Isaac PM
@ccbaxter1968.bsky.social
He/Him, Middle East/modern Egyptian History, political economy, monetary history, PhD Student at UCSB, podcasts about film at http://politicsofcinema.libsyn.com
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This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER
Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.
Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment. Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours www.kare11.com/mobile/artic...
KARE 11 Investigates: Postal worker died after police mistook stroke for drug impairment
Kingsley Bimpong was jailed instead of hospitalized; video shows guards ignored his suffering for hours
www.kare11.com
October 11, 2025 at 5:21 PM
This murder is why we still have to say BLACK LIVES MATTER
Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.
Kingsley Bimpong should be alive.
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a russ vought special
There are reports that the *entire* office of special education at the US Dept of Education has been cut. These hardworking folks ensure kids with disabilities get equal access to a quality education.
America’s children deserve better than this.
America’s children deserve better than this.
October 11, 2025 at 4:57 PM
a russ vought special
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perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
David Ellison’s note to staff on Paramount’s acquisition of the Free Press
October 6, 2025 at 1:35 PM
perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.
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Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b-----' before shooting
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. A judge ordered Martinez and a co-defendant released pending trial.
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October 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma
heggseth's weird podcast rant (delivered to 800 generals and admirals for some reason) is just another sign of how this is a tv presidency. they don't really know how to do policy. their instinct is theater. encounter a problem? put on a spectacle
September 30, 2025 at 8:56 PM
the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma
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Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
September 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
I just don't know what to say anymore.
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i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here
This really is the final expression of "libertarianism" as it is practiced in the US today.
September 18, 2025 at 12:45 PM
i think that if the FCC threatened to revoke ABC’s license unless it replaced Jimmy Kimmel with Kevin Hart to diversify the network, Ilya Shapiro would be able to identify the issue here
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noting grimly that with the boating drone strikes we have definitively arrived at "how bad is extrajudicial killing, really?" but I continue to find it really strange that they did "children having cancer and communicable diseases is fine actually" first
I expected the hardliners in the early days of the administration to try to slow walk people from "why do we need to know about Harriet Tubman?" to "how bad is extrajudicial killing really?" but they have opened the bidding at "how bad is cancer really?"
September 18, 2025 at 3:45 AM
noting grimly that with the boating drone strikes we have definitively arrived at "how bad is extrajudicial killing, really?" but I continue to find it really strange that they did "children having cancer and communicable diseases is fine actually" first
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Joshua Clover's recent passing is a tremendous loss for the communist cause. Not only was he a close friend and mentor to many in our collective, but he was also exemplary in his clarity, breadth, and dedication. We aspire to be like Joshua as we navigate this world on fire.
September 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Joshua Clover's recent passing is a tremendous loss for the communist cause. Not only was he a close friend and mentor to many in our collective, but he was also exemplary in his clarity, breadth, and dedication. We aspire to be like Joshua as we navigate this world on fire.
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Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Watching all these centrist pundits stress the “civility” of Charlie Kirk’s style without addressing the ugliness of his substance is giving me a renewed appreciation of how the civil, polite White Citizens’ Councils conned the same crowd into thinking they were distinct from the cruder Klan.
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I recently spent a month in China and it's incredible how quiet and calm their cities feel -- even their largest. I realised it's because of the widespread adoption of EVs massively reducing air and noise pollution.
Let’s take a step back and think about how we would have felt 10 years ago if we were told this was going to be possible:
“By Q4, China's EV sales will overtake total US vehicle sales of all types (gasoline, hybrid, battery electric combined).”
And with LFP batteries!
#battchat
“By Q4, China's EV sales will overtake total US vehicle sales of all types (gasoline, hybrid, battery electric combined).”
And with LFP batteries!
#battchat
September 13, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I recently spent a month in China and it's incredible how quiet and calm their cities feel -- even their largest. I realised it's because of the widespread adoption of EVs massively reducing air and noise pollution.
It is amazing how much the fash drive derrails US capitalism
Your econ term for the day is Technology Transfer.
Once you understand it, you'll immediately see how destructive it was for ICE to frogmarch Hyundai's Korean workers off in chains.
Once you understand it, you'll immediately see how destructive it was for ICE to frogmarch Hyundai's Korean workers off in chains.
September 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
It is amazing how much the fash drive derrails US capitalism
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The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
August 26, 2025 at 3:19 PM
The young people who would have been most likely to lead the domestic anti-fascist fight in 2025 were repeatedly arrested, beat, jailed, mocked by elites and non-elites over the past 5 years. This was bipartisan. I find it interesting whenever some people ask 'where the young people are' now.
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And Paul Weiss, and Columbia, and Brown, and CBS/Paramount ...
Think about all the tech bros who caved immediately
August 15, 2025 at 4:21 AM
And Paul Weiss, and Columbia, and Brown, and CBS/Paramount ...
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I landed in La and turned on my tv to see this insane split screen
Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...
August 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
I landed in La and turned on my tv to see this insane split screen
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Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
August 15, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Seizure medication, wheelchairs, Social Security cards, dentures, urns of ashes, work uniforms — just some of what's been thrown away during cruel, degrading, utterly counterproductive homeless sweeps.
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
A good time to revisit this gutting @propublica.org story:
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Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.
August 14, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Occurs to me that Trump's entire regime consolidation strategy is to persuade everyone through displays of force that the regime is already consolidated and there's no point in resisting. Which I don't think will work, but also shows how important public acts of noncompliance are.
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it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
August 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
it's crazy how we just take for granted now that the president is a deranged racist
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Israel has just wiped out an entire Al Jazeera unit!
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike cpj.org?p=503486
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike cpj.org?p=503486
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists
New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...
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August 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Israel has just wiped out an entire Al Jazeera unit!
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike cpj.org?p=503486
Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike cpj.org?p=503486
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Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London
illinois gov. JB pritzker responds to ken paxton's threat to arrest TX democrats who fled the state: "they're here in illinois. we're going to do everything we can to protect every single one of them."
August 4, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London
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In a way Trump believes in BRICS as a anti-US political alliance more than almost any of the member countries, the 50% Brazil/India tariffs are nonsense policy downstream of his belief that they’re unironically close to creating a currency that will supplant the US dollar
August 7, 2025 at 12:54 PM
In a way Trump believes in BRICS as a anti-US political alliance more than almost any of the member countries, the 50% Brazil/India tariffs are nonsense policy downstream of his belief that they’re unironically close to creating a currency that will supplant the US dollar
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so ford is operated at a loss last quarter despite record revenues because they took $800m in tariff charges in q2 (when tariffs were lower than now) - and ford is just one company.
this is getting quite bad now.
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this is getting quite bad now.
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August 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
so ford is operated at a loss last quarter despite record revenues because they took $800m in tariff charges in q2 (when tariffs were lower than now) - and ford is just one company.
this is getting quite bad now.
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this is getting quite bad now.
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Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever.
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July 31, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Incredibly instructive reporting on what appears well on its way to becoming the biggest, most concentrated, most energy- and resource-intensive, and most speculative wave of capital investment ever.
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
ig.ft.com/ai-data-cent...
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We have had 20 months of prominent people not just supporting genocide but actively "opposing the opposers" and ruining the lives of people who did and fuck all those people if they get upset because people post mean thing about them on websites that don't mattter
Actually for those of us who lost our livelihoods for saying what was happening—a small price to pay compared to the tens of thousands of doctors, nurses, journalists, moms, dads and kids who lost their lives—an “I told you so” from us is getting off easy for people like you who made it happen
the real victims are the Pod Save America guys
July 27, 2025 at 7:16 AM
We have had 20 months of prominent people not just supporting genocide but actively "opposing the opposers" and ruining the lives of people who did and fuck all those people if they get upset because people post mean thing about them on websites that don't mattter