Jonathan M. Katz
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Author of GANGSTERS OF CAPITALISM and THE BIG TRUCK THAT WENT BY. Subscribe to my newsletter: http://theracket.news | Signal: jmkatz.18 | @KatzOnEarth on TikTok & Insta | Avi by @mollycrabapple.bsky.social
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Jonathan M. Katz
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· Nov 10
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The Nuzzi book looks so bad I don't know if I can even take a @ifbookspod.bsky.social on it
December 4, 2025 at 7:35 PM
The Nuzzi book looks so bad I don't know if I can even take a @ifbookspod.bsky.social on it
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Even her political commentary — the thing she is allegedly good at — is fucking gibberish. We're supposed to overlook her execrable ethics for this?!
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December 4, 2025 at 7:33 PM
Even her political commentary — the thing she is allegedly good at — is fucking gibberish. We're supposed to overlook her execrable ethics for this?!
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If the FDA has proof that vaccines killed children, it needs to release that evidence immediately.
So, let's play make-believe and pretend that Prasad has rock solid proof the vaccine killed 10 kids.
He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
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He is now sitting on it, refusing to give doctors on the ground the information they need to inform their patients.
The opposite of radical transparency.
endpoints.news/fda-says-it-...
FDA says it won't release details of claimed Covid vaccine deaths in 'near term'
Details from an investigation by CBER Director Vinay Prasad into 10 alleged child deaths related to Covid-19 vaccines won't be coming soon, an FDA spokesperson told Endpoints News on Wednesday.
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December 3, 2025 at 8:23 PM
If the FDA has proof that vaccines killed children, it needs to release that evidence immediately.
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Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”
December 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Every Democrat going on air should take the first question and then say something like “Before I answer that I need to express my outrage and disgust at the president’s bigoted and vulgar insults about the Somali people. There is something seriously wrong with him. He is a sick man.”
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Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Unless proven otherwise, every Republican in Congress supports this image:
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If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:
It's reputed to have been coined by a Peruvian president in 1983 to describe the Maoist group Shining Path. But it was weaponized and expanded by the Reaganites as a way of rhetorically linking Communist Cuba and the Sandinistas to the drug trade to increase popular support for combating both.
I think the term narco terrorist emerged from the Escobar-era of drug trafficking. Eventually the DEA intervened at the behest of the Colombian government to take him down.
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 AM
It's reputed to have been coined by a Peruvian president in 1983 to describe the Maoist group Shining Path. But it was weaponized and expanded by the Reaganites as a way of rhetorically linking Communist Cuba and the Sandinistas to the drug trade to increase popular support for combating both.
Thank you
Seriously, though, I've given Gangsters of Capitalism to lots of friends and family members. It's important stuff, and also a riveting (if occasionally depressing) narrative about aspects of history that are usually swept under the rug
December 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Thank you
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@katz.theracket.news's Gangsters of Capitalism is fantastic, and so are Half the Answer and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social!
Half the Answer #52: Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist and author Jonathan Katz about the gangsters of capitalism, the imperial boomerang, and the moral injuries inflicted when officers, agents, and soldiers engage in the inhumane and depraved acts that are demanded of them.
Half the Answer #52: Modern Gangsters of Capitalism and the Imperial Boomerang
Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist and author Jonathan Katz about the gangsters of capitalism, the imperial boomerang, and the moral injuries inflicted when officers, agents, and soldiers engage i...
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
@katz.theracket.news's Gangsters of Capitalism is fantastic, and so are Half the Answer and @caitlinmoriah.bsky.social and @trentrichardnelson.bsky.social!
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1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
Q: So you didn't see any survivors after that first strike?
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
HEGSETH: I did not personally see survivors. The thing was on fire. This is called the fog of war. This is what you in the press don't understand. You sit in your air conditioned offices and plant fake stories in the Washington Post
December 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
1. This is not what fog of war means.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
2. There is no war
3. He's trying to distance himself from murders he had direct responsibility over
4. All I can think of when I hear this phrase now is Elon Musk complaining that he hates chess because it has no fog of war.
Thank you! Good luck navigating the locks.
I’ve made it to the Panama Canal. Great book so far!
December 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Thank you! Good luck navigating the locks.
The right's now hegemonic argument that cocaine is actually a chemical weapon and that mere suspicion of having it on your boat justifies an order to kill everyone aboard is astoundingly insane
December 2, 2025 at 3:43 PM
The right's now hegemonic argument that cocaine is actually a chemical weapon and that mere suspicion of having it on your boat justifies an order to kill everyone aboard is astoundingly insane
Fun interview!
Half the Answer #52: Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist and author Jonathan Katz about the gangsters of capitalism, the imperial boomerang, and the moral injuries inflicted when officers, agents, and soldiers engage in the inhumane and depraved acts that are demanded of them.
Half the Answer #52: Modern Gangsters of Capitalism and the Imperial Boomerang
Trent and Caitlin talk with journalist and author Jonathan Katz about the gangsters of capitalism, the imperial boomerang, and the moral injuries inflicted when officers, agents, and soldiers engage i...
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 2, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Fun interview!
From Gangsters of Capitalism
December 2, 2025 at 3:19 PM
From Gangsters of Capitalism
I can’t believe it’s already almost 2031
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 PM
I can’t believe it’s already almost 2031
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the British assault on its own citizens' rights continues. I will never forgive the perpetuators.
NEW: Transgender girls will no longer be able to join Girlguiding from today, the organisation has said
Trans girls to be stopped from joining Girlguiding after Supreme Court ruling
www.thenational.scot
December 2, 2025 at 3:07 PM
the British assault on its own citizens' rights continues. I will never forgive the perpetuators.
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Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Trump's MRI raises new questions about Biden's health.
Never was a fan and I haven’t been following his work for a while but glad to see he’s still out there making albums. Any bangers?
December 2, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Never was a fan and I haven’t been following his work for a while but glad to see he’s still out there making albums. Any bangers?
Obama wasn’t that far off
December 2, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Obama wasn’t that far off
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Absurd student complaints aren’t new. I am quite confident they predate higher educational as we know it, and this isn’t that unusual.
What’s concerning here imo are the use of:
1. Admin’s reaction
2. Political pressure from state officials
3. Doxxing and the court of public opinion
What’s concerning here imo are the use of:
1. Admin’s reaction
2. Political pressure from state officials
3. Doxxing and the court of public opinion
December 1, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Absurd student complaints aren’t new. I am quite confident they predate higher educational as we know it, and this isn’t that unusual.
What’s concerning here imo are the use of:
1. Admin’s reaction
2. Political pressure from state officials
3. Doxxing and the court of public opinion
What’s concerning here imo are the use of:
1. Admin’s reaction
2. Political pressure from state officials
3. Doxxing and the court of public opinion
The average MRI takes, what, half an hour to 90 minutes? You’d think someone would at least get curious what they were looking at in that time.
December 1, 2025 at 4:10 AM
The average MRI takes, what, half an hour to 90 minutes? You’d think someone would at least get curious what they were looking at in that time.
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Worth it!
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Just kidding all of the gratitude.
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Just kidding all of the gratitude.
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December 1, 2025 at 2:55 AM
Worth it!
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Even if we were at war with Venezuela, and even if the boat folks were smuggling drugs, that DOES NOT MAKE THEM COMBATANTS. I am begging people to consult international law experts. They're out there! They want to talk!
We weren’t (and at this hour still aren’t) at war with Venezuela so both strikes are just murder
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
December 1, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Even if we were at war with Venezuela, and even if the boat folks were smuggling drugs, that DOES NOT MAKE THEM COMBATANTS. I am begging people to consult international law experts. They're out there! They want to talk!
We weren’t (and at this hour still aren’t) at war with Venezuela so both strikes are just murder
If the Venezuelan sailors were enemy combatants, then the 2nd strike is a war crime.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
If the Venezuelan sailors weren’t enemy combatants, then both strikes are criminal murder.
It’s that simple.
December 1, 2025 at 2:10 AM
We weren’t (and at this hour still aren’t) at war with Venezuela so both strikes are just murder