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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Consumer confidence is falling while oil prices climb. Wall Street: “Markets are complicated.” Your average person at the grocery store: So is surviving them.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Oil is flirting with $100 a barrel. Your grocery bill is watching. Your gas tank is watching. Your paycheck is pretending not to know you. Capitalism, babe.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI: potentially transformative technology. Government: “Let the companies self-regulate.” ...AI generates child csem... Supreme Court:👍

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

AI companies are signing voluntary agreements to police themselves. Corporations regulating themselves is so adorable. It's giving: “I promise I'll behave. Pinky swear.”

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Ableism: “If your body can't perform according to the system's preferred schedule, you're the problem.” Capitalism: “If you're not productive, you're less valuable.”

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Venezuelan man shot by ICE in Austin reportedly still has a bullet lodged in his back and may need surgery... STILL has a bullet lodged in his back...

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

NTRODUCTION TO RESPECTABILITY POLITICS Week 1: Behave. Week 2: Assimilate. Week 3: Don't make anyone uncomfortable. Week 4: Discover that oppression still exists. Final exam: “Was being polite enough?” Answer: no.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The U.S. approved visas for Iranian officials to attend the UN while denying visas to the Palestinian delegation. Foreign policy is really just: “Rules for thee, exceptions for thee PDF explaining why.”

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And if your immigration system can turn a person from: worker → target → shooting victim → detainee in the span of an afternoon? ...but liberalism believes we can "reform" a system meant to do just that

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

An ICE agent shot and wounded a Venezuelan man during a traffic stop in Austin this weekend, according to city officials. The incident is under investigation. And this is why “immigration policy” cannot remain an abstract debate about numbers on a spreadsheet.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Abolitionist environmental politics is not: “Please recycle harder.” It is asking: Why are some communities exposed to pollution, extraction, heat, displacement, and environmental destruction while other communities accumulate wealth from it?

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Millions have already fallen off SNAP as states prepare for major changes in how the program is funded. Hunger is not an administrative error, that's a political decision. A spreadsheet can still be a weapon, it just doesn't make noise when it hits you.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

LIBERALISM: “We should make sure marginalized people have access to the social safety net.” CAPITALISM: “Okay but what if accessing it makes you less economically desirable?” ME: What if we stopped designing society around profitability? Everyone: 😐

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

IMPERIALISM'S LINKEDIN: "Excited to announce my new partnership with natural resources! Looking forward to thriving from the exploitation of surplus labor value, taking more land, and absolutely not thinking about the history of extractive colonialism. #Neocoloialism #Innovation #Geopolitics"

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

ICE reportedly wants to spend up to $2 million on robot dogs. Because apparently the immigration industrial complex watched Black Mirror and said: "Take notes."

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Supreme Court allowing the $400 million White House ballroom construction to continue is such an incredible metaphor. The building can get a ballroom. The public gets a debate about whether public money exists for public needs.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Let's be very clear: AI-generated sexual abuse imagery of children isn't made harmless because no real child was photographed... it had to learn how to generate the images from somewhere

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

White supremacy has always adapted to technology. The technology changes. The hierarchy doesn't. That's why "it's just a machine" is not an adequate political analysis. Ask: What is the machine being built to do?

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Imagine explaining this to a historian in 2126: "Yes, they had schools that needed funding." "Yes, they had people struggling to afford housing." "Yes, they had disabled people fighting for basic accessibility." "And what did the government prioritize?" "...robot dogs."

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Capitalism really said: "Your wages are determined by the market." Okay. Who's determining the market? Who's setting the rules? Who's collecting the profits? Who's cleaning up the mess? Oh. You thought I wouldn't ask follow-up questions.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

"Volatility" = your rent is stressful. "Restructuring" = somebody's getting fired. "Efficiency" = fewer workers doing more work. "Strong fundamentals" = please don't look at the executive compensation.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A government that fears what children learn will eventually start telling you what children are allowed to know. That's why literacy is political. That's why history matters. That's why facism is always suspicious of the classroom.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Parent: "What happened to the Department of Education?" Administrator: "We're empowering parents." Parent: "And funding?" Administrator: "Empowering." Parent: "Teachers?" Administrator: "Empowering." Parent: "The books?" Administrator: "Let's not get carried away."

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

LIBERALISM: "What if oppression had better procedures?" ABOLITION: "What if we stopped building systems that require oppression?" Different syllabus.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The Supreme Court cleared the way for restrictions on mail-in voting. And I am once again asking: Why are we comfortable treating restricting access to political participation like a software update that can be installed or removed instead of a primary function of liberal politics?

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The U.S. is threatening countries that maintain economic relationships with Iran. International relations: "You're not invited to my birthday party/" preschool bully diplomacy.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

BREAKING NEWS FROM THE IMPERIAL DEPARTMENT: "We're not going to invade you." ...Instead, we're going to economically punish everyone who trades with you. Imperialism has had a personality change. That's a wardrobe change.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

The patriarchy really told men: "Don't cry." "Don't be vulnerable." "Don't ask for help." "Don't talk about your feelings." Then looked around at emotionally constipated adults and said: "Why are men so lonely?" Bruh You wrote the curriculum.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I don't want a more polite empire. I don't want a kinder cage. I don't want diversity in exploitation. I don't want equality where the finish line remains private property. I want liberation.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Abolition is not "make the existing institution slightly nicer." That's reform. Abolition asks: Why does this institution have the power to harm people in the first place? That's the uncomfortable question.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

"Just follow the legal process." The legal process: changes the rules changes the timeline changes the eligibility changes the paperwork

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

We regret to inform you that geopolitical instability has increased your gasoline bill. Fortunately, oil companies remain extremely healthy. Thank you for your sacrifice. Sincerely, The "Free" Market

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

U.S. gas prices just hit $4.06 a gallon, with Americans paying billions more while oil companies posted enormous profits. But sure. Tell me again how the problem is that I bought a coffee.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I need people to understand that borders are political institutions. They are not weather. They did not fall from the sky. Someone designed them. Someone maintains them. Someone profits from them.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

Some of you don't hate "political correctness." You hate having your assumptions examined. Those are different problems. One requires free speech. The other requires introspection. Good luck with that.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Some of y'all don't need a political podcast. You need a library card and eight consecutive hours of uninterrupted historical context. And frankly? That's okay. We can start there.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Capitalism: wyd Me: reading Frantz Fanon Capitalism: oh Capitalism: so you're mad Me: yup.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Imperialism 101: Step 1: invade Step 2: destabilize Step 3: frame invasion to control resources in the region as an effort to instill "democracy" Step 4: call the consequences a "global security challenge" Step 5: act confused when people object The syllabus writes itself.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Iran saying the Strait of Hormuz won't reopen without U.S. concessions is the kind of sentence that makes "American exceptionalism" not so exceptional

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

"The market is optimistic." The market has never paid my electric bill.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The White House: "We're restoring order." History: "That's...not usually what happens next."

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

capitalism has incredible customer service... unless you're the customer.

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Wall Street: 📈📈📈 everyone else: "why is toothpaste suddenly twelve dollars?"

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

BREAKING: The people who designed the system have announced they're disappointed with the results of the system. Very brave press conference

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

every empire wants credit for ending conflicts it helped create

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

the most radical thing you can tell someone under capitalism is "your worth isn't earned"

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

your existence is not a performance review

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

capitalism: your value is your productivity ableism: and if you can't produce? notice how those conversations finish each other's sentences

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

anti-intellectualism isn't just discouraging reading it's narrowing what gets published in the first place

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Ari @ari4education.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

the fewer people who own the news the more we're told there's a diversity of opinion mathematically fascinating

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