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Reading for my Cold War history seminar for Monday one of Ellen Schrecker’s classic pieces on McCarthyism, and over and over again she emphasizes how important liberal participation in and legitimization of repression was. War waged against the left by the right with an assist from liberals.

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This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source. Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

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We are excited to announce Gregory P. Williams published piece in Jacobin on the relevance of Immanuel Wallerstein 's ideas for our tumultuous times. Essay can be found here: jacobin.com/2023/12/imma....

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In one fell stroke, the Clintons transformed health care reform into the third rail of American politics and buttressed the relentless pursuit of geopolitical primacy. @morefius.bsky.social on the bipartisan failures that have led to this dire moment:

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This is the hardest I’ve laughed in a long time.

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There has never been a better time to organize for a middle class tax boycott.

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

if I understand American politics correctly, progressivism is something that requires 60 senate votes to work, while national conservatism doesn’t require any votes at all

submitted 33 days ago • 743 comments

The fact that Senate Democrats are not announcing that no Trump cabinet appointments will be confirmed, and that they will bring the Administration to an effective halt through every conceivable parliamentary tactic imaginable, is a illustration of their worthlessness as an effective opposition.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Projections - you can't get arrested yet for doing graffiti with light.

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This is a crime against Mark Lombardi.

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"La Mort de Socrate," Jacques-Louis David (1787), oil on canvas

submitted 64 days ago • 28 comments

Free Luigi!

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I'm proud that I founded @levernews.com - one of the few news outlets that's been covering the health care crisis for years. The corporate news outlets that ignored the crisis & that are only showing up now are telling on themselves. Sure, better late than never...but still.

submitted 88 days ago • 4 comments

@archive.org check this out...

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LOL the Washington Post replaced its archive search tool with an AI that tries to summarize the archive ahead of delivering any actual stories, and which only ranks its findings by "relevance," with no option to rank them by date

submitted 90 days ago • 149 comments

United CEO Andrew Witty gave an address to the company today (leaked to me), telling employees "we guard against...unnecessary care" and that "There are very few people in the history of the U. S. healthcare industry who had a bigger positive effect on American healthcare than Brian [Thompson]."

submitted 91 days ago • 989 comments