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Eric

@dreadfulposts.bsky.social
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Law talkin' guy. @bostondsa.org & @marxistunitygroup.bsky.social member. Co-chair @merrimackdsa.bsky.social. Advocate for socialism, anti-imperialism, & appreciation of the mustelid family. Occasional international politics knower. He/him. Opinions my own.

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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 6h
I worry in the next few years we're all going to have to have some patient, complicated conversations with older or less media-engaged relatives who see the le epic trump takedown posts but do not stuff like this about who Gavin Newsom Really Is
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Marxist Unity Group @marxistunitygroup.bsky.social · 22h
Last month, MUG and DSA NPC member Cliff Connolly spoke on WFLA about the need for a democratic political and economic system that gives the working-class majority an equal say in decisions that affect them. America is not a democracy, and DSA is fighting to make it one.
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 23h
It’s an online narcissism day. Tried to pick albums based on formativeness rather than my current top 9, or Better Oblivion Community Center, Empire Builder by Laura Gibson, and something by Mountain Goats/Sufjan Stevens would be on there. Slightly angry with myself for not getting Liebknecht.
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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
When it comes to a US president enabling mass slaughter abroad, really it is the private frustration that is most important.
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Governor Pervert sides with the Perverts. He is the future of the party.
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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Periodic reminder that the @bostonglobe.com opinion section regularly features pieces from Richard Hanania
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
this is true, but it’s sorta like saying King Louis XIV was not on the side of democracy—they are unelected, lifetime rulers! their political power is fundamentally anti-democratic. it’s not an aberration when they make decisions to further weaken popular control of government
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 29/09/2026
awoke this morning with a Vision
that diagram showing  the SUV blind spot in the front but it's lowly worm driving his little applemobile
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I will not live in a HOA, I will not eat the tallow fries, I will not listen to the Texas song
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Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The two main tendencies in national Israeli politics right now are "expulsion and annexation of the Palestinian territories" vs "civil separation under the authority of an Israeli police state", and virtually all mainstream US commentary simply refuses to engage with this.
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Belly of the Beast @bellyofthebeastcuba.com · 27/09/2026
At the UN General Assembly today, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla challenged Trump’s claim that Cuba is a “failed state.” “If that were the case, why did they have to impose a fuel blockade?” he asked. The U.S. diplomat present walked out during his speech.
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Mr. Joshua @pantspants.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Pen, watercolor, black & white charcoal pencil.

Another featured piece from the Spooky Pants book.

A man in a sweater stands with his hands on his hips looking out of a large window with the curtains open. Things aren’t looking good outside, reader. A massive winged demon is emerging from the clouds as dozens of little ghosts and bone demons rip through the sky. On the ground below we see townsfolk running through the grass. Our man in the window is in no mood for this. He lets us know, “Oh, I am in no mood for this.” His dog looks out the window as well, wagging its tail. 

Fantasia (1940) inspired drawing. I think I could’ve gone a little heavier with the chaos outside but we’ll try again with fresh drawings this October. I like how the clouds turned out. Trying to balance my sloppy lines with more detail can be tricky but I think we achieved a good result.
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Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
New NBC News national poll: Are you MORE or LESS likely to support a candidate who supports… …Trump’s tax bill (OBBB) 36% more 42% less …the war in Iran 24% more 57% less …Trump’s $5,000 checks idea 21% more 46% less …giving funding & weapons to Israel 25% more 55% less
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Boston MUG @bostonmug.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Read our recommendations and perspectives regarding tomorrow's votes on Boston DSA's orientation toward the 2028 election, featuring articles from Chas M. and Eric L. bostonmug.substack.com/p/september-...
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September 2026 General Meeting Reflections & Recommendations
Our recommendations for the September General Meeting and articles from Comrades Chas M. and Eric L.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 18/09/2026
This guy who assaulted a sitting member of Congress got 28 years and 10 months less jail time than a Texas resident who transported a box of zines that contained constitutionally protected content opposing ICE reason.com/2026/06/25/t...
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Texas man gets 30 years in prison for transporting 'anti-government' pamphlets
The case stems from a violent anti-ICE protest, but critics say the government's prosecution threatens First Amendment rights.
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Sarah Lazare @sarahlazare.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Today, a coalition of orgs including Palestinian Youth Movement, Peace Action, and DSA, announced a campaign to "Drop the Genocide 20." They identify "the top 20 officials most responsible for promoting, lying about, and covering up the Gaza genocide in the Biden White House." dropthegenocide20.org
Head shot photos of Antony Blinken, Jake Sullivan, Brett McGurk, David Satterfield, John Finer, John Kirby, Matthew Miller, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Karine Jean-Pierre, Barbara Leaf, Dorothy Shea, Jack Lew, Lloyd Austin, Samantha Power, Stephanie Hallett, Mira Resnick, Julieta Valls Noyes, Michael Kurilla, Uzra Zeya, Deborah Lipstadt
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
BREAKING: Human rights and anti-war organizations are launching a campaign to demand the top Biden officials who promoted or lied about the Gaza genocide be boxed out from future Democratic administrations and other liberal spaces. Rashida Tlaib & Chris Rabb signed on. More expected to join.
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EXCLUSIVE: Biden’s Genocide Accomplices Targeted by New Accountability Campaign
#DroptheGenocide20 demands Biden admin aides who enabled the Gaza genocide not be given roles in liberal spaces – like the role it turns out JD Vance pursued in 2016, when he ‘hated’ Trump.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
GENEVA (AP) — UN-backed human rights experts find 'reasonable grounds' to believe US committed war crimes in 2 deadly strikes on Iran.
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Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
and another thing: im not complicit. please dont put in the newspaper that i got complicit.
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I am proactively furious about The Pitt winning over Pluribus and AKOTSK
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It was pretty funny when people were calling on this guy to run for office. Like drafting Ted Kennedy for President immediately after Chappaquiddick if Ted Kennedy had also never held public office and hadn't had a job for 10 years.
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Democratic Socialists of America @demsocialists.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The through-line for the Workers Deserve More program is an expansion of democracy, in our communities, in our politics, and in our economy. Visit dsausa.org/join today and help bring real democracy to our lives. You can also see the full Workers Deserve More program at program.dsausa.org 🌹
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Marxist Unity Group @marxistunitygroup.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
All hands on deck to fight the constitution and win the democratic republic! One week left to submit your MUG application — applications close 9/18 so get your apps in now: marxistunity.com/join-mug
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Henry Carnell @hencarnell.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Tremendous reporting on some dangerous pseudoscience.
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I dunno it kind of seems that if Wendy’s genuinely said that they thought there was at least a 10% chance that their square hamburgers would end all human life we’d probably go hey you’ve got to stop selling those square burgers
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Feel like a lot of discourse is related to the claimed dangerous AI behavior being fake, and some probably is, but I think the bigger issue with these news cycles (maybe lost in reluctance to believe AI can do anything) is that they create a pretty powerful perverse incentive to create said behavior
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Educational attainment as class strikes again, SMH. If we're going off of the end of the show, Lorelai Gilmore is a business owner! If we're going off of the start of the show, Walter White is a public school teacher!
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Merrimack Valley DSA @merrimackdsa.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
We had a great time today talking with our neighbors, discussing our organizing in the area, and celebrating the workers of the world. If you liked what you heard, join us for our next meeting on September 16 or for Coffee with Comrades in Lawrence on September 19: linktr.ee/merrimackdsa
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Love the new Workers Deserve More palm cards
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siobhan mcdonough @siobhan-m.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
this is true, and it isn’t just in red cities & states. in cambridge—a city that formally bans collaborating with ICE/CBP—if our cops arrest a non-citizen, the state’s 287(g) agreement could turn them over to ICE
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Merrimack Valley DSA @merrimackdsa.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Want to celebrate Labor Day by helping us take on the bosses and build a socialist future? Stop by our booth on Monday at Heritage State Park in Lawrence at the Bread and Roses Festival!
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Sam Thielmonster @samthielman.com · 04/09/2026
again, why is this legal. why are people allowed to sell these cars. why are banks allowed to offer people loans to buy them.
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Virginia as my #1 state- not bad!
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Reuters @reuters.com · 03/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally, sources say reut.rs/3SE3AUZ
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EXCLUSIVE: Kennedy asked to remove Pennsylvania measles death from CDC tally, sources say
U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. asked his new CDC director to remove a reference to two Pennsylvania deaths from the agency’s online measles tally after he questioned whether the disease contributed to the ​fatalities, three sources familiar with the situation said.
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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This is the most "Good Germans" story I've ever read. A quiet, kind, bootlicker family did their duty to the state by turning a terrified teenager over to the gestapo and can't figure out why everyone's mad at them.
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Death threats flood auto shop where immigrant girl hid after escaping detention center
Gonzalez Auto Center in Homestead has been flooded with death threats after police apprehended an immigrant girl who escaped the Florida detention center and then hid in the auto shop.
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they/them might be giants ☭ @babadookspinoza.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
*being positioned before a firing squad* Wow, this speaks volumes!!
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cassius marcellus clay @cmclay.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
when the world has gotten so chaotic its reassuring that bluesky is sticking to traditional values: letting antisocial crybullies in their 40s dictate all standards and framing of social interactions
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Evan MacKay @evanforcambridge.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Thank you, and solidarity forever.
I congratulate Representative Marjorie Decker on winning the election for State Rep in Cambridge. I am profoundly grateful to every voter and volunteer who made our campaign possible.

Although we did not win this election, we built something real. Together, we knocked 54,054 doors. 653 people volunteered. We took on the political establishment and built a movement that could not be ignored. Thousands of neighbors joined conversations about getting ICE out of Mass., getting money out of politics, and delivering a State House that works for everyone. Those relationships and the power people discovered in acting together will endure. We look forward to working with Representative Decker and our community in advancing the commitments made during this election.

This campaign may be ending, but our movement's fight for democracy and transparency continues. Thank you, Cambridge. I love you all, and I look forward to continuing to organize alongside all of you. Solidarity forever!
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The Verge @theverge.com · 02/09/2026
As a new Harry Potter trailer makes the rounds, it bears repeating that there’s no way to watch this show without supporting J.K. Rowling’s bigotry and the structural violence she’s inflicting on the trans community.
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There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series
You can’t without supporting Rowling’s transphobic bigotry.
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🕷️Spectre of Communism🕷️, MSW (NOT A MAN) 🥯🌹 @acabcalloway.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
dsausa.org/join
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Evan MacKay @evanforcambridge.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
This race was decided by just 41 votes last time. Every door matters. Every conversation matters. Every vote matters. This is about outside money vs. people power. Let’s send union organizer Evan MacKay to the State House. Vote Evan MacKay on Sept 1st. www.evanforcambridge.com/vote
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VOTE Eday — Evan for Cambridge
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Eric @dreadfulposts.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hot(?) take: this should not be allowed. It’s obviously contrary to the spirit of ranked choice voting to game the system like this, and doing so is likely to lead to FPTP being reinstated.
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🔫🎃Scott Martian Invaders 🎃🛼 @youcaughtscott.com · 29/08/2026
You all should note the distinct lack of coverage about people suffering in Venezuela since the US illegally kidnapped Maduro and made the country a neocolony.
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Leonard Pierce @leonardpierce.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
It’s not that we haven’t been doing this sort of thing for over a century, it’s that we’ve gotten to the point where we aren’t pretending anymore That is both infuriating and somewhat of a relief
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Marxist Unity Group @marxistunitygroup.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
New on MUG's podcast, Light & Airwaves! We talk with Siobhan McDonough about the ongoing attacks on our civil and political rights, the Bill of Rights, the Supreme Court, & why principled politics creates rather than reflects majorities. Listen here! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
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