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plasticprimate.bsky.social
cosmopolitan socialist • folk musician • amateur conjurer
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This guy is good. His ability and willingness to own a loss is a stark contrast from what we’ve seen from too many politicians over the years—especially the current president who still cannot accept his 2020 defeat. www.salon.com/2025/04/06/o...

submitted 1 day ago • 37 comments

Justice Sotomayor with a bone-chilling dissent today: “The implication of the govt’s position is noncitizens AND US citizens could be taken off streets, forced onto planes, confined to foreign prisons with no opportunity for redress…This Nation's laws is designed to prevent, not en-able, their rise.

submitted 8 hours ago • 64 comments

Everyone is wondering why Trump supports tariffs, but he keeps explaining it live to camera: he wants to take us back to a 1870-style Guilded Age economy where oligarchs rules without an income tax and we regularly had financial crises due to a total absence of regulations.

submitted 16 hours ago • 60 comments

gritty has seized control of the federal government

submitted 57 days ago • 199 comments

“The historical unity of the ruling classes is realized in the state." —Antonio Gramsci

submitted 88 days ago • 8 comments

The dry hills surrounding Los Angeles, from Pasadena in the east to Malibu in the west, are fated to burn whenever the Santa Ana winds blow. Los Angeles native Harold Meyerson, whose high school went up Tuesday, channels Mike Davis with this great reflection: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

submitted 88 days ago • 3 comments

Individualizing public health is just Social Darwinism by another name.

submitted 91 days ago • 5 comments

Going Full Jasper Mode. Getting Jasperfied.

submitted 697 days ago • 13 comments

Lots of clarity today

submitted 109 days ago • 267 comments