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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

I am a huge fan of @osullyville.bsky.social and it was great talking to him about his great new show "The Outfit" which you should all be subscribing to (here's the new ep youtu.be/NbfibhaQB7o?...)

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Took it from Orwell www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-f...

is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, not for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Western capitalists are aligning with Trump and pushing for war with China not only bc they can't compete but also bc the Chinese model of vigilantly watching capitalists for traitorous tendencies is clearly superior to our laissez-faire approach www.ft.com/content/27f0...

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Worth looking up your area's research university and NIH funding to see how Musk/Trump's cuts will affect it

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Jane McAlevey, 2018 catalyst-journal.com/2018/12/the-...

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Great, exhaustive book on abortion politics of anyone is looking for one www.versobooks.com/products/118...

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

March 2022 jacobin.com/2022/03/h-1b...

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Anyone conflating this objectively correct view of the matter as anti-immigrant nativism is unserious

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Sad to hear this guy was discharged alive from the hospital. was hoping it was terminal. World would be better if he lost in 1992.

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Again, these writers are intentional supplicants of power, not merely people we disagree with.

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Also I'm a Dunkin guy. My alibi is tighter than United healthcares prior authorization rules

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Rereading Michael Herr's Dispatches. Didn't recall how hard the opening paragraphs are

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The Mission was always telling us about VC units being engaged and wiped out and then reappearing a month later in full strength, there was nothing very spooky about that, but when we went up against his terrain we usually took it defini-
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tively, and even if we didn't keep it you could always see that we'd at least been there. At the end of my first week in- country I met an information oficer in the headquarters of the 25th Division at Cu Chi who showed me on his map and then from his chopper what theyd done to the Ho Bo Woods, the vanished Ho Bo Woods, taken off by giant Rome plows and chemicals and long, slow fire, wasting hundreds of acres of cultivated plantation and wild forest alike, "denying the enemy valuable resources and cover."
It had been part of his job for nearly a year now to tell people about that operation; correspondents, touring con- gressmen, movie stars, corporation presidents, staff officers from half the armies in the world, and he still couldn't get over it. It seemed to be keeping him young, his enthusiasm made you feel that even the letters he wrote home to his wife were full of it, it really showed what you could do if you had the know-how and the hardware. And if in the months fol- lowing that operation incidences of enemy activity in the larger area of War Zone C had increased "significantly," and American losses had doubled and then doubled again, none of it was happening in any damn Ho Bo Woods, you'd better believe it.
Copyrighted mater

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Bill said in his defense black people work there

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Anyone who points to things like "consumer sentiment" or polling about how people "feel" about the economy is doing so to distract attention away from the multi-decade bloodletting of working people by capital. fox59.com/news/u-s-hou...

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mattlech.bsky.social @mattlech.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Jogged 11 miles around Brooklyn listening to this today

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