Thinking about how the Luddites correctly perceived that power looms created a much poorer quality fabric than artisan weavers… and yet

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

In a Democratic club meeting, LA Mayor Karen Bass pronounced herself "flabbergasted" by Nithya Raman's entry into the mayor's race. "I’ve worked closely with Nithya, helped her gain the Democratic endorsement, helped her clear an encampment in her district," she said. "I am going to fight."

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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

reactionaries learning they serve capital

insights about 2026 America in the guise of insights about 3rd century Rome (written in 2010) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

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Yeah my sense is today is more in the hands of an aggregation of activist orgs and small business owners. Some lefty union locals have endorsed locally (but have they organized? Not clear.) This is the PSL/vanguardist strategy at work.

Used to phone bank this guy. Chicago DSA member 🫡

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These are the Haitians attacked by Vance in 2024 at the urging of Canadian neo-Nazi Geoff Martin, aka "Captive Dreamer," who he appears to follow closely. They're currently here legally. The admin is abruptly making them illegal, then removing them in a 1940s-style militarized cleansing campaign.

Gotta remind yourself not to cry when you see the kid's signs. It's negative -25°F and tears are dangerous. "LEAVE MY FRIENDS ALONE!" "ICE GIT OUT YA FUCKIN DUMBIES 😡"

I complain that constitutional reform is never taken seriously by the UK left but it pales in comparison to how little discussion within elite US liberal and left circles about serious constitutional reform.

The moment, I think, that I radicalized for good.

This random online comment from 2018 remains one of the last half-century's most important works of political commentary. crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

It is amazing to see it continuing even now! What is ironic is that of course, this self-preservation will not continue to be functional for much longer now even for this cosseted group. But it is shameful anyway. Truly no sense of belonging to a society beyond a narrow social class

I'm really sorry to say it but the attitude and posture of elite institutions has been a massive problem. Reproducing their comfortable social worlds has come above everything else. An inconsistently applied set of epistemic or other professional values has been in the internal justification for it.

this so called government wants more and more and more blood in the streets

Any org security is only as secure as your trust with one another and the best way to keep people safe is to organize in public. Heavy opsec culture makes it easier for bad actors to fuck with your organizing.

in part this because los angeles is not actually a city, but the holy roman empire in a trench coat with portfolio of headshots

Fucking incredible.

Sometimes it’s a good idea to step back and ask yourself whether you’re arguing with someone’s political position or their personality disorder

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

They expect - they NEED - the people they threaten to fall in line, like the law firms and universities and media companies and billionaires and Congress did. If you say “No, make me,” they simply do not have a Plan B. TRUMP DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH GUYS TO MAKE YOU.

once again saying: our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse.

Ok not the most important thing here, but somehow this is the first time I’ve heard Bovino speak and I had no idea he had that little whiny pipsqueak bitch voice omg

Turns out the demos is actually the most important part…

The International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) put out an official statement saying the threat of fascism has come to America & the labor movement must commit to ending it: www.ilwu.org/the-ilwu-ver...

So when authorities say “she tried to run over an officer,” that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end

I continue to think the 1850s are an instructive comparison here. Imagine a state governor responding to the conflicts between abolitionists and forces of the slave power by going 'let's have a peaceful day of unity.' This is kind of like that I think - not a contribution to moral/social progress.

Chat is it good when your occupied citizens start erecting barricades?

🧵New preprint: Adults often agree with their ingroup even when evidence says otherwise. Why? To find out, we studied kids, who show the same tendency but *before* political identities take hold. With developmental data, we can see the basic psychological ingredients. doi.org/10.31234/osf... 1/11

The kidnapping of Maduro inaugurates a highly dangerous era of U.S. empire that for perhaps the first time in an era of mass media is not pretending to be anything other than a violent, extractive enterprise of domination.

You ever think about how the Roman Senate kept meeting centuries into the reigns of emperors. Hanging out, shooting the shit, giving speeches, and play-acting that their positions of privilege remained positions of power.

Before the celebrations on November 4, there were hours of anxious waiting as we watched the numbers come in. Here's a glimpse of the stress and joy alike. Thank you to every New Yorker who believed in this fight for working people. I am so proud to be sworn in as your Mayor. youtu.be/s_hR4A1_sew

Randi has a storied history of being on the wrong side of key political issues when big money is involved (see also: healthcare). Almost makes you wonder why this person has been president of one of the biggest labor unions in the U.S. for *seventeen* years now.

Catholic Church once again leading the pack… my rabid anti religiosity in shambles…

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Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people

We’ve lived an entire generation of mass school shootings.

Praetorian vibes

Now look at CBS. Installing Bari Weiss to run a news division isn’t a "pivot to the center." It is a deliberate hollowing out. Take a legacy institution, gut its standards, wear its skin like a suit. They don’t want CBS's credibility; they want to destroy the idea that credible news exists at all.

I’ve been listening to the history of Rome podcast and the entire imperium makes A Lot More Sense now

the idea that we will ever devise a technology that can automatically sort true statements from false ones and factual ones from “hallucinations” is a lead-to-gold fantasy