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Writer-editor-photographer. Lifelong activist & Democratic Party dissident. Neoliberalism spent, Trumpism shredding government & Constitution, & capitalism raping planet: what comes next? Democracy, community, equality, saving planet: Devil's in details.

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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 30/09/2026
Throw the bums out! Seriously, Troy, sever all ties to Schumer and his invading army of handlers, pr flacks, consutants, pollsters and moneybags. Order them to leave the state now. They're sinking your campaign. Bring back the Mainers who got you here. They're awaiting your call. Free Troy Jackson!
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Chuck Schumer Neuters Troy Jackson - The American Prospect
Can the populist Maine Democratic Senate nominee take back his own campaign?
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 30/09/2026
The Road to Universal Medicare: Medicare Part E is simpler and better.
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The Road to Universal Medicare - The American Prospect
The apparent split between advocates of Medicare for All and a more incremental approach is misleading and easily remedied.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 29/09/2026
Not ready for prime time.
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World’s First AI Actress MELTS DOWN In Piers Morgan Interview! + Tom Bilyeu, Prof Jiang & Tom Conti
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
The amount of Amazon workers relying on SNAP and Medicaid has nearly tripled since 2020 — while Amazon’s annual profits soared by over 550%. It’s the same story everywhere: corporate profits are at record highs, while workers’ share of the economy is at a record low. We must unrig the system.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 26/09/2026
Just finished Middlemarch. Awesome. May be the greatest novel written in English. Or any language. Too bad they made us hate it in high school. Glad to have caught up.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 26/09/2026
Corporate Dems loves 'em their prosecutors, spooks, retired military, and millionaire candidates. Those they don't trust and regard as petty annoyances are average middle- and working- class voters. Which is why they have no problem fibbing to us every couple of years about their intentions.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 24/09/2026
One of the first steps the Democratic legislature's re-democratization of the nation will be to back the unions.
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The New Union Way to Build Progressive Power - The American Prospect
A deep canvass of union members produces an agenda that can rally working families.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 16/09/2026
At least 20 dead, including children, as war-damaged building collapses in Gaza
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At least 20 dead, including children, as war-damaged building collapses in Gaza
The UN says many Palestinians are living in buildings damaged by Israel's air strikes across Gaza, warning many are at danger of collapse.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 16/09/2026
Want to slow down AI? Liability: If your product harms a human, a rival company, or another entity, you will indemnify, pay penalties, and go to jail. Plus, every AI product must be required by law to have a kill switch.
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Under Cover Of AI Doomsday, Big Tech Is Writing Its Own Rules
Matt Stoller, The Lever. Silicon Valley says its machines could destroy humanity. The more immediate danger is letting the people building AI decide how they’re governed. Editor’s note: Since Matt …
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 03/09/2026
Any sweeping systemic change you want to make in the United States has to begin with adding seats to the Supreme Court in 2029. No major reform bill will survive the current court. No civil rights law, no anti-corruption law, no wealth tax, nothing.
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Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Victor Serge was a revolutionary but resolutely independent man who insisted, above all, that socialism without liberty and democracy is not and cannot be socialism.
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In Defense of Victor Serge
Victor Serge’s legacy is not that of a man who abandoned socialism for anti-communism. It is that of a socialist thinker who refused every capitulation — to Stalinism, to liberalism, to despair — and who paid the full price of that refusal.
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Jules⚖️📨 @northjules.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
#ICE is now putting ankle monitors on Haitians until they can appear in court. The other option is to report to a detention facility. All of this in response to the Trump regime removing their TPS status. This is inhumane!
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 03/09/2026
Good question.
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What’s Left of The New School?
Jeremy Varon Dissent The New School’s workforce cuts, executive power grabs, and assault on tenure show how authoritarian management is spreading far beyond Washington. It has been tough times for …
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God @thegodshow.com · 09/07/2026
Mamdani got into office and instantly: • Froze rent for 2 million New Yorkers • Cut subway fares in half for low-income riders • Fully funded NYC parks • Added $680M for public schools • Launched free child care for 2-year-olds If establishment politicians actually wanted to help you, they could.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 10/07/2026
The central contradiction of our era lies between a declining imperialist system attempting to preserve its dominance and the aspirations of peoples and nations seeking sovereignty, development, and social justice.
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Vijay Prashad: Why the World Needs a Genuine Left
As a declining imperialist system lashes out to preserve its declining order, working-class organisation becomes not only necessary for the oppressed of the world but indispensable to human surviva…
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 01/07/2026
Must see TV.
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Full Speech | Jon Ossoff in Savannah | 06.27.2026
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 29/06/2026
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 29/06/2026
Airport and hotel workers fought for years to secure higher pay before the 2028 Olympics. Then a business-backed threat to gut city revenue pushed the Los Angeles City Council to postpone their raises—and defer their dreams.
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L.A. Delays $30 Olympic Wage Until 2030 After Hotels and Airlines Flex Their Power
Airport and hotel workers fought for years to secure higher pay before the 2028 Olympics. Then a business-backed threat to gut city revenue pushed the Los Angeles City Council to postpone their raises...
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 29/06/2026
While the White House lauds the men and women of the U.S. Merchant Marine, the foundation for the preservation of that industry is being undermined. Workers and their families will be discarded, and another essential U.S. industry will be outsourced.
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Maritime Workers Under Attack | The Stansbury Forum
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 20/06/2026
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NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani Knicks Championship Parade Full Speech
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 16/06/2026
"As workers at the University of Pennsylvania pursued a first contract, Trump’s second presidency rendered the administration cowed, the labor board unreliable, and international workers afraid. The antidote: high-participation, worker-led organizing."
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How Penn Graduate Workers Got Their Union Contract
As workers at the University of Pennsylvania pursued a first contract, Trump’s second presidency rendered the administration cowed, the labor board unreliable, and international workers afraid. The an...
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 16/06/2026
Amid pressure from progressive challenger former NYC comptroller Brad Lander, Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) pledged to return $100,000s in AIPAC cash he got this cycle. But May campaign finance records reviewed by The Lever show that Goldman accepted $55K from Better Blue Fund, an apparent AIPAC front.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 16/06/2026
Leaving aside the question, Vote for what?
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Opinion | My State Was a ‘Democracy Desert.’ This Is How We Turned It Around.
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Econ Analytica @econanalytica.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Cartoon by @stevesack.bsky.social
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 07/06/2026
Why have a book festival in the middle of a war? Why have a war in the middle of a book festival? #resilience
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"Waiting for the missiles to pass"
The living book in wartime Ukraine
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 07/06/2026
#mustread
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The DNC Autopsy Is a Confession
They wrote 192 pages about why they lost in 2024. The 89 Million are missing from every one of them.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 06/06/2026
There ought to be a law.
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We Investigated the Most Corrupt World Cup in History
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 06/06/2026
“As Florida maneuvers legal holes and digs its heels deeper into right-wing corporate rule, Big Oil has attempted to find a lasting, comfortable home in the state, specifically targeting Big Cypress National Preserve, the land of the Miccosukee and Seminole people.”
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Beneath the Everglades Marshlands, Resistance Lives On – Scalawag
The Everglades and its long time stewards hold wisdom and offerings of medicine against the plague of capitalism.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 01/06/2026
Restoration is not enough. Nobody wants to go back to a broken status quo. Voters are demanding transformation, with ideas that match the scale of the problem and ambition that matches the scale of the public’s desperation. In essence, we want a new social contract, updated for the 21st century.
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Voters Want Transformation, Not Restoration
Takeaways from CAP’s 2026 IDEAS Conference.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 30/05/2026
Does Xavier Becerra Know What a PBM Is? The question speaks to how in the Democratic Party, there is no price paid for the inability to govern.
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Does Xavier Becerra Know What a PBM Is? - The American Prospect
The question speaks to how in the Democratic Party, there is no price paid for the inability to govern.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 30/05/2026
#mustread
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Abolishing ICE Is a Start - The American Prospect
The seeds of an authoritarian state will still be there unless the United States reckons with its own fascist past and how that relates to Stephen Miller’s vision for the future.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 28/05/2026
MAGA: God works in mysterious ways.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 27/05/2026
A grassroots initiative in Michigan is about to show the rest of the nation how to fight back against greedy corporations that buy our democracy and take our wealth by spending millions on politicians.
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This is How We Get Corporate Money Out of Politics.
A grassroots initiative in Michigan is about to show the rest of the nation how to fight back against greedy corporations that buy our democracy and take our wealth by spending millions on politicians
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 27/05/2026
IThis is an organizing breakthrough in an economy dominated by the service sectors, where low-wage jobs abound and gig work is increasingly common.
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In Massachusetts Today, Uber and Lyft Drivers Went Union - The American Prospect
Under a recently enacted state law, independent contractors can bargain collectively—and now, they will.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 27/05/2026
The Left hasn't always had a clear vision of what democratic socialism means at the municipal level. Here is a concrete answer: It means using institutional capacity to build the public goods the market cannot affordably provide.
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NYC’s Economic Development Corporation Can Build Public Options
The Left needs to show it can deliver bold, ambitious new public services. Zohran Mamdani can transform the Economic Development Corporation into an incubator for public goods that can meet the needs ...
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 25/05/2026
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 24/05/2026
Amid Meta's mass layoffs and a hard pivot to AI, one engineer posted a scorched-earth farewell parody video to the tune of “American Pie” in an internal message board. We got our hands on it.
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Exclusive: Departing Meta staffer posts biting anti-AI video internally amid mass layoffs
The tech giant made thousands of engineers train their AI replacements—then fired them.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Thomas Massie’s race was the most expensive House primary EVER. It couldn’t be more clear: we need to get Big Money out of politics. I know ending Citizens United sounds like a long shot, but these states are working on a plan to do just that. Watch.
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Could This Actually End Citizens United?
Montana — yes, deep red Montana — has a plan to effectively neuter Citizens United.No Supreme Court ruling or constituti
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 23/05/2026
#mustread
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Made in the USA | Suzy Hansen
Pete Hegseth is the product of an essentially American ethos—which means we have no choice but to ask what to do with him, and what to do with ourselves.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 23/05/2026
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 23/05/2026
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 23/05/2026
There was nothing inevitable about the rise of capitalism, and there is nothing necessary about its continued existence.
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Why Capitalism’s Origins Matter
A new book defends a Marxist theory of the origins of capitalism. Along the way it shows why understanding the transition from feudalism can help us make sense of the present.
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 23/05/2026
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Steve Earle - "City Of Immigrants" [Official Music Video]
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 21/05/2026
"We are challenging this administration for sacrificing the lives of myself and my fellow plaintiffs by expanding fossil fuels for the sake of power.”
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Eva v Goliath: the 20-year-old climate activist taking on Trump and the fossil fuel industry
Young Americans are suing the president for violating rights with executive orders that fuel the climate crisis
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 19/05/2026
"... one thing was crystal clear from the two days of meetings: the global balance of power is shifting, from the declining petrostate in the west to the rising electrostate in the east."
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The American epoch of oil is collapsing. What comes next could be ugly | Jonathan Watts
China is dominating the energy transition with astonishing result, while fossil fuel fascists in the US try to turn back the clock
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 17/03/2026
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 18/05/2026
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 18/05/2026
New Israeli law mandating the death penalty for Palestinians accused of killing Israelis is drawing fierce condemnation from legal scholars, human rights advocates, & Palestinian organizers, who warn the measure represents a historic escalation in Israel’s system of incarceration & colonial control.
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OUTRAGE: Israel’s Execution Bill For Palestinian Prisoners Passes
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 17/05/2026
Because she can.
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Sings: The Who Sell Out
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Impractical Proposals - Liberty & Justice for ALL. @impracticalproposals.com · 17/05/2026
I barely knew who CA state senate candidate Sion Roy is, but after I got several anonymous attack mailings about him, I thought I'd better take a closer look. So now I'm voting for him. Good work, haters!
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