Perry Anderson
Retired engineer in Houston. Husband. Father. Twitter refugee. Blue team. Exvangelical. Never Trumper until one of us is gone.
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- Reposted by Perry AndersonIf Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonAccording to the New Yorker, Donald Trump and his family profited off the presidency by an estimated $4 billion in 2025 — mostly through shady crypto deals. That amounts to $456,621 per hour. But how are you doing?
- Reposted by Perry AndersonTrump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed. But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments. Mind blowing corruption.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonMAGA: "FUCK YEAH! Their locking up journalists!" Liberals: "They're"
- Reposted by Perry Anderson"...the dynamic that defines reactionary centrism: the right must be understood, but never blamed. The left can be blamed, but need not be understood."
- Reposted by Perry AndersonCartoon by Matt Reuter @newyorker.com.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonRand Paul: "After seeing this, if you call this a good shooting you aren't watching the video. This was a real tragedy and a mistake. The man had been disarmed and then shot 10 times ... if we say things that are obviously not true, the situation is going to get worse."
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- Reposted by Perry AndersonI sometimes wish the Democratic Party in Congress consisted of any 260 people in the Minneapolis telephone directory rather than the 260 dignitaries now representing us.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonStolen from a libertarian friend on facebook
- Reposted by Perry AndersonOnly a senile old mafia boss would remain convinced Dems rigged 2020, but only for the presidency, or that Dems rigged 2020 but not 2024. Only delusional voters would believe him. We have so much delusion.
- Reposted by Perry Anderson“The freedom of individuals verbally to oppose or challenge police action” is how “we distinguish a free nation from a police state.” -SCOTUS, City of Houston v Hill (1987, 8-1)
- Reposted by Perry AndersonOctober 2002 Jimmy Carter was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for his decades of untiring effort to find peaceful solutions to international conflicts, to advance democracy and human rights, and to promote economic and social development" #JimmyCarter #PresidentCarter #NobelPeacePrize
- Reposted by Perry AndersonA Harris County Sheriff’s Office deputy was transported to a local hospital Tuesday after a toddler accidentally shot and injured him at his Spring home, according to local authorities.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonIn edgier and younger quarters of the populist right, Holocaust denial and antisemitism are close to being de rigueur. Someone has to carry on the memory of what really happened.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonOne thing that doesn't get articulated enough about reactionaries like Trump is that they are fundamentally parasitic. Yes, you can get ahead, temporarily, by acting without shame in a rule-bound system, because other people expect rule-bound behavior. You can "stun" the system into passivity.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonThis administration is cooked. Literally no one is scared of them.
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- Reposted by Perry AndersonAt 7:04 PM yesterday, Babylon Bee Managing Editor Joel Berry told his 164K followers that “If Trump doubles down, invokes the Insurrection Act, crushes these feral Communist riots, and arrests the leaders responsible, his popularity will go up 10 points.” 1/ x.com/joelwberry/s...
- Reposted by Perry AndersonWorse than Kent State, really than any episode I can think of probably dating back to Reconstruc & earlier b/c 1. continuing, not 1 off. 2. organized, not individual ofcrs losing it 3. literally at hand of federal government, which is 4. immediately lying & circling the wagons to prevent inves.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonIf only we as a country, as we celebrate the 250th anniversary of our independence, had some historical events from our founding era that might help us understand why agents of a distant government shouldn’t murder protesters on the streets of the city where they live.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonMultiple sources with knowledge of the situation say federal agents shot a man multiple times in south Minneapolis this morning. A video taken from inside Glam Doll Donuts shows agents wrestling a man to the ground then shooting him multiple times. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
- Reposted by Perry Andersonparticipating in the general strike by being kind of shit at my job
- Reposted by Perry AndersonWise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."
- Reposted by Perry Anderson“Cant sleep… i’ll just have a quick look at my phone”
- Reposted by Perry AndersonWith most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...
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- Reposted by Perry AndersonThe moment it was crystal clear we were in the worse case scenario, was exactly a year ago when Trump pardoned every single Jan 6 perpetrator, including the ones that beat the crap out of cops and were convicted of seditious conspiracy.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonSince Trump was re-elected, @forbes.com estimates— 💰His net worth is up $2.3 billion, to an $6.7 billion 💰Eric’s has increased tenfold, to $400 million 💰Don Jr.’s has increased sixfold, to $300 million 💰19-year-old Barron Trump is worth $150 million
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- Reposted by Perry AndersonInfuriating that “cancel student loans” is a nonstarter but “dismantle entire post-war coalition” and “unaccountable masked federal agents killing people with impunity” are viewed as legitimate policies.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonIt’s worth considering why the US as an entire thing won’t change US for people chanting a new world is possible and who mean ‘dismantle war machine so we can have universal health care’ but absolutely WILL destroy the US for a cry baby old man who wanted a peace prize and didn’t get it.
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- Reposted by Perry AndersonPew Research Institute (2023): • Red State Texas has about 2.1 million undocumented immigrants • Red State Florida has 1.6 M undocumented immigrants • Blue State Minnesota has 130,000. And yet only Minnesota is being occupied by masked thugs over "immigration." It's *not* about immigration.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonBillionaires have ‘outsized’ political influence — and they’re richer than ever, says Oxfam
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- Reposted by Perry AndersonImmigrants make America bigger, stronger, and richer. ICE makes America smaller, weaker, and poorer.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonShoot this right into my veins.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonThe first numbers are in. Over 1 million fewer people have signed up for insurance on the ACA than at this time last year. This is Trump's premium hikes at work. In the wealthiest nation on earth, millions are being forced to go without health care. It's a moral tragedy.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonBREAKING: Senate Republicans just blocked the clean ACA tax credit extension that the House passed to save millions of people thousands of dollars each. If you’re paying double or even triple for health insurance, blame Trump and the Senate GOP.
- Reposted by Perry AndersonThere; I said it. ICE is engaging in a strategy of intentional antagonism. Check out the full discussion on Substack, then consider subscribing: substack://share-url?url=https://substack.com/@thefrankfigliuzzi&r=916r7&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile&shareImageVariant=blur
