The goal now is just to discipline labor and crush any popular anticapitalist movement. They’ve achieved a level of wealth that makes profit and loss pure abstraction, now they’re just focused on social control. Fighting taxes isn’t about wealth, it’s about starving the state of resources

Man, a decade and a half ago, five fucking guys said to the worst, richest people in the world “you can spend as much money as you want to influence politics.” Now we are ruled over by the worst, richest people in the world. Imagine that!

Realignment continues

I’m a broken record, but it’s facially insane that the SCOTUS’s position is that the interest of a political party—an entity with no special constitutional protection—in gerrymandering is more important than black people’s right to vote, which we have several constitutional amendments addressing

I see no evidence to contradict my belief that the non socialist wing of the Democratic Party is simply becoming the new conservative party

This is self-evidently true and virtually nobody of consequence in American politics believes it.

Megan y Ashik siempre en mi equipo. Es la izquierda la que tiene ahora la emoción y la capacidad para construir un movimiento amplio y disputar en el 2028 la presidencia. Sindicatos, movimientos sociales e izquierda, en el 2028, huelga general y candidatura socialista en USA.

The most embarrassing thing about the USA having a second civil war is that it isn't even for a new reason

Capitalism didn't replace slavery; it was fueled by it. The 'capitalists need consumers' argument ignores that in a chattel system, the Black body *is* the capital. Vizio & Burger King are only possible because of the massive accumulation of wealth that started with cotton, sugar, and human bodies

The overriding goal of America's right wing is to restore chattel slavery so they can own Black people. That's it. Whether they will admit it or not, whether they'll even admit it to themselves, their goal is legal domination and subjugation through violence of Black people. Everything leads there.

The U.S. Senate is far and away the least representative legislative body in the democratic world. It’s an aristocratic relic of a bygone era and has essentially no purpose in the modern world.

New working paper on the California Fast-Food minimum wage (will come out as NBER WP soon but posting now). Big increase in wages. Big drop in separations. Little change in jobs. (Bonus: sheds light on QWI vs QCEW measurement of jobs.)

In celebration of May Day and the radical history of the working class, we've put together this Class War Reading List. See you in the streets tomorrow!

“…It belittles the role of the masses in their own consciousness, reconciles them to their powerlessness, and turns their eyes and hopes towards a great avenger and liberator who some day will come and accomplish his mission.“ www.marxists.org/archive/trot...

"Those in power may pretend not to know where the present political trajectories are taking us, but they seem to sense that they’ll have to hide." www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

I'm not the first to note this but AI psychosis just seems to be "experience what it's like to have yes men" and shows what has happened to any billionaire who has any kind of public profile

Lethal injection sounds to people like its a medical process designed to spare the executed person from pain when its really a pseudo-medical sham designed to spare observers and onlookers from the reality of the violence they're committing.

Catholics, get the LDS bloc on your team sharpish

UAW President Shawn Fain's call for mass labor action on May Day 2028 has attracted support from across the labor movement — and from DSA. The National Labor Commission sees May Day 2026 as a chance to begin building momentum.

The Democrats make perfect sense when you stop seeing them as a political party, and view them instead as a business venture that provides political entertainment, but with a clear profit motive

Just two African-born Muslim socialists hangin out

Great, accessible overview of how deskilling works generally and what it means for academic labor specifically

Ginsberg not retiring at age 80 after 20 years on the bench was one of the great disasters of modern liberalism, and it blows my mind that so many liberals still stitch her face onto tote bags.

Steyer is doing little Q&A sessions for a few hundred people. That's possible if you don't have to fundraise. But he adds: "If you don’t get out and talk to people...then you know what other people in Sacramento know, & you know what that means? You don’t know anything.” prospect.org/2026/03/24/t...

Do it Hugo. Return to your NOlympics roots

Probably Steyer but Becerra was READY for this lol

We campaigned against the shocking abuses of child detention in Trump 1.0, which were ugly enough. The escalation of open fascism has made things so much more dire. Very difficult reading.

right, I think the pretty fundamental problem that is being felt is that the one thing which feels out of reach for lots of young americans - a house - happens to be an asset, while the things that people can buy ever more of happen to be commodities

The remaining pro-Israel rump of the democratic coalition believes in a version of both Israel and regional history that exists only in their minds.

Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!" The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]

I don’t often find myself agreeing with Ezra Klein, but this is completely correct — and frankly, shows some guts for a mainstream liberal columnist to say. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...

One of my greatest triumphs was when my coworker decided Yeongno was an appropriate nickname for me 😌

Whatever happens tonight, we are past a threshold. The injuries and usurpations have escalated to a point that we cannot just wait for the elections. It is the duty of all US citizens to do at least some small part in the civil resistance against tyranny. The Union is dead, long live the Union.

NEW @cplusc.bsky.social: A New Era of Manufacturing for Public Good: The Case for the CA Grid Manufacturing Initiative In CA, labor-led green industrial policy is the way out of chronic delays and skyrocketing costs for electric grid components that burden ratepayers and slow the green transition.

It's a pain at times but I do genuinely believe this.

What is Emmanuel Grégoire, the new Paris mayor, planning for the city over his new term in office? —60,000 new social housing units —15 express bus routes —Completion of city's full bike network —Transformation of ring highway into a boulevard —1000 new pedestrian streets —300 new hectares of parks

This is why you read the ft instead of the failing New York Times

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Looking forward to reading

Realignment continues!!! Now the Democrats wanna be the “taxes bad“ party. Until the GOP actually becomes a rump and dies we’re just going to get this bullshit ad infinitum from the ostensible center left. Cool stuff

Chicago wind gauge

When your position as the global hegemon was developed through public financing of the arms industry, everything looks like a nail I guess

These results suggest that gig markets differ from standard labor markets in key ways, that create unique challenges for pay regulation. Namely: 7/

"The CIA conspired to make me less cool than I was when I was 25" is the most succinct Gen X manifesto I've ever heard

Life hack: imagine the news of the day read by Mike Duncan as a part of the long prologue to a revolutionary chapter

The D Line Extension to Wilshire/La Brea, Wilshire/Fairfax and Wilshire/La Cienega opens...

I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS. The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

Trump's speech was under two hours, which bolsters the thesis that the leaks about it being more than two hours were meant to work the prediction markets