Joey

Alt Twitters: AT conmeobeo. Organize with DSA in France to counter capitalist/imperialist narratives ✊️🌹 I still love ⚽️ English/Français/Tiếng Việt.

[Joey @JoeConMeoBeo]

Yesterday while in Vietnam, my brother in law was showing off how great DeepSeek is and I was like when did this come out and he said while you were here.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

This doesn’t seem to be getting enough attention. The Silicon Valley social contract forced on the public by Obama and then Trump and then Biden (minus Lina Khan) and now Trump was straight forward: We will let these bros become the richest people in human history and in exchange they will develop a tech industry that makes the U.S. dominant for a century.

They did the first part, then built monopolies to try to keep out competition rather than continue to innovate at a top level, and then got out-competed by Chinese companies in both AI and social media. They are the losers we always thought they were — and now so are we.

[Tyler Austin Harper @Tyler_A_Harper]

We still haven’t grappled with or processed the magnitude of the Biden disaster. Regular Dems were screwed by a party that ignored YEARS of warning signs since 2022. A winnable election—“the most important of our lifetimes”—was sacrificed on the altar of gerontocratic inertia.

[Joey @JoeConMeoBeo]

It's so dumb that writers can't share links here. Ben has the exact same threat thankfully on BS where writers and creators can still link to outside work.

[Ben Burgis @BenBurgis]

I wrote 114 articles this year—52 for Jacobin, 44 for Philosophy for the People, and 18 scattered around a bunch of other places.

No one's the best judge of their own work, so take this w/plenty of salt, but a top 10 list of the ones I feel best about (excluding PftP) would be:

[Joey @JoeConMeoBeo]

@Tyler_A_Harper I wish you were on Bsky, but now I am afraid this crazy thread just helps delitimize it for all the wrong reasons

[punished giorgio @GMomurder]

Zuckerberg has made it clear that he sees FB and Instagram as no longer social networks but passive content verticals, primarily with GenAI slop. And yet not a single major news organization has asked him about what this means for actual socialization, particularly for old people

[Joey @JoeConMeoBeo]

Today it reached 25 million users. More than 10x what they had a month ago.

[Joey @JoeConMeoBeo]

Honestly, it's good on the other side. Can't post links here, but happy to help in replies over over there. Tip: search for the bridge and start pack directory. It's getting easier every day to find mutuals and your community.

[Joey @JoeConMeoBeo]

It's legitimately amazing how much more interaction and engagement is happening on the other place compared to here. Even my friends here are interacting more there than here.

[Majority Report @majorityfm]

Trump’s plan to get grocery prices down was just so brilliant that no one in the media bothered to challenge him on the details!

[Elise Joshi @EliseJoshi]

Why they want to ban TikTok

[Joey @JoeConMeoBeo]

Honestly, it's good on the other side. Can't post links here, but happy to help in replies over over there. Tip: search for the bridge and start pack directory. It's getting easier every day to find mutuals and your community.

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

call me crazy but being a absurdly wealthy shouldn’t give you VIP access to the government

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

call me crazy but being a absurdly wealthy shouldn’t give you VIP access to the government

[Citations Needed @CitationsPod]

just started an account on The Other Website. Follow us there!

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Luigi Mangione's manifesto refers to Michael Moore's Sicko documentary on the for-profit US healthcare system. In one part of it Moore takes abandoned 9/11 first responders to Cuba to get healthcare there, to show just how sick and depraved the US is by comparison:

[Emma Vigeland @EmmaVigeland]

Not sure it matters what the shooter's political ideology is. What's more relevant/actionable is the fact that his rage was widely understood by Americans, who by the way just reelected Trump. Hard to convince voters of the stakes of preserving a system that immiserated them.

[Bhaskar Sunkara @sunraysunray]

Swedish social democracy was a great example of a democratic country where huge inroads were made into corporate power:

1. The growth program was built around a powerful labor federation (the LO) that made an employers federation deal with high wages determined centrally and applied to entire sectors. Weak firms died, employers had to invest in labor-saving technology to stay alive, strong firms grew.

2. The state used ALP and other mechanisms to help displaced workers.

3. The LO and SAP not only shaped Swedish development but pushed for welfare state guarantees and economic democracy measures, including a wage-earner fund.

The SAP’s program took Sweden from underdevelopment to an advanced economy and they were rewarded with a half century of basically uninterrupted rule.

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

The French government has devolved into political chaos after lawmakers ousted conservative Michel Barnier as prime minister.

This is a direct result of President Emmanuel Macron’s political mistakes, says journalist @ColeStangler.

[Mustache Bob @MustacheBob2]

He has 12 kids, doesn't talk to several, and spent Thanksgiving with none of them. He's also aggressively campaigning to cut childcare, benefits and education. Stop lying

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

My mother, #CorettaScottKing, reminded us that violence isn’t always physical—it’s also the harm caused by injustice:

“Poverty is violence. Starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Discrimination against a working person is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical needs is violence.” #CSK

As we approach King Holiday Observance 2025, themed “#MissionPossible: Protecting #Freedom, #Justice, and #Democracy in the Spirit of #Nonviolence365,” let’s commit to ending these systemic injustices. Together, we can build the #BelovedCommunity and create a more just and peaceful world.

#KHO2025

[Charles Devellennes @CDevellennes]

Important read by @reality_manager - Macron is indeed not De Gaulle. But with the powers of the Fifth republic, he is De Gaulle's heir, and the crisis now depends on his leadership. A make-it-or-break-it situation for Macron's second term.