Marc Auerbach
@pugetopia.bsky.social
Pizza lover. Union guy. Brooklyn kid living in Seattle. Bella, ciao!
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis D. Brandeis
"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." - Louis D. Brandeis
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Marc Auerbach
@pugetopia.bsky.social
· Apr 9
The Senate won't save us.
The House won't save us.
The Democratic Party won't save us.
The Supreme Court won't save us.
It's up to us.
The House won't save us.
The Democratic Party won't save us.
The Supreme Court won't save us.
It's up to us.
Truly sickening. Critical context for the DC shooting.
What were the CIA-backed "Zero Units" in Afghanistan?
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
For a deep dive, read reporter Lynzy Billing's award-winning piece from 2022:
The Night Raids
CIA-backed operations killed countless Afghan civilians, and the U.S. hasn't been held accountable. A reporter returns to investigate her past and unravel the legacy of the secretive Zero Units.
www.propublica.org
November 30, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Truly sickening. Critical context for the DC shooting.
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"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
November 29, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...
What's my score, @profanity.accountant?
November 29, 2025 at 7:18 PM
What's my score, @profanity.accountant?
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A Latin American president who, unlike leftist leaders Maduro and Petro, actually was heavily involved in smuggling cocaine into the United States--and Trump has pardoned him after serving just a few months of his 45-year sentence.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump to pardon ex-Honduras leader serving drug trafficking sentence in US
Hernández was convicted in 2024 of accepting millions in bribes to protect cocaine shipments
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
A Latin American president who, unlike leftist leaders Maduro and Petro, actually was heavily involved in smuggling cocaine into the United States--and Trump has pardoned him after serving just a few months of his 45-year sentence.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Why don't we like "AI?"
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
November 28, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Why don't we like "AI?"
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
You try to put it into everything in nonsensical ways.
It doesn't work the way you claim it will.
You don't pay for the work you use to generate it.
Your intent is labor reduction without a contributory return.
You know it's unpopular so you try to hide it.
You lie about it.
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ste(ph)ven miller would like everyone to assimilate to HIS culture (burying the neighborhood pets in his backyard under the cover of nightfall)
November 28, 2025 at 5:32 PM
ste(ph)ven miller would like everyone to assimilate to HIS culture (burying the neighborhood pets in his backyard under the cover of nightfall)
Amazon, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and all their allies will oppose an adequate and progressive tax structure for Seattle and Washington State until their last dying breaths. Our electeds need to be more scared of us than they are of concentrated wealth.
November 28, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Amazon, the Greater Seattle Chamber of Commerce, and all their allies will oppose an adequate and progressive tax structure for Seattle and Washington State until their last dying breaths. Our electeds need to be more scared of us than they are of concentrated wealth.
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Today I want to tell you about farmworkers.
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid, and Toiling in Toxic Fields - The American Prospect
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
prospect.org
November 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Today I want to tell you about farmworkers.
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
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Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
November 28, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Also if you’re unwilling to be confrontational with powerful people you just should not be a journalist. You aren’t cut out for it.
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Thanks to Democrats like Ruben "why aren't women hot anymore" Gallego, who voted for the Laken Riley bill, this young woman cannot be released on bail while her appeal is pending. She's in Lumpkin, GA.
Awful. Trump admin is deporting a 23-year-old NC woman who came here at the age of 14 as an unaccompanied minor. Her father was murdered and mother died of cancer. All she has are two traffic citations, per this report from Charlotte Observer's Dan Kane:
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politic...
November 26, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Thanks to Democrats like Ruben "why aren't women hot anymore" Gallego, who voted for the Laken Riley bill, this young woman cannot be released on bail while her appeal is pending. She's in Lumpkin, GA.
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It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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This by @runestahl.bsky.social is great. Left populism's embrace of some culturally conservative positions like anti-immigration has been an utter failure. It's not just morally a dead end, its an electoral one as well -- see also Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany.
jacobin.com/2025/11/denm...
jacobin.com/2025/11/denm...
In Denmark, Social Democracy Is Failing
Around Europe, old labor parties have alienated their base by forming grand coalitions with center-right forces. In Denmark, Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have pursued this same strategy with t...
jacobin.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This by @runestahl.bsky.social is great. Left populism's embrace of some culturally conservative positions like anti-immigration has been an utter failure. It's not just morally a dead end, its an electoral one as well -- see also Sahra Wagenknecht in Germany.
jacobin.com/2025/11/denm...
jacobin.com/2025/11/denm...
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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On this day in 1957, the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing the governor to close any schools to prevent federal troops from enforcing integration.
Nov. 26, 1957 | Texas Bill Allows Governor to Close Schools Rather Than Integrate
Learn more about our history of racial injustice.
calendar.eji.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
On this day in 1957, the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing the governor to close any schools to prevent federal troops from enforcing integration.
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The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans.
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
Viola Fletcher, Among Last Known Survivors of Tulsa Race Massacre, Dies at 111
Mother Fletcher's legacy will live on as the epitome of honor, courage, strength, and resilience in the face of violent terrorism, white supremacy, and cowardice
www.qasimrashid.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:14 PM
The first time terrorists used planes to attack Americans wasn’t on 9/11 or at Pearl Harbor. It was the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 when white supremacists flew a dozen planes to drop turpentine or nitroglycerin bombs on Black Americans.
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
Viola Fletcher was there.
www.qasimrashid.com/p/viola-flet...
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Remarkable ¶ in Sara Ellis' opinion on CBP/ICE abuse of force. This is about an October 14 conflict at 105th Street and South Avenue North (I don't claim to know the neighborhood).
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
![The agents therefore began making plans to deploy chemical munitions on their way out.
See Axon Body 4 Video 2025-10-14 1151 D01A49557 at 1:19:37–1:19:40 (“Yeah, I’ll drop ’em
everywhere. But I need two more cans. I only got three on me.”); id. at 1:27:05, 1:27:18–20
(repeatedly stating that “I’m going to gas this street”); id. at 1:29:17–1:29:30 (“I’m going to be
the one deploying the gas . . . I’m going to gas this street. And then I’m waiting here and I’m
looking for fucking with the bricks and shit to keep everybody safe.”); Axon Body 4 Video
2025-10-14 1130 D01A4281B at 52:45–47 (agent miming throwing tear gas canisters and
saying, “we’re going to be ching ching-ing away, just booking it”); Chicago Vehicle Wreck Riot
at 1:15:00–1:15:03 (“I have a feeling I’m going to get to use this [tear gas] finally.”); id. at
1:22:14 (“We’re definitely gassing them when we leave. Just start throwing shit.”); id. at
1:28:56–1:28:58 (“We’re definitely going to gas them when we get out of here.”); Axon_Body_
4_Video_2025-10-14_1251_D01A30574 at 29:52–30:00 (“We’re going to gas the street . . . let
[the other agents] know.”); id. at 30:14–30:21 (“Hey guys. We’re going to start gassing here in a
little bit.”).](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:bbp2b224lro3bfnzcqwwnkfo/bafkreieyeehm5fcfr7xbqwwhw7vv7yeflgvvar3dgudijhemtlk4a7fmc4@jpeg)
November 25, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Remarkable ¶ in Sara Ellis' opinion on CBP/ICE abuse of force. This is about an October 14 conflict at 105th Street and South Avenue North (I don't claim to know the neighborhood).
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
legacy.www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
So....... I guess the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend
Tucker Carlson describes Israeli PM Netanyahu as Western civilization’s “main enemy.”
He says Zionism and other forms of tribalism are “an attack on Western civilization.”
(via Shawn Ryan show)
He says Zionism and other forms of tribalism are “an attack on Western civilization.”
(via Shawn Ryan show)
November 25, 2025 at 11:23 PM
So....... I guess the enemy of your enemy is not always your friend
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People are already doing what you say they *should be* doing. You could join them.
November 25, 2025 at 9:49 PM
People are already doing what you say they *should be* doing. You could join them.
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How much Delta paid in federal income taxes from 2018-2024:
-$375 million (that means we gave THEM a tax refund)
How much Delta spent on stock buybacks and dividend payouts to further enrich wealthy CEOs and shareholders:
+$6.5 billion
Are we getting it yet?
-$375 million (that means we gave THEM a tax refund)
How much Delta spent on stock buybacks and dividend payouts to further enrich wealthy CEOs and shareholders:
+$6.5 billion
Are we getting it yet?
November 25, 2025 at 7:45 PM
How much Delta paid in federal income taxes from 2018-2024:
-$375 million (that means we gave THEM a tax refund)
How much Delta spent on stock buybacks and dividend payouts to further enrich wealthy CEOs and shareholders:
+$6.5 billion
Are we getting it yet?
-$375 million (that means we gave THEM a tax refund)
How much Delta spent on stock buybacks and dividend payouts to further enrich wealthy CEOs and shareholders:
+$6.5 billion
Are we getting it yet?
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This man is a king and must be protected at all costs, I will root for him forever now, I don’t even care if he plays for the Giants or Cardinals
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 AM
This man is a king and must be protected at all costs, I will root for him forever now, I don’t even care if he plays for the Giants or Cardinals
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Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
100,000 Homes: Housing the homeless saves money?
Giving apartments to the chronically homeless can save taxpayer dollars, advocates say
www.cbsnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Anderson Cooper: So it's more expensive to have a chronically homeless person living on the streets than it is to actually subsidize an apartment for them?
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
Answer: Yes, we’re paying more as taxpayers to walk past that person on the street and do nothing… #HousingFirst
MAGA bailout incoming
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
MAGA bailout incoming
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Anyway, it's kind of insane that Carville's claim to fame was getting a candidate 43% in a presidential election (the lowest winning share of the popular vote since Woodrow Wilson) and we've had to hear from him non-stop for three+ decades.
November 24, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Anyway, it's kind of insane that Carville's claim to fame was getting a candidate 43% in a presidential election (the lowest winning share of the popular vote since Woodrow Wilson) and we've had to hear from him non-stop for three+ decades.
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"Sarita Hernandez and Selva Zafiro, co-founders of Marimacha Monarca Press in McKinley Park, were working at a community art event when members of the Southwest Rapid Response team—part of the immigrant coalition—approached them with an idea."
Signs across Chicago mark locations of ICE arrests
Signs resembling temporary no parking notices serve as reminders for the thousands of people arrested by federal immigration authorities under "Operation Midway Blitz" and the pain left behind for lov...
chicago.suntimes.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"Sarita Hernandez and Selva Zafiro, co-founders of Marimacha Monarca Press in McKinley Park, were working at a community art event when members of the Southwest Rapid Response team—part of the immigrant coalition—approached them with an idea."
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Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen