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  1. I'm not the first to say it but the mind-blowing thing about is how easily she dominates news cycles talking about radical policies, thereby exposing a generation of Democratic learned helplessness

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  2. Trump has talked about see-through walls so many times it's not that big a step to get him to believe there's an invisible one

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  3. Jan 3

    The true nature of right-wing populist regimes should be clear from the fact that the Economist is "hopeful" about every goddamn one of them

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  4. Jan 3

    Having just returned from Texas where everyone loves H.E.B., this is especially fun

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  5. Jan 3

    I'm not sure exactly where it originated (Gramsci? Foucault? Althusser? Poulantzas?), but the notion of institutions "secreting" ideology is one of the most evocative metaphors of 1970s social theory: institutions coating everything in their orbit with a kind of ideological slime

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  6. Jan 3

    I sent 5 emails, picked up packages from the front door, and got a few new Twitter followers

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  7. Jan 3
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  8. Jan 3

    I forget how easy it is to get more followers: you just have to tweet all day and all night

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  9. Jan 3

    Never mind the saddest thing is me sitting here refreshing the tracking info on my Nespresso order

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  10. Jan 3

    It's only January 3 and I already have no doubt that the saddest thing in 2019 is going to be Joe Biden's hapless presidential campaign

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  11. Jan 3

    Michel Houellebecq's new novel, "Sérotonine," is in bookstores today. Lots of international press hailing it as having "predicted" the gilets jaunes movement. Here's the two-page spread in 's Thursday books section, with one writer calling him France's "global writer."

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    Jan 1

    My piece with , an analysis of what's at stake for the left in the US today, and an intervention into some discussions about organizing and political strategy for 2019 and beyond.

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  13. Jan 2

    Have I mentioned lately how delicious chicken nuggets are

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  14. Jan 2

    "At a time when anything and everything claims the fashionable mantle of ‘materialism’, a touch of orthodoxy remarkably concentrates the mind." - Stuart Hall, 1980

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  16. Jan 2

    Thanks to a friend who's not on Twitter for flagging a discussion of my TNR piece on thought leaders in yesterday's FAZ

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  17. Jan 2

    The other reason he's dangerous is that his readership is not unlettered rubes, as one might expect, but wealthy members of the professional classes and bourgeoisie across the country. There's quite a bit of money and class power behind this sort of paranoiac hallucination

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  18. Jan 2

    Your occasional reminder that global neo-fascist populism is an alliance of minority blocs of the masses whipped up by conservative social issues and the American-trained global economic elite:

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  19. Jan 1

    "Wherever the state 'intervenes,' there also, in an exceptionally strong position as compared with other economic groups, will businessmen be found to influence and even to determine the nature of that intervention."

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  20. Jan 1

    “Businessmen wish to 'depoliticise’ highly contentious issues and to have these issues judged according to the criteria favoured by business. This may look like an avoidance of politics and ideology: it is in fact their clandestine importation into public affairs.” - Miliband

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