Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026I know I say this all the time, but the context for these numbers is wall to wall media opposition to unrealistic socialism. People pick socialism despite never hearing arguments for it 020
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Man if there’s one thing tech billionaires taking over media hate, it’s beloved brand names with generations of name equity 273
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Think you’re such a great parent huh, does YOUR kid’s mandarin tutor have an in-ground pool 120
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Not a conservative media-sanctioned opinion headline: Trump’s economy is failing the American people 010
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Headline: International criminal hates the international criminal court 030
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 19/09/2026To celebrate our new agreement with Greenland, let’s fondly recall that time we spilled four nukes all over it 020
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Even the Wall Street Goddamn Journal can’t ignore the festival of class friction that is this country 121
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Seen a lot of pompous Wall Street assholes cycle through the Treasury secretary job, but I really think Bessent is the smuggest dick to serve in the role, and I include Paulson in that 081
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Wow, we will tear down every world institution before we let them force our client state to quit ethnic cleansing 010
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Finance gurus: Essential tough-talking money coaches or useless guilt-mongering debt demagogues? I report, you decide. For @currentaffairs.bsky.social 110
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026This O’Hare airport bar invites you to imagine dining in the original Iron Age airport that once occupied the site 000
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Great Socialism Conference panel on the deteriorating hegemony with Chenjerai Kumanyika and Hasan Piker, the guy everyone’s angry about #SocCon 012
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Yes but commercial AI is a lying machine poisoning the world, whereas food allows you to continue to live 120
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Enormous book fair at the Socialism Conference! Come by and browse, day passes available. #SocCon 000
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Holy tomatoes, I wonder why. Maybe it’s our non-stop unjustifiable foreign asset seizures 010
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Amazing! Just so everyone’s clear, Google has been legally ruled a monopolist TWICE in three years and has faced zero breakup orders AND this time the penalty’s a SECRET SHHHHHH 010
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Kind of a “vendor financing”arrangement, one might say 120
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Allow me, a former hedge fund executive working a billionaire’s newspaper in an air-conditioned office, to tell you 083
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026More good times ahead, people! And if it’s not your impression that they’ve been so good, you should really get in the ruling class 031
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Socialists may be aware that every Friday the Wall Street Journal publishes its “Mansion” section. This week it’s about how the rich fly comfortably over your heads so they’re not even briefly inconvenienced while traveling between luxury properties worldwide 310
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Next: Renaming your family’s removal from your house “Funclosure” 020
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Conservatives demanded consequences if people made fun of Charlie Kirk, and insisted on firings and expulsions of faculty or students protesting the ethnic cleansing of Gaza. But now the conscience of the Right is stirred, its voice lifting up to say: 060
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 22/08/2026Marc Maron Shmarc Shmaron, let’s see some real comedy 000
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Been studying the rich for years, and man their wretchedly boring and tacky yet surreally expensive parties still take the croissant 3100
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 18/08/2026“Finish the job”, with a sort of final solution, one could almost say 1147
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 17/08/2026If anything like these recent polls can be believed, social democratic victories are adding greatly to socialist sympathy and identification. This is an historic opportunity for left media to welcome these people. Let’s do our best gang 0206
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Students sign their promissory notes to begin borrowing their average of $40,000 in student loan debt at the start of the academic year. BUT you don’t pay at the food court, so too much FREE STUFF is the problem, not the sight of students’ twisted future under capitalism 031
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Of course, both the victory and loss were narrow, and yet only one has made it to the commercial press headline 071
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026People, if you have ever criticized the government of Israel, you are now a socialist. Sorry I don’t make the rules 492
Reposted by Rob LarsonMaximillian Alvarez @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social · 05/08/2026New from me. It's been 4 years since then-President Joe Biden & both parties in Congress blocked railroad workers across the US from striking. Railroad workers tell me things have only gotten worse on the job since then. @therealnews.com therealnews.com/railroad-job...therealnews.comRailroad jobs have ‘gotten worse’ since Biden and Congress blocked workers from strikingFour years ago, then-President Joe Biden and both parties in Congress blocked railroad workers across the US from striking. Railroad workers tell us things have only gotten worse on the job since then... 18838
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 05/08/2026Someone is most displeased that she can’t go outside because of the WA smoke 1262
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026This is my home and I for one would like candidates for office to mention climate change sometimes 050
Rob Larson @ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 27/07/2026TOMORROW you can see me address the New York Chinese American Bankers’ Association! What will the administration’s policies mean for the markets? Tariffs, the Iran War, inflation, the ICE crackdown on the labor force, the rate cycle, AI and more somehow! Register now 010