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(7) He is the personification of a mode of irrationality… It is superabstract.”[4]

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(6) But to accumulate more than anyone could ever spend? And then keep on accumulating greater and greater sums, with no other interest or aim in life? That is beyond good and evil. The neoconservative capitalist is defined less by what he possesses than by what possesses him.

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(4) An abstract desire, a mania for accumulating numerical quantities. Possessing things is understandable from the moral-molar point of view, as is wanting to accumulate capital for what it can buy in the way of time, things, and activities.

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(3) It can dispense with belief in and good sense, because it is now stronger than molarity, and stronger than the ideologies that help to reproduce it. The men who personify it—the Donald Trumps and Michael Milkens of the world—do not so much represent an ideological cause as embody a desire.

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(2) It is the coming out of capital, a new golden age of greed that dares to say its name. Without a wince, Capitalism no longer has to justify itself. It no longer has to hide behind fascist-paranoid quasi-causes and argue that it serves the common good.

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Brian Massumi writing in 1993 (1): “Capitalism is an unmediated desire, or abstract machine. A society actualizing that desire can be conceptualized as a particular mix between fascism-paranoia and anarchy-schizophrenia (tending strongly toward the latter)…

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"In a statement to the press, Hitler said that the imposition of central authority should be seen not as the “raping” of state sovereignty but rather as the “alignment” of state policies with the central government’s." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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"Kick 'em in the dongle and move fast and break kings": Micah Lowinger interviews Cory Doctorow. A great discussion. www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

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Nothing dramatic happens in this trail-cam clip, captured recently on one of the streams that flows off Monarch Pass. Yet it’s among my all-time favorites — for its lighting, its composition, and of course the subtle beauty and grace of the beaver herself, perfectly at home in her aquatic milieu.

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All grift and destruction. www.wired.com/story/depart...

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12 days before Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse was set to broadcast on April 15 across PBS stations nationwide, ... the filmmakers were told that a sequence...which shows the famous artist discussing an anti-Trump cartoon...would be cut from the documentary. documentary.org/online-featu...

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What incompetence looks like in 7 telling graphs: www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

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⚠️ URGENT: Despite recently speaking out against Trump using antisemitism as a pretext for cracking down on academic freedom, @schumer.senate.gov is co-sponsoring a bill that will further help Trump use antisemitism as an excuse to advance his authoritarian agenda. Tell Schumer to VOTE NO on S.558!

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Chilling and perverse: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"The government’s unwillingness to bring Ábrego García back “should be shocking not only to judges, but to the intuitive sense of liberty that Americans far removed from courthouses still hold dear”, the judges wrote." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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"Like most of the men rendered to CECOT, Abrego Garcia has fewer criminal convictions than the current president of the United States. Even the Trump administration acknowledged in federal court that it had deported Abrego Garcia 'in error.'" www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

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What do these corporations have in common? Netflix Ford Tesla T-Mobile Duke Energy DISH Network Metlife Dominion Energy United States Steel In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes. This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.

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Terrifying, immoral, and unconstitutional

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Every thing you do, no matter how small, to remind people that the wannabe dictators are actually sad, scared, fallible little boys is helpful. The more we laugh at them, the less fearsome they are and the easier it is to wrest power back from them. Also? These messages are effing hilarious.

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Doubly dystopian... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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“We cannot let our caution overtake our purpose,” Kotlikoff wrote in the New York Times piece. “Our colleges and universities are cradles of democracy and bulwarks against autocracy.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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It sounds like it came right from a Russian propaganda playbook.

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ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premie...

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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Trump Resistance Movement

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1/2 House GOP issued 70+ subpoenas on HRC's penny-ante email "scandal." J Comey changed fate of the country (and world) w his last-minute decision to "re-open" the case. Ten days before election NYT gave nearly all of its front page to Comey's preening move. Reminder:

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I don't know who is behind the Everyone Hates Elon actions in the UK but they are running an awesome brandbusting campaign. Big thanks for exposing Elon's fascism in such a hilarious and viral way. 🤩 #TeslaTakedown Donate to support the campaign at: www.gofundme.com/f/people-vs-...

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Read the full story: First Nations offer to buy ‘iconic’ Hudson’s Bay store chain for tobacco, blanket

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diversity, equity and inclusion programmes, ‘liberal elites’ at universities – in short, all the political enemies in its constructed culture wars. /3 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The far-right is using this wedge not just to shut down voices critical of Israel’s serial violence against Palestinians and a war on Gaza described by experts as genocidal, but also to attack so-called wokeism, critical race theory, Black Lives Matter, /2

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A key element here is that the far-right has found in its pretend fight against antisemitism the perfect political strategy, a way to divide progressives while at the same time clobbering them. /1

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Sadly, not surprising: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is not rocket science, Dems. Identify the victims of Trumpism, give them a voice, and get their stories told.

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A sobering tracker of the Project 2025 plans completed and underway: www.project2025.observer

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