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Jamie Merchant

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Rock over London, rock on Chicago WRITING check out my book: https://reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/endgame MUSIC youtube channel: https://youtube.com/@pathtopraxis?si=rzkAYWMS37_zkvpi bandcamp page (originals): https://jamiemerchant.bandcamp.com/

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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · Nov 18

If you’re tired of the Democrats’ feckless failures and their vapid attempts to blame woke or w/e, and are looking for a critical history of the present that goes far back into the twentieth century to explain how we got into this mess, I got you

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Endgame

A new account of globalization’s decline as the natural outworking of market economics. Globalization as we know it is over. Industrial policies dismissed as obsolete for decades have been embraced ...

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Eman Abdelhadi @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social · 16h

If you don’t see the link between ICE and the IDF, you haven’t been paying attention. We are being asked to accept a world where whole communities are made disposable and marked for disappearance. If we accept that for anyone, no one is safe anywhere.

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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 9h

really can’t be stressed enough how much these cowardly losers hate being publicly ridiculed

Nicholas Slayton @nslayton.bsky.social · 16h

The Texas Military Department confirmed to @taskandpurpose.com it had replaced some of the 200 National Guard troops sent to Chicago for not being "in compliance" with validation standards. This came after photos of heavyset NG members were widely mocked. taskandpurpose.com/news/texas-n...

Some Texas National Guard troops replaced in Illinois after failing to meet standards

An unspecified amount of Texas National Guard troops were replaced in Chicago, shortly after photos of their appearance were mocked.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 10h

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

They Came for Our Neighbors. We Showed Up.

Before long, there were dozens, and then hundreds of people in the streets, watching and responding.

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LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @longtimehistory.bsky.social · 1d

ICE drag girl out of car & body slam her to ground—then pin her face down & kneel on her neck.

"I'm 15!" she cries out. "I'm not resisting!"

Agents have now asked multiple area housing associations to unlock main doors—so they can go door to door.

Hoffman Estates, Illinois

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Jason Adams @jamnpp.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes there's so much beauty in the world,... I feel like I can't take it. And my heart is just going to cave in.

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Chicago mag @chicagomag.com · 1d

Everyday Chicagoans are proving that they’re the first line of defense against this extraordinary federal incursion into this city. They're organizing against it, not just for the benefit of our city, but for the entire country.

Chicago Is Organizing for All

Everyday Chicagoans are proving to be the first line of defense against the federal incursion into their city.

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warrior cop @wyattprivilege.bsky.social · 2d

Trump to China: obey my command or I will destroy the United States

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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 2d

this was a really fun convo w/ @vanjackson.bsky.social , a great host & one of the sharpest analysts of international politics in the game

Van Jackson @vanjackson.bsky.social · 2d

Amazing talk to the great @jamiemerchant.bsky.social. We get into the inadequacy of thinking like a policymaker, the decline and decay of the “progressive managerial state,” and so much more www.un-diplomatic.com/p/inter-capi...

Inter-Capitalist War and the End of the Nation-State (as we know it) w/ Jamie Merchant

For the latest episode of the pod, I relished a long-form conversation with Jamie Merchant, one of my top-5 most-stimulating intellectuals right now.

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 2d

i can't believe antifa is going to hold a giant "hate america" rally. we truly have lost are country

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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 2d

Only thing Portland needs now is for Les Claypool to bring his Fearless Flying Frog Brigade down there for a show

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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 3d

lodges itself right in your head like RFK Jr's brainworm, so good tho

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 4d

repost this if an editor has ever saved you from yourself

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 4d

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 4d

In the new TMK Premium, we trace how the sprawling networks of data capture built to funnel profits through the adtech ecosystem and platform economy are also powering an exterminationist techno-politics carried out by fascist agencies and their corporate collaborators. Oops!

Premium – 426. The Road to Hell is Paved with Advertisements | This Machine Kills

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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 5d

they sent the elite special forces unit FAT-HOUND

www.newsbreak.com/share/427873...

Texas National Guard arrives in Illinois, as Pritzker decries 'authoritarian march' - NewsBreak

Gov. JB Pritzker accused the president of using troops for political gain.

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The People's Fabric @peoplesfabric.com · 5d

Was just talking to a friend about this exact thing. Yes they want protesters to do something violent to justify more violence and fewer rights. But in the absence of that, they will manufacture a narrative to do the same thing.

I mean, read a history book.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

Are you starting to get it? He was always going to hit us. You will not change the math by insisting that people assume some magical form of perfect victimhood that somehow reels in a monster. That's not real. And I am so sick of hearing it.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 5d

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Nancy Drew: Girl Detective @sonjajacobsen.bsky.social · 5d

Republican Congressman offers bold statement defending the government shutdown.

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Leporello @sigill.bsky.social · 5d

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 6d

I do think it is extremely important for people to know that the NVE label started being used under Biden. This is not a creation of Trump's DOJ.

olive consumer's ambulatory skeleton @machete.gay · 6d

Once again, I will note this claim from Ken is completely untrue and does not comport with causality or the forward motion of linear time.

The term was developed while Biden was in office.

ZADROZNY: Yeah, for sure. You just mentioned nihilistic humor. Does that play into nihilistic violent extremism, the FBI’s terrorism classification that replaced the Biden-era focus on Jan. 6-style anti-government extremism?

KLIPPENSTEIN: Yeah, I won’t pretend not to be proud that I was first to report on this. It’s the Trump administration’s designation.

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 6d

this is going to be so fucking funny and he’s going to get so fucking mad

Every Film Now @everyfilmnow.bsky.social · 7d

Elon Musk announces xAI game studio will release a great AI-generated game before end of 2026.

Powered by Grok, the studio aims to revolutionize gaming with dynamic, photo-realistic experiences.

#xAI #Grok #AIGaming

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jeff com-BOO-ters @helldude.bsky.social · 6d

it is useful not to lose sight of how, underneath everything else, hollow all of this noise is. portland and chicago are warzones, so i am dispatching a couple hundred best buy assistant managers there to quell the insurrections. potemkin stuff, paper thin

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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 6d

ever think about how the people running the country are the same people from the Black Hole Sun video

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Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 6d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Jamie Merchant @jamiemerchant.bsky.social · 6d

"AI better deliver for the US, or its economy and markets will lose the one leg they are now standing on"

NARRATOR: AI did not deliver for the US.

www.ft.com/content/6cc8...

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 6d

Chicago press organizations, along with @unraveledpress.com, @peoplesfabric.com, and @blockclubchi.bsky.social are suing DHS and ICE for detaining and assaulting journalists. Journalists in LA were successful in their suits against the dept.

Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 6d

JUST IN: Chicago journalistsa re suing DHS and ICE over force used against reporters:

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