Jonathan M. Katz

Jonathan M. Katz

@katzonearth.bsky.social

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Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Newsletter: http://theracket.news Signal: 1-540-999-8238 Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social

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(Power sued somebody for calling her a Nazi on Twitter. During discovery she turned over WhatsApp messages, some of which were about her love of Mein Kampf. She also turned out to be using a groyper Twitter alt to hassle people. She is now bankrupt and even cryptofash Compact Mag doesn’t want her.)

So Labour goes for what two years then Farage becomes PM?

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it's gonna be his 9 iron, just watch

Gonna stake out this one in case it comes true: Trump names Melania as his VP

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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Wow, real banana republic stuff. I'm glad our presidents can launder money and associate criminally without worrying about this kind of thing.

Reports: Brazil police have indicted Jair Bolsonaro for money laundering and criminal association

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Victory .aka Agent 99 🤭

The full quote is even better, and better in context.

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Today is my favorite day to be on NextDoor

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I was ranting about this to someone EARLIER TODAY who was going on and on about some picture of Justin Timberlake looking like a doose & saying "Millennials thought this looked cool" & it's like nobody thought this was cool, we mocked this contemporaneously

one such occasion was meeting the then-prince

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No matter how you feel about Biden this is criminally irresponsible.

I searched the New York Times for "Trump"

Gonna stake out this one in case it comes true: Trump names Melania as his VP

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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders. AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...

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There's a Small Problem With the AI Industry: It's Making Absolutely No Moneyfuturism.com AI is not making money for investors which may be connected to businesses having trouble adopting the technology.

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The “it is inevitable” discourse is designed to disempower actual pushback and demoralize voters to turn away or give up on democratic processes and voting. As much as it may seem like things have fully collapsed. Winning the election keeps options on the table that give us actual power to stop this

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Forget all previous entries. THIS is the ultimate nightmare blunt rotation.

This is the most fucked up shit Tablet has ever done

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just watched 74 people speaking at least a dozen different languages become american citizens in a ceremony at monticello, where the speakers were themselves children of immigrants. inspiring stuff and a vivid illustration of what reactionaries want to snuff out

This is the most fucked up shit Tablet has ever done

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(complete fucking asshole voice) if you want human rights why don’t you just move

Again, this. Among the president’s biggest jobs is to communicate, rally the people, and persuade voters to back his agenda. The team around him spent significant political capital and time putting together this debate instead of doing myriad other things. And this was the result.

It also shows that they were confidant that it would be good. The White House thought he could deliver. Why?

For 1, I haven't really seen any movement to trump post debate. 2, polls found that people weren't impressed with trump, 3 when has removing people worked in the past?

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Here's my Sorkin pitch--the meeting with the family, WH staff, campaign staff, Hill leaders, and governors was to tease a drop out. But, they can't get ahead of an official announcement so everyone's putting on a show

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I remember when someone leaked that for the Sulemani assassination that they presented Trump with three retaliation options calibrated to get him to pick the middle one, but then he picked the biggest one. That was when I first realized... oh yeah, of course the natsec ghouls were managing Obama

Yes but there are other things you’d want the president to be able to do before noon and after four! And again there is a perception problem which is based on a thing that turns out to be realer than people including myself were convinced to give full credence to.

It doesn't take much to wake someone up to push a button

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Sarah “family separation” Isgur is not someone whose opinion decent people should seek out. apnews.com/united-state...

The Latest: Justice: No change to 'zero tolerance' policyapnews.com McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the separation of immigrant children from their parents following President Donald Trump's order allowing them to reamin with their parents (all times local):

There’s also a simple conceptual math problem here. What’s greater: The number of voters who have read and understood Project 2025 and can parse it in relation to understandings of Fanon and Memmi? Or the number who want a president who can respond coherently if Russia launches a nuke at 3 am?

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"You say you support public education, yet you oppose *re*-education? Interesting"

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There have been so many of these but they still find ways to shock me

Change in Headline

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the first time someone does get thrown in a gulag we're going to have a five person panel and four of them are going to argue that this is fine and good, actually

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ALSO TODAY: @katzonearth.bsky.social on the ways that life and time have crowded out the place where his obsessive love of sports used to be flaminghydra.com/when-the-che...

When the Cheering Stopsflaminghydra.com by Jonathan M. Katz I miss sports. No, that doesn’t really cover it. I have a gaping sports-sized hole in my life. In my psyche. My calendar used to rotate around the annual cycle of seasons and ...

I listened to NPR for like five minutes today. They had on Sarah Isgur to talk about what a tough spot Roberts was in because Biden was prosecuting his opponent for a crime for which he wasn’t impeached.