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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 27/09/2026

we haven’t had a declared war for so long people forget what it means for free speech, but here’s Justice Douglas in Brandenburg v. Ohio:

Justice Douglas's concurrence reflected the absolutist position that only he and Black, among Supreme Court justices, ever fully subscribed to, namely that the phrase "no law" in the First Amendment ought to be interpreted very literally, and that all speech is immune from prosecution,
regardless of the governmental interests advanced in suppressing some particular instance of speech. He briefly traced the history of the "clear and present danger" test, illustrating how it had been used over the years since its debut in Schenck to dismiss dozens of what Douglas viewed as legitimate First Amendment claims.
A short section of Douglas's opinion indicated that he might be open to allowing the government greater latitude in controlling speech during time of "declared war" (making clear that he was not referring to the then-current Vietnam War), although he only phrased that possibility in terms of doubt (as opposed to his certainty that the clear and present danger test was irreconcilable with the First Amendment during time of peace).

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 24/09/2026

trump voters explicitly saw themselves as needing to make america great again and rejected clinton's "your lives are great and I will keep it that way" message

Hillary Clinton
@HillaryClinton
"America is already great. America is already strong & I promise you, our strength, our greatness, does not depend on Donald Trump.” —
@POTUS
11:18 PM · Jul 27, 2016

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 23/09/2026

the labor aristocracy thesis is specifically that were it to come to it, Americans would wholeheartedly favor destroying the whole world before giving up household refrigeration. in effect, this is actually existing climate politics

“poor” households 99.6% have a refrigerator fix news screenshot

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 12/09/2026

it’s always funny when people spell it “milk toast” instead of “milquetoast,” which means “milk toast”

Etymology
Etymology tree
[show 7]
Named after Caspar Milquetoast, a character from the comic strip The Timid Soul, created by American cartoonist Harold Tucker Webster (1885-1952) and first published in 1924; the character was named after the American dish milk toast ("a food consisting of toasted bread in warm milk"),'" from milque (pseudo-Gallicism derived from English milk) + toast.

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 08/09/2026

the process of industrialization that the bourgeoisie undertook to create the proletariat was, if anything, an effort specifically to devalue fitness as the means by which capital engages in m-c-m’

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 08/09/2026

the underpaid workers who are preventing me from taking things that are just sitting there that nobody else is using and aren’t even theirs unless i hand them money for the privilege? all cashiers are bastards

panel 1: person in a store saying, “I don’t shoplift because I need to”

panel 2: “… it’s not like i need basic necessities or whatever”

panel 3: “I do it to screw big companies over. it’s just morally correct”

panel 4: author self-insert saying “Wait… aren’t the underpaid workers the actual ones getting screwed ove–“

person replying, “Eat the rich!”

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 12/08/2026

they're making the worst anti-flock agitprop in photoshop

gadsden flag with the snake replaced with a sawzall

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 06/07/2026

the american revolution was fought to explicitly adopt the legal system of the country being rebelled against

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 30/06/2026

glad to see the supreme court recognize in the birthright citizenship case that the story of our founding as a rebellion against monarchy is bullshit, just in time for july 4th

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TRUMP v. BARBARA
Opinion of the Court
That was not the view of the Reconstruction Congress.
Where the dissents see feudalism, the Framers of the Four
teenth Amendment saw emancipation. By the time of the
Glorious Revolution in 1688, in fact, the tie created by birth
was less a “duty” than a “right”—the foundation of the “an
cient liberties” of “free-born subjects.” H. Muller, Subjects
and Sovereign 16–18, 57–58 (2017). That is why Blackstone
described the “privileges” owed to the “natural-born.” 1
Blackstone 361–362. That is why the colonists demanded
the “rights of Englishmen” more than 250 years ago. B.
Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
192 (1967). And that is why abolitionists lauded the “an

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 28/06/2026

lots of lightning bugs out tonight

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 21/06/2026

Advertise your Bluesky account with a Simpsons gif.

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 07/06/2026

information theory does to you what statistical mechanics did do them

1.1 INTRODUCTION: THERMODYNAMICS AND STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF THE PERFECT GAS

Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 03/06/2026

wikipedia says he has a biological brother and doesn't specify otherwise how frantzman is his step-brother, but also, lol at this if true

Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
·
Aug 22, 2021
I admire Graham Platner who I interviewed for this piece, we grew up together in Maine; and he has some important points to make;
From jpost.com
Seth Frantzman
@sfrantzman
·
Sep 17, 2021
My friend Graham Platner talks #oysters at his farm on the #Maine coast Waukeag Neck Oyster Company 🦪

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 20/05/2026

everyone makes fun of Thalmann for saying "after hitler, our turn" but the thing is after hitler, it was our turn

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 18/05/2026

the president before him raided the treasury to put my tax dollars into elon musk's personal checking account as a reward for what he was doing in this picture so, you know, this whole liberal democracy is somewhat of a mixed bag

A Florida man died after his Tesla Model S crashed and caught fire
By
Linette Lopez
Tesla crash south florida
A Tesla Model S crash in Broward County, Florida. Local 10 News

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 18/05/2026

good, MLB players are labor aristocrats bargaining with ownership to divide the proceeds of the labor of the telecom workers making the television deals possible that serve as the source of MLB revenues, unless you're going to claim that baseball player productivity quadrupled since 2000

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 18/05/2026

surprised we never saw a “we should have freedom-loving public schools where students can be taught to love america instead of marxist charter schools” line but i guess nobody does the reading any more because marx was right and bourgeois government schools are bad

"Elementary education by the state" is altogether objectionable. Defining by a general law the expenditures on the elementary schools, the qualifications of the teaching staff, the branches of instruction, etc., and, as is done in the United States, supervising the fulfillment of these legal specifications by state inspectors, is a very different thing from appointing the state as the educator of the people! Government and church should rather be equally excluded from any influence on the school.

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 17/05/2026

well of course. that we are fighting in the same terrain of 100 years ago is significant in that while the workers have not advanced, neither have the bourgeoisie

Secondly, it is not true that the decisive battles have already been fought, that the proletariat was defeated in these battles, and that bourgeois rule has been consolidated as a consequence. There have been no decisive battles as yet, if only for the reason that there have not been any mass, genuinely Bolshevik parties, capable of leading the proletariat to dictatorship. Without such parties, decisive battles for dictatorship are impossible under the conditions of imperialism. The decisive battles in the West still lie ahead. There have been only the first serious attacks, which were repulsed by the bourgeoisie; the first serious trial of strength, which showed that the proletariat is not yet strong enough to overthrow the bourgeoisie, but that the bourgeoisie is already unable to discount the proletariat. And precisely because the bourgeoisie is already unable to force the working class to its knees, it was compelled to renounce frontal attacks, to make a detour, to agree to a compromise, to resort to “democratic pacifism.”

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 15/05/2026

wow i can't believe players got five times better over the past 25 years, but you can't argue with the free market!

chart of nfl revenue from, 2001-2024 going from $4.3b to $21.5b

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 15/05/2026

The increased productivity of the NFL, i.e., its revenues, have been largely driven by TV revenue, i.e., created by the labor of everyone involved - hell even the fans: look at what the covid bubble did to tv revenues. yet this is hoarded by the owners and the players

It was made clear that the wage worker has permission to work for his own subsistence—that is, to live, only insofar as he works for a certain time gratis for the capitalist (and hence also for the latter's co-consumers of surplus value); that the whole capitalist system of production turns on the increase of this gratis labor by extending the working day, or by developing the productivity—that is, increasing the intensity or labor power, etc.; that, consequently, the system of wage labor is a system of slavery, and indeed of a slavery which becomes more severe in proportion as the social productive forces of labor develop, whether the worker receives better or worse payment.

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 15/05/2026

this line resonated as 90s eurotrash music specifically because of this naive optimism that after 50 fucking years enough was enough

planet of the bass “tell the world, stop the war”

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 15/05/2026

this white boy has been up to shenanigans before

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björk 182 @readsettle.rs · 14/05/2026

you cannot apply the principles of democratic centralism to bind yourself in service of an organization that is neither democratic nor centralist bro!!! this more than anything else explains the dysfunction of our political class

Look, I am a political professional: I believed-and still believe-that once you're on the team, you're on the damn team. Even after the pivotal June 27,

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