What voters in every state think about Trump and prices open.substack.com/pub/gelliott... Excellent as always from @gelliottmorris.com - someone who can make data sexy.

Since 1975, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1% — a 1% that now owns more wealth than the bottom 93%. We can respect innovation & entrepreneurship, but we cannot respect the extraordinary greed that now exists. We need a wealth tax.

Wind power is one of the cheapest sources of electricity, but Trump’s move to cancel five offshore wind projects will raise costs for 2.5M homes and put 10K construction jobs at risk. This will hurt the economy & weaken US competitiveness, writes @deanbaker13.bsky.social https://bit.ly/3L0EL1G

The new HBO documentary "Critical Incident: Death at the Border" looks at the alleged cover-up of the murder of an undocumented Mexican immigrant who died while in U.S. custody under the watch of the now-head of Border Patrol, Rodney Scott.

What's wrong with the Acemoglu argument that liberalism can save the working class? Very many things, of course...(!!) I make a small intervention about what he misses about the nature of global capitalism in today's @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/d4f8...

Oversimplifying things a bit, but this feels downstream of DOGE. Remember DOGE? That was going to get rid of all the fraud and waste in the government, enough to balance the budget and get you a refund check. Didn't work, but maybe if we remove all the foreign-born health workers...

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

“Babies Are Freezing to Death in Gaza. Israeli Policy and the World’s Inaction Are to Blame”

We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼 Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech. Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼

Post-doc positions: "Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..." uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...

It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant. It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from: Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation. All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The US aggression against Venezuela is naked imperialism. All pretext has been exposed as farce. An invasion would cause tens of thousands of deaths. Every sane person must oppose this madness.

This is a broader point folks need to consider for congestion mitigation. There’s a ton of people currently on the road who wouldn’t choose to be on the road with the right mix of pricing and transit investments. That’s huge benefit to *drivers* and hopefully also traffic safety.

Under the immigration standards embraced by Stephen Miller, Stephen Miller and most of his family would have perished in the Holocaust.

“crypto, at its core, functions not to resist authoritarian power, but to entrench elite privilege.... The self-proclaimed heroes have lived long enough to become (or reveal themselves as) the unscrupulous villains they once claimed to stand against.” lpeproject.org/blog/how-the...

Whole lot of people are apparently shocked, shocked, to learn that Nazis are going on in this establishment.

pov you're the world's richest man: stop paying attention to this, money will soon not matter

Weird how The Free Press was able to publish all of these without comment from the Washigton University Transgender Center at St. Louis Children's Hospital.

NEW — Based on the aired ‘60 Minutes’ CECOT segment, several of Bari Weiss’s stated reasons to stop the story are inaccurate. She said the segment did not present the admin’s argument for deporting people to CECOT. It does. She said the segment did not detail deportee criminal histories. It does.

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

I find it more than ironic that at a time when almost the entire conservative moment is trying to defend their Dear Leader's relationship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker, their new celeb of choice is the wife of a registered sex offender.

In 2025, America saw the highest number of measles cases in over 30 years. That’s just a preview of what’s to come as RFK Jr continues his rollback of vaccine guidance.

Bari Weiss’ CBS is what the tech fascists mean by creating “parallel” journalism. Create new fake brands (“The Free Press”) or hollow out existing brands and replace with right-wing clones. Or both! That’s why I included her in the “Mirror World Mafia” last year.

Grateful to @elpais.com for translating my article on Surrealism Against Fascism into Spanish and illustrating it with the most magnificent works of art. elpais.com/ideas/2025-1...

"[O]ur viewers come first" -> making sure a story about sending people to a foreign torture gulag includes government officials denying or minimizing the horrors of CECOT and/or saying the people in question deserved it

"Not only are they trying to dismantle climate science, they're trying to dismantle our ability to protect people from the devastating of climate change." @michaelemann.bsky.social slams the Trump administration's dismantling of NCAR, a key climate research facility in Colorado.

People will pay higher electricity rates because Donald Trump is angry at windmills.

A since-deleted tweet by former KKK grand wizard David Duke is nearly identical to the statement today made by Vice President JD Vance

Before and after DOJ realized they left Trump’s name in an Epstein document:

Trump's lost even more manufacturing jobs than the monthly jobs data indicate cepr.net/publications...

Not to get picky, but the marginal impact of any additional oil or LNG exports on import prices through the value of the dollar will be swamped by other factors. Trade flows are swamped by capital flows, and this is a very small share of trade.

“MAGA Blamed a Palestinian Student for the Brown University Shooting. They Were Once Again Very Wrong” Prominent Republicans & conservatives like Laura Loomer rushed to blame the shooting on a Palestinian or a Muslim, despite there being no evidence.

Yglesias referring to Senator Van Hollen as a "safe seat clout-chaser" is so despicable. VH took a stand to prevent Abrego García - an innocent man - from being disappeared into CECOT for life.

We are descending to depths of stupid I once considered impossible.

End of history, anthro, and soc majors at New School ⚰️

Just a reminder: if there was a Democrat in the White House and it was three and half days after a mass shooting at a college, and there was still no suspect in custody, Fox News and every Republican in Congress would be screaming bloody murder.

"Latin America really is on a kind of knife's edge between the left and the right."

Who is Chile's next president, José Antonio Kast?

The Early App deadline for Levy Grad Programs is approaching on January 15th! Join our Application Workshop and Info Session on Monday January 12th at 12pm EST. We'll be going through the application checklist and answering any last minute questions. connect.bard.edu/register/Lev...

Let me see here... Trump is planning to launch a full-scale war against Venezuela on the same day that the Epstein files must be released according to a law passed by Congress and signed by Trump. It is almost as if Trump will stop at nothing, including war crimes, to keep the files secret.

Today in #LaborHistory 12/16/1977: 8 #women in Willmar, #Minnesota, launched the 1st bank workers #strike in U.S. history. Protesting discrimination & unequal pay. Picketed when wind chill was -70 F #workingclass #banks #solidarity #feminism #equalpay #sexism #discrimination

This administration's blockade of Venezuela and boat strikes without any declaration of war seem eerily similar to Russia's "special operation" in Ukraine. We all know the reality. Improving American lives starts with addressing poverty and the current healthcare crisis. Not attacking Venezuela.

When you do stuff like this and it isn't covered as the massive scandal it should be, the permission structure to do equally awful stuff is quite high.

I assume Trump plans to declare war against Venezuela tonight. All this to hide from the Epstein Files, and to expand his business interests in another country to gain access to oil. It's not about the drug cartels.

That is certainly one way of looking at it. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It is international law 101 that a military blockade is not just a violation of the UN Charter, but a crime of aggression. Unless that blockade is in response to an 'armed attack.' None of President's Trump's list of complaints come close to an armed attack. 1/

in case you thought it was about anything but oil! they don't even hide their greed.

racism and hatred of palestinians is the official policy of this disgusting white house

Some brief thoughts on the crisis of heterodox graduate programs in the United States, in preparation for a round table at the ICAPE conference nakedkeynesianism.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-...