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Joined December 2018
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“I can’t believe Haley Stevens endorsed Abdul’s Republican opponent. She was only supposed to do that implicitly through months of Islamophobic innuendo and antisemitism smears.” -every liberal news network
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ATTENTION VOTERS: if you want to vote for trump, you have to write it in, specifically on the US Senate section of the ballot
Arizona voters are calling election officials because they can’t find Trump on the ballot. Somewhere, a civics teacher just walked into the desert and surrendered to the coyotes.
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I’m glad to see the political establishment come out against Stevens. The next step should be to reflect on their willful ignorance towards Islamophobia, weaponization of anti-Semitism, and centrist undermining. This didn’t happen overnight.
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somerville is kinda awesomesauce
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BREAKING: woman whose primary campaign was almost entirely funded by Republican donors endorses Republican
I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.
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13,792 votes. 0.9%. We were that close to electing another Fetterman if the left hadn't intervened.
I am endorsing Mike Rogers for the United States Senate today.
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Standing with Miker Rogers is a betrayal of everything Haley Stevens has fought for her entire career. It's also a betrayal of all of her supporters that believed in her. I hope @AbdulElSayed has a strong victory on Tuesday and that all Democrats and like-minded independents support vote for him.
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You work hard to get your law degree. Your friends are mostly going into Big Law where they start out making $350k to help corporations rip people off. You want to make the world better, not worse, so you get a job at NRDC, making $70k to protect people and places from pollution. Then you see Matt Yglesias—the guy who cheered on the Iraq War and defended Biden’s senility and said the people of Minneapolis shouldn’t have protested ICE—use Halloween to argue that you’re the problem with our politics. Spooky, indeed!
Everyone’s telling me “Matt, no, you can’t go as The Groups for Halloween this is why everyone hates DC.” So I’m just wearing the t-shirt because I like the colors.
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Just hitting the nail on the head here
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I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/…
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🇧🇷🗳️La projection des résultats finaux de @ElectoMaps sur désormais plus de 10% des bureaux dépouillés, avec une belle #needle : ➡️Chances de gagner 🔴Lula 92% ⚫️Flávio 8% ➡️Résultats finaux 🔴Lula 51,9% ⚫️Flávio 48,1% Remontada extraordinaire de Lula !
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yeah, this is an example of how people who talk about politics for a living map their own conceptualization of ideology onto all voters. this is problematic and leads to all sorts of bad takes and strategy gelliottmorris.com/p/the-str…
Good thread but I don't find this one convincing. Decent argument to be made that ideology isn't measuring the same thing across racial/ethnic groups. If the claim is that a candidate like Buttigieg would shift black conservatives voting behvaior signficantly, I'm skeptical.
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Communist Caucus members Ben M & Sebastian FG spoke with Madrid Tenants Union organizer Pablo Pérez Ruiz about the tenants uprising that has broken out across the Spanish state, and the looming general strike uniting labor with the tenants movement. Read in Spadework below.
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Is Somerville Massachusetts in E or C?
You can only live & travel within one region of the United States for the rest of your life. What are you picking?
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Somehow, in certain quarters, it has come to be seen as a personal failing to devote one’s life to improving the world around you. It isn’t “downwardly mobile” to choose, after college, to be a teacher, a city councilor or an artist. It’s just a different kind of ambition.
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“Un violento anhelo de felicidad” Fue la mejor pancarta que vi en la manif de hoy.
Hoy estuvimos marchando junto a los estudiantes de liceo que han llenado las calles con demandas legítimas frente al gobierno de Macron. Como es costumbre en Francia, la violencia policiaca y respirar gas lacrimógeno por las demandas más esenciales se hizo presente
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Task for the left in the 21st century: how do we do anticlericalism against evangelicalism
“La gente decía: ‘Gracias, Lula, pero voto a Bolsonaro porque mi pastor me lo está pidiendo’”. Federico Merke analiza el peso del voto evangélico y su impacto en las posibilidades electorales de Flávio Bolsonaro. Seguí la cobertura especial en C+.
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Matty Be Rad 🌹 retweeted
I was looking up song lyrics and I made the AI feel bad
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In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Matty Be Rad 🌹 retweeted
278-09-1875 USA: Textile strikers in Fall River, Massachusetts, demand bread for their malnourished children.
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