Kind of ridiculous, no?”
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“If I had 1,400 Taco Bells and 32,000 people who worked in them, I would be doing all the same stuff,” Kent Thiry, the former CEO of dialysis giant DaVita, told an audience at UCLA.
The Two Companies Gaming the Dialysis Industry
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The Two Companies Gaming the Dialysis Industry
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The Two Companies Gaming the Dialysis Industry
A look into what happens when CEOs try to run health care like fast food.
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August 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
“If I had 1,400 Taco Bells and 32,000 people who worked in them, I would be doing all the same stuff,” Kent Thiry, the former CEO of dialysis giant DaVita, told an audience at UCLA.
The Two Companies Gaming the Dialysis Industry
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The Two Companies Gaming the Dialysis Industry
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“intelligence without wisdom creates elaborate ways to be wrong. The smarter you are, the more sophisticated your mistakes become. This is why Silicon Valley is simultaneously the most rational place on earth and completely detached from reality.”
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Coordination Problems: Why Smart People Can't Fix Anything
A survival guide to systemic dysfunction (author: Guilherme Parcianello)
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July 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“intelligence without wisdom creates elaborate ways to be wrong. The smarter you are, the more sophisticated your mistakes become. This is why Silicon Valley is simultaneously the most rational place on earth and completely detached from reality.”
www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/coordinati...
www.theseedsofscience.pub/p/coordinati...
Why the Bloody Labor Battles of Minneapolis’s Past Remain Vital for Shaping Its Future - racketmn.com/minneapolis-...
Why the Bloody Labor Battles of Minneapolis's Past Remain Vital for Shaping Its Future - Racket
From "Bloody Friday" to the massacre at Flour City, we have much to learn from the conflicts of 90+ years ago.
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July 9, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Why the Bloody Labor Battles of Minneapolis’s Past Remain Vital for Shaping Its Future - racketmn.com/minneapolis-...
““Race is a social construct that has outlived its time,” Will Shetterly, 69, wrote…Mr. Shetterly…said that the nation’s more salient issue was rooted not in race, but in class.”
Note “more”, not “only”.
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Note “more”, not “only”.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u...
How Do You Self-Identify? For Many Americans, Checking a Box Won’t Do.
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July 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
““Race is a social construct that has outlived its time,” Will Shetterly, 69, wrote…Mr. Shetterly…said that the nation’s more salient issue was rooted not in race, but in class.”
Note “more”, not “only”.
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/u...
Note “more”, not “only”.
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TIL: Zionists planted European pine trees throughout Palestine to make the landscape look and feel like Switzerland or Romania and cover destroyed Palestinian communities that they razed to the ground. open.substack.com/pub/alonmizr...
Two Comments about Israel's 'Independence Day' Fires
There is a context and a history to everything, especially today
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April 30, 2025 at 5:40 PM
TIL: Zionists planted European pine trees throughout Palestine to make the landscape look and feel like Switzerland or Romania and cover destroyed Palestinian communities that they razed to the ground. open.substack.com/pub/alonmizr...
“cats didn’t sneak into Europe as freeloaders in Neolithic barns. They marched in with empires — and with gods.”
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Cats Came Bearing Gods: Religion and Trade Shaped the Rise of the Domestic Cat in Europe
Two groundbreaking studies challenge the old narrative that cats followed early farmers into Europe.
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April 23, 2025 at 11:30 PM
“cats didn’t sneak into Europe as freeloaders in Neolithic barns. They marched in with empires — and with gods.”
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www.zmescience.com/science/arch...
“So there was about a 30-minute period where my Wifi was down, and it happened to be the period where these officers came to my door, which prevented my Ring camera from recording them,” he says. “I guess it could be a coincidence. But that’s a big coincidence.”
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The courage to be decent
The Trump administration wants to make us too afraid to look out for one another. Don't let them.
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April 23, 2025 at 4:30 PM
“So there was about a 30-minute period where my Wifi was down, and it happened to be the period where these officers came to my door, which prevented my Ring camera from recording them,” he says. “I guess it could be a coincidence. But that’s a big coincidence.”
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Interesting both for Trotsky’s observations and the writer’s criticism and praise of Trotsky.
Trotsky on the class structure of Soviet socialism open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...
Trotsky on the class structure of Soviet socialism open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...
Trotsky on the class structure of Soviet socialism
A new class, or a new stratum?
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April 20, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Interesting both for Trotsky’s observations and the writer’s criticism and praise of Trotsky.
Trotsky on the class structure of Soviet socialism open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...
Trotsky on the class structure of Soviet socialism open.substack.com/pub/branko2f...
Savory baked goods do not get enough love.
30 Savory Baked Goods to Eat in the Twin Cities Before You Die - racketmn.com/30-savory-ba...
30 Savory Baked Goods to Eat in the Twin Cities Before You Die - racketmn.com/30-savory-ba...
30 Savory Baked Goods to Eat in the Twin Cities Before You Die - Racket
The scones, turnovers, tarts, and more to track down if you're not a sweets freak.
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April 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Savory baked goods do not get enough love.
30 Savory Baked Goods to Eat in the Twin Cities Before You Die - racketmn.com/30-savory-ba...
30 Savory Baked Goods to Eat in the Twin Cities Before You Die - racketmn.com/30-savory-ba...
It’s not exactly justice, but at least rich Americans pay some price for our extreme inequality: “The wealthiest Americans had a lower life expectancy than the wealthiest Europeans, and did not exceed that of the poorest in some European countries”
#M4A
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#M4A
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Richest Americans have lower life expectancy than Europeans
A study confirms that the wealthy live longer than the poor globally, and that differences between social classes are much more pronounced in the US
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April 4, 2025 at 4:22 AM
It’s not exactly justice, but at least rich Americans pay some price for our extreme inequality: “The wealthiest Americans had a lower life expectancy than the wealthiest Europeans, and did not exceed that of the poorest in some European countries”
#M4A
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#M4A
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Honest conservatives would say LBJ declared a war on poverty, but conservatives won.
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How could so many people in the world's richest nation be without enough to eat? • Minnesota Reformer
In 2024, Minnesotans made 9 million visits to food shelves.
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April 3, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Honest conservatives would say LBJ declared a war on poverty, but conservatives won.
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“In every instance after World War II, where technology opened up a vast new territory to humanity, we chose to stop land claims, and to prioritize peace, research, and environmental preservation.
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Mars Attacks: How Elon Musk's plans to colonize Mars threaten Earth
Elon Musk's quest to colonize Mars could upend international cooperation and the establishment of space as a commons—it's a risk to Earthlings everywhere.
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April 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
“In every instance after World War II, where technology opened up a vast new territory to humanity, we chose to stop land claims, and to prioritize peace, research, and environmental preservation.
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“Advertising makes you unhappy with what you have, and even who you are. That's how it works. So, do we need to better regulate it?” www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
Advertising makes you unhappy – by design
Advertising makes you unhappy with what you have, and even who you are. That’s how it works. So, do we need to better regulate it?
This is the audio version:
This is the transcript:
Advertisi...
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April 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
“Advertising makes you unhappy with what you have, and even who you are. That's how it works. So, do we need to better regulate it?” www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/04...
There's No Justice Without Power
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There's No Justice Without Power
A rich guy's lesson for the left.
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April 1, 2025 at 7:49 PM
There's No Justice Without Power
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The Bluetooth Test and other keyholes to the soul
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The Bluetooth Test and other keyholes to the soul
itty bitty ways to be better
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April 1, 2025 at 7:42 PM
The Bluetooth Test and other keyholes to the soul
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ICE deportations: worse than you think
“We have never gotten a clear answer on what we do in an ICE Air evacuation,” another said. “They will not give us an answer.”
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“We have never gotten a clear answer on what we do in an ICE Air evacuation,” another said. “They will not give us an answer.”
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Inside ICE Air: Flight Attendants on Deportation Planes Say Disaster Is “Only a Matter of Time”
Current and former flight attendants for GlobalX, the private charter airline at the center of Trump’s immigration crackdown, expressed concern about their inability to treat passengers humanely and t...
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April 1, 2025 at 3:33 PM
ICE deportations: worse than you think
“We have never gotten a clear answer on what we do in an ICE Air evacuation,” another said. “They will not give us an answer.”
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
“We have never gotten a clear answer on what we do in an ICE Air evacuation,” another said. “They will not give us an answer.”
www.propublica.org/article/insi...
“First they are coming for the federal unions—the lowest hanging fruit, the most bureaucratic unions, the ones barred from striking. Then they will proceed to come for all public sector unions. Then they will come for private sector unions.”
#GeneralStrike
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#GeneralStrike
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They Are Going to Take Everything If We Don't Stop Them
The government is going to destroy unions if we don't fight now.
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March 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
“First they are coming for the federal unions—the lowest hanging fruit, the most bureaucratic unions, the ones barred from striking. Then they will proceed to come for all public sector unions. Then they will come for private sector unions.”
#GeneralStrike
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#GeneralStrike
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The radical idea that people aren't stupid
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The radical idea that people aren't stupid
OR, the toilet spoke and I understood the truth
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March 27, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The radical idea that people aren't stupid
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