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Cory Johnston

@skepticalleftist.bsky.social
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Trying to combine good evidence-based critical thinking and left anarchist politics. I host The Skeptical Leftist podcast, check it out on Spotify open.spotify.com/show/1ye9lJfPq7SZk…

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🌹Dystopian Grift 🌹 @dystopiangrift.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Rage Against The Machine is woke...and correct.
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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Its always kind of amusing when people who stopped learning about politics when it confirmed their worldview try to educate me on why capitalism is good, the right is as reasonable a choice as the left, and why we must trust the government when it tells us someone is bad
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🌹Dystopian Grift 🌹 @dystopiangrift.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Communism is a stateless, classless, moneyless society. Socialism is when the workers own the means of production. Fascism is when state and corporate interests merge. The stations are owned by a private company and they're cozying up to the government for shared interests. That's fascism.
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🌹Dystopian Grift 🌹 @dystopiangrift.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Fuck the police
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Until All of Us Are Free @solidarity5ever.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Every election season voters say the economy is their top concern regardless of how good it supposedly is, and it's really high time people realize that it's just capitalism and capitalism is bad and sucks. It will always suck.
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Until All of Us Are Free @solidarity5ever.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Liberals lack imagination.
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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
What is even the point anymore of making anything 😩 art, writing, design, podcasts... It's bleak
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
The experts are always here to tell us what the state can and can't do right before they do what they can't do.
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Until All of Us Are Free @solidarity5ever.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
The US military is bad actually.
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
@avilewis.ca is now the scapeGOAT of Canadian political discourse: —too dangerous to have power, too weak to pay attention to. He’s scary, but he’s also irrelevant! We’re not sure! But while we figure it out, we’ll obsess all over him! youtube.com/shorts/OJ5aG...
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Avi Lewis: scapeGOAT of Canadian politics!
YouTube video by AntifascistDad
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
"Show me one place in which socialism works." One approach: show how ruthlessly capitalists have erased the scholarship and history that would help you answer, and why. youtube.com/shorts/QT5JL...
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Capitalists do not want you to know things.
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Two of us have new books out: Matthew's Antifascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times and Derek's Well Enough: Finding Health Despite the Wellness Industry. Julian interviews his co-hosts about them. www.conspirituality.net/episodes/306-antifascist-wellness
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306: Antifascist Wellness — Conspirituality
Two-thirds of the Conspirituality staff have new books out: Matthew's AntiFascist Dad: Urgent Conversations with Young People in Chaotic Times and Derek's Well Enough:  Finding Health Despite the Well...
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
When a liberal asks why their peaceful, police-escorted march didn't change anything
the liar liar scene except he's saying start breaking the law asshole
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
As so many are so fond of speculating on what drives people to give their pronouns or work out equity processes, here's my own speculation on the instinct to sit on the sidelines and finger-wag about the weird kids. youtube.com/shorts/Kq9Ek...
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On Liberal BS about "SJWs"
YouTube video by AntifascistDad
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Drawn @commoner.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
And stealing the commons.
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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Its super gross how so many people lick the boots of the rich and act like they earned it instead of stealing their wealth by under paying workers
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Awesome! And can you explain any way that you or anyone could possibly make this happen when billionaires own the system? It's like saying "if the system worked completely differently, things would be better!" Eat the rich. Burn down their system.
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Until All of Us Are Free @solidarity5ever.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
Science and art aren't mutually exclusive and never have been. #photography #art #space #artemisII #science amateurphotographer.com/latest/photo...
Photo of earth showing north Africa and a little bit of Europe, and Auroras at both poles.
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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Posting this YT Shorts thumbnail without comment. Lol.
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
My latest video: youtu.be/6ilzWA3GJxQ
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We're all terrorists now
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Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
this week's post is about how trans visibility is, somehow, a threat to power margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/our-visibi...
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Our Visibility is Somehow a Threat to Power
or: on Trans Day of Visibility
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
Banning drugs doesn’t reduce drug use at all and actually increases drug harms
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I'm shocked how few ppl understand this
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Non Serviam Media Collective @nonserviammedia.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
“The State must be destroyed not by killing those in power, but by destroying the political myth in the minds of people.” - Laurance Labadie (1934) #anarchism
individualist anarchist Laurance Labadie
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Carney quoted the folk hero who was tough but obedient, who never complained about the boss. "Elbows up" described an attitude *he’ll* take into a *game* in which he knows that when it’s all over, he’ll be going to go out for beers with the other team. youtube.com/shorts/c5BZR...
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"Elbows up" gave away the Carney game.
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Dodging the draft is good, actually
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
In case OP wasn't clear enough: THE US CAN NOT GO INSOLVENT. It prints its own money. It's like saying I've been scratching so much over the past few years I've run out of skin.
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Mark Carney is not smarter than you or any worker. He's not playing 5D chess. Political complexity is capitalist fetish logic. Just as you are alienated from where your oatmeal and screwdrivers come from, politics is mystified into the charisma of the elite. youtube.com/shorts/kACPJ...
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Mark Carney is not smarter than you.
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Whether the party is protecting the rich through polite lies ("Liberal") or QAnon shit talking ("Conservative"), they’re doing the same liberal thing, and redistribution is the only real answer to it. youtube.com/shorts/S1f4Y...
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"Liberal Party" ≠ "liberal in the Marxist sense.
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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
This is where the money they could be spending on universal healthcare is going
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Owen Macdonald @owenmacdonald.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
You'll never see DOGE address this blatant waste of taxpayer money because austerity measures are for looting state assets for capitalist wealth, just like warfare in the global South is
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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Being almost entirely off social media and taking a break from news and current events to conserve energy isn't working out the way its supposed to, I think
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
You know that thing you were told as a child you just found out has been a myth all along? Wait till you hear about everything.
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
However hard you try, you will never turn the state into a pro-social institution, for the same reason you will never raise a tiger to be a vegetarian. Your intentions are irrelevant; the tiger is not interested in your hopes and dreams. States are for domination only.
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Cory Johnston @skepticalleftist.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
I know that right now the fight is against the fascists and that we all have common enemies in the capitalist class but I have a hard time dealing with anti-anarchist people regardless of whether they call themselves a communist or not
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Communism is the opposite of dictatorship: decentralization, equality, no money, no state, no borders, no property. Leninism, like Hakim promotes, does indeed always lead to dictatorship, at least when it's successful. It does not lead to communism.
youtube channel Hakim's new video is called Does Communism Always Lead to Dictatorship Debunked
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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Sickening. Bombing schools and murdering children in yet another country. America and Israel are a threat to the entire world.
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Non Serviam Media Collective @nonserviammedia.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
“Direct action is, ultimately, the defiant insistence on acting as if one is already free.” - David Graeber
David Graeber
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
How a few tech bros stole the future youtu.be/kXhZyXpYb7o?...
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Why no jet pack?
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Deepak in the Files. Appears to be playing guru to a sex trafficker, transmitting his parody of non-dual wisdom so that the trafficker can relax into divine impunity. youtube.com/shorts/1dqqj...
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Deepak in the Files.
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
You pay rent in advance but get paid in arrears. What does this do to your experience of time? youtube.com/shorts/w3HnO...
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You Advance Labour Power to the Capitalist on Credit
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Non Serviam Media Collective @nonserviammedia.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Is there a future for #Anarchism in America? The co-producer of the landmark documentary film reflects on its legacy amid today’s challenges @freedompress.bsky.social
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Is there a future for Anarchism in America? - Freedom News
The co-producer of the landmark documentary film reflects on its legacy amid today’s challenges ~ Joel Sucher ~ Anarchism in America is the title…
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Mark Carney's "Middle Power" Canada Supplies ICE. Because you just don't understand how *complicated* international trade is. Good thing we have a calm and steady hand keeping the contradictions just under the threshold of implosion. youtube.com/shorts/Z291F...
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Mark Carney's Canada Supplies ICE
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
New episode live. Carney dogwhistling anti-communism while re-asserting the sensibleness of neoliberal logic, while convincing too many people that he's actually standing up to fascism. antifascist-dad-podcast.castos.com/episodes/16-...
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16. Mark Carney is Not Your Antifascist Dad
Carney’s recent speech at Davos really is as important as everyone’s saying it is. But in my view, it’s not important for the obvious truth we just heard him confess, but for the les...
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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Calling innocent people 'terrorists' after they've been brutally killed for no reason, murdering nurses with impunity, preventing medical care -- this playbook is very reminiscent of what Israel does to Palestinians. I'm already hearing ppl call the US ICE-rael. These things are connected.
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anti-school teacher @anarchodaoist.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Famine is not natural but a result of oppressive systems. This video is on the causes of and the cures for famine. youtu.be/V3jGZq_ZnOQ
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Famine is a man-made problem
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Carney basically echoed Gramsci with a huge omission. His two themes were “the old world is fading, and the new world is struggling to be born." He left out “now is the time of monsters" because they were all there in the room, and the mirror.
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Eiynah 🇵🇸 @nicemangos.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Unbearable 💔💔
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Matthew Remski @matthewremski.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Carney's greatest rhetorical coup was to equate the "fiction of the international rules-based order" with the aspirational "Workers of the World Unite." He's saying both are equally meaningless. He's equating a disillusioned Soviet grocer with liberal leaders tired of bootlicking Americans.
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Until All of Us Are Free @solidarity5ever.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
In the past I've often tried to soften a lot of my anarchist conclusions for liberals and progressives. You know, kinda put the abolition of nation-states to the back burner to give people options for improving things in less scary big changes, but I'm kinda over that right now. Look around.
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