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Debs

@laborsideart.bsky.social

"We don't 'jam'. We play songs." - Richard Manuel

created October 31, 2023

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Profile picture BladeoftheSun (@bladeofthes.bsky.social) reposted

Palantir CEO laughs about profiting from killing Palestinians using AI. He calls them 'Hamas' 'useful idiots' and 'mostly terrorists'. But there is only one terrorist here, and Palantir are war criminals.

31/8/2025, 11:21:41 AM | 495 287 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Leah Feiger (@leahfeiger.bsky.social) reposted

NEW: A dark money group Is secretly funding high-profile Democratic influencers, offering influencers up to $8,000 a month to push the party line. All they have to do is keep it secret—and agree to restrictions on their content. a truly wild story from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social for @wired.com:

27/8/2025, 3:21:01 PM | 526 168 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Deep and extreme cowardice. One of the biggest cowards of all time. Smirking coward.

29/8/2025, 7:58:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Bomb Tel Aviv until the IDF permanently withdraws from Gaza and all illegal settlements.

29/8/2025, 5:26:58 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Nuke Tel Aviv

29/8/2025, 3:57:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Resist 🕎🍉 (@antizionistjew.bsky.social) reposted

Watch how Ben Gvir enters MELTDOWN as an activist confronts him in the US 👇

28/8/2025, 9:53:02 PM | 55 28 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Big blow to contemporary lib political theory.

28/8/2025, 12:54:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Peter (@notalawyer.bsky.social) reposted

if you’re going to talk about constraints placed on the CIA by Congress you might want to note that the CIA has been found to be hiding operations from Congress and also spying on Congress

28/8/2025, 3:43:40 AM | 1796 226 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

No more money for ANY democratic candidate until they fully and unconditionally support an arms embargo. At this point, we should be bombing Israel.

27/8/2025, 5:53:22 PM | 7 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

They still have jobs because getting Democrats in power is not job 1. Beating back the left so donors continue to control the party and the gravy train keeps rolling is job 1.

26/8/2025, 8:00:17 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

For Israel. For ever

26/8/2025, 7:56:59 PM | 5 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

He's going to end up like Mussolini. That's the hope, anyway

26/8/2025, 7:46:16 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Le Wokisme? or La Botte? (@csilverandgold.bsky.social) reposted

At this point voters have learned to view this as a sign of contempt, which is a really bad place to be in with your own voters.

26/8/2025, 5:27:09 PM | 127 24 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Mark Andrew Price (@pricelaborecon.bsky.social) reposted

Everything the rich have ever wanted is being delivered, a further weakened labor movement, a gutted regulatory regime, a public sector being strangled in a puddle. The rest was hokum invented by academic scribblers searching for a logical rationale for the rich to be more dominant.

26/8/2025, 9:46:12 AM | 2174 530 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Resist 🕎🍉 (@antizionistjew.bsky.social) reposted

These are the outlets who promoted Zionist propaganda to hide the massacre of civilians today 👇 The Los Angeles Times; The Washington Post; The Wall Street Journal; The Financial Times; ABC; CBS; NBC; CNN; Fox News; BBC; Politico; Newsweek; The Associated Press; and Reuters

26/8/2025, 12:47:36 AM | 63 31 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

War criminal.

22/8/2025, 2:10:33 PM | 3 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture onion person (@junlper.beer) reposted

zohran mamdani won his district by double digits, someones gotta primary and oust hakeem jefferies

15/8/2025, 5:15:52 PM | 4341 473 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not about to pretend we're on the same side. Not me.

16/8/2025, 7:29:23 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Aipac Shakur is a tool of money and death.

16/8/2025, 7:26:57 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Aipac Shakur will get his own primary

16/8/2025, 7:18:50 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Aipac Shakur

16/8/2025, 2:47:56 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

I like her. But this isn't thought through.

16/8/2025, 2:37:25 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Aipac Shakur

16/8/2025, 2:34:19 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Nuke Tel Aviv is my suggestion.

15/8/2025, 9:54:21 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Maybe it would be helpful to have a series of posts about big wins federal sector unions have achieved in the last 40 years?

15/8/2025, 7:17:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

It's all you're getting, bigot

15/8/2025, 7:10:09 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

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15/8/2025, 7:04:37 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Amazing response to an ignorant bigot. Jewish supremacists have overplayed their hand.

15/8/2025, 7:00:15 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

You're a right wing clown

15/8/2025, 5:33:18 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

@thelouvreof.bsky.social

15/8/2025, 5:09:08 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Ken Klippenstein (@kenklippenstein.bsky.social) reposted

Hakeem Jeffries says of Cuomo's attacks on Mamdani for living in a rent controlled apartment: "It's a legitimate issue that has been raised, and the [Mamdani] campaign is going to have to address it."

15/8/2025, 3:41:42 PM | 1897 231 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

No thanks. Back to the wine cellar with that fraud.

14/8/2025, 9:38:00 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Blaming "words" for his failure. What an asshole. I like words. They don't fail.

14/8/2025, 5:20:27 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Give Iran the bomb to protect itself from Israel, the US, the CIA and MEK.

14/8/2025, 9:56:28 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

What on earth do black leaders in NYC see in Cuomo? What is this Clyburnization and how do we get through it?

13/8/2025, 5:43:48 PM | 4 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture الكسندرا ميراي (@lexialex.bsky.social) reposted

LMFAO. The guy who had a protest camp in front of his mansion with blood painted streets for an entire year because he loved genocide so much?

13/8/2025, 12:54:35 PM | 196 80 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

You're going to argue so well you'll get Alito and co. to make a principled decision? Not happening.

13/8/2025, 11:22:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kath Barbadoro (@kathbarbadoro.bsky.social) reposted

Being right wing is so hard bc you’re not allowed to acknowledge any actual phenomena that shape the world, so when you try to describe something you just end up sounding like if a person speaking in tongues worshipped the internet instead of god

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3/8/2025, 3:32:41 PM | 6727 858 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

We have to come to terms with the way women and especially women of color, no matter how closely connected to evil, are beyond public reproach. We need to judge people on their merits (in addition to neo-reconstruction, reparations, land redistribution, etc.) But no more tokenism.

13/8/2025, 3:42:16 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Sarah Jones (@sarahjones.bsky.social) reposted

No. We are not doing this anymore. It is 2025. Usha Vance stays with her husband because she agrees with him. There is no evidence that she loathes him at all. Yale-educated women can be fascist too.

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12/8/2025, 7:11:59 PM | 4192 584 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Untrue. All of you are teenagers.

13/8/2025, 3:31:17 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Primary Cory Booker

13/8/2025, 1:05:16 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Crank it up! Til they're not bad anymore

12/8/2025, 9:12:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Happened to me. Punched kinda hard while reading a book. A group of teens. Not afraid of public transit, but not so naive to think we're all a family of riders.

12/8/2025, 8:16:06 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Which nearby country is slaughtering thousands at this very moment?

12/8/2025, 8:24:05 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Lay out your serious plan for stopping people from pissing all over public transit, playing their phones without regard for other passengers, and dropping their trash all over. If your plan is, "deal with it", nobody is on board.

12/8/2025, 12:21:44 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Again, I don't want piss and litter and public nuisance. You do, because you have some incoherent politics.

11/8/2025, 10:04:29 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

No. I've just seen more functional societies. China for example. You're a degenerate anarchist. I don't want your piss-world.

11/8/2025, 9:54:03 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Yep. We don't agree.

11/8/2025, 9:43:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Not at my beck and call, of course. I'm calling people who play their phone speakers in public antisocial. And that point's not really seriously contestable.

11/8/2025, 9:41:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes

11/8/2025, 9:28:48 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

*believe in (and work toward)

11/8/2025, 9:24:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

No, you have unsophisticated political understanding. I believe and worker ownership of the means of production. The police I refer to would be directed by workers councils. I don't want your degenerate anarchy.

11/8/2025, 9:23:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Yes

11/8/2025, 9:20:26 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Car modified to be so loud it wakes babies. Confiscated.

11/8/2025, 9:20:07 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

You're a high school level sophisticated anarchist

11/8/2025, 9:19:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

You were just a second ago pulling the ol, "what, you afraid, bro?"

11/8/2025, 9:18:04 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Littering too - night in jail unless you have kids under 12, in which case 2 days house arrest on your days off from work.

11/8/2025, 9:16:59 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Nobody shares your delusion as to how these interactions go.

11/8/2025, 9:15:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

No. I prefer social rules the violation of which isn't tolerated. You have some incoherent vision expressed now through something resembling toxic masculinity. "What are you a pussy, bro?" Yikes

11/8/2025, 9:14:21 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

"Hey man put headphones on" works and doesn't inordinately provoke defiance and hostility, risking violence, only in your lovely but naive dreams.

11/8/2025, 9:12:36 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

I'm not afraid. I just don't want to live in a world like that. It's unpleasant. Anti social people will respond with defiance, shouting, or violence.

11/8/2025, 9:11:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

I don't want to live in your shitty world. We can do better.

11/8/2025, 8:59:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

I wish it were rare. Public awareness campaign is good. Free earbuds funded by citations for violation is one I was thinking. But I wouldn't want armed city cops handing them out.

11/8/2025, 8:29:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Have you interacted with people rude enough to play their speaker in public?

11/8/2025, 8:27:01 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

So do we have no options to enforce common decency and respect on public transit?

11/8/2025, 7:27:34 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

I was into anarchy in middle school too, but now I think there should be mandatory respect for others in public places.

11/8/2025, 7:25:44 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

How do we stop it?

11/8/2025, 7:24:15 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture utopia deferred (@utopia-defer.red) reposted

not a fan of how our future hinges on a substantial portion of the democratic party having a change of heart on how their job requires actually responding to the grievances of their voters

10/8/2025, 2:58:31 AM | 511 95 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Dumb

10/8/2025, 3:01:14 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

She could be removed from office but still given salary and benefits. Any vested right to property she may have in her employment (thin argument already) doesn't include a right to be a black-robed law priestess for life. How absurd. It's disqualifyingly stupid.

10/8/2025, 2:59:44 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

He should stay in prison for life.

10/8/2025, 2:50:33 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture The Guardian (@theguardian.com) reposted

Joe Biden is complicit in Gaza’s starvation. Blood is on his hands | Mohamad Bazzi

9/8/2025, 2:09:25 PM | 149 37 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Randi Weingarten has been a disaster for the labor movement

10/8/2025, 2:39:24 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

I was referring to headphone use on public transit and public spaces. Not necessarily on bikes. Cars shouldn't exist in dense areas.

9/8/2025, 6:21:31 PM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

We're not teenage anarchists. Order is good. Traffic control, big fines for littering and mandatory headphone rules are good.

9/8/2025, 6:05:45 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Biden didn't talk back to Bibi. He'd be sending more bombs.

8/8/2025, 2:22:39 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Trump is bad. Cutting funds to NED is good. NED undermines democracy and foments coups and color revolutions.

8/8/2025, 2:04:13 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Fartlow

6/8/2025, 7:46:38 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Why is tolerance of trash and graffiti left? I like the idea of countering those things strong cultural pressure (and well paid crews).

6/8/2025, 7:11:54 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

JD Come Lately would fit the bill.

6/8/2025, 3:29:15 AM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

I think they murdered all of the left,no? I see Catholic JD Vance carrying it.

6/8/2025, 3:27:04 AM | 2 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Not eyebrows.

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5/8/2025, 3:29:30 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

The ugliness of your soul oozes through your face.

5/8/2025, 3:24:58 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

This is how you defend evil in the 2020s - just lost sympathetic marginalized groups and tell your opponent they hate them. It's baby brained evil.

5/8/2025, 3:23:14 PM | 1 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

End Starmer's labor party too.

5/8/2025, 12:58:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Free Palestine

5/8/2025, 6:19:42 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Kylie Cheung (@kylietcheung.bsky.social) reposted

Cory Booker is so void of any real principles or substance or policies, he is pure political theater and represents everything people hate about the typical American politician—of course he has nothing to say about someone who is so fundamentally the opposite of him

5/8/2025, 3:03:49 AM | 704 109 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Cardboard Revolution Games Co-op (@cardboardrevolution.com) reposted reply parent

Interesting

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4/8/2025, 5:38:02 PM | 4 2 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

"A grassroots movement" that is not a militant labor movement won't cut it.

3/8/2025, 11:55:18 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

They don't spontaneously generate.

3/8/2025, 11:54:21 AM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Only a labor movement can compete. And the Dems let it die.

2/8/2025, 5:47:17 PM | 8 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Lolol. This fuckin team.

2/8/2025, 5:31:27 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Me

2/8/2025, 2:19:46 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Julia Carrie Wong (@joolia.bsky.social) reposted

I actually think that it is fine for the left to say that actually, biologically essentialist views are not a project that we are interested in engaging seriously with, and that is the case both for race essentialism and sex/gender essentialism.

1/8/2025, 11:17:40 PM | 1739 344 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Erika McEntarfer (@erikamcentarfer.bsky.social) reposted

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

2/8/2025, 2:18:13 AM | 22149 4433 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

You are bought by AIPAC.

1/8/2025, 10:06:20 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Jen Taub (@jennifertaub.com) reposted

Real question: are there no criminal charges that could be brought under New York State law against child sex trafficking Ghislaine Maxwell such that she does not get released from federal prison after a pardon, but instead can be remanded into custody in New York?

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1/8/2025, 5:30:20 PM | 7020 1746 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Maya Media (@mayamedia.bsky.social) reposted reply parent

Netanyahu continually says "Jews = Zionism; Zionism = Jews". So, any anti-Semite simply has to agree, then note some Zionist evil. Voila! Suddenly, they can argue that their hate is justified. This is how Zionists put Jews in danger.

1/8/2025, 5:40:10 PM | 4 3 | View on Bluesky | view

Profile picture Debs (@laborsideart.bsky.social) reply parent

Everyone who supports Netanyahu? Every single one? Do it.

1/8/2025, 3:58:00 PM | 0 0 | View on Bluesky | view