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What should you do when someone’s voting Republican “because of antisemitism?” Send them this article! powermapmag.substack.com/p/if-you-wer...
If You Were Actually Concerned About Antisemitism You Wouldn’t Want The Party Personally Funded By Elon Musk To Control The Government
What to do when someone’s voting Republican “because of antisemitism”
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Student loan repayments are about to restart, battering the bank accounts of millions of Americans. But in a midterm election defined by cost of living, student loans are barely cutting through the noise. @danielgoulden.bsky.social examines why. open.substack.com/pub/powermap...
The Midterm Issue No One Is Talking About
Student loans might really fuck the GOP
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Really good look at several subjects that there not a lot of really good looks at. The organized left is uniformly opposed to antisemitism and the right's attempts to get us arguing about it on their terms are a huge distraction from how they are the ones using it to fuel fascism and genocide.
Power Map@powermapmag.com · 3w agoThere's a reason the right spends millions on the lie that antisemitism is a left wing phenomenon: antisemitism is the glue that hold's fascism's paradoxical combination of "populist" and elitist rhetoric together. We must attack it at its source. www.powermapmag.com/p/left-antis...
I spent a lot of time working on this one. Seeing rising antisemitism is putting a pit in my stomach, but I've grown exhausted by the fact that we aren't talking about its true source: the far right.
Power Map@powermapmag.com · 3w agoThere's a reason the right spends millions on the lie that antisemitism is a left wing phenomenon: antisemitism is the glue that hold's fascism's paradoxical combination of "populist" and elitist rhetoric together. We must attack it at its source. www.powermapmag.com/p/left-antis...
There's a reason the right spends millions on the lie that antisemitism is a left wing phenomenon: antisemitism is the glue that hold's fascism's paradoxical combination of "populist" and elitist rhetoric together. We must attack it at its source. www.powermapmag.com/p/left-antis...
Left Antisemitism is a Right-Wing Construct
Fascists Fuel Antisemitism Because Antisemitism Fuels Fascism
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AI Panic, Hasan Freakout, Financial Bubble: the world is deeply stupid right now. Luckily, we learned how to deal with it 20 years ago, we just didn't...yet. www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...
If We Had Learned From The Iraq War Things Would Be Less Stupid Right Now
Hasan Panics, AI Threats, Financial Bubbles… We Already Did This!
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"From...Epstein to Elon, it’s all the manifestation of the informal legal and political principle enshrined by the Bush era and made permanent by the Obama administration: the bigger the crime you commit, the less you can be held liable for it." www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...
If We Had Learned From The Iraq War Things Would Be Less Stupid Right Now
Hasan Panics, AI Threats, Financial Bubbles… We Already Did This!
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Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · last mo.Since 2008, we've transitioned neatly from "too big to fail" to "too big to be influenced by the law" ... and I think that's bad, even if you love capitalism
And we already learned this in 2008! www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...
Hagen Blix@hagenblix.bsky.social · last mo.@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social keeps talking about bringing back shame. I think "criminal corporate behavior must not be something you can simply price in and keep doing" is one structural equivalent that we seriously need
I always love editing @blimpjuice.bsky.social, equal parts insightful and hilariouis. He was supposed to write a totally different essay, but instead came out with this banger. It's the start of a roadmap to getting us out of this stupid fucking situation we're all in.
Power Map@powermapmag.com · last mo.AI Panic, Hasan Freakout, Financial Bubble: the world is deeply stupid right now. Luckily, we learned how to deal with it 20 years ago, we just didn't...yet. www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...
AI Panic, Hasan Freakout, Financial Bubble: the world is deeply stupid right now. Luckily, we learned how to deal with it 20 years ago, we just didn't...yet. www.powermapmag.com/p/if-we-had-...
If We Had Learned From The Iraq War Things Would Be Less Stupid Right Now
Hasan Panics, AI Threats, Financial Bubbles… We Already Did This!
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PSA: Power Map *will* do a glowing profile of Rahm Emaneul (or any professional ghoul) starting at $250,000.
Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · last mo.Whenever you see a pollster or consultant give a take like this, it’s always worth following the money. In this case, Emanuel has paid Anzalone’s firm nearly $300k (maybe more but that’s what I found so far). A consultant class is devouring the Dem Party www.elections.il.gov/CampaignDisc...
great piece would add that one big dange is The Powers That Be putting a system that *isn't* capable of running things in charge of it, and trusting what it does because it is The Machine God the "the supercompetent AI will kill us all!" doomsaying makes that more likely, because Machine God
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · last mo."This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated." A point I pushed past on the first read but worth staring at www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...
"This reminds me of a critical mistake made in previous generations of socialists; the idea that before any political action happens, before it’s worth contesting power, the people need to be educated." A point I pushed past on the first read but worth staring at www.powermapmag.com/p/shitty-sky...
Shitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.
Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.
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Update: this is even worse than you thought! powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
Why Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?
We can do better than this.
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JW Mason@jwmason.bsky.social · last mo.Just noticed that their definition of the working class includes an income floor, of $30,0000. Below that? not working class. Funny to imagine Joan Williams scoffing at the person who cleans her house twice a week, "you're not a real worker, you're just poor. Now let's make those toilets shine!"
I've had students who are busboys, doormen, car mechanics, janitors, taxi drivers, line cooks, warehouse workers, home health aides, and one honest to god steelworker in a steel mill. And according to Jacobin none are working class once they get their degree. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
We've gotten some criticism of our image here as the Terminator it depicts is from T2 and was sent back in time by John Conners to protect his mother and so is not part of Skynet. We apologize for this error and have fired the unpaid interns responsible.
Power Map@powermapmag.com · last mo.As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...
really helpful essay, even tho i believe in a spectrum of variably shitty skynets we should be concerned about. when an untrustworthy industry is telling you it's destroying the world, don't let yourself become negatively polarized into assuming you're safe.
Power Map@powermapmag.com · last mo.As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...
I really enjoyed editing @neoromantic.bsky.social's essay on AI. I think she does a fantastic job bridging the gap between the two factions on AI Doom and offers a sobering analysis of how AI could fuck things up for us, even if it doesn't kill us all.
Power Map@powermapmag.com · last mo.As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...
Read my latest in Power Map where I argue we need to cut through the noise of the AI Doomsday debate and build the largest coalition we can if we want to have any hope of regulating AI
Power Map@powermapmag.com · last mo.As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...
As AI Doom Mania sweeps the left Allison Keats, @neoromantic.bsky.social, writes for Power Map about, what we should really fear from AI, how we should approach AI fears and how we can use them to organize for comprehensive regulation. powermapmag.substack.com/p/shitty-sky...
Shitty Skynet: How the Left Should Think About AI Doom.
Don’t Worry about Skynet. Worry about Shitty Skynet.
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Monday's article will be delayed due to the diesel shortage. We can't afford to transport it from the take factory.
"The very thesis of the report, that there are 'dials' a candidate can turn to win an election, is fundamentally flawed." powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
Why Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?
We can do better than this.
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Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
Why Does Jacobin Sound Like Third Way?
We can do better than this.
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Exciting news, we fed all of our articles into a frontier AI intelligence and it told us something incredible: all of our opinions are 100% correct!
“the authors acknowledge the role of storytelling in politics, but in developing the report, they have already chosen a narrative—America is broken because of cosmopolitan and educated elites. They are telling a story about the educated versus the uneducated. The polling helps refine it.” 🎯
Power Map@powermapmag.com · last mo.Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
tired: reductionism is a helluva drug wired: popularism is a helluva drug
Power Map@powermapmag.com · last mo.Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
In claiming the left needs to embrace economic issues and appeal to conservative values of patriotism and the family, the report does not embrace class politics over culture wars, it just embraces one side of the war over another
Power Map@powermapmag.com · last mo.Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...
The reason the radical Left is hitting a dead end is that it is full of people with a tertiary education who insist that their political subject, "the working class", is people without a tertiary education. Which leads to attempts to redefine "socialism" as patronizing, conservative populism
Power Map@powermapmag.com · last mo.Earlier this week, Jacobin released a report detailing how we can win the working class. But their definition of working class is flawed and leads them to justify reactionary views on social issues. @danielgoulden.bsky.social reviews for Power Map. powermapmag.substack.com/p/why-does-j...