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Scheduling a final goodbye visit with our kid's former babysitter before she goes home to Argentina prior to inauguration. This is a person who has been working here on a visa legally as an au pair, by the way. I do not think this country is prepared for what our cruelty will do to childcare.
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...well, the moderately wealthy are about to experience what it's like when the leopards come for the nanny your kids love, the cleaning lady who keeps you from living in squalor, the landscaper who tends your water hog lawn.

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And these folks are used to their Help being replaceable and interchangeable. But again, if even domestic help folks with visas are heading homeward to avoid what's coming... The wealthy are in for a very different new reality.


Happy New Year! 🎊 Best wishes to everyone for a wonderful year ahead in 2025.#HappyNewYear #NewYear#JapaneseArt #shinhanga🎨'Summer Night' - Kasamatsu Shiro, 1957.


Was habe ich 2024 eigentlich so gemacht? Ich benutze für die Zeiterfassungsapp toggl track, um besser zu wissen, wie ich meine Arbeitszeit verbringe. Bin schon so ein bisl Selbstoptimierer. 🧡
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In der App teile ich alle TÀtigkeiten in 4 "Klienten" ein. Hier ist die Aufteilung für 2024. Insgesamt bin ich mit der Verteilung nicht zufrieden (zu viel Verwaltung), aber es ist besser als letztes Jahr, da waren es noch 41 % Verwaltung. 😱


Guten Morgen, ihr Lieben und frohes Neue Jahr 2025! πŸ₯³ Wusstet ihr, dass es ein "Mathe-Edu-Twitter" gibt, wo sich Leute so kleine Mathe Gags schicken? Also jedenfalls ist 2025 da sehr beliebt, denn 2025 = (20 + 25)^2 = (1+2+3+4+5+6+7+8+9)^2 und 2025 = 1Β³ + 2Β³ + 3Β³ +4Β³ + 5Β³ + 6Β³ + 7Β³ + 8Β³ + 9Β³. 🀯


Those of us who studied Nazi accelerationist Telegram in its early days have been screaming from the rooftops for 7 years now that this is their end goal. They are actively, explicitly encouraging this sort of terrorist mass death plotting

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I would modify this a bit to say that all but the very margins of the US left are engaged with labor in some way (by direct resourcing or by alliance), and Biden was REALLY good on labor, at least by the standards of US labor unions

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Reminder to everyone who monitors accelerationist Telegram: check your computers VERY CAREFULLY for what files have been downloaded from these channels. Think carefully about how a Kash Patel FBI might use those files to argue that *you* are the terrorist with bomb-making diagrams.


Gentle but eternal reminder that the actively voting United States electorate is not representative of the United States populace

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They will be making villain biopics about this man for decades to come, and none of them will be remotely watchable People will die by the theater-load, stricken en masse by secondhand cringe

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Fetterman's been openly trash since he took national office but Sanders used to stand for something, however imperfectly



We have enough of a long view now to understand how much of the Silicon Valley "disruption" ethic was about destroying existing economic infrastructure, not about creating something new or better. I think about this ALL the time with Lyft and Uber and the dead cab industry.

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What they did was robber baron stuff. Undercut competition with temporary submarket rates, bribe politicians into enabling them, then price gouge once there was no one else left.
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"Disruption" just turned out to be classic Gilded Age unfair business practices. But let me tell you, neolibs in local government fell for it hook, line, and sinker.


Doing effective antifascist research as a woman is that the Nazis will especially target you because they HATE losing to women. And then if you have kids they become special targets, too, because Nazis make up theories about their racial parentage so they can be an extension of your "betrayal."
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Those breaks are often longer for women in vocations that do not pay well (hi, scrapping together freelance gigs to fund unpaid long-term research projects) and specifically do not pay well enough for childcare, especially of multiple kids.
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So there is that dynamic, which is effectively saying that any vocational "staleness" means you can't claim your vocation anymore-- which effectively strips childbearing people of our long-term status in our vocations. Especially in vocations that do not pay well.



Breaking: In a reprise of Trump skipping Biden’s inauguration, Trump will not attend Musk’s swearing in on January 20.


Worth remembering that there is a reason family separation is considered a genocidal practice, and that is because it is a practice that materially destroys the culture and relationships that give people their security and identity.

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Meanwhile the KIDS coming out of this situation enter the workforce in a position of extreme financial vulnerability- they have been stripped of the social safety net and networks that might help them find some measure of security if a job vanished.
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So that's two generations of workers highly vulnerable to employer retribution and therefore less likely to engage in organizing or report labor violation. It's a genocidal practice that maximizes labor exploitability while destroying cultural identity. A twofer.


Part of the problem imo is that funding for real movement work-- even mutual aid work like community food pantries-- is utterly depleted. Institutions that tend to do that work have been trying to survive on GOTV funds that are (obviously) meant to pay for temporary jobs, work, institutions.

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My last year in the nonprofit community organizing industrial complex was 2017, and even then it was clear that the non-electoral program grants were drying up and the path forward was GOTV. And if you wanted the big dollars, 501c4 (which most small community groups weren't designed to do).
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There's a lot to be said about the failures of the nonprofit industrial complex model as a means of community organizing. Namely, it was designed and grew with the expectation that if it stayed out of partisan politics, its managers would be able to locate funding.


Now that I've finished, I'm beginning to understand why Parable of the Sower is such a cult classic. I understand the classic part, but also the cult part. This was not a book written to be grasped by white people who have not already done much liberatory homework.
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