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Jared Yates Sexton
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Hoosier, Political Analyst, Muckrake Podcast, Author THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A HISTORY OF POWER, PARANOIA, AND THE COMING CRISIS January 2023
linktr.ee/jysextonJoined June 2011

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This is going to be a long thread, but an important one. We need to talk about the overruling of Roe, what the GOP/authoritarian movement wants, and where we're heading. Here's what I learned writing The Midnight Kingdom and studying all this. 1/
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One of the most destructive lies we're fed is that the wealthy are talented and deserve unparalleled power to determine the future. That lie is unraveling, but we have to understand the history of how that myth was constructed and its ties to fascism 1/
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A really kind and humbling review of THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A HISTORY OF POWER, PARANOIA, AND THE COMING CRISIS. I know a lot of attention will be paid to the warnings in this book, but I felt seen here that Harvey saw the hope in it, which is what I hope people take from it.
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From @ShelfAwareness my review of @JYSexton’s THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis: shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/2022- #history #politics #democracy
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It’s eerily reminiscent of the trauma many of us suffered in abusive homes and mirrors the same safety / danger states. And the culture war, which is a constant source of profit, makes it worse, creating cycles of escalation.
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When wealthy white men breakdown and become increasingly erratic and destructive, the panic they create is harnessed to build dependence on breaking news, up to the moment updates, and generally create an environment with feedback loops profiting off crisis and danger.
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Coverage of powerful men having breakdowns and projecting their self-loathing onto society is always terribly handled because the profit incentives in this system are completely programmed to be damaging and crisis-inducing. None of it is wired to make anything actually better.
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A really kind and humbling review of THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A HISTORY OF POWER, PARANOIA, AND THE COMING CRISIS. I know a lot of attention will be paid to the warnings in this book, but I felt seen here that Harvey saw the hope in it, which is what I hope people take from it.
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From @ShelfAwareness my review of @JYSexton’s THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis: shelf-awareness.com/theshelf/2022- #history #politics #democracy
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In half an hour (8pm eastern) I'm going live for my Q&A show where I answer your questions and drink some bourbon. Tonight we're talking strategies for defeating fascism in 2023, making a better future, and what we can do as individuals. Tune in.
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In half an hour (8pm eastern) I'm going live for my Q&A show where I answer your questions and drink some bourbon. Tonight we're talking strategies for defeating fascism in 2023, making a better future, and what we can do as individuals. Tune in.
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Listen. I've got a bottle of booze and a whole lot of questions to answer. We're roughly an hour out from the BOURBON TALK POLITICAL Q&A LIVESTREAM. If you know, you know, if you don't, listen, you got to tune in. Get comfortable and join us.
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Listen. I've got a bottle of booze and a whole lot of questions to answer. We're roughly an hour out from the BOURBON TALK POLITICAL Q&A LIVESTREAM. If you know, you know, if you don't, listen, you got to tune in. Get comfortable and join us.
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We're a few hours out from the last BOURBON TALK POLITICAL Q&A LIVESTREAM of the year (8pm eastern). Reply with your questions or topics you want me to answer and plan on coming out. This is going to be...a pretty important episode.
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We're a few hours out from the last BOURBON TALK POLITICAL Q&A LIVESTREAM of the year (8pm eastern). Reply with your questions or topics you want me to answer and plan on coming out. This is going to be...a pretty important episode.
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Tonight is the last BOURBON TALK POLITICAL Q&A LIVESTREAM of the year. We've got so much to talk about, but there's still room for YOUR questions. Reply here and tune it at 8pm eastern. It's time we talked about how to defeat fascism and win the future.
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Tonight is the last BOURBON TALK POLITICAL Q&A LIVESTREAM of the year. We've got so much to talk about, but there's still room for YOUR questions. Reply here and tune it at 8pm eastern. It's time we talked about how to defeat fascism and win the future.
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TONIGHT at 8pm eastern, it's the last BOURBON TALK POLITICAL Q&A of 2022. Reply with questions and get ready to have a big, long, important talk about what we're going to do in the coming year to win a better future and defeat fascism.
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TONIGHT at 8pm eastern, it's the last BOURBON TALK POLITICAL Q&A of 2022. Reply with questions and get ready to have a big, long, important talk about what we're going to do in the coming year to win a better future and defeat fascism.
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Episode 2 of The Midnight Kingdom Lecture Series is LIVE. This is the story of how we’ve arrived at this moment of crisis, how white supremacist capitalism rigged the world, and ultimately how we’re going to defeat it and create a better future.
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This Sunday at 8pm eastern I'll be hosting the last Bourbon Talk Political Q&A Livestream of 2022. We're going to go over the past year, answer some questions, but also set some intentions for how we're going to win the battle against fascism in 2023.
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This is all an adaptation from my new book THE MIDNIGHT KINGDOM: A HISTORY OF POWER, PARANOIA, AND THE COMING CRISIS. If you haven’t already, preorder. This is information we have to have if we’re going to defeat fascism and make something better.
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Episode 2 of The Midnight Kingdom Lecture Series is LIVE. This is the story of how we’ve arrived at this moment of crisis, how white supremacist capitalism rigged the world, and ultimately how we’re going to defeat it and create a better future.
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Absolutely loved this interview and talking about what happens as empires decline and what is possible if we can just disabuse ourselves of the lies we’ve been fed.
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Pleased to introduce Jared Yates Sexton: author, broadcaster, historian, commentator @JYSexton - takes questions from sub_ʇxǝʇ's @kult_epigenetic Alex Head. 13.30-14.30 (EST) LIVE HERE: threadsradio.com
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In case anybody needed a single tweet that simultaneously sums up with horrifying clarity what’s wrong with education and how inextricably linked government is with the interests of the wealthy. Tremendous work here by the Secretary of Education.
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Every student should have access to an education that aligns with industry demands and evolves to meet the demands of tomorrow’s global workforce.
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