The AOC-Sanders anti-oligarch tour is all about organizing: The courage to govern WITH, not OVER.

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-26 18:01:25

It's hard to imagine, but Obama ran as a populist outsider, buoyed to office by a grassroots organizing campaign that used an incredibly innovative online tool called MyBarackObama.com, which directly connected rank-and-file supporters so they could self-organize, creating an unstoppable force.

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Hey look at this

* I won't connect my dishwasher to your stupid cloud jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/i-w…

* Insult to Injury: Trump's Tax on Paying Taxes creditslips.org/creditslips/20…

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#10yrsago Welfare encourages entrepreneurship theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

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#5yrsago Reasonable covid food-safety advice pluralistic.net/2020/03/27/jus…

#5yrsago Boris Johnson has coronavirus pluralistic.net/2020/03/27/jus…

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#5yrsago States prep for postal voting pluralistic.net/2020/03/27/jus…

#5yrsago Plutes cash in on stimulus pluralistic.net/2020/03/27/jus…

#5yrsago The US is now the epicenter of the pandemic pluralistic.net/2020/03/27/jus…

#1yrago End of the line for corporate sovereignty pluralistic.net/2024/03/27/kor…

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Yesterday's threads: Why I don't like AI art; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-03-25 22:38:43

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Why I don't like AI art; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/03/25/com…

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New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the lives of the hundreds of thousands of inmates in California’s pris...

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* #NewOrleans: DeepSouthCon63, Oct 10-12, 2025
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.

Catch me in #CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on Apr 2:

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