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@HollyBlomberg
Aug 19, 2019 • 3 tweets • 2 min read • Read on X
Bipartisan investigation of Washington state legislator Matt Shea is in progress spokesman.com/stories/2019/j… Meanwhile, Shea apparently has absolute confidence that his constituents support #RightWingExtremism ⁦ spokesman.com/stories/2019/a…
Keep in mind that Matt Shea wrote “a ‘how to’ manual consistent with the ideology and operating philosophy of the Christian Identity/Aryan Nations movement and the Redoubt movement of the 1990” lawandcrime.com/politics/if-th…
“Muslims, journalists & critics ... are ‘supporting tyranny’ if they don’t support his view that the United States is ‘a Christian nation.’ Critics fear that Shea, an Army combat veteran, has begun employing that same principle to justify violence” theolympian.com/news/politics-…

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Apr 21
Giant bubble that has been percolating is getting ready to burst. Trump talked about getting rid of the Department of Education which would be bad enough, but with this announcement about #studentloans we are watching an unmitigated disaster unfold 🧵1/6
It’s unclear whether malice or just sheer incompetence is driving this shift, but the Trump admin cut off access to all income-driven repayment plans & conducted mass layoffs at DOE, (cutting staff by nearly 50%) 2/6
“Since the DOE has removed the application and halted all processing, though, it is not currently possible to recertify income – and this can have dire consequences including higher payments, interest capitalization, and halted progress toward student loan forgiveness” 3/6
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Apr 3
The US lost competitiveness & industrial strength because the power elite, starting with Reagan & then really heating up with Clinton. chose to maximize profits by kneecapping labor, off-shoring in a race to the bottom with wages. #Tariffs across the board won’t fix this 🧵1/7
Tariffs are a tax on imports. This tax is paid by importers, in our case US companies, who then pass the additional cost on to consumers in the form of higher prices 2/7
US deindustrialization wiped out the Rust Belt & enabled the rise of China as an economic powerhouse. The US thought that it could remain on top by developing monopolies, especially in tech & pharmaceuticals, & spur economic growth by charging enormous markups 3/7
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Mar 15
Since Musk’s latest claims about his timeline for Mars exploration are trending, it’s worth remembering the origin of his fascination with the red planet. Nazi scientist turned US space program engineer Wernher von Braun wrote a book called “Project Mars” in 1953 🧵1/6
In that book, a crewed mission lands on Mars & discovers “the red planet inhabited by indigenous Martians whose society is organized along technocratic lines and led by an executive figure known as an Elon” 2/6liberationnews.org/fascist-futuri…
Musk’s father even claimed that von Braun’s book was a direct inspiration for choosing the name Elon (starts around 3:16) 3/6
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Feb 28
“Forgive them, for they know not what they do?” As the second Trump administration proceeds to crucify the US economy, the people pulling the strings know EXACTLY how much pain they are inflicting 🧵1/14
Project 2025, the latest iteration of Heritage Foundation’s “Mandate for Leadership” (blueprint for incoming GOP administrations that began in 1979), provides almost 1,000 pages worth of backbone for a continuation of Reaganomics in the US 2/14medium.com/@nurselawyer/p…
Silicon Valley technocrats like Elon Musk hold the keys for unlocking control of both the public & private sectors. The Trump admin hit the ground running with the Project 2025 gameplan while deploying Musk’s shock troops of DOGE to purposefully “move fast & break things” 3/14
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Jan 2
For 40+ years neoliberalism has treated Economics as a high priesthood of solemn esoteric knowledge beyond the grasp of ordinary people. This stance is manipulative & wrong 1/6 To put it bluntly, the discipline of economics has yet to get over its childish passion for mathematics and for purely theoretical and often highly ideological speculation, at the expense of historical research and collaboration with the other social sciences. Economists are all too often preoccupied with petty mathematical problems of interest only to themselves. This obsession with mathematics is an easy way of acquiring the appearance of scientificity without having to answer the far more complex questions posed by the world we live in. —Thomas Piketty, Capital in the Twenty-First Century
Even trained economists may fall into the trap of thinking in absolutes about the discipline 2/6 The academic curriculum has been hijacked to replace classical political economy with a seemingly de-politicized but actually pro-rentier ideology. Mathematical symbolism is given the sanctifying role once afforded by Latin. Aping the natural sciences, economists take refuge in abstruse modes of expression. The more complex the math, the more simplistic and banal the postulated relationships and conclusions tend to be. Most of the math refers to choices between different “menus” of goods and services, without much analysis of how these come to be produced, or the long-term economy-wide cons...
Politicians & pundits also try to frame Economics in mathematically based black & white terms (think Margaret Thatcher’s infamous “There Is No Alternative” to neoliberalism), but in reality Economics is a social science 3/6
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Pro Israel Magen Am or “protector of the nation” is private security for Jewish communities. It began in LA but has spread to AZ. At the beginning the organization offered its services free of charge #UCLAProtest @TinaDesireeBerg 1/7forward.com/news/470196/la…
Now Magen Am has a subscription based service 2/7
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