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I am a Tokyo-based researcher, translator, post-carder-to-voters, queer af thirst-trap-ignorer. Proud liberal. Opponent of fascism and racism. Interested in politics, policy and the nexus thereof. substack.com/@andrewgebert
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From the Language Police: Never use the term “savings” or “saved” in relation to DOGE. The correct words are “cut” or “slashed.” Savings are always net - more outlays reduced than incurred. DOGE has produced virtually no savings, not even counting the human or long-term costs.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

If someone isn’t parking a TACO food truck outside the White House, what are we even doing with this stupid timeline!?

submitted 8 days ago • 478 comments

Instead being distracted by each new outburst, the media should be identifying these as points on a trajectory of mental decline. They don’t know how to do this because there is no cover-up. No big reveal. It’s all in the open. They just have to state obvious. Again and again.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Lovely!

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

As a Democrat, I want to apologize for thinking that miraculously sheparding significant legislation through Congress while walking and talking unsteadily mattered; or that voters would be put off by energetically recounted tales of electrocuted sharks.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

“When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence, in a sea of chaos, have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order.” Ilya Prigogine

submitted 20 days ago • 6 comments

Aaaand there it is.

submitted 25 days ago • 2018 comments

How we beat back the corporate takeover of America: 1. Break up corporate monopolies 2. Continue building union power 3. End Citizens United and get big money out of politics Let’s keep working to unrig the system.

submitted 29 days ago • 697 comments

OK. Funny ha ha. But also snobbish and pedantic. Crucially, they failed to point out her inaccurate, ahistorical, strategical misuse of the words “racist” and “racism.“ In other words, Harvard tacitly ceded the most important ground to an ignorant bigot. I give them a C+ for this work.

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

This!

submitted 36 days ago • 1 comment

Model and inspiration!

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Because he will go on TV and talk about his experience, bringing the reality of what we are doing as a nation into people’s home. This is why fascists need to permanently disappear people: to insulate the compliant, complacent majority from their cruelty.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments

Check out Elizabeth Warren having to explain LAWS to a CNBC host like she’s a 1st grader:

submitted 49 days ago • 103 comments