Luke Savage
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Words in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, New Statesman, Smithsonian. Columnist at Jacobin. Seeking Social Democracy w/Ed Broadbent out now.
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A view enjoyed just once every 330 years. Humbled to be witness to this once in a lifetime reminder of nature's awesome and eternal beauty.
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A whole lot of people who've spent years calling the younger generation "snowflakes" now apparently want armed guys in riot gear to protect them from teenagers sitting peacefully on the ground
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Meat identity politics is an underrated right wing micro-genre IMHO
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"Alt left" is a term quite literally designed to draw equivalence between white supremacists and people who want universal healthcare
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Jeff Bezos makes $3,182 a second
Amazon-owned Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for part-time workers
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It's the phrase everyone in Vietnam loves to hear!
Vice President Kamala Harris to promote "America is back" message in Singapore and Vietnam
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This is literally capitalism you idiot
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No, that's actually the hat Lincoln was wearing when he died.
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One week in the life of "the most progressive administration in history"
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Good for her. This ban is insane, discriminatory, and it needs to be repealed immediately.
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BREAKING: Two multimillionaire jerks think healthcare for ordinary people is "chocolate milk"
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He's literally rallying Democrats to make healthcare a human right while you do a vanity book tour and relitigate 2016
Hillary Clinton on Bernie Sanders: “He could be helpful if he so chose, and that's what I’m calling on him to do”
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Quick, everyone name a Biden policy without googling
James Clyburn on MSNBC says there's been too much policy in the Biden campaign thus far and that Biden should pivot to "feeling."
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The best endorsement you could ask for
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ME AT 17: Elites are irredeemably corrupt liars. We need socialism.
ME during undergrad: Politics are actually incredibly nuanced, the world is a complex place.
ME at 31: Elites are irredeemably corrupt liars. We need socialism.
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Lots of people owe Ilhan Omar an apology
NEWS: AIPAC is is telling donors that contributions to an anti-Bernie Sanders Super PAC count as donations to AIPAC by me and
@akela_lacy
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There's nothing more emblematically Obama than a Netflix show that waxes mournfully about the gig economy not paying living wages without mentioning how many people from the upper ranks of his own administration literally helped create it.
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Incredible paragraph
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It's pretty cool that most cities are becoming unliveable, billionaires got 700% wealthier during a global plague, the planet is literally cooking, and major political institutions are basically hardwired to neutralize leaders and movements who actually want to fix it
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Hard to overstate how evil this is. Huge kudos to everyone who so nobly "put politics aside" the past few days.
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Some guy dressed up as his dog's favourite toy for Halloween and I can't even deal
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Just wanna put it out there, for no reason in particular, that Dick Cheney quite literally helped carry out the successful version of January 6 in 2000 and that it's maybe a bad idea to hold up the Cheney clan as noble stewards of American democracy
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Adolph Reed Jr. once remarked that liberals don't really believe in politics anymore, just in "bearing witness to suffering." I think about that a lot.
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Much of the essence of conservatism can be found distilled in these tweets: the overriding belief that there are structures somehow both innate and natural but also so fragile and persistently on the verge of collapse the state must constantly work to impose and reify them.
Any society that isn't normatively based on heterosexual family formation is definitionally doomed to collapse. Pretending that society ought to be apathetic about such matters -- or even worse, condemnatory of the presence of traditional norms -- is civilizationally suicidal.
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Only liberals do this. Imagine Mitch McConnell or Trump repeatedly saying "this country needs a strong Democratic Party." But because centrist liberals fantasize about compromise rather than ideological victory, they actively fetishize an idealized opposition.
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@SpeakerPelosi
: "I want the Republican Party to take back the party to where you were when you cared about a woman's right to choose, you cared about the environment. Here I am, Nancy Pelosi, saying this country needs a strong Republican Party. Not a cult."
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Whether you supported Sanders or not, it's a grave inditement of the political mainstream that so many pundits and operatives witnessed this energy and overwhelmingly saw it as a mortal threat to be contained rather than something to be harnessed or even just understood.
One thing I've noticed so far in this 2024 election. Not one candidate from any party nor independents has been able to host a rally that comes even remotely close to drawing in tens of thousands of people like
#Bernie2016
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#Bernie2020
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The Lincoln Project is an effort by a small group of extremely destructive people to rehabilitate their public images after a lifetime of serving conservative reaction, welcomed with open arms by credulous liberals who like Republicans but hate the left. That's the tweet, folks.
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Late capitalism is many things, but above all it's just morbidly absurd
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You gotta love the free market
Google salvaged Robinhood’s one-star rating by deleting nearly 100,000 negative reviews
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lol no he doesn't
Australian multimillionaire Tim Gurner says he "deeply regrets" saying unemployment should jump by up to 50% to create more productive workers
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Percentage of Democratic candidates' supporters who would back Trump against one of the other 3 if their preferred choice didn't secure the nomination:
Buttigieg: 12%
Warren: 10%
Biden: 9%
Sanders: 4%
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This is simply an extraordinary study. Researchers gave $7,500 (CAD) to homeless people in Vancouver. The result? The program *saved* money. It helped many of them to move into housing faster, which saved the shelter system $8,277 per person. 🧵👇
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The far right wants to impose a fascist ethnostate. The "far left" wants everyone to have healthcare, housing, and basic dignity. These two things are not morally equivalent and I cannot believe this point continues to be lost on so many people.
Basically, the center-right is terrified of the far-left and the center-left is terrified of the far right, and that is causing both to be less willing to criticize the fringe that is closest to them, which many earnestly see as obviously the lesser threat.
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Here's to a wondrous economic model that it would be absolutely crazy to change
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Hillary Clinton, as always, is a virtuoso communicator. Here's the next $50 million of right wing fundraising right here:
Hillary Clinton calls for Trump Supporters to be reeducated: "At some point maybe there needs to be a formal deprogramming of the cult members."
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I am a lifelong Dem who only voted for Bush once and Reagan once. I *canvassed* for Joe Lieberman. Yet because I work with the Landlord Center For Eviction Studies and don't want to discuss universal healthcare during a plague, divisive leftists call me a "neoliberal". Sad!
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"Earned" is doing some incredible work here
Elon Musk earned $36 Billion yesterday… breaking the record for the most amount of money an individual has earned in a single day 🤯
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Keep in mind that, whatever happens tonight, Joe Biden is going to have to debate Bernie Sanders on national TV five days from now
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Whenever I encounter this particular genre of right wing complaint I always have the same thought, which is that we're quite literally living in the world these people created: one where markets rule & everything is for sale. They won, got what they wanted, and are still whining.
"Tory MP Danny Kruger tells NatCon that Western civilisation is threatened by a "new religion", a mix of "Marxism, narcissism and paganism", conforming to the "dystopian fantasy of John Lennon"
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It's incredible how, for a certain segment of the commentariat, there really is only one idea
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So I guess Amazon is a country now
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will meet with the CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos today. No media allowed at this bilateral meeting, we are told at the request of Amazon.
#hw
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Jeremy Corbyn is one of the most principled and dynamic political figures of modern times. He’s given socialists everywhere tremendous inspiration and we’ll forever owe him our gratitude - particularly in light of what he’s been subjected to, courtesy of the worst people alive.
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Billionaires like Bezos and Musk are obsessed with space travel because it helps them maintain the illusion that they're technological prometheans at the vanguard of civilizational progress, rather than greedy plutocrats who happen to own expensive bits of paper
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Elizabeth Warren has needlessly burnt through a decade of goodwill on the left over the past few weeks. She could undo much of that damage by throwing her support behind Bernie Sanders, the only candidate in the race who champions the values she’s long claimed to stand for.
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Gonna blow these people's minds when they learn that Pittsburgh and Paris are on the same planet
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AOC got 74.6%, Rashida Tlaib got 66% - "survived" is certainly one way of putting it
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez survived her primary. Rashida Tlaib did, too. Now it’s Ilhan Omar’s turn today — and the Minnesota congresswoman faces the stiffest challenge of any member of the Squad
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Look. At. His. Face.
After his coffee with Nashua Mayor Jim Donchess, I asked Pete Buttigieg if it was premature to declare a victory in Iowa last night. He declined to respond.
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lol, DeSantis just vowed to stamp out the plague of Confucianism on America’s college campuses
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How about you people just pay your fucking taxes
Mark Zuckerberg, Priscilla Chan and Bill Gates to fund $25M coronavirus research group
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If you grow up poor and advocate for socialism, it’s envy. If you grow up middle class, you’re just a corn-fed hipster trying to be contrarian. If you’re well-off, your socialism is privilege. There is no ideologically correct way of being a socialist.
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The ironic thing about Ben Shapiro and the facts/logic wing of the right is that they quite literally ARE the snowflakey, campus dweebs who participate in endless moral panics about identity politics and constantly centre themselves and their feelings in everything
“I am not inclined to continue an interview with someone as badly motivated as you”
US conservative political commentator Ben Shapiro ends spiky interview with
@afneil
Watch
#politicslive
interview in full:
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If you’re concerned that socialism rewards mediocrity and idleness I’ll just remind you it was capitalism which put Meghan McCain on network TV.
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Bernie Sanders won 45% of the vote in Alaska despite having suspended his campaign
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Satire really is obsolete
President Bush’s portraits of immigrants reflect a lifelong kindness to strangers | Commentary
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So why does Joe Biden's healthcare plan?
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@JoeBiden
- “The coronavirus does not discriminate based on national origin, race, gender, or zip code”
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I'm begging everyone not to just go to sleep if Joe Biden wins
Elect Joe Biden so you can read books at night again rather than endlessly doomscrolling twitter.
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Ah, that well-known and longstanding ethos of communism [*flips through notes*] corporate control
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“Get a job!”, I yell at homeless people and welfare recipients while my country’s fiscal and monetary policies deliberately engineer unemployment
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Young people tried, man. But a certain former president literally made phone calls to make sure the corporate machine politician prevailed instead.
"Vote like your life depends on it, because it does," said former President Barack Obama in an address to young people at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, urging them to engage in activism to push world leaders into action on the climate crisis.
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For The Atlantic, I wrote about the strange pantomime act of liberalism in the Trump era - which sees elite politicians talk endlessly about the evils and injustices all around them while behaving as if they're powerless to act.
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Accept mass death, peasants
Sen. Chuck Schumer: "If we don't open up the schools, you're going to hurt the economy significantly."
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"Bernie Sanders isn't even a Democrat!" I scream angrily, as a bunch of Senate Democrats help a Republican Congress deregulate the banks
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You are valid, you are heard, you are in violation of curfew and will be met with full force of law
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Love the implicit dig at "lefty radicals" in a tweet that's effectively acknowledging said radicals have been correct on this issue all along
Richard Haass and Senator Chris Coons now support conditioning aid to Israel. These are moderate, centrist, establishment figures, not lefty radicals, who are finally recognizing that the war in Gaza is a moral and strategic disaster.
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Bernie Sanders threatens government shutdown unless Americans get more stimulus checks
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Congratulations to whichever grotesque lobbying firm is about to add Eliot Engel to its roster of consultants
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Once more with feeling: Democratic elites expended more energy, conviction, and zeal to defeat Bernie Sanders, his movement, and Medicare For All than they did to defeat Donald Trump
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Every time I think I've found the worst liberal meme, another one rises to take its place
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This mindset is so pervasive and so dangerous. Imagine living through the events of the past 4, 8, 12, or 25 years and concluding "we need a strong Republican Party."
President-elect Joe Biden: "We need a Republican Party. We need an opposition that's principled and strong."
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Last night Bernie Sanders and his hugely popular agenda were attacked by both the Republican and the Democratic nominees for president. It's almost as if he represented an existential threat to the awful consensus the leaderships of both parties are determined to uphold.
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Chris Matthews is maybe one bloody mary away from comparing this to 9/11
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Hi it's me, the serious op-ed columnist, who cannot tell the difference between the populism that's racist and the one that wants to make healthcare a right. I write the same 3 columns over and over again and am paid $1.5 million a year plus speaking fees.
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