Russell Miller

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Developmental psychologist, CUNY Graduate Center post-doc, recovering journalist, kids' media developer, & wannabe epikoros. Current project at WadadUSA.org

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The saying I coined is "Racism is just fascism practiced on Black people first."

This isn't a metaphor. It's literally what happened.

The Nazi Nuremberg laws were based on US Jim Crow laws and Federal Indian laws. Hitler got the idea that it really would be possible to ethnically cleanse Germany, from how the US ethnically cleansed Native Americans.

Hitler referred to Ukraine as "our frontier," and referred to Jews, Poles, and Ukrainians, as "our Indians"

at peace

While we were fixated on Kevin McCarthy’s travails last week, the FTC proposed a sweeping new rule that would ban non-compete agreements.

These clauses trap 30 million Americans in their jobs and keep them from getting better pay.

This is a very big deal.https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-victory-for-competitive-capitalism

While you weren't looking, the Biden administration ended involuntary servitude

That is, if the rule survives

Robert Reich
Here's hoping that Kevin McCarthy does NOT get the 218 votes he needs to be Speaker and it causes chaos in the GOP!! Anyone else hoping the same?!
americans simultaneously conflate freedom with consumer choice while allowing monopolies to deceive them with the illusion of choice
the more likely you are to believe in woo, the more likely you are to be taken in by hokum https://www.npr.org/2023/01/02/1146318331/yoga-guru-qanon-conspiracy-theories
She was a popular yoga guru. Then she embraced QAnon conspiracy theories

Themes like everything is connected, nothing happens without a purpose, and nothing is what it seems are central to both yoga philosophy and conspiratorial thinking.

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Bezos, Gates, Zuck, Behind every “self-made” millionaire is a father with money

https://levelup-edu.com/bezos-gates-zuckerberg-behind-every-self-made-millionaire-is-a-father-with-money/
Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg. Behind every "self-made" millionaire is a father with money

If you dig deep enough, behind most "self-made millionaires" you will find a parent with good contacts, a few savings, or simply a lot of

levelup Education

Netflix has made the interview with Zelenskyy and Letterman free and public for everyone in case anyone is interested.

https://youtu.be/liooTXAF5Xo

#Ukraine #RemovePutin

My Next Guest with David Letterman and Volodymyr Zelenskyy | Full Episode | Netflix

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The vile attacks on President Zelensky by MAGA are simply what anti-Semitism looks like.
Is the entire 1/6 report a kickoff for Liz Cheney 2024? Watch "moderate" Dems flock to this "centrist" Republican white (term used advisedly) knight.