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29 Nov, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Wait, that YouTube vlogger beat up the leftist dandy who edits Current Affairs?
Say it ain't so, @briebriejoy
This is such a crime @cbloggy, as @PatBlanchfield would say, you deserve a post in the cabinet
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30 Nov
1. So for ppl not deep in the weeds who want to know why Neera Tanden was my final straw, a bit of explanation & clarification. I haven't voted for Dems for some time, but I didn't begin process of formally leaving the party & joining the DSA until yesterday.
2. I don't just loathe Tanden for her odious politics of war mongering, fiscal austerity, creating conditions of systemic racism/ageism/disableism, and union busting, which she has helped brand as "progressive."

I loathe how she's undermined things I hold dear & fused them w BS.
3. Through the Center for American Progress, she has fused the idea of real research (community research, university research) with propaganda—confusing people who look at and depend upon reports to not know if it's well crafted research of big $ backed DNC/CAP propaganda.
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30 Nov
I feel bad abt myself almost all the time abt almost everything, but one thing I feel good about is my political adaption & maturation. I’m proud that I keep letting go of limitations, binaries & fear of “losing.” I’m proud I grow open to new ideas, experiences & ways of being.
I’m grateful I’ve been able to keep unlearning old things, learning new things, adapting to/with/past various isms, limited politics, “shoulds,” ingrained shames, frames of objectivity & of the status quo.
❤️ 🙏🏾 I have no idea what I’m doing most of the time, but I feel proud that I keep stepping into the unknown & who I am supposed to meet (including strangers or the version of myself I’ve yet to become) when settling doesn’t feel right.
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29 Nov
Neera Tanden being nominated for the budget job was the LAST STRAW for me with the DNC/CAP/MSNBC circle. When I heard that, I immediately paid my dues to join the @DemSocialists!!! 🌹 #Blexit, stage *left* Image
New DSA comrades: I don't have a SoundCloud, but I am writing a book on how the Republicans, the Democrats and capitalism itself have built a world with a perpetually created viral underclass
I guess closer to a SoundCloud, I was recently on @BadFaithPod with @briebriejoy and @virgiltexas and @DrDooleyMD.

Our turkey talk was the fuel.

Neera Tandem was the ignition spark.

Democratic Socialism will be the rocket we ride to a better future!

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/so-…
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29 Nov
I personally consider George Lucas wasting David Prowse inside Darth Vader's skin covering outfit to be an act of homophobia ImageImageImage
Cary Fisher complained that Lucas was anti-sex after he covered her head-to-toe in that white, boob-binding dress in STAR WARS (her gold bikini in JEDI was another director), but Princess Leia's dress was NOTHING compared to how Prowse's prowess was erased inside of Darth Vader.
This is a great interview Prowse did with @joel_eisenberg medium.com/media-cake/the… https://t.co/JYcSoxQMhu
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29 Nov
Not directly related here, but thinking abt how former President & 1st Lady Obama both work with/for Netflix, & how former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg now works for Facebook, & how there's zero independence between govt officials & the media outlet which shape stories
Tech allows for really seamless ways for capital (economic, social, political, cultural) to move, almost w/o notice. I find it funny that liberals will SCREAM abt Trump (maybe) starting a network but are MUM on lib heads of UK & US govts shaping output of...Netflix & Facebook!
I gave a Swiss/German friend in Europe my Netflix password & he wrote he'd watched Michelle's "glossy 'Becoming. Working hard for those Netflix millions & a good job. Update of Leni Riefenstahl Triumph of the Will to promote self-help and ambition." 💀💀💀
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29 Nov
LOL leave it to the New York Times to look at a nation where tens of millions of poor/working class people of color are organizing mutual aid, prison abolition, police defunding, debt cancellation—ie, SOCIALISM—and to say, “But how can frame socialism via a prism of socialites?”
In the history of lazy and ill-conceived Times “trend” stories, the rich kids of socialism trend story stands out—and that says something nytimes.com/2009/08/13/fas…
Make no mistake, framing criticism of capitalism as coming from the rich kids who want to tear it down is framing them as hypocrites from the onset & making it seem like any criticism of the system can only come from hypocrites & thus all criticism is illegitimate
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