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Jake Altman

@TradeUnionJake

Midwesterner. Author of Socialism before Sanders. Covering labor, progressives, extremism, and union dissidents. 🇺🇸🐓🌽🐝

Michigan, USA Katılım Nisan 2025
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Labor dethroned in the Michigan Democratic Party. Extremists are the new convention kingmakers. My latest:
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@NoahCRothman Without exaggeration, it does seem that for many in DSA, Cuba, Venezuela under Maduro, and the CCP are the models.
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Tablet Magazine@tabletmag·
Walter Duranty downplayed and denied the engineered famine in Ukraine while discrediting reporters who tried to expose it. Journalism doesn’t have to stifle the truth in the service of fashionable causes and narcissism. It’s a choice, writes @IzaTabaro. tabletmag.com/sections/arts-…
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Mike Duggan@mikeeduggan·
Proud to have the Michigan Professional Firefighters Union behind this campaign. When the people who risk everything to protect our communities stand with you, you fight even harder.
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Corey Walker 🇺🇸
Corey Walker 🇺🇸@CoreyWriting·
Ryan Grim is literally defending someone who compared COVID mandates to the Holocaust. The left will support anyone as long as they hate Israel. The only ideological test for entry is hatred of Israel.
Ryan Grim@ryangrim

MTG sacrificed her political career to stand against genocide, against Trump, against the Epstein Class, and to defend the survivors of Epstein’s trafficking. If that doesn’t earn credibility I don’t know what possibly could.

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Ross Douthat
Ross Douthat@DouthatNYT·
I wrote my newsletter this week on why we should understand "post-liberalism" as a general condition of instability and ungovernability not just a specific ideological tendency. nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opi…
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deeplyunseriousposting@unseriouspost·
@MeCivilize @TradeUnionJake @NathanJRobinson made up criticism in your mind that no one else cares about normal people will say “he’s a rhodes scholar with a doctorate from oxford, and an md from columbia, he’s very well educated” they don’t care if he practiced medicine or not. they just want a politician on their side
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Nathan J Robinson@NathanJRobinson·
i think it's hilarious that anyone questions Abdul El-Sayed's right to be called doctor (MD, PhD, public health official) when Henry Kissinger got away with half a century of making everyone call him "Doctor Kissinger" because he wrote a dissertation on Metternich in 1954
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This shows how dire the situation is for Labour. It’s going to be a real struggle to hold this seat.
Josh Simons MP@joshsimonsmp

For decades, Westminster has overseen the managed decline of towns like mine. We have talked big, then acted small, stuck in a politics of incrementalism that cannot meet the moment. We have lost the trust of those our party was built to serve. It is my unwavering belief that nothing short of urgent, radical, courageous reform will make a difference. That must start with a change in leadership. Today, I am putting the people I represent and the country I love first and will be resigning as MP for Makerfield. I am standing aside so that Andy Burnham can return to his home, fight to re-enter Parliament, and if elected, drive the change our country is crying out for. This has not been an easy decision. This is my family’s home, where only a few weeks ago, doctors and nurses at Wigan Infirmary saved our newborn son’s life. But we all must make choices and in recent days I found myself with a difficult one: defend the status quo or step forward and act. I have made my choice. I am in politics because politics is how you change lives for the better. My party has one last chance to do that: deliver for the people and places I represent, drive economic growth, secure our borders, reform our state and politics, and change a status quo that is not working. That is the fight. I believe Andy is the one to lead it.

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Jake Altman@TradeUnionJake·
Yeah. As I said, this was an issue in 2018 too. But the campaign has bigger problems, like the wealthy pro-Hamas donor he doesn’t want to discuss. His charm often drifts into smarmy territory. He identifies real problems (gambling and legalized drugs, for instance) but is so very weak on solutions that you wonder why he raises these issues at all. Non ideologues will also see through his lefty gimmick’s — Michigan isn’t Ann Arbor. I doubt he can win a general election without a politically flexible campaign that moves away from far-left shibboleths. The campaign also hasn’t gotten really rough yet. Republicans won’t adhere to liberal niceties.
Abdul El-Sayed HQ@AbdulElSayedHQ

Abdul’s Keynote Speech at the University of Michigan Medical School Graduation in 2019:

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@herandrews I just read the preface, and it reminded me of how much I enjoy his work! Thanks for the recommendation.
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Helen Andrews@herandrews·
@TradeUnionJake I really enjoyed “Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World,” he is a very eclectic thinker.
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