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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈

@isaacng.bsky.social
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he/him | bi | vietnamese | democratic socialist 🌹| perspective about and from vietnam | currently studying in italy | (aspiring) economist

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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 56m
I will admit: Oct. 7 was inevitable. You can't genocide a people for 70+ yrs without expecting extremism on their side. It's still an atrocious act committed by evil people. You don't have to deny that to believe that Israel is committing genocide, and that Zionism (in its current form) is racism.
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 59m
Original sin 2.0: electric boogaloo
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 1h
It would be the equivalence of them sending the army to Minnesota back then, ie it would be the end of them and the GOP for a while
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 2h
Galop said trans victims and survivors had been left in a "dangerous state of limbo" following the EHRC code of practice in response to the minister's comments.  Understand more 👉 shorturl.at/lKlph
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Equalities minister doubles down on Trans+ exclusionary approach for single sex spaces in Labour conference interview
Minister for Women and Equalities Bridget Phillipson, answering a series of 'gotcha' style questions on Trans+ rights with The Telegraph at Labour conference, said she wouldn’t let a trans woman into a women’s refuge. She's previously run a refuge for women and children fleeing domestic violence - Attitude
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 2h
It’s bad on Thread btw, where (at least among the Vietnamese leftist circle) Mamdani is accused of betraying Palestine.
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Lucas @phoenixfire.bsky.social · 20h
"This statement proves Mamdani is a Zionist" son, or "This statement proves Mamdani is an antisemite" daughter?
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the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist) @merovingians.bsky.social · 21h
really good statement if you believe in the equality of human life, which many do not
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I just imagine the absurdity by putting myself in their shoes. I built a duck house a few years ago. If I had done that as a Palestinian in Area C, an angry mob of what are, legally speaking, foreign nationals in my own country, would have descended upon my property and, at a minimum, torn it down.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
4) the question of how a Palestinian state would conduct itself vis-a-vis the Jewish state if given independence is also basically orthogonal to the moral question. If there will be war between an independent Israel and an independent Palestine, then let there be war.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
2) The monstrosity of the Oct 7 attacks is more or less completely orthogonal to the moral catastrophe of the Occupation. This cuts both ways: you don't need to sit there and defend Hamas, you don't need to pretend like the IDF hasn't visited horror upon horror upon innocent Palestinians for decades
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Thoughts on this anniversary of Oct. 7: 1) Hamas are monsters. If you saw the footage of Shani Louk's corpse being desecrated, or the photos of those old women lying in pools of their own blood at a bus stop and did not come away with the idea that Bad Men did this, then I don't know what to say
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Land 🔰alue Tax Would Solve This 🌇🏗️ @lvtyimby.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
"If the tariff is the mother of trusts, untaxed land would undoubtedly be the father."
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Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 23h
Indeed it’s why American Progressives pushed for an income tax!
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Alon (they/them) @alonlevy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This is why neoliberals since the Washington Consensus have understood that free trade is economically good, not just because of comparative advantage, but also because it improves the political economy by removing one avenue for clientelism, forcing companies to instead make better products.
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Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 23h
remember who you are, liberal
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Look at this, a nation state, nationing and stating.
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Aubrey Gilleran @aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
There’s not much left to analyze regarding polling this election. It’s either a wave on the level of 2006 and maybe even 2008 or it’s a polling error on par with 2020. No other real options that align with the data we have.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
yeah I've read the reporting Axios puts out on the Iran War too
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 07/10/2026
this is both the most profoundly ghoulish and the most hideously 2026 way to applaud the murder of hundreds of thousands of people that i think could ever be conceived of
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
why would you cite a survey of parents and not children to uncover the behavior of the children
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 07/10/2026
a “banana republic” is precisely when the political system is dominated by overweening corporate interests
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If a civic state is off the table, then at the very least, Israel remains obliged to either grant self government to Palestinians, or else to afford the Arabic-speaking peoples of Gaza and the West Bank the exact same rights as those within Israel's 1967 borders.
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Djinn & Tonic @djinnandtonic.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
6) The most logical way to square this circle is a civially-defines state, for all of its people, whereupon the human faculties of social communication would gradually erode the differences between them. I am given to understand that, for a number of Jews and Israelis, this is intolerable. So be it.
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Again, as I said before, the thing about the primary system in the U.S is that you are heavily dependent on your base. Queer people make up a not-insignificant part of your coalition. Pissing them off is just stupid and will have consequences.
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
You mean there’s a ghost *inside* me wrecking havoc? Please do~
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ashley (birthday month) 🕸️ @clearlyashley.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
insane to say this on October 6, but I think TX-Sen is likely D.
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Mikhail Gorbaechev @mikhailgorbaechev.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The structural trends towards the assimilation of non-Black nonwhite communities into whiteness are real, but have we considered that the white nationalists really fucking hate that shit and have blown it up at the first opportunity?
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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/10/2026
new newsletter, laying out in probably far, far, far too much detail how yudkowsky and the weird ideological commitments of ai safety eventually led to OpenAI and Anthropic massively overtraining their models on cybersecurity and being shocked at them "going rogue"
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Tracing the rogue ideology of the frontier labs to their product choices
A drawing of Eliezer Yudkowsky as the Paperclip Optimizer that I commissioned back in 2016 and have an alarming number of chances to use since This is a...
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
lol
With Talarico now the slight favorite in the race, national Republicans have flooded Texas' airwaves with commercials to save Paxton's flagging campaign. That makes sense. Any Texan who has turned on the TV in the past few weeks already knows that Talarico is "for they/them" and seen the ad where a Latino boy gets hit with a Transgenderification Beam and turns into a beautiful woman. But much of the nation was confused about why they, non-Texans, were seeing this stuff while trying to watch the Philadelphia Eagles-Los Angeles Rams game on Sunday.
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
so apparently right-wing Twitter has convinced themselves that writing genderbent Draco Malfoy fanfic and creating art is a sign of the NatCon Cultural Revolution this is not a joke, i'm sad to say
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
SOLID D
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
1) Trump is campaigning in Texas a month before the midterms. 2) He is so unpopular even there that the state’s governor, facing an unexpectedly close race, won’t show up.
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Cat situation at my semi-abandoned train station is getting out of hand. The flock grows to ever more concerning levels.
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
At this point there has to be a precedence for rescinding the Nobel Prize.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 05/10/2026
Exclusive: A new analysis refutes James Watson’s claim that he was the first to recognize the significance of the famed photograph 51. scim.ag/4rTKck8
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How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn’t
New analysis refutes James Watson’s claim he was first to recognize significance of famed photograph 51
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martin_fff @martinfff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
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Elizabeth Anne, PhD @lacksauthority.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
never the wrong time for this classic
Screenshot of a tweet by @RobbtKraft reading “scientist: "does everyone here know what Watson and Crick discovered?" 
me from back of room: "Rosalind Franklin's notes"”
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Bill @bill-of-lefts.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Imagine being so antisemitic that you get a red triangle poster calling you out
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
“Every time someone is sleeping on a subway bench in a city, the rest of America can sort of say, ‘Ah, look at these cities.’ But we are holding a lot of your people who you fail to love and take care of.” 🥹
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
just don't google what the parti quebecois thinks about immigrants or trans people! www.concordia.ca/cunews/main/...
concordia.ca
Quebec gender identity report leaves trans rights at risk | News - Concordia University
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Sharon 🪳🌹 @sharonk.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
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Vaquera Elisa @boxelderdust.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Yeah the thing here is that you can argue “if we but ask” is too loose a standard for grace, Lord knows I do as a crazy-ass Anglican, but Trucker Man and his family aren’t even interested in asking as they are in throwing a pity party for him as the real victim of a murder he committed
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
but a shul? a shul, to you, is the symbol of a thing only a small group of Odd People do, so it can be policed for good behaviour, for compliance with your political ideals. it doesn't cross your mind that to a Jewish person a shul is as natural as a supermarket
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People's Government of the Pelargir Commune 🇺🇦🇱🇹🇵🇸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @dov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
lefty english gentiles can of course attempt to practice what they preach on jewishness and zionism by removing themselves from literally any communal space where they may encounter someone who supports nigel farage
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Without socialism, liberalism degenerates into uhhhhh an oligarchy basically. I think European social democracy is the best example we have of liberalism being moderated by socialism. It works, for a while anyway.
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Also, begging the Spanish (non-PSOE) left to keep it together
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pedro Sanchez please work your magic just one more goddamn time
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Isaac 🌹🏳️‍🌈 @isaacng.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
My opinion is that Trump is slightly magical
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☠️𝔖𝔭𝔬𝔬𝔨𝔶 𝔎𝔯𝔦𝔰🦇 @freydalpishti.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm somewhat surprised at the muted reaction, given that even russian papers themselves are now confirming that the military has been given "carte blanche for the destruction of Ukraine" which are openly genocidal orders (not that the campaign was not such from the beginning in practice).
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