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A new report has found tech mogul/fascism enthusiast Elon Musk built his fortune from $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits going back more than 20 years.

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I would just like to point out that the Mayor of New York City is arguing in court that he can’t get a fair trial in [checks notes] New York City because he can’t be expected to find 12 New Yorkers who don’t already think he’s guilty.

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“People have so manipulated the concept of freedom that it finally boils down to the right of the stronger and richer to take from the weaker and poorer whatever they still have.” -Theodor Adorno, a historian of fascism

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We are selling citizenship now.

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Republicans just voted to take your money and give it to billionaires. It’s not enough that House Republicans are enabling Trump and Elon Musk’s outrageous power grab. Now they’re selling out everyday Americans so that Trump, Musk, and their billionaire allies can get even richer.

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"Don't buy a Swasticar". Spotted at a London bustop~

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This is such a useful webinar on the intersections between outdoor labor and extreme heat hosted by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee (EWOC), DSA (click on 'gear' sign at bottom to see English subtitles): www.youtube.com/watch?v=-07E...

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Looking forward to speaking on my work on climate, caste, and migrant labor in Bengaluru (India) at the upcoming UPenn symposium on Urban + Spatial Justice on Feb 27-28,2025 www.humanitiesurbanismdesign.org/event/hud-sy...

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A Kannada-language book by Banu Mushtaq, "Heart Lamp," is long-listed for the 2025 Booker Prize! Written in the ಬಂಡಾಯ (bandaya, or rebel) literary tradition, the book is a window into the lives of Muslim girls and women. Can't wait to read (out Apr 2025)!

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If you're in Washington, DC, @bhumikasaraswati.bsky.social is speaking at American Univ on Mar 4 @ 7pm + it's gonna to be lit! So much respect for this award-winning writer, filmmaker, and educator and her work on caste, gender, race, and climate change! Organized by AU Students for Change 🔥✊🏾

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Princeton’s prejudicial prosecution of the 13 who occupied Clio Hall for 🇵🇸 continues. Because I personally held ground and refused to plead guilty, the courts are forcing 12 comrades who would have had their cases dismissed to stand trial too. Help us hold them accountable: piad.nationbuilder.com

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Vedanta is back, this time targeting Odisha’s Tijmali hills. Fake gram sabhas, arrested activists, and sacred lands under siege. Corporate greed vs. Adivasi resistance—this is the front line. ✍️ By Prashant Rahi 🌍 www.thepolisproject.com/read/protect...

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Deposed former Bangladeshi fascist dictator is wanted for war crimes, see the UN investigation report below. India is harboring her & the Hindutva lobby is creating false narratives about persecution of minorities in Bangladesh to deflect from war crimes & destabilize Bangladesh to reinstate her

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“Two cheeks of the same arse”, as a friend of mine is fond of saying.

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What are the linkages between fossil fuels and fascism? @jksteinberger.bsky.social lays this out plainly and accessibly. "Our democracies have been attacked for decades by the very same actors destroying the climate." jksteinberger.medium.com/what-we-are-...

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“I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me.”

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To those wondering how they could confirm Tulsi Gabbard just now, it's about to get worse - they're about to confirm Kash Patel. There's a whole generation of Indian-American MAGA types supporting right-wing fascism in the US + India. We need to get smarter about the connections.

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'Capital' is many things at once: It reads like an economics textbook in places, a work of history in others, and a satire still elsewhere; it contains math and poetry in equal measure. Beautiful piece by Alyssa Battistoni www.thenation.com/article/soci...

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Can you recommend me writing that deftly combines reflections on organizing with theory? More like Alyssa Battistoni’s "Spadework" nplusonemag.com/issue-34/pol...? I have major writers block and need to get unstuck.

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Unreal

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NEW: We are living through an existential crisis. The CEO attacks against the working class are only intensifying. We need a plan to fight back. Here are some new-old ideas about how we trudge through the muck. inthesetimes.com/article/labo...

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Freeland: Our retaliation is going to be a lot more surgical than that. We are going to go after American stakeholders who matter to The White House. I have proposed a 100% tariff on all Teslas. I am calling on all the countries that are affected by this tariff to join us

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Yes. “People are doing things. You will meet them when YOU start doing things.” Lots of information and resources in this one. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

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bro, i hate watching american football this shit is so slow compared to soccer and it be stopping every goddamn five minutes for no reason BRING OUT KENDRICK

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Looking forward to speaking at the session "Environmental Justice and Decolonizing Urban Space" at the H+U+D Symposium at UPenn on Feb 27-28, 2025: Urban Spatial Justice: Perspectives from Humanities + Design www.humanitiesurbanismdesign.org/about-2/

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DC Friends - will be in conversation about Arjun Shankar's terrific new book "Brown Saviors and Their Others: Race, Caste, Labor, and the Global Politics of Work in India" at Bol Bookstore and Worker-owned Cooperative on Thurs 2/20. Do swing by and say hi ~ will be a good vibe.

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All the years of "but are you SURE it's a racism?" have gotten you to "are you SURE it's a coup?" Set yourselves up for this because you didn't want to have uncomfortable discussions, before. The answer was and is "yes."

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@rc12453dd.bsky.social Once more, for the people in the back …

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Trump has ordered federal agencies to prioritise humanitarian relief and admission to the United States for white Afrikaner refugees from South Africa. You know, that poor, victimised minority. America - the new home of Apartheid.

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It’s just hard to know what to say right now but me and @70sbachchan.bsky.social wrote some stuff about what on earth the “rest of world” does now wrt trade, development, aid. Plus, some media thoughts. buttondown.com/polycrisisdi...

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Similarly, Aimé Césaire, in _Discourse on Colonialism_, drew the line directly from the colonizer mentalité to fascism, arguing fascism was the inevitable result of violent imperial racism. Hitler, he argued, wasn't an innovator per se; he simply turned colonizer logic on Europeans themselves.

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In a memo among a flurry sent to department staff today, AG Pam Bondi has ordered DOJ employees to stop work and rescind directives on “environment justice,” with a deadline of Friday.

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‘Deport Musk to Mars’. Best idea yet. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼🚀🚀

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I used to always say with disdain ‘America is such a litigious country.’ But now with lawsuits and court injunctions coming for Trump and Elon, I’m kinda grateful this place runs on a ‘sue the bastards’ mentality.

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just saying: it's possible that "I'm gonna dramatically constrict my state capacity while plotting dramatic imperial expansion, and expanding my set of internal enemies while alienating most of my foreign allies" is the beginning of a world-historical masterstroke. but also possible that it isn't

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Anti-DOGE rally getting underway now outside the U.S. Department of Labor, where DOGE was reportedly scheduled to have a meeting today. Big turnout from AFGE, one of the federal unions in Trump’s crosshairs.

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You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...

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As a PhD student at UC Berkeley, I hugely admired Michael Burawoy's "global ethnography" and how he uplifted his students and valued their research and theory. This book stands as testament to his deeply caring and collaborative persona--what a towering intellect. Rest in Power Professor Burawoy 💔✊🏾

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jfc the US government is eating itself alive. Now the FBI is suing Trump for bullying the agency into disclosing the name of agents involved in investigating Jan 6 riots.

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Elon Musk is hosting an X "Space" right now w/ Vivek Ramaswamy, and demonstrating a weaker grasp of our system of government than a freshman political science student.

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1/ I’ve been called “Kapo” enough times to never use it as a slur but there is something so dark & wretched about Jewish people celebrating Trump (full stop) & his monstrous EOs

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A private citizen does not have the authority to do this. The President also does not have the authority to do this. This is unbelievably evil and completely illegal.

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Please share this with the coolest, sharpest graduate students in your life!

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In case you’re looking for a quick and dirty econ lesson today

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‘In effect, Musk had effectively appointed himself an autocrat – the absolute authority in control of American spending, for no other reason than being the president's largest financier.’ zeteo.com/p/elon-musk-...

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Everyday is more batshit than the last. Today Trump is over on Truth Social pitying South African white farmers and saying we need to bring back apartheid. Meanwhile Elon Musk, a man with no electoral legitimacy, is sending his crypto-goons to take over the Treasury & USAID.

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trump is over on truth social posting about the plight of the white south african farmer, i wonder who is filling his head with nonsense about white genocide!! truly a mystery.

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I mean, that’s their domestic policy preference, too.

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