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Mike Isaacson

@vulgareconomics.bsky.social

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Writer. Working on a book about the only nazi labor union in the US. Comms director Justice4Demi.org Philly sports. COYS. Anarchist politics. He/him or she/her not they/them. Website: creationsandstories.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · Nov 18

Gonna nip this in the bud before it's a problem. Please don't put me in your starter packs or lists

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Sebastian Murdock @sebastianmurdock.bsky.social · 2h

Six former students of a now-closed "troubled-teen" facility in Arizona told HuffPost they were abused. The facility's founder, Jeannie Courtney, told HuffPost she believes her accusers are making it all up.

From @taiylersimone.bsky.social and I

www.huffpost.com/entry/troubl...

An Isolated Boarding School Promised To Help Troubled Girls. Former Students Say They Were Abused.

One former student called the school’s founder, Jeannie Courtney, “the all-powerful cult leader — God.”

www.huffpost.com

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Jay Joseph @jayjoseph22.bsky.social · 1h

It can’t be stressed enough that, false genetic between-group difference claims aside, The Bell Curve presented no scientifically valid evidence in support of genetic influences on within-group IQ score differences.

Eric Turkheimer @ent3c.bsky.social · 4h

In 2018, Charles Murray challenged me to a bet: "We will understand IQ genetically—I think most of the picture will have been filled in by 2025—there will still be blanks—but we’ll know basically what’s going on." It's now 2025, and I claim a win. I write about it in The Atlantic.

Your Genes Are Simply Not Enough to Explain How Smart You Are

Seven years ago, I took a bet with Charles Murray about whether we’d basically understand the genetics of intelligence by now.

www.theatlantic.com

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ashley scarebanks 💀🕯️ @ziibiing.com · 2h

lol “find your own instead of stealing” in defense of columbus day

AJ West • 1h
Find your own holiday instead of stealing. Today is Columbus Day as designated by the federal government
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Ashwin Rodrigues @ashwinrodrigues.com · 23h

cop, lying: Me and my friends, who are troops, will delete Candy Crush if Zohrani 'Hussein' Mamdani is mayor of New York City. We are the most active users on the platform and this could affect the stock market

Bari Weiss: Chilling. And not the cool weed kind of chilling. This week on 60 Minutes

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 1h

(me when no cops quit under mamdani) wow..another broken campaign promise

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News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 2h

NEW: There’s a disaster unfolding in Alaska right now. And no major network is covering it.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong battered western Alaska overnight. Homes, with people in them, have literally been swept into the Bering Strait.

At least 20 are missing. No comment from any federal agency.

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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 22h

BREAKING: Prominent Palestinian journalist Saleh Aljafarawi has been killed by gunmen in Gaza City’s al-Sabra neighbourhood, making him one of more than 270 journalists killed since Israel’s war began in 2023.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/p49p9n

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Sarah Fader @thesarahfader.bsky.social · 2h

Hot take - we shouldn’t have to pay for food or water.

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Eric Umansky @ericumansky.bsky.social · 2h

ICE agents blocked an ambulance that was trying to take an injured protester to hospital.

"We are still not being allowed to leave by ICE officers.” an EMT said on radio

When driver tried to get out, an agent yelled, "DON’T YOU EVER DO THAT AGAIN, I WILL SHOOT YOU"

www.wweek.com/news/2025/10...

Documents Allege a Federal Agent at Portland ICE Threatened to Shoot an Ambulance Driver

Feds delayed medics who had come to pick up an injured protester. Then, according to confidential incident reports, the agents became aggressive.

www.wweek.com

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J. Mijin Cha @jmijin.bsky.social · 3h

There is a lot of really terrible things happening but I hope this doesn't get lost in the news. We really, really, really need to end fossil fuel use. And soon.

Planet’s first catastrophic climate tipping point reached, report says, with coral reefs facing ‘widespread dieback’

Unless global heating is reduced to 1.2C ‘as fast as possible’, warm water coral reefs will not remain ‘at any meaningful scale’, a report by 160 scientists from 23 countries warns

www.theguardian.com

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 3h

Reminder that Christopher Columbus predated Italy by almost 400 years

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 3h

He couldn't have been from Italy because there was no such thing as Italy then

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

I'm a fan of virtue signaling. I think more people should do it.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

If you live in NYC and you care about reproductive justice, you might be interested in this excellent Communiversity session happening on Saturday. It's in person and slide scale $0 to whatever. www.interruptingcriminalization.com/communiversi...

Communiversity Catalog: Rebellious Care: Centering Bodily Autonomy as a Practice of Care — Interrupting Criminalization

www.interruptingcriminalization.com

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 3h

The United States is currently in material breach of over five hundred legally binding treaties with Indigenous nations. We violated even the treaties we coerced at the point of a sword.

We cannot talk about restoring the rule of law until we acknowledge and repair this fundamental truth.

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Dave Byrnes @djbyrnes1.bsky.social · 3h

Despite the federal court holiday, it appears federal agents are already active on Chicago's southwest side today.

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"The Southwest Rapid Response Team confirmed federal agents in Back of the Yards along 45/Western, 47/Rockwell and at Home Depot.

Agents were identified driving a Black Jeep Cherokee with Illinois plates, Black Ford Explorer, and a White Dodge Durango.

If you believe you see ICE activity, call the Illinois Family Support Network Hotline at (855) 435-7693"

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"El Equipo de Respuesta Rápida del Suroeste confirmó alta actividad de la migra en Back of the Yards por la 45/Western, la 47/Rockwell y afuera de Home Depot.

Se identificó a los agentes manejando un Jeep Cherokee negro con placas de Illinois, una Ford Explorer negra, y un Dodge Durango blanco.

Si cree que está presenciando una actividad del ICE, llame a la línea directa de la Red de Apoyo Familiar de Illinois al (855) 435-7693."

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 14h

in which a sitting justice on the Pennsylvania Supreme Court seems to imply he’s worried about whether there’ll be a presidential race in 2028 boltsmag.org/pennsylvania...

Speculating on Republican motivations, Dougherty said at his Chestnut Hill event that he expects the court to continue playing a major role in election law: “The theory is that we have to deal with a congressional election in 2026, and there’s preparation regarding gerrymandering for the next presidential election—should there be one.”

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The 51st @51st.news · 3h

The "2025 Indigenous Peoples Day: Come to the Circle" happening this afternoon and included in our guide has been moved indoors due to weather.

A screenshot showing information about the event. "Malcolm X Park" has been crossed out and replaced by "All Souls Sanctuary 1500 Harvard Street NW." The time (2-5 pm) and cost (free) remain unchanged.

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 3h

The fun thing about contractors is they aren't covered by the same criminal laws about hacking and espionage as the federal government is

Mississippi Free Press @mississippifreepress.org · 3h

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country at the direction of leaders in President Donald Trump's administration.
www.mississippifreepress.org/ice-plans-to...

ICE Plans to Boost Social Media Surveillance Using Contractors

ICE plans to use a hub in Vermont to bolster its digital surveillance capabilities as the agency ramps up operations across the country.

www.mississippifreepress.org

Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 3h

No gods no masters

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h

Bessent: "No Kings means no paychecks. No paychecks and no government."

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Josh @thejoshbaker.blue · 3h

Photo Joe is a real piece of shit.

Mirror Indy @mirrorindy.org · 6h

Mayor Joe Hogsett was once named “Mr. Clean” by a watchdog organization for his tough stance on government corruption as U.S. attorney.

A Mirror Indy/IndyStar investigation finds that the mayor ignored conflicts of interest involving millions of dollars in city incentives. https://bit.ly/3L8OOBe

Hogsett ignored conflicts of interest as city incentives flowed to developers

Indianapolis Mayor Joe Hogsett ran on ethics reform, but an investigation found that he ignored conflicts of interest.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3h

Vaccinate your children. My GOD.

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 5h

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Mike Isaacson @vulgareconomics.bsky.social · 3h

Jinx!

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Sacco and Vanzetti

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 5h

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 3h

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