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@jem.writes.fyi
there’s def a raciolinguistic story there, the 90s-00s borderlands, mexican american children inspired to learn spanish (spanglish) from her crossover music felt as a return to the culture
November 28, 2025 at 4:07 AM
there’s def a raciolinguistic story there, the 90s-00s borderlands, mexican american children inspired to learn spanish (spanglish) from her crossover music felt as a return to the culture
"Butler’s illuminating redefinition of gender as a praxis rather than a noun set off bells ringing everywhere! Why not, then, the performative enactment of all our roles in our contemporary Western/Westernized case, gender, race, class/underclass, sexual orientation? All as praxes rather than nouns"
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
"Butler’s illuminating redefinition of gender as a praxis rather than a noun set off bells ringing everywhere! Why not, then, the performative enactment of all our roles in our contemporary Western/Westernized case, gender, race, class/underclass, sexual orientation? All as praxes rather than nouns"
“that excitement to ask a question differently or to see something anew is what keeps the field growing in the midst of a fed gov that is trying to erode these fields
They will not disappear bc they exist within the curiosities & the minds of people who are doing the work
We're not going anywhere”
They will not disappear bc they exist within the curiosities & the minds of people who are doing the work
We're not going anywhere”
November 6, 2025 at 1:33 PM
“that excitement to ask a question differently or to see something anew is what keeps the field growing in the midst of a fed gov that is trying to erode these fields
They will not disappear bc they exist within the curiosities & the minds of people who are doing the work
We're not going anywhere”
They will not disappear bc they exist within the curiosities & the minds of people who are doing the work
We're not going anywhere”
"And momentarily, they were making these challenges all together. Ah, but when you separate them, you retreat into the bourgeois order of things.
All such humanly emancipatory struggles, all then so fiercely fought for! You bring them together, and the world system had begun to question itself!"
All such humanly emancipatory struggles, all then so fiercely fought for! You bring them together, and the world system had begun to question itself!"
November 6, 2025 at 4:24 AM
"And momentarily, they were making these challenges all together. Ah, but when you separate them, you retreat into the bourgeois order of things.
All such humanly emancipatory struggles, all then so fiercely fought for! You bring them together, and the world system had begun to question itself!"
All such humanly emancipatory struggles, all then so fiercely fought for! You bring them together, and the world system had begun to question itself!"
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Mayor-elect Mamdani: "So, Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have 4 words for you. Turn the volume up."
November 5, 2025 at 4:54 AM
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Different tax systems for working Americans & wealthy:
Working Americans cant use charitable giving (often to nonprofits) to offset income taxes
Wealthy can use philanthropy (often to their own private charities which can hoard $) + tax benefits to eliminate wealth taxes
Public loses this revenue
Working Americans cant use charitable giving (often to nonprofits) to offset income taxes
Wealthy can use philanthropy (often to their own private charities which can hoard $) + tax benefits to eliminate wealth taxes
Public loses this revenue
October 24, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Different tax systems for working Americans & wealthy:
Working Americans cant use charitable giving (often to nonprofits) to offset income taxes
Wealthy can use philanthropy (often to their own private charities which can hoard $) + tax benefits to eliminate wealth taxes
Public loses this revenue
Working Americans cant use charitable giving (often to nonprofits) to offset income taxes
Wealthy can use philanthropy (often to their own private charities which can hoard $) + tax benefits to eliminate wealth taxes
Public loses this revenue
Pre-1982 investors would get returns in highly taxed dividends
1982 FCC allowed companies to buy back stock (increases company value & skyrocketed stock market growth). Returns transformed from taxable dividends to non-taxable growth in company value
Mainly benefits owners, gov loses those taxes
1982 FCC allowed companies to buy back stock (increases company value & skyrocketed stock market growth). Returns transformed from taxable dividends to non-taxable growth in company value
Mainly benefits owners, gov loses those taxes
October 24, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Pre-1982 investors would get returns in highly taxed dividends
1982 FCC allowed companies to buy back stock (increases company value & skyrocketed stock market growth). Returns transformed from taxable dividends to non-taxable growth in company value
Mainly benefits owners, gov loses those taxes
1982 FCC allowed companies to buy back stock (increases company value & skyrocketed stock market growth). Returns transformed from taxable dividends to non-taxable growth in company value
Mainly benefits owners, gov loses those taxes
"Income earners (working Americans, not the wealthy) are the ones that are really carrying the expenses of government
Income taxes: 50% of total federal revenue
Payroll taxes: ~35%, pays for social security & medicare
Corporate taxes: %11
Estate taxes: <.05%
Income taxes: 50% of total federal revenue
Payroll taxes: ~35%, pays for social security & medicare
Corporate taxes: %11
Estate taxes: <.05%
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"Income earners (working Americans, not the wealthy) are the ones that are really carrying the expenses of government
Income taxes: 50% of total federal revenue
Payroll taxes: ~35%, pays for social security & medicare
Corporate taxes: %11
Estate taxes: <.05%
Income taxes: 50% of total federal revenue
Payroll taxes: ~35%, pays for social security & medicare
Corporate taxes: %11
Estate taxes: <.05%
“It is the continued existence of the estate tax that is serving to benefit the richest Americans, what it does is provide a cover that makes people think the wealthy are subject to taxes, when they are not/ it is riddled with loopholes”
October 24, 2025 at 1:39 PM
“It is the continued existence of the estate tax that is serving to benefit the richest Americans, what it does is provide a cover that makes people think the wealthy are subject to taxes, when they are not/ it is riddled with loopholes”