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The tide is turning. Keep going. We will keep going, too.
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Alex Colston
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Alex Colston
@enoughformethx
No one's free until we're all free
Brooklyn, NY Katılım Ocak 2020
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We are calling on all medical and healthcare workers to raise your voice. The 95 Palestinian medical and healthcare workers in Israeli jails must be released. We must pressure international and Israeli authorities to release them all!
Join our campaign:
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@enoughformethx @JulianAndreone he once compared platner to allende, castro, and engels, so i don't think historical analogies are his strong suit lol x.com/ryangrim/statu…
Ryan Grim@ryangrim
Few things on this: Maine (and some other New England states like Vermont) treat private school differently. In many towns you can go to private school free, paid for by the town, because the towns are too small to have public high schools. But yeah, it appears Platner was at least middle class, maybe upper middle class with a lawyer dad and architect grandad. Yet since high school his work experience is the military, bartending (he was actually my bartender at the Tune Inn), and oystering. To dismiss the latter because he "owns an oyster farming business" misses the fact that he is out on the water every day working it. When he launched his campaign, friends in Maine reached out and said holy shit the guy we buy oysters from is running for Senate. He kept oystering through this summer, they told me. They've been buying from him for years. This is not a hobby, it's his work. At minimum, if you don't want to grant him the "working class" title, he has been working with working class people since graduating high school, which basically nobody in the Senate can say. (He never graduated college.) Either way, this hunt for hardscrabble factory workers to lead the revolution isn't real life anyway. Lenin's dad was a high-ranking education official. Fidel's dad was a wealthy businessman who sent his ornery son away to school. Engels was rich af. What made Stalin so unusual was that he was actually working class. Anyway.
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Ryan offers fascinating analysis of Jeremy’s interview with Ro Khanna and presents the relationship between Lincoln and the abolitionists during his mid-slavery rise to the presidency as a parallel.
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
🎥 “You always hit a point where they carve out their own version of a Palestine exception.” Rep. Ro Khanna described himself as a “student of Lincoln,” and Ryan Grim suggested Khanna sees Jeremy Scahill as the “crazy abolitionist” willing to say publicly what Khanna may believe but considers politically impossible. Scahill credited Khanna for engaging seriously and for taking positions on Palestine that remain highly unusual in Congress, while explaining why journalists still have a responsibility to press elected officials on the limits of their support for Palestinians. @ryangrim | @jeremyscahill
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@briebriejoy @acobasi Also, just to be clear, Lincoln’s “coalition” to preserve the Union was only debatably “toward the end of abolishing slavery.” Lincoln often said the exact opposite.
That’s quite some historical revision in the service of his tendentious point here.
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Grim suggests that Khanna might secretly agree with Scahill on the Palestinian right to violent self defense against Israeli occupation.
Scahill to Grim: “It’s not our job as journalists to fluff him up.”
Drop Site@DropSiteNews
🎥 “You always hit a point where they carve out their own version of a Palestine exception.” Rep. Ro Khanna described himself as a “student of Lincoln,” and Ryan Grim suggested Khanna sees Jeremy Scahill as the “crazy abolitionist” willing to say publicly what Khanna may believe but considers politically impossible. Scahill credited Khanna for engaging seriously and for taking positions on Palestine that remain highly unusual in Congress, while explaining why journalists still have a responsibility to press elected officials on the limits of their support for Palestinians. @ryangrim | @jeremyscahill
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Never mind the fact that the Radical Republicans remained staunch and unapologetic critics of Lincoln throughout and even during Reconstruction!
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Setting aside the credulous nonsense and ahistorical gloss, a hilarious analogy given the obvious corollary that, despite Lincoln wanting to preserve the Union, civil war broke out anyways and abolitionists, like Douglass, didn’t side with him until the emancipation proclamation.
MarketWatch Sucks Donkey Dong@kay_enne
@SpookySocialist @SpookySocialist did you see Establishment dweeb Ryan Grim try to whitewash Ro Khanna’s lack of support for armed resistance, by positing that he’s a secret supporter of it but needs to deny Palestinians’ right to resist publicly to “build coalitions”?😭 “hE’s jUsT LiKe LiNcOLn!”
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Listening to this for the last time, mournfully
Alex Colston@enoughformethx
The World Cup, for me, is only an excuse to listen to this banger as many times as possible.
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Mike Johnson says that the Pentagon is requesting an additional $350,000,000,000 for things like "fighting Communism on our own shores"
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I was glad to have a chance to share these prepared remarks.
Here is an excerpt from the latter half of the speech for those interested.
welcome to our trash revolution@trash_panda97
feat. @enoughformethx 🫡
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@enoughformethx Love and strength to you, my first born. Your heart is broken for the hurting, but it is good. Love from your Mama.❤️🩹🇵🇸
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Alex Colston retweetledi
We have a beautiful, beautiful piece from Hassan Abo Qamar up at @thenation right now, about how people in Gaza have pushed through every obstacle to revel in the collective joy of watching the World Cup. A must-read! thenation.com/article/world/…
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Socialism is not uncontroversial. But its basic contours – in the old-school mode of planned economies, visions of market socialism like my own, or less far-reaching models of social democracy, are pretty well-known. Could Taibbi really be ignorant of all this?
Matt Taibbi@mtaibbi
So your solution is for no one to own anything?
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Alex Colston retweetledi
We are calling on all medical and healthcare workers to raise your voice. The 95 Palestinian medical and healthcare workers in Israeli jails must be released. We must pressure international and Israeli authorities to release them all!
Join our campaign:
drove.com/campaign/6a4e9…
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@JofChalcedon You’re not listening to what I’m saying: if you have problems with those decisions at that time, be specific! If it’s limited to Maz shouldn’t write, that has literally nothing to do with me, and I don’t think I would just outright agree with that prima facie
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You people also stuck Murtaza Hussain’s byline on a Syria dateline when he wasn’t there. Don’t hurt your arm patting yourself on the back
Alex Colston@enoughformethx
This is how it’s done, and if I may, it’s what I thought was the orientation at DS in my time. Be ruthless and relentless with people in power, on behalf of the powerless. That’s the job. There’s no reason to do it otherwise.
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@JofChalcedon It’s a genuinely funny and totally vague rhetorical posture to strike toward me and light on specifics. If you have demonstrable problems with editorial decisions, go write about it then. I’m not stopping you. You tilting at windmills toward me is meaningless. Have a good day
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@enoughformethx The point is that the conduct of the editorial operation has not been beyond reproach, that being an example of a pretty fundamental ethics lapse. I have no interest in speaking to the manager, am pointing it out for anyone who may be interested as a reader
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@JofChalcedon You’re not making a coherent point. I’m patting myself on the back for a decision that wasn’t mine to make? Take it up with someone else if this is your problem. I like Maz, but you’re talking to me as if I made a bad decision. Take it elsewhere, use your brain.
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@SrirachaVodka If that’s true, it’s whatever the opposite is of playing inscrutable 12-dimensional chess. This is why DSA seems so exhausting from the outside, tbh
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I don’t understand the premise. Who is the electable democratic socialist? What’s the standard? There’s a rush of exuberance for the mere idea with no standard-bearer, it would seem to me.
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