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Jon Schwarz is a writer. πŸ¦• Opinions mine, not my employer's πŸ¦• Writer @theintercept, member @wgaeast πŸ¦• these teeny sauropods are 1/15,000 scale πŸ¦•

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Book Cover for: Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy, David Ellerman

Neo-Abolitionism: Abolishing Human Rentals in Favor of Workplace Democracy

David Ellerman
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Could We Democratize? @JoinAndrewNow talks about the book Neo-Abolitionism by notorious weirdo David Ellerman https://t.co/6oHvgPEw4l

Paperback, 2022

$109.99$84.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
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Book Cover for: Dark Beyond Darkness: The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning, and Catalyst, James G. Blight

Dark Beyond Darkness: The Cuban Missile Crisis as History, Warning, and Catalyst

James G. Blight
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@jdietz224 @EliClifton James Blight and janet (sic) Lang. I highly recommend their book Dark Beyond Darkness. You should also look up what Robert McNamara, a direct participant in the Cuban missile crisis, has to say about it.

Hardcover, 2017

$47.00$23.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader with a Foreword by Diane Duston; Edited and with an Afterword by Nat Parry, Robert Parry

American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader with a Foreword by Diane Duston; Edited and with an Afterword by Nat Parry

Robert Parry
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Last July I talked to @natparry about β€œAmerican Dispatches,” a collection of the journalism of his father Robert Parry, who died five years ago today. https://t.co/nPGDJTN0P5

Paperback, 2022

$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith

The Wealth of Nations

Adam Smith
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In his 1776 book "The Wealth of Nations" Adam Smith described the politics of inflation, and how any mention of profits is always left out of it. A leaked Bank of America memo shows just how right he was: https://t.co/UopeEcUDhE by @kenklippenstein & me https://t.co/S8Knh9OWuh

Hardcover, 2023

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents, Margaret Kimberley

Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents

Margaret Kimberley
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This Margaret Kimberley @freedomrideblog video includes the amazing saga of Oney Judge's escape from George Washington. I first learned about this via Kimberley's fantastic book Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents. https://t.co/MMNKrAJIKm https://t.co/KoaVCCYUKs

Paperback, 2020

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Widower's Houses: An Unpleasant Play, Bernard Shaw

Widower's Houses: An Unpleasant Play

Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw did write "My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world," but as lines for a character in a play, not as something he busted out in his own voice. Please contact me if you would like to discuss this subject further. https://t.co/Ksailukl8y

Paperback, 2022

$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway

A Moveable Feast

Ernest Hemingway
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In his memoir "A Moveable Feast," Ernest Hemingway said, "They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure." https://t.co/gciKm0jFGW https://t.co/E9qsqLNKqT

Paperback, 1996

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Recent Advances in Paediatrics: 23, Timothy J. David

Recent Advances in Paediatrics: 23

Timothy J. David
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Timothy McVeigh & Terry Nichols killed 168 people in the Oklahoma City bombing on April 19, 1995. Four days later on April 23, the panelists on This Week With David Brinkley decried the "violent hatred" on the right (the bombing) & the left (the movie JFK). https://t.co/LtBjWgnQ5M

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Book Cover for: Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump, Rachael Bade

Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump

Rachael Bade
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On #Deconstructed @ryangrim talks with @rachaelmbade & @karoun about their book Unchecked: The Untold Story Behind Congress's Botched Impeachments of Donald Trump. It's always amazing to see the Dem leadership's ironclad commitment to never wielding power. https://t.co/RT7ZJIHKiY

Paperback, 2023

$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power

A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide

Samantha Power
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Here's Samantha Power attending a fancy party for Henry Kissinger's 100th birthday. Not many people realize that the title of her book "America and the Age of Genocide" was celebratory. https://t.co/fbxQ6G9wBy

Paperback, 2013

$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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