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Leonard Pierce

@leonardpierce.bsky.social

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Marxist, wife guy, ne'er-do-well. Concerned with words, generally. Chicago-based eating enthusiast. Crime, baseball, communism. http://immortal-science.com

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · Jun 20

One of the only political choices that is left to you in this rat hole of a country is to not be as stupid as they all think you are

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1h

/steps to podium

/carefully arranged papers

/clears throat, takes sip of water

/looks around at audience

/briefly consults with aide in hushed whispers

/taps microphone, feigns shock at feedback pop

/leans over and places mouth directly to microphone

/speaks

More like Jonathan Choad

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1h

It even quotes experts *with asthma who need inhalers* advocating for a change in how they're made and utilized. The opposition here isn't "I have asthma and need help" vs "fuck your asthma", it's "this solution has bad effects and should be changed" vs "fuck you, pay me".

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 1h

That's not what the article is saying, though! At no point does it say anything like "Inhalers are a problem and so they should be taken away and tough titty to anyone who needs them". It just describes a problem and then spends the whole back end of the article saying how it could easily be fixed.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 9h

Anyway there's a lot of stuff here you could read, I've been writing every day all year and I'm kinda proud of that given that I rarely experience pride

www.immortal-science.com

IMMORTAL SCIENCE

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.

www.immortal-science.com

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 9h

I switched my blog hosting to Pika and I really like it. They don't do hit tracking and I can't tell you how liberating it is to not know how many people aren't reading my shit

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10h

The content I crave

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10h

I hate to say it but we're absolutely getting outplayed on every level. Everything that got the Merc there - smothering defense, great rebounding, powerful inside slash game, keeping threes off balance - just completely disappeared in the Finals

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10h

/American thing happens in America by Americans to other Americans

"What is this, the SOVIET UNION?"

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 10h

In Soviet America, Texas messes with *you*

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10h

What on earth are you talking about

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10h

We're 80,000 strong and growing. Capitalism is a dead end and people are starting to wake up to that. The Democrats couldn't stop the slide into fascism but socialism can.

We organize and build every day. You can join us and build a socialist future. They're afraid of us. Find out why.

Join DSA. Become a member today.

Democratic socialists have an historic opportunity and responsibility to play a central role in continuing the political revolution for the long term. As a democratic, grassroots organization, DSA is ...

act.dsausa.org

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 10h

We're genuinely democratic, unlike the Democrats. We're genuinely socialist, unlike the capitalists. We're genuinely antifascist, unlike the imaginary bugaboos in Trump's imagination.

We'll fight with whatever means we have. It's socialism or barbarism as always and guess where we are now.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 11h

You're goddamn right DSA is antifascist, always and actively. Fascists always go after socialists because they know we're the ones that can beat them, because we always have.

We never stop fighting. If they go after us it won't be the first time and it will only make us more determined.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14h

Jonathan Choe to Trump: "Another group right now that is behind antifa and working with antifa very closely based on the research that we have right now that we're gonna give to you and your team are the Democratic Socialists of America."

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 11h

www.dsausa.org

We are the biggest socialist organization in America, proudly socialist and proudly antifascist always

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) -

Working towards a better future for all.

www.dsausa.org

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 11h

www.dsausa.org

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 11h

DSA hasn't been Harringtonite in a decade

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 13h

Of course it's ranch

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 14h

A salad *sandwich*? What Albion sorcery is this

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 14h

Sure, you're a vegetable gremlin, not a dressing gremlin

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 14h

And yet I still have not mastered the balancing act between not enough dressing ("I am basically eating a bowl of plain raw vegetables") and too much dressing ("I am eating a bowl of flavored oil with vegetables floating in it").

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 14h

I love salads. I have loved them since I was a kid. I have probably eaten a big salad five times a week for forty years.

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 15h

Why does Kash Patel perpetually look like a guy who called in sick to work and then his boss caught him walking out of a porn shop

Jeff Tischauser @jtischauser.bsky.social · 17h

that's right Kash and all we have are Mids

Screenshot from twitter that shows Kash Patel on Fox News. The post states "Breaking FBI Director Kash Patel has just revealed nearly 5% of Chicago's 2.5 million residents, approx 110,000 people are active gang members."

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 17h

Buzz Ballz Biggie

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 17h

It's Writing Wednesday at IMMORTAL SCIENCE! Today: "The (Other) Overcoat", a bit of short fiction that I could never get quite to my liking but which I think had enough potential that I couldn't quite give up on it. Enjoy! (?!?)

The (Other) Overcoat - IMMORTAL SCIENCE

My wife, in particular, does not like the overcoat. My co-worker Stephen (and do I complain that he goes by 'Stephen' rather than 'Steve', even though I think of it...

immortalscience.pika.page

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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 18h

There was a period in the late '60s and early '70s where crack studio pros on both sides of the Atlantic, but especially the UK, were discovering they could incorporate all the 'new sounds' into whatever else they were doing, and it paid off just incredible dividends

Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 19h

And here's Reg Tilsley, Simon Haseley, and the amazingly named Vic Flick with the lovely "Clarissa" from 1976's BYWAYS album from DeWolfe:

Reg Tilsley / Clarissa

YouTube video by Vinyle Archéologie

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