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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

The assumption by Democratic Party loyalists that there is going to be an election--an honest election--in 2028 is dangerously misleading and works to disarm us before our enemies, but it is also, I have to admit, kind of adorable.

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

The SEP have well-established political differences with Piker’s reformist politics and his attempts to shepherd workers and youth into the Democratic Party, but we unequivocally oppose the Trump administration’s McCarthyite investigation into him... www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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Trump administration targets Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trip

The McCarthyite probe, first reported by Fox News, targets antiwar activists, journalists and streamers who traveled to Cuba with medical aid.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Warm greetings to all on this day of international working class solidarity.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Medical researchers say that cancer is typically caused by a complex combination of factors. A guy who snorts cocaine off toilet seats says it's mostly caused by the radiation from offshore windmill farms. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

On this day in 1775 the world's first abolition organization was founded in Pennsylvania.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Information that could save your life: European swallow: 11 m/s African swallow: 9.5 m/s Please note that these are *averages*. Should anyone ask, be certain to clarify if the individual wants average, or maximum.

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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

The attack on Iran ordered by Donald Trump and his war-crazed cabal is a massive political crime, illegal under international law and in direct violation of the US Constitution. #Iran #NoWar www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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Oppose the US imperialist war on Iran!

The attack on Iran ordered by Donald Trump and his war-crazed cabal is a massive political crime, illegal under international law and in direct violation of the US Constitution.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I strongly urge all of those who believe we should deny free speech rights to our enemies to google the Weimar Fallacy before you do any more damage to our fight against fascism.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

I, like all other decent human beings, hate ICE with the passion of a thousand fiery suns. But I have to agree with Popehat on this. We cannot defend our right to free speech without also defending the rights of those who say things we find abhorrent.

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mspwhistles.bsky.social @mspwhistles.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It’s day 70 of the ICE occupation of MSP. ICE continues to terrorize our neighbors, there are still 2,000 agents here, even as the attention of the world has moved on. When we say ICE OUT, we mean ICE out everywhere.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Mark Twain, a strong supporter of the Russian Revolution of 1905. famously said of the Czarist regime, "If such a government cannot be overthrown otherwise than by dynamite, then thank God for dynamite." I wonder what he would have said of the US Government today.

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Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Well, everything hasn't quite worked. LIGHTNING RUNES has slipped to April 16 for ebook and April 28 for dead trees. But you can still preorder. You won't be charged till it's out.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

When objective conditions have sharpened society's innate contradictions to the breaking point, no one is more insane than the one crying for a "sane, middle ground."

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ariel @aritalks.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

ICE has kidnapped so many people from their cars that the city had to put out this statement. Let that sink in.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

I am so very proud of my Minnesota people right now. I wish I could be there with you. We need a political general strike, and I believe such a thing is far more realistic than perhaps many of you realize.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

The people of MN give me far more hope than the largely feckless “opposition” leaders of our country or the deeply compromised and ineffectual media both-sidesing white nationalist totalitarianism.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

The most well paid and rewarded part of the media establishment relies on this faux knowing perspective that seeks to find middle ground in an extreme moment and to tell the powerful they are never wrong.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

There is a wonderful book by Adam Goodheart called _1861: The Civil War Awakening_. It describes in detail how a few incidents changed the general mood of the North from apathy to willingness to fight and die. We are seeing that same process unfold before us.

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Adam Stemple @adamstemple.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

Should note: this is a free read on the BWG Roundtable web site.

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference Monday’s announcement reveals the administration’s willingness to terrorize pregnant women and families with autistic children to advance its broader anti-science agenda. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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Trump and Kennedy launch unhinged anti-science tirade in autism press conference

Monday’s press conference represents not merely a return to Trump’s prior medical quackery, but a deepening of what can only be characterized as a policy of deliberate social murder that has developed...

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Sandy English @sandyenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

If there is any individual whom #CharlieKirk most closely resembles, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...

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Charlie Kirk and the concealed legacy of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell

If there is any individual whom Kirk most closely resembled, in terms of persona and political tactics, it is George Lincoln Rockwell, the leader of the American Nazi Party in the 1960s.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Sheesh. Why are so many people confused about what socialism means? It's not that hard, just ask any right-winger. It means anything capitalism does that they can't defend.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

"The fight against censorship is inseparable from the fight against the system that produces it."

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I am eagerly looking forward to the opportunity to write the obituary.

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

The bulk of the party establishment opposes Mamdani not because it fears his mildly reformist program—on which he is already backtracking—but because his primary victory reflects a radicalization of broad masses.

Zohran Mamdani and Elizabeth Warren in a campaign video.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

After adjusting for inflation, the wages of sin is now a mild head-cold.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

The first computer I used was an IBM 1620. The first computer I owned was an R2E XP3--solid steel case (built for CAM), and, check it out, A FIVE MEG HARD DRIVE!!!! Shown on the dust jacket of the hardcover of To Reign In Hell.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

The inability or unwillingness to accept that both of these are true causes immense confusion, frustration, and demoralization among many who fight for a better world.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Human thought is deeply conservative; it will struggle to resist any change in beliefs, attitudes, and habits. Human thought is exceptionally volatile; under the pressure of events, it can overnight undergo fundamental changes in beliefs, attitudes, and habits.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

"When an international financier is held up at gunpoint, Archie, he immediately hands over not only his cash, but his pants and his shoes. Because it does not occur to him that even a common thief would draw the line somewhere." -- Nero Wolfe

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

We’ve been asked to believe a lot of intensely stupid narratives throughout this genocide, but “it’s actually HAMAS who’s starving Gaza” has got to be the dumbest one yet.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I salute @kenwhite.bsky.social for his principled stand. So long as academia functions within a capitalist society, intellectual honesty and integrity will remain commodities for sale. The rare exceptions deserve our respect. The rest must be opposed on every front.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

The leadership of Columbia University is contemptible Vichy scum. To its professors who stay: that’s who you choose to work for, the obeisance to totalitarianism you choose to promote? To students who stay: those are your values?

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

The worst thing about Millennials is they always making sweeping generalizations about people based on when they were born.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I'm so old, I remember when we'd talk about the weather to AVOID politics.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

I just invented a term for when the author of a fantasy series has to reread books he wrote 45 years ago: Cringefest.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

If you can't treat expensive equipment properly, you don't belong in the music business. Mic drop.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

"We Leftists should stop arguing among ourselves" translates to "We all agree on how the fight has to be carried out," which is false, or "it doesn't matter what we do," which is preposterous, or "find the minimum we all agree on" which is opportunistic betrayal.

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David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

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Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Deliberately starving a civilian population and then setting up aid sites as a death trap to massacre starving people trying to get food is too evil to wrap your mind around. If we saw a supervillain doing this in a movie we'd think it was dumb, because it wouldn't be believable.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

I haven't reposted this in a while (or ever here) and maybe some people could use a chuckle. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppeA...

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Do You Believe In Science?

YouTube video by Steven Brust

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Jacob Crosse | WSWS.org @crossebarx.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Socialism is not a campaign slogan or series of reformist proposals. Even the limited social reforms advanced by Zohran Mamdani cannot be achieved without a frontal assault on the wealth and power of the capitalist ruling class.

The New York Stock Exchange Building's Broad Street facade (right) as seen from Wall Street, April 2005.

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Steven Brust @stevenbrust.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Text Message from unknown number: Hey, Kate, what are you up to? Me: Putting the finishing touches on a computer virus that I will use to destroy the computer of anyone who tries to get me to invest in crypto-currency. What are you up to? Me: Hello?

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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Reposting for extra exposure. Please do share :)

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