timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/Cityci... “The real question is not whether labor is anti-market. It is why a labor-dependent business pushes a large share of risk onto workers and society while retaining most of the control..” - Santosh Desai

Helpful articles on Venezuela I’ve read in the past day: hegemon.substack.com/p/venezuela-... “After all, great power competition implies rivalry, zero-sum conflict, strategic maneuvering against other great powers. What’s emerging instead looks more like a hegemonic carve-up.” @seva.bsky.social

This has been the default imperialist position for centuries, so really the oddity was that brief period of comfortable unipolar hegemony where it seemed gauche to say it out loud. No clearer sign of late imperial anxiety than the contemporary return of this old ass monocle and pith helmet blather

really tired of seeing claims that our illegal kidnapping of the Venezuelan president is to "distract" us from the Epstein files. Trump and the men around him have wanted this for a long time. this is a bad thing in its own right, not some attempt to hide from accountability

“Epstein responded that Modi’s visit to Washington, which was to be his first meeting with Trump, was “a part of Israel strategy”.. Epstein later continued, “...what i am told is that discussions re Israel strategy were dominating modi dates.” @dropsitenews.com www.dropsitenews.com/p/modi-epste...

“One might ask if difficult, essential work might be well paid, at this moment in history, regardless of a person’s sex. But then much of the centrist manosphere’s rhetoric is predicated on refusing to see half of what’s in front of you.” Writes @winterjessica.bsky.social

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

Every few weeks we gotta make posts like this”call your dem reps to tell them to not vote to allow Lord Killdude to shove people into a volcano” and then the dem reps go “we’ve made an amazing deal where Lord Killdude can have his volcano so long as he promises not to shove people into it”

Despite his U.S. legal exposure, Adani’s star remains undimmed in India because he was with Modi “long before” he came to power and is trusted by the government…”He is someone … they can rely on to carry out their wishes,” @pranshuverma.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/1...

“The singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born Michael Archer got to us when he was ready; fans waited because any chance to hear from him, whether it was an interview, a record, or a performance, offered a window into mystic, molting, and encyclopedic brilliance.”

“When you say something questionable, others will challenge you…Truth is intersubjective, meaning that we need other people—their testimony, their experiences, their rationality—to be well informed. And chatbots are not people.They don’t have experience.They are not witness.They are fancy wordplay.”

danioffline.substack.com/p/everyone-w... “As creation gets conflated with entrepreneurship, making art becomes an experience, a lifestyle, to be bought and sold.” Dani Offline

The Washington Post’s decision to fire a Black opinion journalist for accurately quoting Charlie Kirke’s racism is a fitting tribute to “free speech” as Kirke and his hagiographers practiced it: whites only, flattering to the powerful, and in furtherance of a fascist agenda.

It's simple. They see themselves in him. They do not see themselves in his targets.

“"Putting the Infidels biker club in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Gaza is like putting the KKK in charge of delivering humanitarian aid in Sudan. It makes no sense whatsoever," said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, deputy director of CAIR” Absolutely Horrifying. www.bbc.com/news/article...

"Walker’s project is an artist’s experiment. Rather than preserve the Confederate memorial or expunge it from the record — the default binary in a polarized politics — she proposes its artistic transformation as a third option." @siddharthamitter.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/a...

"Setting forms of identity, such as race, against class as fundamentally opposed bases of politics misrepresents how building working-class power works on the ground, both today and throughout history." - @itsmccarthy.bsky.social hammerandhope.org/article/iden...

The people who got everyone here simply aren't going to be the ones to get us out.

Today's reminder that the reason all of the awful & illegal things keep happening in 🇺🇸 politics is bc there are never any actual legal, personal, or political consequences for all of the awful & illegal things happening in 🇺🇸 politics. There were no consequences at all for GWB & co., & here we are.

“Among his voters, 62% said his support for Palestinian rights swayed their decision, and 46% said the same about his willingness to criticize the Israeli government.”

We’ve done the horseshoe on eating disorders oh my god “She uses language that frames choosing not to eat as empowering, even feminist. “Eat like you’re the main character. Because you are,” www.thecut.com/article/infl...

As a gay lapsed cradle Catholic, I'm sorry, but I find all of the pope hope on the left more than a little delusional. I mean, I'm sure he's better than a lot of alternatives, but he's still the Pope and that's still one of the most oppressive and destructive organizations in world history

“Sinners raises a simple question: What if literal bloodsuckers had infested the predatory music industry, leeching ideas and techniques off Black prodigies?”

“Travis is one of the most vacuous stars the major labels have ever produced, a machine for turning the work of more interesting rappers into garbled playlist slop.” Pitchfork did not come to play

The most valuable degree for the world at this moment in history isn’t STEM- it’s a gender studies degree Haywire masculinity frameworks are a transnational concern- and quite frankly a national security concern at this point

Trump has never faced any consequences for making bad business decisions that significantly alter his standard of living. He’s been failing at business his whole life, but a combo of corruption, capitalism, and privilege held him up. He has always destroyed other people’s livelihoods to do it, too

Gonna keep saying this: In the 1840s, Southerners insisted that they could kidnap any person they alleged was a slave without any state or federal process. This turned even minimal process into resistance and raised the salience of the issue, which radicalized a bunch of people against slavery.

“During COVID we got a glimpse of how cheap consumption has become a white identity.” So much of the American identity is that- consumerism. And so taking that away or rather making it harder is going to anger a WHOLE lotta people

This got hard to explain because “internet economy” makes it sound like I only mean online shopping. Which is part of that. But American consumers have little idea about how much of their brick-and-mortar shopping is some retail arbitraged garbage that made its way here through Amazon.

THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/

If only the United States of America had Strong Western Institutions.

lucid.substack.com/p/shakedown-... “this is the desire to annihilate all those parts of government that serve the people…and remake the institutions they do retain, like the intelligence sector and the judiciary, as entities that serve the leader(s) and his allies.” - @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social

I woke Papi up from his long nap to answer a letter from a concerned reader who says they feel scared and small in the wake of everything these days johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/what-am-i-...

“If a Hindu can find in the vestiges of history a perceived hurt against an abstract ancestor, and weaponise it to seek revenge in the present, then millions of lower castes can rise against the upper castes for centuries of oppression and ostracism.” Charmy Harikrishnan for Times of India

“Error rates varied notably among the tested platforms. Perplexity provided incorrect information in 37 percent of the queries tested, whereas ChatGPT Search incorrectly identified 67 percent (134 out of 200) of articles queried. Grok 3 demonstrated the highest error rate, at 94 percent.”

'sold as slave labor to El Salvador' is I honestly think a fair way of describing it

they’re arresting people for performing abortions, they’re deporting people for liking pro-palestine posts on social media, they’re sending immigrants to forced labor camps in south america, we are living under fascism right now

chuck schumer and mitch mcconnell have the same ideology of senate leadership, which is: yes, you have to absorb some hatred and malcontent. but in return, you get to sabotage the democrats

Well at least we tried our worst

Steve Liesman perfectly sums up every one of us that are losing our 401k, retirement etc

My fear is that the Trump administration arrested Mahmoud Khalil to make an example out of him because they’re gambling Dems won’t put their jobs and lives on the line to protect a Palestinian.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

"a decade later, technology seems to be supplanting the established authority of the government. “There is a crisis of the state,” McElroy said, and Silicon Valley may be “trying to corrode state power” in order to more quickly replace it." www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...