Carl Beijer
Socialist writer. Sign up for my newsletter at https://carlbeijer.substack.com. Writing also at People's Policy Project, Jacobin, etc
- Nearly 40% of black southerners and 35% of rural Native Americans don't have internet access.
- Yeah sorry @jwmason.bsky.social, you can pose as a champion of the poor all you like but we see what happens the first time a poor guy dares to politely disagree with you
- Periodic reminder that my man almost certainly broke the law here
- Why is he still soliciting donations *for his campaign* without telling people that he is already past the base spending limit? This is not ethical! www.carlbeijer.com/p/stancil-ca...
- Bluesky folk cognitive science at this point: "People don't use critical thinking when they watch TV but they do when they read text as long as the text is on paper and not on Twitter"
- Can't decide what I love about this more - that Anna K is throwing a fit or that her friend has a picture of me for his avi like two years after I left the site
- This is a tax scam that leaves him with *more* money than the principle he paid into it; he gets to dodge the capital gains tax on all that money *and* take a tax deduction on all of it. This isn't sacrificial charity, it's an income stream.
- "The foundation will close its doors, permanently, on Dec. 31, 2045, at least several decades before originally intended. In the meantime, it will be spending down its endowment, as well as almost all of Gates’s remaining personal fortune." better than not www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/m...
