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Getting Yelled at By Dumbasses
The defining experience of fascism.
Sep 16 • 
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Where Does News Come From?
This damn media machine stole my money!
Sep 10 • 
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New York Socialist City
Where taking care of everyone is common sense.
Sep 8 • 
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All the Things That You Need a Billion Dollars to Buy Are Bad
One way to think about inequality.
Sep 3 • 
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Symbolic Battlefields
Fighting to tell America's story.
Sep 1 • 
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August 2025

Thinking Ahead to the Full Military Takeover of Cities
A new executive order gives Trump his army.
Aug 27 • 
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More DEI! Louder!
Racism has turned a corporate buzzword into a moral imperative.
Aug 24 • 
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Three Crises of Labor
"Organize or Die" gets uncomfortably relevant.
Aug 20 • 
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How Pretexts Work
A manufactured crisis unfolds.
Aug 15 • 
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Scams And Bribery Are Becoming the Foundation of Our Economy
It's bad and you should be alarmed.
Aug 12 • 
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Fragile Movements Crumble
Taking seriously the threat to organized labor.
Aug 10 • 
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July 2025

Negotiating With Terrorists, Unsuccessfully
How to lose ideological battles by believing in nothing.
Jul 31 • 
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