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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

I can't believe Miller's got this reputation as a Machiavellian genius, when he's got so little strategic sense and can't restrain his immediate urge to hurt brown people even for a moment in order to look at the long-run picture.

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Woltergeist II: The Other Side @wolter.bsky.social · 18h

The CPD are notorious right wing trash racist murderers who cluster together in neighborhoods either not within or on the edge of city limits, too! They are natural allies to ICE!

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

I don't have a smart phone. Why would I want one? I work from home, and I like using a browser. When I go into town to run errands I want to get my business over with and get back home, without scrolling through an idiot box. Why should I have to spend hundreds of $$ just to scan a fucking menu?

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

btw this is also personal to me bc a lot of people (particularly those experiencing even low level psychosis) also don't like smartphones due to being terrified of being tracked. they literally don't trust them. (and they probably shouldn't lmao) they still deserve to be able to take the goddamn bus

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

and yes this is personal to me. my gran nor either of my uncles nor my grandpa nor my neighbor have smartphones. that's 5 people in my life who don't have smart phones

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

btw this is also personal to me bc a lot of people (particularly those experiencing even low level psychosis) also don't like smartphones due to being terrified of being tracked. they literally don't trust them. (and they probably shouldn't lmao) they still deserve to be able to take the goddamn bus

Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

and yes this is personal to me. my gran nor either of my uncles nor my grandpa nor my neighbor have smartphones. that's 5 people in my life who don't have smart phones

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

and yes this is personal to me. my gran nor either of my uncles nor my grandpa nor my neighbor have smartphones. that's 5 people in my life who don't have smart phones

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Keezy Young🌼 @keezyyoung.bsky.social · 1d

"everybody has a smartphone these days lol" false. that's something you made up. only 91% of Americans have smartphones. those last 9% are still people who deserve services (and probably need them more than anybody else). that's still like 30.6 million people

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

You don't need as much "welfare" when more income goes to the workers who produce wealth in the first place, instead of to unearned rents for the wealthy.

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

The inequality gap between the US and Europe doesn't result from the latter’s welfare states, which are in fact funded by more regressive systems of indirect taxation. Rather, the key to higher levels of equality is a more egalitarian distribution of pretax market incomes
jacobin.com/2025/10/left...

The Left Needs to Rethink How It Understands Inequality

The 21st-century left has often argued that the solution to rampant inequality is income redistribution. But this may not be a silver bullet. What workers need is power over employers and the market.

jacobin.com

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

The inequality gap between the US and Europe doesn't result from the latter’s welfare states, which are in fact funded by more regressive systems of indirect taxation. Rather, the key to higher levels of equality is a more egalitarian distribution of pretax market incomes
jacobin.com/2025/10/left...

The Left Needs to Rethink How It Understands Inequality

The 21st-century left has often argued that the solution to rampant inequality is income redistribution. But this may not be a silver bullet. What workers need is power over employers and the market.

jacobin.com

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

If I call you an evil subhuman, *whether I believe it or not*, I give those who'd want to harm you a justification to do so, *whether they believe it or not*

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Fluffy Cyborg, IInd of the name @fluffycyborgii.bsky.social · 1d

Also sometimes (often) the causal power of words does not depend on the speaker's genuinely held beliefs, but lie purely in their expressive power

Michael Senters the Sigillite, ABD. (Yang Wen-li stan) @mikesenters.bsky.social · 1d

A lot of people on the liberal/leftist side of things underestimate this. They like to dismiss Republicans talking about dems and others being "satanists" and "in league with the devil" as red meat rhetoric to the base and it is that but it's also more. It's the Schmittian dichotomy distilled.

Talia Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 2d

i do not respect this belief but it is enlightening to wrap your head around the fact that a significant number of your political rivals believe you are literally in league with satan, and act with concomitant zeal and brutality

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

Big city police are one of the most naturally Republican constituencies in the world. The fact that ICE is systematically cultivating their hostility is chef's kiss-level strategic stupidity on the part of the Trump administration.
newrepublic.com/post/201394/...

ICE’s Growing Feud With Chicago Police Now Includes Fake 911 Calls

Surprise, surprise: Federal immigration agents aren’t keeping the community safer.

newrepublic.com

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 2d

I was told not to teach a class on the intellectual histories of Zionism and Anti-Zionism next year - not because they doubted I could teach it fairly, but because it would attract too many politicians scrutinizing the syllabus.

A society where that is a valid fear is no longer fully democratic.

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

I love that peanut butter taffy in the orange and black wrappers that's full of dry powder lumps

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

At least you didn't say necco wafers

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Elise Wang @elisewang.bsky.social · 1d

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city.

They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 1d

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds.

Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

newrepublic.com/post/201387/...

Stephen Miller’s Own Cousin Calls Him the “Face of Evil”

Alisa Kasmer says Stephen Miller has betrayed all of their family values.

newrepublic.com

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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 1d

I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

After Dinner Conversation® @afterdinnerconversation.com · 1d

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 18h

Van Jones is a piece of shit
newrepublic.com/post/201382/...

Dem Senator Slams Van Jones Over Vile “Dead Gaza Baby” Joke

At least one politician is brave enough to call out Van Jones after his sick comments.

newrepublic.com

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Gyro @gyro.bsky.social · 23h

what the fuck is even cheap food anymore if they make pasta expensive? Are we expected to just chug corn syrup for every meal like a fruit fly or what the fuck?

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

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Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 19h

Of course Robby Soave wrote this. Of course he did. That piece of shit.
reason.com/2025/10/06/b...

Bari Weiss has won the war on wokeness in media

Paramount has acquired The Free Press for $150 million and named Weiss editor-in-chief of CBS News.

reason.com

Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇹🇯 @kevincarson1.bsky.social · 19h

George W Bush *shrieking*: "Sorry, I thought you were my mom. She's dead."

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.

Rob Henderson © @robkhenderson • 11h
"the left has allowed itself to become shackled by unpopular luxury beliefs: abolishing the police, opening the borders, the corruption of female-only spaces. Everyone has gone mad...associated with the observable decline in literacy across the rich West"

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Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 1d

I am so tired of being told that I, a person who got a significant portion of my diet out of dumpsters in my early 20's, hold elitist & "luxury" beliefs by people who have been Professors of Thinking at Harvard since before I was born.

flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 2d

If your considered analysis is that everyone has gone completely mad except for you, then is it likely that’s what happened? Or is it you that is the arse here.