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AOC responded on X. “I represent LaGuardia Airport as well as workers for JFK. Trump gutted the Aviation Safety committee last week,” she wrote. “Air traffic controllers—already understaffed—got Trump’s ‘buyout’ this week with a 1 week ultimatum to decide. It’s not DEI—it’s him. And Elon too.” https://newrepublic.com/post/190969/aoc-trump-lies-dc-plane-crash

I'm looking for books about power dynamics and social hierarchies.

Book recommendations very welcome!

And reposts 💖😊

Everything from the macro to the micro.
And, I love data.

Some of the books I've read already:

"The case against competition", Alfie Kohn

"Algorithms of oppression", Safiya Noble.

"Ain't I a woman", bell hooks.

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"ICE agents almost never carry judicial warrants giving them the authority to enter private homes or businesses without permission, so they often wait to make an arrest when the person they’re looking for leaves their home or car. And in every case we worked on, when the agents realized they were being watched, they abandoned their stakeout."

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/ice-watch-programs-immigrants-how-to-start

Interview: Naomi Klein

"The end of the bombs does not mean the end of the genocide, unfortunately.

"Gaza is a crime scene.

"I don't think we've really understood what the Nazis were originally. We in Europe & in North America treated them as a rupture, instead of as a continuation of the ideologies of settler colonialism."

https://dawnmena.org/the-exceptions-have-become-the-rule-naomi-klein-on-trump-gaza-and-the-end-of-the-liberal-order/

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infighting amongst fans

"Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist

'Arguing that Musk’s “sole objective is to become a trillionaire” and calling him a proponent of “techno-feudalism on a global scale”, Bannon said. “His aggregation of wealth, and then – through wealth – power: that’s what he’s focused on.”'

Analysis: "Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech"

Early-20thC eugenics ran a pseudoscientific campaign to prevent entry to the US of what it called “inferior” immigrants & to "push certain groups —especially disabled, non-white, & otherwise marginalized people—out of the gene pool."

Musk amplifies users who promote the lie that Europeans are biologically superior to other ethnicities.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/

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Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the only country in the developed world that doesn’t define as an absolute right for all of its citizens. That’s it. We’re the only one left.

Progressives have been fighting for universal healthcare for well over a century. But and have always come first in the American model.

It started with the leader of saying that if we didn’t have healthcare for all, Black people would die and ”solve the race problem”, and continues with CEOs making billions by letting Americans die.

For All would save American families thousands every year immediately and do away with the 500,000+ annual bankruptcies in this country that happen only because somebody in the family got sick. But it would kill the billions every week in profits of the half-dozen corporate giants …

Content warning Politics & mention of racism

Kaliane Bradley - The Ministry of Time

Alternate near-future, drawing subtly upon our likely real near future. The heart of the book is the narrator's relationships with other people and her own inner life. One factor takes it into science fiction territory, and as with all the best SF, the implications of that one factor are imaginatively threaded throughout the unfolding plot.

Excellent "food for thought", if somewhat on the melancholy side. And some tip top turns of phrase!