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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

I saw the vid of those kids watching her in a refugee camp and it got me good, I can only imagine how gutting it must have been for her personally

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

I think at this stage what you want is loyal cadres doing accidental obstruction, malicious compliance, etc etc

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Doug Henwood @doughenwood.bsky.social · 2d

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Taxing the rich revisited

Back in October, I wrote about how taxing the rich, while a nice start, won’t be enough to fund a serious welfare state. That would require taxing the broader population seriously and we need to be…

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 1d

there’s also that when liberal plutocrats try something like this they tend to get dogpiled by clout farming sectarians

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

this is correct. and while you would get a nontrivial one off sum from a billionaire tax (not enough for a welfare state, but a lot), the ongoing point of that tax would be prevent billionaires from existing

Liberal Currents @liberalcurrents.com · 2d

“The problem with billionaires isn’t that they’re hoarding money that would otherwise pay for a Scandinavian social utopia. It’s that their money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.”

Billionaires Are Hoarding Power, Not Money

Billionaire money has become a source of wildly distorted political power that allows a few men with extremist views to wreak havoc on the rest of us.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

ok but I don't get what that has to do with Harris then. if women are guaranteed to lose, as you say, then surely Biden should have picked another man, whether Bernie or someone else

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 2d

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Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

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EROCY @erocy.world · 2d

this is a great listen!

ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...

Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor

Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

thanks!

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bubba @jortscity.bsky.social · 2d

blinken overrode state dept findings to falsify the Leahy report so that they could continue selling weapons to Israel. he lied to congress about it.

max tani @maxtani.bsky.social · 2d

New: Bari Weiss booked Hillary Clinton, Mike Pompeo, and Antony Blinken for a roundtable on Gaza, her first major move at CBS.

Notably on a CBS call today in which the panel was floated, one producer also repeatedly emphasized the need to hear from Palestinians in Gaza (Weiss did not respond).

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 3d

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

some people are legit OBSESSED. it reminds me of terfs, like it's all they can think about. doesn't seem healthy!

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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 2d

"we could call this a…muscular, socialism-inflected version of antitrust. Rather than (or in addition to) playing constant…whack-a-mole against market concentration…the govt steps in directly and creates the competition it wants, either thru subsidies or outright state-owned firms." @ryanlcooper.com

The Socialist Case for Antitrust

Markets need regulating. Always have, always will.

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Doc Revan @docrevan.bsky.social · 3d

It takes 67 Senators to impeach a SCOTUS justice but only 51 with sufficient will to add 6 more justices

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 2d

thanks!

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The American Prospect @prospect.org · 3d

Hey DC Prospect readers! Catch our cofounder Paul Starr in conversation with E.J. Dionne about Paul’s new book American Contradiction at Politics & Prose on Oct 17. Should be a great night of ideas.

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Paul Starr — American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now - with EJ Dionne — at The Wharf

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

fresh @leftanchor.bsky.social episode, we've got @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on to discuss Ezra Klein, Charlie Kirk, and @sjshancoxli.liberalcurrents.com's essay on war mindset: www.leftanchor.com/e/better-tha...

Better Than Ezra - 368 | Left Anchor

Now that the dust has started to settled around the whole Charlie Kirk thing, we've brought on Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown, to discuss his Boston Review piece ab...

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

hitherto I had believed, based on my experience with American evangelicals, that Jesus was concerned solely with preventing abortion, proving the universe is 4000 years old, and accumulating large quantities of money

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

I've been reading up on this Jesus fellow and by gum he's got some piping hot takes regarding moneychangers and their presence in temples

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 3d

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer. In his first teaching document Thursday, Leo confirms that he is in perfect lockstep with Pope Francis on matters of social injustice.

Pope Leo blasts economy that marginalizes poor while wealthy live in bubble of luxury

Pope Leo XIV has blasted how wealthy people live in a “bubble of comfort and luxury” while the poor suffer.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

lol arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Musk’s X posts on ketamine, Putin spur release of his security clearances

Conditions of Elon Musk’s top-secret clearances may soon be exposed.

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

right

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

that's completely what it is, and I agree. though I do try to keep an eye on it as I find it less viscerally repellant than shortform video, the streaming incentives are atrocious

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 3d

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