But if we give poor people money, they will do less crime and also join the military less frequently for the financial incentives Then who will die in the oil wars or provide the prison slave labor????

“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” But the current right-wing govt backtracked.

New episode of Literate Machine: Mooks youtu.be/2RbfPHY30-E

Fucking maddening: youtube.com/shorts/jBJxX...

The party of “free speech” continues in consistent form

He will have massive billionaire support around him, like Vance, but he still sucks and now with more blood on his hands than Vance. It's really important for people to know the horrors he's personally responsible for in Cuba, which—best case scenario—could lead to a massive wave of refugees.

The attack-the-academy movement was never, ever about freedom and diversity of thought in the academy. It was always going to play out this way. It’s never been “nobody should dictate thought,” it’s always been “WE should dictate thought.” www.erininthemorning.com/p/texas-tech...

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.

JP Morgan's report on tipping points is both extremely terrifying and extremely weird how they aren't screaming in 72-point font AND THIS IS WHY WE NEED TO KILL FOSSIL FUELS jpmorgan.celero.site/s/ab29c67c/c...

1. Boy, Amazon is in a heap of trouble. Evidence made public yesterday by California AG @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov shows blatant price fixing. And there are so many examples. Here's Amazon scheming with a pet food supplier to get Chewy to raise its prices.

We've reached chief corporate bullshit when they're making a film hagiography of Milton Hershey, a vicious strike breaker who founded a whites-only orphans school Pennsylvania and made chocolate that tastes like vomit.

The wealthiest 1% own 50% of stocks and the top 10% own 87%, per Federal Reserve. The bottom 50% of Americans owns only 1%, but we hear about the stock market constantly in media (even NPR and MS NOW). Seems like we could hear more about the opportunity costs of not providing universal health care.

In his 1967 work "The Society of the Spectacle", Guy Debord wrote of "[the] pseudoneed of maintaining the reign of the autonomous economy." And here's an old David Pope cartoon. #auspol

I still get threats from men I wrote about a decade ago who are angry I covered federal lawsuits against them related to sexual assault allegations. To my personal email, to new work emails. I don’t think readers understand how difficult and laborious it is to get these stories published

It's just the thing is it really feels at this point he could literally nuke Tehran and the media would be like "Trump makes controversial move in Iran War but his base love it" or some shit

And yet he’s very openly a white nationalist

Adam does it better than anyone. But there is a prohibition against connecting the dots on Musk (and Trump). Haney-Lopez always identified plausible deniability as a key to dog whistling. But the media has adopted the same sort of "color blind" obtuseness that the right used to kill civil rights.

What’s wild is people will get snitty if you point out there hasn’t been nearly enough pushback on this.

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

Imagine if we had an economy that wasn't based entirely around gambling...

To be clear with how I feel about it. Anyone in the military who directs or carries out strikes on desalination plants should be in prison when this is over.

This sack of doo doo is never gonna be president, holy cow

Reparations now. UBI. No means testing. Just checks. Emergency welfare available to all on request as cash payments & OPTIONAL counselling. Nationalize the internet. Categorize internet access as a basic utility, like water. Free college. Forgive all student debt. 100% tax rate above $10 mil.

The economy's going to go great guys, trust me www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

Mere months into 2026, just 50 American billionaires have already pumped a jaw-dropping $433 MILLION into the midterm elections — the overwhelming majority of which has benefitted Republicans. Citizens United is corrupting our system every day.

‘We’ve seen where there way leads, through camps, wars, to the slaughterhouse In Anarchy, there is another way’ A cool video by a small creator I like @ericrosenfield.bsky.social on the reasons Anarchy never goes away, and why it’s more natural for humans than hierarchy youtu.be/8GBle7OV4lg

New episode: Anarchy and the Promise of Revolution (V for Vendetta) youtu.be/8GBle7OV4lg

‘While state and federal prosecutors have sent record numbers of people to prison for violent crimes and property- and drug-related offenses, the US retreated from prosecuting and punishing white-collar crime, despite a tsunami of elite-level wrongdoing.’ www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

“The wealthy cultural elite who run the media really, really wanted Trump to win” was a much better way to explain what happened in 2024. And the things we’re learning from the Epstein Files give some pretty solid evidence as to both how and why. The anti MeToo backlash was EXTREMELY important.

Over 40k people die a year due to cars in the US and that isn't even factoring in environmental damages. Instead of acknowledging the harm that cars cause to the populace cyclists continue to get demonized by people who can't even conceive of an infrastructure not centered around cars.

Our society has become a lab for growing megalomaniacs.

Yes. Profit is the purpose of capital (capital *is* self-expansion of value, i.e. socially necessary abstract labour time). That doesn't mean that everything done by or for capital is done for profit. That is reductionism. Capital creates a world of insanity beyond the insanity of accumulation.

Sometimes I imagine what it might be like to be from a country that isn’t constantly at war and spend most of its discretionary funds on the military.

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Much as racism is a pyramid scheme where white people allow themselves to be exploited and submit to the authority of more powerful white people in exchange for getting to exploit those who aren’t white…

UC Irvine criminologist Charis E. Kubrin keeps proving that immigration doesn’t increase crime. Why hasn’t her message broken through?

So wait, according to Tech Fascist logic, NPCs are the ones who... have interiority?

This is a lie on a scale of Elon Musk saying he would cut the deficit to zero. Just insane. Not just untrue, but the opposite of the truth, which is that immigrants are lowering the deficit. www.cato.org/white-paper/...

It was never actually that quiet that the target was to destroy women's rights...

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

This is hilarious. Also, completely enraging.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Even as a cynical scholar of rape culture, I'm shocked that this isn't the headline story on domestic politics everywhere right now. It's just an unfathomable abuse of power, in clear violation of the law.

This is the messaging from someone who explicitly ran as the even-tempered candidate with moderate outreach. He just cruised to a strong finish in his bruising primary. In Texas. The rest of the Democrats should be shamed by this. They won't be. They should be.

That Elon Musk, the richest man ever to live, walks the earth free and unbothered after condemning millions of the poorest people to an early grave is a sin we must spend the rest of our lives correcting.

Everyone knows Cuba is next right? They’re not being subtle about it? Neverending regime change wars are upon us. Again. bsky.app/profile/laur...

It's extremely clear that the US doesn't really have an objective here except to inflict maximum pain, and attacking water supply is going to end catastrophically for the entire region. It's not just a war crime, it's approaching a crime against humanity.

This is fascinating and horrifying youtu.be/zdWrHb8b-c0?...