Neoliberalism has always been about protecting capital from democracy.

Christopher Hale: When Jeffrey Epstein and Steve Bannon moved to take down Pope Francis, they assembled a network: an arch-conservative cardinal, an excommunicated archbishop, a priest defrocked after fathering a child, and a Latvian crypto-bro.

The attack on wokeness was always about protecting depraved elites.

Glad to see the Jesuits are well represented!

Love this!

Oh sure, Trumpism isn’t due to economics, it’s all immigration and culture war bullshit..

When somebody does something illegal, they are usually arrested by local police. This is the only way to stop ICE.

Same happened to me.

The Trump regime is an Epstein class reunion.

That’s what I’ve been saying for years! Shift left on economics, right on culture, and you can’t be beaten.

Crypto delenda est. I’m going full Cato the Elder here and will post this every damned day!

Crypto scammers still control my Twitter account. Still no response from Twitter support.

The far right in Europe is now polling at 24%, the highest level since the 1930s. Look at the timing. It spiked after 2010 - this is the effect of the financial crisis. Something similar happened in the 1930s, if I recall correctly!

The rise of the far right isn’t due to culture or “wokeness.” It isn’t due to immigration either. It’s due to economics. Especially the global financial crisis.

Stop calling it the Trump “administration.” This gives it too much legitimacy. Call it a “regime.”

I’m convinced Bannon and the Epstein class were behind Vigano.

I love how they take 50 years and 200 pounds off Jabba the Hut!

Yes!

They recognized that Pope Francis was the world’s moral leader in the face of Trumpist depravity.

Trump is indeed a sociopath. As is Musk and most of the tech oligarchs.

A key lesson from history: when high inequality interacts with financial crises, bad shit happens. Hello, Trump.

He’s not dumb. He’s highly intelligent. Which makes him all the more dangerous.

Neo-fascist government in action.

End this bullshit libertarian experiment and ban online gambling.

Europe must reaffirm its values: multilateralism and social solidarity. Everything the Trump regime hates.

“We’re not spending millions of dollars on foreign assistance, on health saving dollars for childcare and maternity health and diseases and epidemics and famine around the world, but we are spending it on this.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The most evil action of the Trump regime, which gets hardly any attention.

ICE routinely assaults Lutheran and Catholic churches, because Lutheran and Catholic ministers have been leading and organizing anti-ICE protests. It violates the First Amendment, among other things. A judge say "no!" bsky.app/profile/josh...

Crypto delenda est.

Union elections plummeted last year after Trump gutted the NLRB — while the cost of living soars and corporate profits hit record highs. Unions are the key to taking on corporate power and increasing working people’s standard of living. No wonder Trump wants to eradicate them.

Deport this illegal immigrant.

Good. Johnson tried to Christian-splain the pope.

The Republican agenda is cutting health care to fund tax cuts for the rich + concentration camps. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

BREAKING: I have just confirmed with a member of the House Judicial Committee, who has spent numerous hours searching through the unreacted Epstein files, that there were approximately 1.5 million redactions in the Epstein files, with Trump’s names. krassencast.com/p/exclusive-...

The media love culture war bullshit as a distraction from the class politics they fear.

“I believe we’re seeing in economy across economy around the world, including the United States, that extreme levels of income inequality lead to social instability and drives in the sense in authoritarianism, rightwing populism and very dangerous domestic internal politics.” - AOC.

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

She’s right. I can point to evidence from the late 19th century, the Great Depression, and the global financial crisis. Bottom line: the mix of high inequality and financial crises is politically lethal.

Donnie Degrowth. Donnie Deindustrialization. Donnie Depression.

Another casualty of the long depression. In Europe it would plant the seeds of the First World War.

Also: it’s under appreciated how the long depression affected politics (mainly in Europe). It led to heightened protectionism, nationalism, imperialism, colonialism, and antisemitism. And eventually war.

Yes it did! Today we call it the long depression as it didn’t really end until 1896. It was punctuated by financial crisis, slow growth, and severe deflation (thanks to the gold standard). Yet the second Industrial Revolution continued…a strange period.

Replace Schumer with Murphy.

This hasn’t been my experience with Twitter. Maybe I’m in a bubble, but I don’t see the Nazi shit. Blocking Musk helped.

Has there been a major scandal over the past two decades that didn’t implicate Goldman Sachs?

The percent foreign born in the US is the same now as late 19th/early 20th century. But this had little political effect at the time. The big issues were inequality, worker rights, and corporate concentration. Same as today, really. Immigration is a distraction.

If you lose your job, what proportion of your final income is covered by unemployment insurance? Denmark: 90% Sweden: 80% Italy: 75% France: 70% Germany: 60% US: 30% It’s lousy to be unemployed in America.

“You are not making a gift of what is yours to the poor man, but you are giving him back what is his. You have been appropriating things that are meant to be for the common use of everyone. The earth belongs to everyone, not to the rich." - St. Ambrose.

The goal was always to terrorize and even murder people who didn’t vote for you.

Merz is right.