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@thirdintl
Marxist-Leninist analysis. Political economy, class power, imperialism. Asking who benefits. DC-based with a PhD in political science
DC Joined Mart 2023
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The House just passed the “Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2026” (H.R. 5103) by a vote of 218-206: govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BI…
Zach Israel@ZachBIsrael
House Democratic Whip Katherine Clark tells House Dems to vote against the “Make the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful Act of 2026” (H.R. 5103) - final vote on the House floor will be tomorrow (Wed., March 25) between 1:30-3pm:
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@FeverPotomac Something tells me the historic antipathy of white conservatives like you to giving African Americans more representation in Congress has more to do with it than singing.
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Can't overstate how unhelpful it is for the optics of DC statehood to have far left fringe groups like Free DC (whose leaders supported defunding/abolishing the police) on Capitol Hill singing and yelling at Congressional staff and members.
Meagan Flynn@Meagan_Flynn
News: The House has passed legislation to codify Trump's executive order creating the "make D.C. safe and beautiful" task force while extending it to 2029, by vote of 218 to 206 with 5 dems in support.
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@FugeusRedux Xenophobic fascist Imperium = 🇺🇸
Ancient spiritual Aeldari = 🇮🇷
Ancient corrupt Drukhari = 🇸🇦 🇦🇪
(Commorragh = Dubai)
Zany Orks with tech that shouldn’t work but does = 🇷🇺
Ancient Necrons awakening after a dormant period = 🇨🇳
Extractive unfeeling Tyranids = Global capital
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Fort Bragg guy whose bloodstream is 90% methamphetamine exploded by a flying lawnmower dispatched by the philosopher-warrior class of a theocratic society….we are approaching the “real life Warhammer 40K” territory
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BREAKING: Iranian FM Abbas Araghchi says the US has failed to achieve its key war objectives against Iran, including securing a quick military victory and bringing about regime change in Tehran.
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/5f2u13
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⚡️BREAKING: An anonymous US official briefed by an anonymous Israeli official familiar with a briefing on the matter was briefed by anonymous officials that a plan to develop an effort to mull the possibility of contingencies is being considered and no one should panic - sources
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@JacobKishnevi @GSDeutch @FeverPotomac So? Any extreme nationalist who supports the ethnic cleansing of a group to create “living space” for their own ethnic group deserves the title “Nazi.”
Honestly, telling such a person or people to go eff themselves is the very least you can do
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@thirdintl @GSDeutch @FeverPotomac As I understand it, her campaign says it didn't happen. But the screenshot is real.
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an editor at the American Prospect, a progressive magazine, called the rabbis who met with DC mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George last week "Nazis" & said Lewis George should've told them to "go fuck yourself"
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@councilofdc @haydengise No, it’s “the steering committee of the consultant class” and the “Hanafi Movement Memorial”
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It’s “DC Council” and “the Wilson Building,” not “DC City Council” or “City Hall”
Washingtonian Problems@WashProbs
Caption this (DC Edition)
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@councilofdc @DCPoliceDept deserves 20x more funding and more support in arresting criminals.
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@gregorian @GSDeutch @FeverPotomac WaPo has a wider circulation and a lot more prestige than the Jewish Insider and WCP is the only outlet that does local investigative journalism. It’s fake news in a marginal media outlet with a clear bias against people who are anti-genocide.
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@thirdintl @GSDeutch @FeverPotomac Have you noticed what has happened to the Washington Post? Their newsroom has been gutted by cuts and defections. The validity of the story--which is always fair to question--doesn't hinge on that one publication or the WCP of all rags being the first to report.
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@mattyglesias @MattBruenig Funny how these “data-centric” guys don’t care about data when it comes to refuting their prejudices
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@mattyglesias @MattBruenig A major criminology review found that pretrial detention tends to increase reoffending after release and has “generally deleterious” effects annualreviews.org/content/journa…
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The only reason she voted against the legislation making strangulation a felony was that she objected to making it marginally easier to keep violent criminals in general off the streets. 😂
Alex Taliadoros@AlexCTaliadoros
@oucmecalling311 It's just a misleading hit job. Janeese supported both the Felony Strangulation and the Gun Endangerment provisions. She voted *for* these provisions in Secure DC and the Criminal Code Revision. She was just opposed to expanding pretrial detention — the main focus of the bill.
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@mattyglesias @FeverPotomac You’re framing it like she was soft on violent crime, but the issue was about whether expanding detention actually makes people safer. Locking people up before trial doesn’t make communities safer and can make outcomes worse. ideas.repec.org/a/aea/aecrev/v…
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@NobleQAli @JesseBrown @TheAtlantic There is a racial hierarchy in Canada and the entire West and quite simply racism against Ashkenazi Jews is privileged over racism against people of color (Jewish or not). Ashkenazi Jews are “white” now, but Black people will always be Black (or there will be no “white”)
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@JesseBrown @TheAtlantic Quite rich, considering your own efforts to single out and purge those who speak out against Israel’s genocide campaign
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I wrote a piece for @TheAtlantic about how Jews are being purged from public life. I call it the Polite Pogrom. theatlantic.com/international/…
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@kunktation @stephenwertheim @leninology People have been calling him the id of the far right since at least 2016
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The flagrant irrationality of Trumpism would have required a psychoanalytic turn in political thinking, if one weren't already underway, and @leninology is better at this than just about anyone
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Digitized the army guy on the cover of a Yugoslav military lexicon i bought a few months ago
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@ProudSocialist When Israel drops a bomb, it’s called foreign policy. When Iran does, it’s terrorism.
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@joewrote @notsyllytyler Half the world is begging for socialism, the other half is hoping for barbarism
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It's so funny the centrist tried to relaunch neoliberalism as get-things-done Abundance, but were too fond of billionaires, ICE, and Israel to do it. So now the country is begging for socialist governance.
Paul E Williams@PEWilliams_
Of note that Mamdani is developing a reputation with not-particularly-political people outside of New York as “a guy who fixes municipal problems quickly”
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