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Jeff Brownell

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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Oh come on! Now you're just teasing us!! 🙂
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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The Weaponized Economy
Why the Debate Over Defense Contractor Stock Buybacks Misses the Deeper Sickness
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Tell Congress NOT to Let Polluters Off The Hook for Climate Damage . Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/te...
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Tell Congress NOT to Let Polluters Off The Hook for Climate Damage
Big Oil is trying to get Congress to give them blanket immunity for their climate crimes. As climate disasters like floods, fires, and hurricanes intensify, our communities are paying billions to dea...
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Workers Suffer as Wealth Accumulates: Finance as Grift and Other Revelations - Monthly Review
Fred Magdoff presents an incisive, data-driven analysis of the current state of the worker laboring under the domineering system of financialization and, in particular, private equity. In his conclusi...
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
After the Hunt
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/05/2026
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/05/27/u... 2/
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 27/05/2026
I don't care who you are, there will always be times when hell is other people. Not because other people are horrible - quite the opposite! Other people are *wonderful*, but boy are they ever *stubborn*. 1/
A hand-tinted image of elderly people in the lounge of a nursing home. Three killer robots have been inserted into the scene.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Extreme Benthamism stretches utilitarianism into the long-termism of billionaires with nothing better to do than imagine worlds that align with their egos—not unlike politicians who rename landmarks after themselves. They strive for a sliver of mortality with a shallowness that knows no bounds.
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Paulley Ticks @tomadelsbach.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
In honor of the true heroes on this Memorial Day, I fixed it. #DonaldTrump #MemorialDay
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Fossil fuel corporations knew about the climate crisis and lied. Now, polluters are trying to get out of being held responsible for their deceit. Help @climatehawksvote.com Tell Congress to oppose fossil fuel immunity! actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Stop Big Oil Immunity
🚨URGENT: Your right to sue corporations is under attack. Big Oil & Gas is lobbying Congress to prevent communities from taking them to court for breaking the law. Will you join me and @climatehawksv...
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
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How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/magazine/trump-civil-rights-law-discrimination.html How Trump Upended 60 Years of Civil Rights in Two Months Nikole Hannah-Jones 28 - 36 minutes Credit...Illustrati...
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Ida Bae Wells @nhannahjones.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Would love to hear their internal dialogues Moulton: oh my f****** God. I can't believe that this moronic clown is even here talking to us. How the f*** did such a buffoon ever reach this level of power? Hegseth: Kamehameha! Kamehameha!! Damn it! Why isn't it working? It works in Dragon Ball Z?
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
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Western Marxism and the Chauvinism of Defeat with Gabriel Rockhill
YouTube video by Millennials Are Killing Capitalism Live!
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
🤣
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Can I pick the fewer than once times? 🤔🤓
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
"...we set them free by seizing the means of computation." 🤓🤣🤓
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
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After the defeat of Italian, German, and Japanese fascism in 1945, commentators in the West worried about the incubation of the far right in their societies. Most Marxists, meanwhile, recognised that the far right had not emerged out of nothing, but out of the contradictions of capitalism itself. The collapse of the Third Reich was only a phase in the history of the far right and the development of capitalism: it would emerge again, perhaps wearing different clothes.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Are Intellectuals Really Free? Chomsky, Parenti, and Class Power (feat Gabriel Rockhill) substack.com/@gabrielrock...
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Are Intellectuals Really Free? Chomsky, Parenti, and Class Power (feat Gabriel Rockhill)
Interview by 99 Media / OttolinaTV
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
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Why is the United States Afraid of Cuba?
Venceremos
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller on dangers of political apathy and the incremental rise of tyranny.
First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Why is the United States Afraid of Cuba? open.substack.com/pub/luciddia...
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Why is the United States Afraid of Cuba?
Venceremos
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Attorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us · 01/02/2026
Welcome home, Liam and Adrian.
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Today at 9 am, I’m in federal court fighting for Minnesota and seeking a restraining order to stop ICE’s unlawful and unconstitutional occupation of our state. No one is above the law. No Minnesotan is beneath it.
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Jessica Lyons @jessicalyons.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
More than 400 tech workers have urged their CEOs to "call the White House and demand ICE leave our cities" after masked federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti over the weekend and the world's richest and most powerful chief executives remained silent.
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Tech employees demand their leaders take a stand against ICE
: But CEOs remain frozen in place
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Keith Ellison, Minnesota Attorney General @keithellison.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Even when barriers are put in our way, my team and I stay focused on seeking justice and accountability for our communities. Grateful to @donlemonofficial.bsky.social for being on the ground in Minnesota to help lift up this fight for truth and fairness.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
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VENI, VIDI, VENEZUELA: Pox Americana from War-a-Iago.
The long-term consequences of US actions in Venezuela demolish laws which hold together the United States and the international order. This is not Pax Americana. It is Pox Americana from War-a-Iago.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
You Cannot Kill Ideas That Fight Back
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
mronline.org/2025/12/23/z... "And how did we ever come to regard the concept of “budget responsibility” as compatible with a society where children go hungry while billionaire wealth rises by £35 million each day?"
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Shared Conversation - DeepSeek
Subject: Cuba Policy & Terminology** The text argues the U.S. policy is not merely an "embargo" but an economic "blockade." Key points: * **Mechanism:** While Cuba technically trades with many nations...
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
"To Africans, the question is: What will it take to end interventions of the foreign powers and their proxies in our homeland?" x.com/i/status/200...
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
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How to Do a Conjunctural Analysis: The Forty-Second Newsletter (2024)
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
He traces this parasitic system historically and shows how it dominates global politics today.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Hudson argues that the modern Western economy is not a productive free-market system, but a rentier economy. He describes how the "rentier" class (bankers, landlords, and monopolists) extract wealth without producing it, acting as a parasite on the "host" economy of productive labor and industry.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Michael Hudson has a lot to say about this subject. He has a series of books referred to as the debt trilogy: "super imperialism", "killing the host", and "...and forgive them their debts". They share a common theme about how finance and debt shape economies and societies.
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Attorney General Keith Ellison @ag.state.mn.us · 02/12/2025
Donald Trump’s disgraceful attacks on Minnesota’s Somali community are injecting more of his poisonous racism into our beloved home state. Hearing him single out our people based solely on their race and country of origin is downright disgusting.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
... They are more interested in hearing truth about the oppressive systems they actually live with than whatever those leaders are offering. And they are open to a progressive platform."
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
"Just as the right-wing and Democratic Party establishment failed to turn New York voters against Zohran Mamdani with Islamophobia, Murrill’s campaign against Duncan failed. Voters showed that they are more sophisticated than cynical leaders give them credit for. ...
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Another progressive win in New Orleans. Although the office is not as influential as New York mayor, it is still encouraging to see the right wing propaganda machine not able to knock out progressive candidates with the "political reactionary deck" stacked against them. mronline.org/2025/11/18/n...
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New Orleans elects formerly incarcerated jailhouse lawyer as clerk of court - MR Online
Duncan’s election is significant because he has sharply raised the problems of racism and police repression at a time when the Trump regime and servile state governments are attempting to stop any dis...
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Midterm Rigging Has Just Begun www.laprogressive.com/election-and... via @blumslaw
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Midterm Rigging Has Just Begun
Trump’s war on voting rights is part of a long game that aims for the eventual creation of a one-party state.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
UN Charter Chapter VI and VII or RBO 🤔 www.un.org/en/about-us/... www.un.org/en/about-us/... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
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Jane Goodall, the Gentle Disrupter Whose Research on Chimpanzees Redefined What It Meant To Be Human
Without formal scientific training, Goodall upended the study of animal behavior. She also inspired countless people to protect nature.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
It's how to help people, right?I mean, even Jesus took 99% of the fishes and loaves for himself, told his disciples to distribute the 1% to the meandering rabble. When they said it wasn't enough, he had the disciples tell them to go get a job, right? I mean, it's just "common neocon sense", right?
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
RFK Jr. rejects the UN's chronic disease declaration? www.devex.com/news/devex-d... Meanwhile, the Trump administration is working with Congress to cut millions of people from a federal nutrition assistance program known as SNAP
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Devex Dish: Why did RFK Jr. reject the UN's chronic disease declaration?
It’s almost time for the EAT-Lancet 2.0 report, and IFAD’s $1 billion milestone.
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Jeff Brownell @jeffbrownell.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Thank you. I completely agree with this if for no other reason than this is what the hoarders of capital do. Without concern for human beings affected, they pump up valuations through targeted hype, then channel profits into tax havens. It's infuriating we are propagandized to not see this.
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Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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