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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 15/07/2026

I guess I'm on a first-name basis now with Stu, the feral Manhattan Institute "DSA-splainer." I guess he's telling me I should get a haircut which, fair, Stu, it is summer and it's getting kind of frizzed out, but what I really WANT is one of those dresses. they look breezy

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 30/05/2026

Nietzsche wrote The Gay Science just so you can have both

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 21/02/2026

I sympathize. My recommendation is to give yourself exactly 90 super focused seconds to find and buy one. I smashed my case and then instantly looked one up and bought another one before I went into a train tunnel. Have had it for three years, get compliments constantly

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 28/06/2025

Like Gillibrand he’s one of those “need to be extra deranged so everyone knows” Christians

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 21/06/2025

@north.dsanj.org REPRESENT canvassing for @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social today in LES!! We really don’t want you all to have to move here either 😉

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 20/06/2025

this is at the top of the online masthead of the US's main higher ed trade publication, Chronicle of Higher Ed. all the articles are about how there's been a surge of students at the same time as budget shortfalls/layoffs everywhere because of federal cuts

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 21/03/2025

The average Tesla owner makes a comfortable six figure income and the OP is making the point that avoiding the risks and inconveniences associated with the car is worth the financial hit. The Tesla is now a social and ethical lemon and not that great a car, anyway.

Screenshot noting that Tesla owners income are mid 6 figures on average.

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 20/03/2025

Post a fictional character who you think would be an antivaxxer. Hard mode: No villains.

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 27/02/2025

catching the 50th ann. restored print of the conversation (with a close friend who hadn't seen it before!) was a cinema high point of 2024 for me. a masterpiece, and Hackman was perfect. this image has haunted me for years and in the midst of everything, feels very ON POINT

Gene Hackman's character in the conversation playing saxophone next to a pile of interior rubble he's ripped out of his own walls and ceilings, looking for a bug (wiretap).

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 23/02/2025

The scene: Ithaca, New York Two young people browse the displays in a t-shirt store. She holds a shirt up to his torso and smiles; she buys it for him. They leave the store. The end

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 11/02/2025

I teach a course on law & sci-fi (have for years) at a so-called "little Ivy" and as of late I have had to REALLY stress to some of the more tech-y/finance/econ students (mostly white guys) that these aren't instruction manuals, nor do they directly imply what authors believe *should* be the case.

Classic tweet from Alex Blechman:

Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 11/02/2025

It hasn't started calling Denali or its national park "Mount McKinley" which makes me guess they aren't doing anything systematically over there, and are just hurriedly responding to angry phone calls. I assume Trump forgot about the mountain named after a "great president" already

Still from "The Simpsons"--old hat labeled "JUST IN! THE HAT MCKINLEY WAS SHOT IN!"

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 10/02/2025

Ok @ydsa.org now this is why I always vote to generously support our young comrades every Old DSA convention 🌹 ❤️ 🏈 Join dsausa.org and you too can take undue credit for posts like these, and more!

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 04/02/2025

We have just blotted another square of the Dirty Break Bingo card, lfg @jesseforindy.bsky.social 🫡 🌹

Jesse Brown on X: “Just got expelled from the Democratic Caucus, lmao”

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 27/01/2025

Listen Jack, I made this AI with a can of Bush’s baked beans, an orphan sock and my mom’s hair dryer and it told me the future

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 22/01/2025

"How Stephen Miller and Wife Katie Waldman Found Love Through Hate" Check out Vanity Fair's Max Beckmann-iacal rendition of this melted couple. So good On the bright side I'm excited for people to start finding out about German New Objectivism

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 20/01/2025

Happy MLK Day to everyone but the "Obama coalition"

mock wikipedia article screenshot showing Bernie Sanders beating Donald Trump by 42 electoral votes and ~9 million popular votes in the 2020 Presidential election

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 16/01/2025

This whole world's wild at heart and weird on top. RIP David Lynch, maker of a few of my favorite movies; inspirer of countless terrible ones; offender of the sensibilities of many; artistic savior of infinitely more. Time for (another) DL movie marathon 💔

David Lynch laughing with (L-R) Isabella Rossellini, (Lynch), Laura Dern and Dianne West c. 1990

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 16/01/2025

they're also blaming the internet for "spread[ing]...liberal values" and "female empowerment." Yes, the internet has empowered women to see how chuds act on the internet when they think no women are looking. No thanks!

paragraphs pulled from FT that blames the internet for "the fall in coupling" because women are too lib and empowered now

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 11/01/2025

Last one I came across had a Parasite Blu-ray and a copy of Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Also, Jen Psaki's memoir. A careful curation

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 25/12/2024

Big Classic Christmas Meltdown Insurance Epic ✨🍸 🎄

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 24/12/2024

Acktually, its not American—but I’ll blame my error on Blairism-9/11. In 2003 we were all American stalkers

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 17/12/2024

Here’s my cat Flo who looks nearly identical to Marsha

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 17/12/2024

Glad I live in a state where this is unlikely to happen without everyone losing their shit

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 16/12/2024

Rereading Ellen Mieskins Wood never fails to hit

Screenshot of Ellen M Wood's 1997 book "In Defense of History: Marxism and the Postmodernist Agenda," the relevant part which reads:

One of the ironies of postmodernism is that, while embracing – or at least surrendering to – capitalism, it, rejects, the "Enlightenment project," holding it responsible for crimes that would more justly be laid at the door of capitalism.

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 08/12/2024

But what if HarRIZ wasn't an "embarrassing misprint" but rather the missing key to winning the youth vote, and taking 20 boxes of shitty t-shirts straight to the dump was what lost the election

wrinkly white cheap campaign shirt, bound for the dump, emblazoned with PENNSYLVANIA FOR HARRIZ / WALZ

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 05/12/2024

Don’t forget folks, criticizing the for-profit insurance scam that controls whether you live or die is “hateful”

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Reading: WORKERS DESERVE MORE! @michaelajb.breadandros.es · 21/11/2024

Attn DSA comrades! If you're reading Capital with Nat'l Poli Ed, this Sunday is the "work sucks" supplement. RSVP for details, agenda to follow --> tinyurl.com/NPECCRGLABOR Ps if you're behind and want to reset, this is a great spot to join back in!

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