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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The progressive Senate candidate in MN beat her AIPAC-funded, pro-ICE opponent last night by *20 fucking points*, and DSA came within half a percent of winning the Wisconsin gubernatorial primary. But the corporate media and DNC ghouls would have you believe this was "a bad night for the left."

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This fact is a substantial part of Bernie’s enduring national popularity. Democrats don’t have a “too liberal” or “too left” (😂) problem. They have a “voters think their party sucks ass and don’t trust it” problem.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

When Dem insiders say "young people don't vote," that's not what they actually mean. Young people DO vote when you give them something to vote for -- and they voted in any election in recent memory where Dems won big. What they mean is "we don't want to do what it takes to turn out young voters."

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Reprehensible stuff here, “Big Gretch.”

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Given right-wing law faculty have successfully engineered a judiciary trying to return the country to pre-Reconstruction and Chicago School fabulism is now orthodoxy across econ departments, I’d say reactionary academics are doing just fine.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

It’s not a virtue to be nice to war criminals. In fact, it’s a serious moral failing.

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UChicago AAUP @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Excellent op-ed from our own Mark Levin on UChicago's deal with Anthropic:

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Here's the thing the pro-AI crowd will never answer -- and honestly often seem to dumb to even grapple with. *If* this technology has the potential to do what they say, you put like 90 percent of the planet out of work. What's the plan for that?

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Pro-AI "academics" are some of the most cretinous goons you're ever going to find.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

There was, of course, plenty wrong with the pre-corporatization university president. But they did at least believe in the educational and research mission of the university. The new lot just wants to run real estate investment firms and venture capital shops.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Billionaires should not exist, and I very much get skepticism to backing one for public office. But also, class traitors are good! Two things can be true (or whatever)

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Abdul El-Sayed was the first (and thus far only) candidate I donated to this cycle over the ridiculous anti-Hasan Piker smears. Looks like I'm sending him some more money after this latest Lis Smith bullshit.

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UCP Workers Guild @ucpworkersguild.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

We’re unionizing! Workers at UCP are forming a union with the Chicago NewsGuild, TNG-CWA Local 34071, joining the nationwide movement for a stronger publishing industry.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

No savior from on high delivers, No faith have we in prince or peer. Our own right hands the chains must shiver, Chains of hatred, greed, and fear. 'Ere the thieves shall out with their booty, And give to all a happier lot, Each at the forge must do their duty And we'll strike while the iron is hot!

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Yes, yes, Americans can’t have universal health care, decent infrastructure, education, or housing because we keep spending $1 trillion on our military. But have you considered we’re getting owned by a country that spends a tiny fraction of that on its armed forces? So it was all worth it 🇺🇸.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Turns out putting the drunk idiot raving at the end of the bar in charge of the country — again — was a terrible idea.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

They're calling Third Worldism the world's most vindicated ideology.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

The main lesson the ruling class seems to have taken from Gaza is that they don't even need to bother manufacturing consent anymore.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 28/02/2026

So many people in this administration need to go to prison for life.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Remember when we used to enforce anti-trust laws in this country? (Neither do I, I’m only in my 40s.)

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 20/01/2026

this is legitimately an insane thing to think when looking at your child

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

This has got to be the funniest, stupidest, and most deranged collapse of an empire in the history of the world by a wide, wide margin.

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Andy Hoberek @thathoberekguy.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

And they say the Democratic Party isn’t responsive to its base.

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Ed Burmila @edburmila.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

There have been many false-start "This is it" moments but bear with me. There is literally no constituency for this Greenland shit (polls at 30% *among GOP*). There are mechanisms in place to stop this and people with power to use them. If those people and mechanisms fail now, they will never work.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

The most disastrous VP choice in US history is Lincoln swapping Andrew Johnson for Hannibal Hamlin. The second most is probably FDR swapping Truman for Henry Wallace. The most instinctually revolting one is JD Vance. (I mean Cheney is way up there, too.)

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

Americans love telling ourselves this mythology that the United States was founded in revolution to oppose tyranny and yet turn into the most pathetic, bootlicking swine any time there’s a protest movement.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Dune is mainly the juvenile ravings of a libertarian crank, but the Butlerian Jihad against the thinking machines probably does need to happen.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

The worst people in the world are so mad about Mamdani’s inaugural speech, and that’s beautiful.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Senate Democrats are led by a man who, by his own account, bases major political decisions on what an imaginary elderly Long Island Republican couple who live entirely in his mind tell him. Just a shockingly pathetic political “opposition.”

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Listening to university administrators talk about the "crisis" in higher education, you really do see the hard boundaries of the bourgeois liberal imaginary. Material conditions are mysterious forces of nature to be pathetically reacted to, not things that can be changed via political pressure.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

It was a catastrophic mistake letting the fucking MBAs run a public good like higher ed.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Whenever I start a class with Gulliver rather than Robinson Crusoe, I feel like students won't understand my benevolence in not inflicting Crusoe on them unless they've already read Crusoe.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

The obstacle the Democratic Party faces is not "wokeism" or the "groups" or this right-wing fantasy that suddenly a supermajority of the country are fascists. It's that party leadership is far more committed to the interests of capital than workers. That's it. That's all.

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I'm sorry, yes, all sports team owners suck ass. But if you root for a team owned by *Jerry Jones*, I cannot take you seriously as a person.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

They have taken untold millions That they never toiled to earn, But without our brain and muscle Not a single wheel can turn. We can break their haughty power -- Gain our freedom when we learn -- That the union makes us strong! Happy (US) Labor Day, comrades.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

RFK Jr is such a great argument for setting the inheritance tax at 100 percent.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

It should of course go without saying, but absolutely no one should be scabbing for Columbia.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

You could read all these university presidents lining up to do Trump’s bidding just as all the severe weaknesses of his power base are exposed as stupidity and cowardice. Or you could correctly read it as they’re all fully on board with the reactionary project.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to turn over the public good of higher education to MBA dipshits. Who could have ever foreseen???

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Twenty years later, David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism continues to explain [gestures wildly] all of this shit better than 99 percent of texts out there.

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David Klion @davidklion.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

It’s very annoying Larry Summers is considered a genius when it takes him years to figure out stuff that is instantly obvious to the median lefty shitposter

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

There is a direct line from Gaza to the brutal suppression of student dissent to the dismantling of US higher ed — which boards of trustees/regents and university presidents are enthusiastic participants in. If you don’t see this is all part of a huge ruling-class power grab, you don’t get it.

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Tristan Schweiger @tjschweiger.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

The Times, like all of the bourgeois press, is committed to you believing that nothing will ever change and nothing better is possible.

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Absolutely incredible www.idf.il/%D7%90%D7%AA...

IOF soldiers are now taking their official photos with their backs turned. Because they know. We know. They will be held accountable.

The day of reckoning is coming

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