Douglas Anders
@douglasanders.bsky.social
I saw Warren Beatty’s Reds when I was 13 years old. I turned out pretty much as you’d expect. Well, the whole Dorothy-Day-Catholic thing was a surprise. Also a board gamer.
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Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
November 14, 2025 at 12:31 AM
Increase in productivity since 1979: 87%
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
Increase in hourly pay since 1979: 32%
Just so happens that ~25% of workers were unionized in 1979. Today? 10%.
As unions declined, the super-rich have taken a larger share of wealth generated by labor. We must build back union power.
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Any senate Democrat who supports keeping Schumer as leader should not get your vote. That needs to be the line you have to draw. Sorry, I realize that might seem hard; so is not being able to fucking afford healthcare.
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Any senate Democrat who supports keeping Schumer as leader should not get your vote. That needs to be the line you have to draw. Sorry, I realize that might seem hard; so is not being able to fucking afford healthcare.
My grandfather was
Postmaster in Talkeetna in the 1960s. As a WWII veteran of the European Theater, he would have been proud of his hometown.
Postmaster in Talkeetna in the 1960s. As a WWII veteran of the European Theater, he would have been proud of his hometown.
October 19, 2025 at 12:11 AM
My grandfather was
Postmaster in Talkeetna in the 1960s. As a WWII veteran of the European Theater, he would have been proud of his hometown.
Postmaster in Talkeetna in the 1960s. As a WWII veteran of the European Theater, he would have been proud of his hometown.
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The massive protests in the major cities make for better television, but democracy will be saved or lost in rural, red America.
Talkeetna, Alaska representing with 11% of the population, despite the 42˚ temps.
#NoKings
Talkeetna, Alaska representing with 11% of the population, despite the 42˚ temps.
#NoKings
#NoKings
Talkeetna, Alaska : population, 1,000. Attendance - 111 !!! ❤️
Talkeetna, Alaska : population, 1,000. Attendance - 111 !!! ❤️
October 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
The massive protests in the major cities make for better television, but democracy will be saved or lost in rural, red America.
Talkeetna, Alaska representing with 11% of the population, despite the 42˚ temps.
#NoKings
Talkeetna, Alaska representing with 11% of the population, despite the 42˚ temps.
#NoKings
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New Epstein drop from the Oversight Dems has some interesting names in it 👀 👀 👀
September 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
New Epstein drop from the Oversight Dems has some interesting names in it 👀 👀 👀
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I’d be willing to bet there’s more headlines about Charlie Kirk today than there have been about Melissa and Mark Hortman since June.
September 11, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I’d be willing to bet there’s more headlines about Charlie Kirk today than there have been about Melissa and Mark Hortman since June.
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Republicans are hiding something.
Every House Rules Republican just voted to block the Epstein Files Transparency Act from advancing.
September 9, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Republicans are hiding something.
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The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
July 24, 2025 at 4:01 PM
The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.
Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.
The list goes on and on.
Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.
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The idea that somehow the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor has to be broadly acceptable to the median American voter is absurd, and also appears to have been somehow invented for the first Muslim nominee.
"The question for Mamdaniism is not just whether it will play in Park Slope or Prospect Lefferts Gardens—it’s whether it will play in Plano."
I'm starting to think Mamdani should not be mayor of Plano.
I'm starting to think Mamdani should not be mayor of Plano.
New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani appeals to downwardly mobile millennials who embrace his zero-sum politics, writes Reihan Salam. But are those voters the future of the Democratic Party?
July 24, 2025 at 4:06 PM
The idea that somehow the Democratic nominee for NYC mayor has to be broadly acceptable to the median American voter is absurd, and also appears to have been somehow invented for the first Muslim nominee.
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JD Vance has no real principles or courage.
July 18, 2025 at 4:27 PM
JD Vance has no real principles or courage.
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Maybe. Killing lots of kids overseas (by demolishing USAID) and at home (undermining the vaccine regimen) might be worse.
Trump has done a lot of incredibly damaging and stupid shit during his time in office, but destroying the independence and credibility of the Federal Reserve will probably be his most consequentially and catastrophically damaging legacy.
POLITICO: “.. Several Republicans left the Oval Office meeting under the impression that Trump is about to move against Fed Chair Jerome Powell, Meredith writes in. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna posted to X last night that an announcement is “imminent.”
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
www.politico.com/newsletters/...
July 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Maybe. Killing lots of kids overseas (by demolishing USAID) and at home (undermining the vaccine regimen) might be worse.
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Wow. So he votes to gut Medicaid and throw 17 million people off of their healthcare and then dumps his Medicaid related stock to cover his own ass?
That’s just evil and cruel.
That’s just evil and cruel.
Republican Congressman Bresnahan recently sold his stock in Centene, a Medicaid health care provider. The stock has now fallen 43% since his sale.
His sale seemingly coincides with his vote to advance Trump's budget bill that will kick 17 million Americans off their health care.
His sale seemingly coincides with his vote to advance Trump's budget bill that will kick 17 million Americans off their health care.
July 3, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Wow. So he votes to gut Medicaid and throw 17 million people off of their healthcare and then dumps his Medicaid related stock to cover his own ass?
That’s just evil and cruel.
That’s just evil and cruel.
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BILLIONAIRE: Lying Zohran Mamdani says that the rich have too much power. Here is the politician I have personally selected to be mayor instead.
July 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
BILLIONAIRE: Lying Zohran Mamdani says that the rich have too much power. Here is the politician I have personally selected to be mayor instead.
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Scott Bessent: "Trump is the most economically sophisticated president…perhaps in history."
Trump: "Maybe we’ll pay off the $35 trillion [U.S. debt] in Crypto. I’ll write on a little piece of paper, ‘$35 trillion crypto, we have no debt.’" (2024)
Trump: "Maybe we’ll pay off the $35 trillion [U.S. debt] in Crypto. I’ll write on a little piece of paper, ‘$35 trillion crypto, we have no debt.’" (2024)
July 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Scott Bessent: "Trump is the most economically sophisticated president…perhaps in history."
Trump: "Maybe we’ll pay off the $35 trillion [U.S. debt] in Crypto. I’ll write on a little piece of paper, ‘$35 trillion crypto, we have no debt.’" (2024)
Trump: "Maybe we’ll pay off the $35 trillion [U.S. debt] in Crypto. I’ll write on a little piece of paper, ‘$35 trillion crypto, we have no debt.’" (2024)
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No but like literally, JESUS CHRIST. How anyone voting for this budget calls themselves a Christian is absolutely unfathomable to me.
A politician’s job is to make the political case to voters. And few do it better than Rep. McGovern.
July 3, 2025 at 11:06 AM
No but like literally, JESUS CHRIST. How anyone voting for this budget calls themselves a Christian is absolutely unfathomable to me.
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SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
Far-Right ‘Appeal to Heaven’ Flag Seen at Jan. 6 Riot Flown Above Government Agency in DC
The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
www.wired.com
June 17, 2025 at 11:05 PM
SCOOP: The "Appeal To Heaven" flag, a popular symbol for Christian nationalists that was waved by January 6 rioters, was raised over the Small Business Administration headquarters last week.
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Not sure any other policy theory has been attempted more frequently and failed 100% of the time like trickle down economics
"Republicans insist that when you cut taxes for the wealthy, it’s like feeding Popeye a can of spinach; pumped with this almost magical fuel, the entire economy will burst with new power and vitality. There will be so much economic activity that revenues will surge, and deficits will even go down."
Republicans are trying to sell a bizarre fantasy on the economy
Would you believe we're on the cusp of a miraculous eruption of prosperity unlike anything Americans have experienced before?
www.publicnotice.co
June 12, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Not sure any other policy theory has been attempted more frequently and failed 100% of the time like trickle down economics
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RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…
June 12, 2025 at 12:15 AM
RFK Jr’s ACIP pick, Martin Kulldorff, said one of the most disturbing images from the pandemic was a toddler crying about having to wear a mask. I see toddlers cry about everything all the time, and I found it far more disturbing to see refrigerator trucks full of body bags outside of the hospitals…
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I'm no longer on Twitter so I can't see Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz's excellent posts over there. But here he is directly calling out Trump & Vance's legislation for being contrary to Catholic social teaching.
June 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I'm no longer on Twitter so I can't see Catholic Bishop Mark Seitz's excellent posts over there. But here he is directly calling out Trump & Vance's legislation for being contrary to Catholic social teaching.
You know, Pro Life.
May 18, 2025 at 12:22 AM
You know, Pro Life.
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We keep hearing that the GOP is going through an "identity crisis" over whether it will be a Trumpist/working class party or whether it will continue serving its "corporatist" and "C-suite" wing.
Funny how the C-suite wing keeps winning this argument!
newrepublic.com/article/1952...
Funny how the C-suite wing keeps winning this argument!
newrepublic.com/article/1952...
May 14, 2025 at 3:57 PM
We keep hearing that the GOP is going through an "identity crisis" over whether it will be a Trumpist/working class party or whether it will continue serving its "corporatist" and "C-suite" wing.
Funny how the C-suite wing keeps winning this argument!
newrepublic.com/article/1952...
Funny how the C-suite wing keeps winning this argument!
newrepublic.com/article/1952...
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Tells you everything you need to know that House Republicans are threatening to torpedo their own budget not because it kicks millions of Americans off their health insurance, but because it doesn’t hand a big enough tax break to the wealthy.
May 14, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Tells you everything you need to know that House Republicans are threatening to torpedo their own budget not because it kicks millions of Americans off their health insurance, but because it doesn’t hand a big enough tax break to the wealthy.
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As I've said, Trump & Vance's war on diversity is a war on the very heart of Catholic teaching as well. Our Church prizes diversity as as essential part of our faith & a core commitment of it. It's a shame that JD Vance knows so little about his new religion.
"Diversity isn’t a danger or something negative,” [an Augustinian] said of Augustine’s teaching. “So I think the pope will work so that inside the church & out, the ‘other’ is increasingly seen not as a danger if different, but as someone to love & who enriches our life and makes it more beautiful.”
Pope Leo XIV visits the headquarters of his Augustinian order
ROME (AP) — Pope Leo XIV celebrated Mass and had lunch with members of his Augustinian religious order on Tuesday, slipping into the congregation’s headquarters outside St. Peter’s Square where he …
cbs4indy.com
May 13, 2025 at 7:48 PM
As I've said, Trump & Vance's war on diversity is a war on the very heart of Catholic teaching as well. Our Church prizes diversity as as essential part of our faith & a core commitment of it. It's a shame that JD Vance knows so little about his new religion.