This will read familiar to my own readers. Data here is very telling. We rediscover our own Hamiltonianism and labors' calling shots or we lapse into backwater barbarism. Please read and share widely if you've time. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/o...

OK UK Dears, HC's out at last. www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Capit...

French prosecutors announced today that they are launching a police investigation into Elon Musk's X platform over allegations of data tampering and fraud.

Looks like we have a new Amazon page. Thanks for the heads-up, Alan Thomas. 🙏🏼❤️ www.amazon.com/Republic-Pro...

Karma, except that the detained are in peril along with the detainers. F'king boobs. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Boobs. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Boob. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/o...

We are joined by @roberthockett.bsky.social to discuss the new non-partisan analysis that Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill will add $2.4 trillion to annual budget deficits over the next decade while throwing 10.9 million Americans off healthcare and food stamps. soundcloud.com/user-8304426...

Now at backgroundbriefing.org | @roberthockett.bsky.social - Trump Digs the Deficit Hole $2.4 Trillion Deeper to Punish the Poor and Reward the Rich | Oleh Kotsyuba - Trump Sells Out Ukraine Again in His Call Today With Putin | @mohsenmilani.bsky.social - Trump Pressures Iran to Sign or Get Bombed

Part 2 finally up!

Can't help myself ... I hear a phrase like 'Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem' or a sentence like 'Marco Rubio is closely monitoring the situation' and I start laughing involuntarily. My belly hurts.

Making Capital Democratic author @roberthockett.bsky.social "Money is an emanation of our basic social contract."

Here it comes! Jacket design by the author, yours truly. ☺️🙏🏼🩷

To explore the data in this thread in full via interactive charts, you can visit the Centre for Democratising Work’s data dashboard (2024) www.common-wealth.org/centre-for-d...

“8 hours for work. 8 hours for rest. 8 hours for what we will.” On 1 May 1886, thousands of American workers & trade unionists went on strike for the right to an 8-hour day. Despite state violence — they won. 🧵What role do trade unions play in Britain, 139 years on?

In case you missed it, here’s the Hymnus Eucharisticus sung from the top of the Great Tower for May Morning by Magdalen College Choir!

Uncle Ho kept two portraits on his wall - one of Confucius, the other of George Washington. Those who told you he was a scawy would-be world-dominator are the same deep-state filth who murdered JFK for planning to reverse Eisenhower's disgusting pro-French-colonial course in Vietnam.

Xin chúc mừng!

So moving - one of the greatest victories ever of an indigenous people over seemingly invincible imperial filth.

BREAKING: 1,600 post docs at Johns Hopkins University are unionizing with @UAW.

In 15 minutes!

A Blessed Earth Day to All!

Third trump 'warning' ignored. Yah it's just one little bit of defiance, but this here is precisely how the Mass Strike gathers steam. As EVERYONE ignores EVERY bogus, cretinous, gratuitously assholian ultra vires 'order,' we will drive them nuts and out. gothamist.com/news/feds-th...

From Fortune, WSJ, and rightwing Washington Times. Furman Center research shows, moreover, that the trend has been underway since the foreclosure crisis of 2009-14, precisely as I and others warned at the time.

Will never 'get' the continued recalcitrance on women clergy and married clergy, but the (intimately related) loving smile and background in liberation theology were a welcome shakeup of the world of dour heads-of-state. Bless you. 🙏🏼

What do you bet that, had a prominent Dem or actual lefty met with Pope Francis Saturday, Hillbilly Vance would be calling this morning's death a murder?

1/3 Residential Real Estate Crime: PE and Hedge Fund bullshit to the effect that they 'cannot' be causing the affordable housing crisis bc they own too little of the housing stock is quite deliberate, knowing sophistry, and should itself be punished as criminal. The determinant of prices ...

1/3 Why Trump is Angry at Powell: A Hilferdingian Take: At this stage of our senescent capitalism, central banks can play only one of two roles: (1) the democratic-finance-socialist role of allocating capital across productive sectors pursuant to a democratically ...

Suppose we learned there is a secret room in the WH where the babies of detained people of color were being held as involuntary blood donors to revitalize the decrepit bodies of the zombies and ghouls now occupying the Oval Office. Would you be surprised? If so, why?

1/2 'We're No. 2': Measuring GDP in terms of the currency costs of real goods and services rather than of other currencies, China's economy overtook the US economy, sizewise, nearly a decade ago. The US remains 'No. 1' only when measured by its own overvalued globally hegemonic currency. ...

Fell asleep watching Canadian electoral debate. Not boring - just tired. 😅 As expected, Singh was the least problematic, Poilievre disgusting. Carney a bit more disturbing than I'd expected, though. Good central banker but apparently took people's homes later. Hadn't known this. 😰

#ItsTheEconomyStupid #ItsTheStupidTrumpEconomy

Query: why are there adverts on YouTube? Is this really necessary, or is it just capitalism bloodsucking and taking a dump on everything that makes life a little bit better again? The tech is quite primitive, and CPB surely could administer the site for a few bucks a year, no? #NationalizeYouTube

Robert Hockett @rch371 1/3: On Your 'Deficit' with Your Barber: The analogy some draw when they say they have 'trade deficits' with their barbers or grocers is richer than some might realize. First, they also have 'surpluses' with their *employers,* which shows why it is your aggregate ...

The billions of federal $ that flow to our universities flow toward 'STEM' programs. These are quite apolitical. Is Caligula not then just unilaterally disarming the nation when he cuts off funding to schools that decline his kind offer to monitor their non-STEM units for ideological purity?

Tariffs open Overton window for Hockett: "National Reconstruction and Continuous Development Act of 2022 would replicate the public-private coordination structures that brought the ‘miracles’ of US productive mobilization and development" ..."Expedited National Reconstruction Permitting Act of 2023"

After helping host many distinguished speakers as part of our ongoing @Class_Unity education project, it was a joy finally to BE one of the (less distinguished) speakers. Thanks, Comrades. 🙏🏼❤️✊🏼 www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcFV...