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Luke Savage
@LukewSavage
Words in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Toronto Star, New Statesman, Smithsonian. Columnist at Jacobin.
Joined April 2011
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    I'm in today's Star with a piece on the Canadian government's "sovereign wealth fund", which is not in fact a sovereign wealth fund at all. Mark Carney may be talking like a Nordic social democrat but he is governing like a Thatcherite.
    Mark Carney compares his sovereign wealth fund to Norway’s. Canadians are smart enough to see it’s not the same | #Opinion trib.al/yRBL2HU
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    MUSK’S GROK AI CLEARED FOR USE ACROSS U.S. GOVERNMENT AGENCIES
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    Whatever happens tomorrow, never forget that this doggedly positive and hopeful campaign—in every way a fight for basic dignity and joyful celebration of democratic pluralism—was relentlessly denounced by political and media elites as something sinister, dangerous, and violent.
    "Without the night shift, there is no morning." Late Thursday night, I canvassed the taxi line at LaGuardia — and caught up with some old friends from @NYTWA.
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    A view enjoyed just once every 330 years. Humbled to be witness to this once in a lifetime reminder of nature's awesome and eternal beauty.
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    A whole lot of people who've spent years calling the younger generation "snowflakes" now apparently want armed guys in riot gear to protect them from teenagers sitting peacefully on the ground
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    Meat identity politics is an underrated right wing micro-genre IMHO
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    "Alt left" is a term quite literally designed to draw equivalence between white supremacists and people who want universal healthcare
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    You'll go on a podcast and cry about it for an hour?
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    Jeff Bezos makes $3,182 a second
    Amazon-owned Whole Foods is cutting medical benefits for part-time workers theverge.com/2019/9/13/2086…
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    It's the phrase everyone in Vietnam loves to hear!
    Vice President Kamala Harris to promote "America is back" message in Singapore and Vietnam cnn.it/3jgMCWZ
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    These people are so bad at politics it's unreal
    We think the Cracker Barrel rebrand sucks too
    "Freedom of Speech" by Norman Rockwell, depicting a person standing and speaking at a town meeting, while others in the audience look on attentively.
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    This is literally capitalism you idiot
    Same agenda, new slaves.
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    Getting that sweet, sweet 2016 feeling that — despite Trump's many weaknesses — they can really and truly fuck this up yet again
    Kamala Harris on “The View”: “I plan on having a Republican in my cabinet. You ask me what's the biggest difference between Joe Biden and me, that would be one of the differences.“
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    The Biden era is going great