David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
Political education, socialism, abolition, unions, cats
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David Kaib
@davidkaib.bsky.social
· Jul 12
For what it's worth, if you are a socialist or interested in socialism, it is *my job* to educate you, so ask away.
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They glue Daniel Craig back together and he bolts upright and says “see, I was shaken, not stirred”
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
They glue Daniel Craig back together and he bolts upright and says “see, I was shaken, not stirred”
So many problems are a product of treating individual tactics as 1) strategy or 2) identity.
November 11, 2025 at 2:11 PM
So many problems are a product of treating individual tactics as 1) strategy or 2) identity.
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Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
November 10, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???)
Decided to check settings:
Decided to check settings:
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The definition of "race ideology," which will likely be banned at Texas A&M, includes "accus[ing a race or ethnicity] of being oppressors in a racial hierarchy or conspiracy."
That's functionally a ban on teaching vital swaths of American history.
That's functionally a ban on teaching vital swaths of American history.
The Texas A&M University System will vote on Thursday on whether to prohibit faculty at its 11 universities from teaching “race or gender ideology” unless those lessons are pre-approved by each campus president or a delegate.
Texas A&M to vote on banning “race and gender ideology”
The proposal appears to mark the first time a Texas university system offers definitions of what kind of instruction related to race and gender should not be permitted.
www.texastribune.org
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
The definition of "race ideology," which will likely be banned at Texas A&M, includes "accus[ing a race or ethnicity] of being oppressors in a racial hierarchy or conspiracy."
That's functionally a ban on teaching vital swaths of American history.
That's functionally a ban on teaching vital swaths of American history.
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Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
Rick Scott told me his plan would be to take all of the remaining ACA subsidies and redistribute them to HSA accounts and people can then buy whatever insurance a state certifies. Basically a repeal/replace.
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
He denied when I asked wouldn’t that create two-tiered system where sick pay much more…
November 11, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.
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It’s never “companies don’t want to pay a fair wage,” but “companies can’t find workers.”
November 11, 2025 at 4:05 AM
It’s never “companies don’t want to pay a fair wage,” but “companies can’t find workers.”
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The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
November 10, 2025 at 4:20 PM
The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.
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Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
November 11, 2025 at 3:33 AM
Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”
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Damn near half of my career consists of tracking Republican challenges to the ACA and I’m twenty years in the game
Still processing the inanity of this cave, like, "We're going to make Republicans go on record that they want to destroy the ACA." You mean the motherfuckers who radicalized in opposition to it & voted to repeal it, like, 22 times? You're finally getting them on record? Really impressed over here
“If Schumer really wanted to use his considerable influence and leverage to stop this, he could have done that,” a senior Democratic Senate aide tells Zeteo. “He didn’t.”
November 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Damn near half of my career consists of tracking Republican challenges to the ACA and I’m twenty years in the game
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Why is it I get the sense the Democrats ended the shut down not despite the string of Democratic victories, but because of them?
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Why is it I get the sense the Democrats ended the shut down not despite the string of Democratic victories, but because of them?
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PSYCH’S OWN skyler gisondo
DC Studios and HBO Max is developing a Superman spin-off series titled DC Crime, which will star Superman's Skyler Gisondo as The Daily Planet’s Jimmy Olsen. American Vandal’s Tony Yacenda and Dan Perrault are the showrunners.
DC Crime TV Series in Development Starring Skyler Gisondo’s Jimmy Olsen, Gorilla Grodd as Villain
bit.ly
November 11, 2025 at 2:58 AM
PSYCH’S OWN skyler gisondo
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More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
oh the paul amendment is going down 78-22
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,
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This Washpost oped is every bit as awesome as its headline
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
This Washpost oped is every bit as awesome as its headline
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having a conversation with the Amazon AI chatbot, so lifelike!
November 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
having a conversation with the Amazon AI chatbot, so lifelike!
Did anyone else just see this banana pants Park Police ad?
November 11, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Did anyone else just see this banana pants Park Police ad?
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UCPD has charged four UC Berkeley undergrads with *felony vandalism* because they attempted to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate.
4 UC Berkeley students arrested on felony vandalism charges for anti-TPUSA art installation
UCPD arrested four students early Monday morning for felony vandalism, according to information from campus administrators.
www.dailycal.org
November 11, 2025 at 12:20 AM
UCPD has charged four UC Berkeley undergrads with *felony vandalism* because they attempted to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate.
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My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
November 11, 2025 at 12:21 AM
My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.
We were told they couldn’t fight or even talk about anything else because health care was the winning hand.
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
We were told they couldn’t fight or even talk about anything else because health care was the winning hand.
The number of people who think you can only hold *Republicans* to account is vastly smaller than it was even a few days ago.
1. We need to fight hard for a good ACA extension early in December and hold Republicans fiercely accountable if they betray everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The number of people who think you can only hold *Republicans* to account is vastly smaller than it was even a few days ago.
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If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.
November 10, 2025 at 11:38 PM
If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.
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I am. Read the 3 chapters and join me!
🗓️This Saturday, Nov. 15 at 1:30-4 PM ET in Brooklyn: Our co-founder @prisonculture.bsky.social is facilitating a discussion circle focused on the contributions of radical Black women activists and theorists in the U.S. from 1910-1960. If you're in NYC and interested in joining, register now to join!
Communiversity Catalog: Black Radical Women in the U.S. 1910–1960: A Study and Discussion Circle — Interrupting Criminalization
www.interruptingcriminalization.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:35 PM
I am. Read the 3 chapters and join me!
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What if I told you that the University of Michigan was one of the most infamous offenders of faculty and student rights during McCarthyism? It feels like their current moves targeting student protestors are in alignment with this dubious honor.
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
From the Daily: The University's values on trial
specials.michigandaily.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
What if I told you that the University of Michigan was one of the most infamous offenders of faculty and student rights during McCarthyism? It feels like their current moves targeting student protestors are in alignment with this dubious honor.
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...
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In this moment, there should be a broad, but rebuttable presumption that anyone holding a position of significant institutional power should be removed.
November 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
In this moment, there should be a broad, but rebuttable presumption that anyone holding a position of significant institutional power should be removed.
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They want to control students and faculty and want to be able to blame the federal government for the restrictions.
November 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
They want to control students and faculty and want to be able to blame the federal government for the restrictions.