Ethan Messere
@ethaniel.bsky.social
ATLien by way of Upstate NY. Basketball enthusiast. Music nerd. Grillmaster. Queer + Trans (he/him).
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GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
GM: Charisma check.
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]
GM: that’s a d6 how did you
Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
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When you hear of a billionaire losing money on a pricey hobby or side business — whether it's a race horse or a newspaper — remember that those losses can actually create huge write-offs that let the ultrarich get away with paying little or no income tax.
(Published 2021)
(Published 2021)
When You’re a Billionaire, Your Hobbies Can Slash Your Tax Bill
Thoroughbred horses, auto racing, massive ranches, luxury hotels. The hobbies and side businesses of the ultrawealthy create huge write-offs that can let them get away with paying little or no income ...
www.propublica.org
February 7, 2026 at 4:00 AM
When you hear of a billionaire losing money on a pricey hobby or side business — whether it's a race horse or a newspaper — remember that those losses can actually create huge write-offs that let the ultrarich get away with paying little or no income tax.
(Published 2021)
(Published 2021)
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if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good
February 6, 2026 at 10:51 PM
if everyone could take on the “what if we just did the thing instead of waiting for it to happen” energy that much of minneapolis has right now, the world could be pretty good
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This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
February 6, 2026 at 10:23 PM
This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.
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I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
February 4, 2026 at 7:41 PM
I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
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Democracy dies in the darkness, because that's when the billionaire vampires come out to feast.
February 4, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Democracy dies in the darkness, because that's when the billionaire vampires come out to feast.
What happened to Kathy Hochul? lol I mean I’m here for it, but damn.
February 4, 2026 at 4:08 AM
What happened to Kathy Hochul? lol I mean I’m here for it, but damn.
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The whistles are the entry point. But the long game is the community that is being formed every time someone who has never really been engaged before decides to do This One Thing that gives them a reason to talk to their neighbors.
Community is what saves us in the end. That is my belief.
Community is what saves us in the end. That is my belief.
February 4, 2026 at 3:17 AM
The whistles are the entry point. But the long game is the community that is being formed every time someone who has never really been engaged before decides to do This One Thing that gives them a reason to talk to their neighbors.
Community is what saves us in the end. That is my belief.
Community is what saves us in the end. That is my belief.
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Opposition to data centers appears to be an issue that can bring a bunch of different people together. Let's do it! Broad coalitions are needed to take on oligarchs.
I'm in Arkansas, and the response to data centers here has been enlightening. Too many people got burned by crypto miners dumping a shipping container full of servers running 24/7 in their backyard, and now they want blood. It's a very broad coalition of people.
4. I’ve spent some time tracking and attending local populist responses to ai data centers. Despite some critiques from left that it’s all repackaged “nimby bullshit” (as I’ve been told), I have seen organic multiracial coalitions on this issue. Esp. in places with strong environmental racism orgs
February 3, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Opposition to data centers appears to be an issue that can bring a bunch of different people together. Let's do it! Broad coalitions are needed to take on oligarchs.
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I'm going to say again that I understand that people need a job to live but sometimes you really have to quit.
This is unreal. An AUSA talking like that in open court is about as close as you can come to a total breakdown. Never heard of anything like it.
February 3, 2026 at 9:02 PM
I'm going to say again that I understand that people need a job to live but sometimes you really have to quit.
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Lmao, this is the county where Raphael Warnock won 87% of the vote but local officials still handed over independent journalist Mario Guevara to ICE for deportation to El Salvador
February 3, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Lmao, this is the county where Raphael Warnock won 87% of the vote but local officials still handed over independent journalist Mario Guevara to ICE for deportation to El Salvador
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It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.
What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
Incredible contrast between this and Keir Starmer running a delivery driver over
Mamdani Forces Delivery Apps to Pay Back $4.6 Million Cheated From Drivers
New York City's new mayor, Zohran Mamdani, has already scored a major win for deliveristas working for three delivery giants.
futurism.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:58 AM
It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser.
What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??
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Atlantans, need you to call on your neighborhood orgs & NPUs to chime up, too. Contact information for known Chairs are included.
Need people from all over the city to call on key decision makers to get their shit in order and stop obstructing transit expansion.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Need people from all over the city to call on key decision makers to get their shit in order and stop obstructing transit expansion.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Atlanta Transportation - Stakeholder Contacts
docs.google.com
February 1, 2026 at 11:36 PM
Atlantans, need you to call on your neighborhood orgs & NPUs to chime up, too. Contact information for known Chairs are included.
Need people from all over the city to call on key decision makers to get their shit in order and stop obstructing transit expansion.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Need people from all over the city to call on key decision makers to get their shit in order and stop obstructing transit expansion.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 3:37 AM
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
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every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
January 30, 2026 at 11:58 PM
every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds
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If I can talk about trash tv for a minute, I’m 4 episodes into Heated Rivalry and I’m just not compelled by the main storyline at all. I don’t find either of the main two particularly likeable and it honestly just doesn’t feel like the stakes are very high.
January 26, 2026 at 11:04 PM
If I can talk about trash tv for a minute, I’m 4 episodes into Heated Rivalry and I’m just not compelled by the main storyline at all. I don’t find either of the main two particularly likeable and it honestly just doesn’t feel like the stakes are very high.
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When one side says it's raining, and one side says it isn't, your job isn't to quote both sides. Your job is to look outside and see if it's fucking raining.
January 24, 2026 at 11:00 PM
When one side says it's raining, and one side says it isn't, your job isn't to quote both sides. Your job is to look outside and see if it's fucking raining.
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The point is not "told you so" but to recognize how your reactions are shaped by racial narratives and normalization, and you can take this opportunity to overcome and denaturalize that hardness and cruelty within yourself, to deconstruct the whiteness that makes you defend the indefensible
January 24, 2026 at 10:58 PM
The point is not "told you so" but to recognize how your reactions are shaped by racial narratives and normalization, and you can take this opportunity to overcome and denaturalize that hardness and cruelty within yourself, to deconstruct the whiteness that makes you defend the indefensible
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the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
January 24, 2026 at 7:51 PM
the nba postponed a game because the united states government is killing its citizens
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The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t
I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.
January 22, 2026 at 4:48 PM
The elites and institutions have folded but regular people haven’t
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They are defunding and abolishing everything from cancer research to invasive species elimination in the Great Lakes to this. And they’re doing it with hardly a whimper of protest from the same Ds that are boo hooing about we can’t defund ICE, let’s trying making them wear cameras instead.
"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”
NASA quietly ends financial support for planetary science groups
The U.S. space agency will quit funding several independent science advisory groups this year
www.scientificamerican.com
January 22, 2026 at 2:36 AM
They are defunding and abolishing everything from cancer research to invasive species elimination in the Great Lakes to this. And they’re doing it with hardly a whimper of protest from the same Ds that are boo hooing about we can’t defund ICE, let’s trying making them wear cameras instead.
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If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.
January 22, 2026 at 1:24 AM
If you can’t run against the fucking Gestapo, then get out of the way for those who can.