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George A. Polisner

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Founder of civ.works, building an ad-free social network for civic action & the resistance. Any form of democracy requires an educated, informed, & engaged society. Heather Cox Richardson, Galbraith, Lakoff, Bakan, Chomsky. ProPublica, The Guardian.

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๐Ÿคช๐Ÿคช๐Ÿคช. Fire, chef!

17.08.2025 18:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Tesla stock should be soaring on Monday now that Musk has surprised everyone with the all new Tesla Self-Immolation Mode.

Details: ktla.com/news/local-n...

17.08.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I do not advocate weaponizing sandwiches.

16.08.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Etiquette for a Knife Fight Dying on Moral High Ground Hill

My latest article is now available at: open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p...

Please help me defeat algorithmic inequality by liking and sharing (if you deem worthy).
Thank you for your attention to this matter.

15.08.2025 10:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Putin to offer financial incentives to Trump at Ukraine summit Russian leader plans to discuss economic ties, in appeal to Trumpโ€™s business instincts, alongside future of Ukraine

The criminal elect will be delighted to sell out Ukraine, Europe, and the United States for a moderate investment in Trump Crypto, some 12 year old girls, and a handshake deal on Trump Tower Moscow.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

14.08.2025 20:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Thank you Professor Richardson.

โ€œThose who would renegotiate the boundaries between church and state must therefore answer a difficult question: why would we trade a system that has served us so well for one that has served others so poorly?โ€
-Sandra Day O'Connor
open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

10.08.2025 05:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thank you!

07.08.2025 14:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Premature Democratization Democracy is over too quickly in the United States.

Timing is important.

Some countries may not have the capacity for democracy. In other countries any spark of democracy is quickly extinguished by insatiable greed & the lust for power.

And you know this article will get quashed by algorithmic inequality.

open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p...

07.08.2025 11:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Thank you Professor Richardson.

This LFAA has properly identified a preamble to the U.S. Constitution that was written in invisible ink: "Protecting wealthy men at the expense of the victims."

Especially in the era of the criminal elect and Pam "Bribe Me" Bondi.

open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

05.08.2025 08:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Whomever is using the time machine, please send it back so human garbage Stephen Miller can be returned to 1933 Germany.

02.08.2025 17:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Giants 4-3 Mets (Aug 1, 2025) Final Score - ESPN Game summary of the San Francisco Giants vs. New York Mets MLB game, final score 4-3, from August 1, 2025 on ESPN.

New York Mets fire scorekeeper after loss.

www.espn.com/mlb/game/_/g...

#criminalelect #trumpidiocracy

02.08.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Trump: โ€œWhat does 7 plus 9 equal?โ€

Jobs Data Analyst: โ€œSixteen.โ€

Trump: โ€œFire that SOB. I want it to equal something else.โ€

01.08.2025 20:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Artificial Intelligence, Real Inequality: How Big Tech Is Replacing Labor With Profit The trillion-dollar takeover: AI, automation, and the new robber barons remove the need for labor

Thank you to LA Progressive for publishing my latest on AI and the exacerbation of wealth inequality.

www.laprogressive.com/progressive-... Artificial Intelligence Replacing Labor With Profit - LA Progressive

26.07.2025 17:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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In mathematics, a negative times a negative returns a positive result.

In this photograph, a negative times a negative equals two piles of human garbage.

23.07.2025 12:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Enough! AI and the rise of the Plutocratic Tech Bro Tyranny

How AI is different from other disruptive technologies. My latest is now available.

open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p...

#AI #disruptive #technology #democracy #economics #wealth #inequality #politics #leadership #labor #unions

23.07.2025 09:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So now, instead of selling Teslaโ€™s from the White House, heโ€™s selling subscriptions to the Wall Street Journal!

Hope he wins some Almond Roca for his efforts!

18.07.2025 07:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Iโ€™m a bad man. But at least Iโ€™m not on the Epstein Client List.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

16.07.2025 13:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Live updates: Trump threatens Russia with tariffs if war on Ukraine isnโ€™t resolved President Donald Trump said he would punish Russia with tariffs if there isnโ€™t a deal to end the war in Ukraine within 50 days, showing his growing frustration with Vladimir Putin.

Now this is leadership. Trump is now threatening Russia with tariffs.

Just like the ones he is imposing on our trade partners and allies.

This should win the war!!!

#genius

apnews.com/live/donald-...

14.07.2025 15:51 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Sure. Iโ€™ll pile on.

The biggest difference between the fictional cruelty of King Joffrey and the reality of King Donald?

Joffrey was young.

Donald likes them young.

13.07.2025 07:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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He does what the money tells him to do. Just like Alito, Kavanaugh, and Roberts.

12.07.2025 20:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Is there a mental health hotline one can call for someone who is clearly a danger to themselves and others (mostly others)?

12.07.2025 19:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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For this July 4th, "Independence"/"No Kings" day we created a two-minute short. While โ€œLet them hate us as long as they fear us.โ€ has been failed U.S. Foreign Policy for generations. we never expected it to also become our official domestic policy too.

04.07.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Fear, This F-Word is Destroying Democracy From healthcare to climate change, student debt to social security, Americaโ€™s most pressing crises worsen under a system built on fear, manipulated by wealth, and paralyzed by disinformation.

Grateful for @laprogressive.bsky.social publishing my latest:

www.laprogressive.com/progressive-...

Fear, The F-Word That is Destroying Democracy - LA Progressive

02.07.2025 20:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Grateful to the @nytimes.com for their sanewashing an incompetent, corrupt, criminal, authoritarian takeover of the United States leading to the evisceration of 1st Amendment rights & due process.
They helped light the Constitution on fire and now say "But hey, here's a water pistol!"

Thanks & GFY.

02.07.2025 07:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Nation of Fear As I finish this article, Congress is racing to pass legislation that will remove access to healthcare to millions of people, take food out of the mouths of hungry children and families, and add at le...

My latest on how societal fear (stoked by billionaire controlled media) constrains our ability to elect leadership with the courage, vision, & integrity to implement sweeping and comprehensive reforms necessary to strengthen democracy, justice, & equality in the US.
open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p...

01.07.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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George A. Polisner on Substack Hereโ€™s an excerpt from my next article โ€œNation of Fearโ€ coming to a screen near you (or more likely, directly in front of you), next week (if the coffee holds out). It will dive into our inability to...

An excerpt of my latest: โ€œNation of Fearโ€.

Always free, worth at least twice as much, never paywalled.

substack.com/@gpolisner/n...

28.06.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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June 26, 2025 This morningโ€™s press conference with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth featured an apparently angry Hegseth yelling at the media for contradicting President Donald Trumpโ€™s claim that last weekendโ€™s strik...

Thank you Professor.

There are two truths that are central to the civ.works project.

-Democracy requires an educated, informed, & engaged society.
-The extreme concentration of wealth is antithetical to any attempt at a meaningful democracy.

June 26, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

27.06.2025 06:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Delighted the criminal-elect is finally acknowledging global warming and climate change.

25.06.2025 20:02 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Marsha can GFH.

23.06.2025 08:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Three C's of the Apocalypse But sure, let's have a parade!

In the US, the alliance of insatiable billionaire greed, racists, & the willfully ignorant have elevated the volatile incompetent criminal elect Trump, the worst person imaginable at the most dangerous time in modern history.
Time to adjust the "Doomsday Clock".

open.substack.com/pub/bomdia/p...

23.06.2025 08:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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