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Teaching, writing about books, music. Views mine, all mine, nobody else's, least of all my employer's. https://samuelscohen.com/

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If I had a printing press/TV show/podcast I would never refer to our secretary of transportation without prefacing it with his Homeric epithet, "former Real World cast member"

03.11.2025 18:21 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

She is among the biggest culprits for the degradation of her particular institution

03.11.2025 17:57 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"eight bodyguards surround the Free Press founder at all times, and she’s shuttled around in a caravan of SUVs, much like the president and vice president."

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Socialism Meets Capitalism

The original of these cooperators were largely members of the "needle trade" unionsβ€”
overwhelmingly Jewish immigrants who were steeped in the socialist-leftist ideologies of the Lower East Side labor movement. In 1927, the
Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, backed in part by the famously socialist Jewish Daily Forward newspaper, founded the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative on Van Cortlandt Parkway South in the Bronx. Its design by Springsteen & Goldhammer modeled the "park experience" of the previous planned communities, but with a deliberate utopian, communal way of life that included cooperative schools, press, markets, and more. Today, Amalgamated Housing Cooperative is the oldest co-op still functioning as a limited-dividend co-
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Socialism Meets Capitalism The original of these cooperators were largely members of the "needle trade" unionsβ€” overwhelmingly Jewish immigrants who were steeped in the socialist-leftist ideologies of the Lower East Side labor movement. In 1927, the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, backed in part by the famously socialist Jewish Daily Forward newspaper, founded the Amalgamated Housing Cooperative on Van Cortlandt Parkway South in the Bronx. Its design by Springsteen & Goldhammer modeled the "park experience" of the previous planned communities, but with a deliberate utopian, communal way of life that included cooperative schools, press, markets, and more. Today, Amalgamated Housing Cooperative is the oldest co-op still functioning as a limited-dividend co- op.

Photo of Alku, the first cooperative building in NYC. Built by Finnish immigrants in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

Photo of Alku, the first cooperative building in NYC. Built by Finnish immigrants in Sunset Park, Brooklyn.

It's really funny to hear people say "Can NYC handle socialism???"

Nearly half a million of our homes (25% of all owner-occupied homes in the city) are cooperatives that were EXPLICITLY created by immigrant trade unionists as socialist utopian housing.

03.11.2025 17:39 β€” πŸ‘ 97    πŸ” 28    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 2

I guess he's stopped being polite

03.11.2025 17:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The horror

03.11.2025 13:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🎯🎯🎯

02.11.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Trumpist rule consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: there must be a president and executive branch whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside its opponents and victims whom the law binds but does not protect.

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I need a cigarette and I don't smoke and I'm not a fan of either of these teams

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Adam Palley special is genius

02.11.2025 00:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Our president is trash exhibit number one million

01.11.2025 21:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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Forgot to say also the administration's celebration of selfishness

31.10.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Today I am I'm-not-familiar-with-your-costume-reference years old

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I'm drawing a straight line between this administration's brazen flouting of the law and the epidemic of people running red lights who's with me

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But I just got em

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To be clear (about the Warby Parkers), this is why--this guy has a whole host of bad takes

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The Long Way Round

Nor should you. Discovered this one a few years ago--was used in a movie--and do not feel guilty open.spotify.com/track/33JI1L...

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Oof

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Oh you can't say that and not give us at least one example

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On the eve of his second election β€” on October 31, 1936 β€” FDR delivered his coup de grace, explaining the stakes in his fight with the moneyed interests.

Today’s economic royalists are backing Trump, and the fight is much the same.

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#MAMA

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Maybe for Halloween I'll just be Everything Going to Shit

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Using his powers to extract tribute from foreign countries, "donors," etc. and then using those extraconstitutional slush funds to bypass the Constitution and the rule of law. Literally the opposite of originalism and a profound threat to the continuation of constitutional democracy in this country.

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Pretty sure "attacking another country's military infrastructure within its own borders" has a name...

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President No New Wars

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AI companies: The future of humanoid robots is here

Humanoid robot:

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