The world is terrible, but the Fair Share Amendment? The Fair Share Amendment remains very good. #mapoli www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/25/m...

Tax the rich, fund public services. Massachusetts shows how to do it

Harry Konstantinidis presenting "Rates of Return and Racial Stratification of Business Ownership in the United States" at #JSE2026 @leiladavis1.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social @sbs-umass.bsky.social @umassboston.bsky.social

Outgoing Massachusetts Teachers Association president Max Page reflects on a decade of rank-and-file reformers turning a cautious, staff-driven union into a militant, member-led force by striking, winning stronger contracts, and pushing to tax the rich.

Breaking news: Hampshire College, the liberal arts university in Amherst, announced that it would close after nearly six decades.

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair."

My @bostonglobe.com feed right now. Economy must be doing great - so much winning

Ilhan Omar is an American hero. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...

By who? Who shot the person dead? You saw the video. We all know a federal agent shot a man dead who was prone on the ground. Also, it's not "according to officials." It's according to verified video seen with your eyes. Not saying what anyone can obviously see with their eyes is a form of lying.

This is horrifying. It appears that ICE executed a man on the street. This violent agency must be abolished and every agent involved in this murder must be held accountable.

POTUS invoking the Insurrection Act would be a declaration of war against the American people, a literal claim of right to attack us with military forces. bsky.app/profile/npr....

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

AOC: This has now become what we feared most about ICE for a long time—that it would be used as an anti-civilian force with no accountability. At the end of the day, what we saw today was a murder, and murders in cold blood need to be prosecuted.

At least 40 people were killed in the U.S. attack on Venezuela early Saturday, including military personnel and civilians, according to a senior Venezuelan official.

Where do I go to get my apology from all the folks on both sides and center of the political spectrum who insisted Trump wasn't a warmonger or imperialist and would be different to the Democrats and Republicans and (especially) neocons who came before him?

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Μπαντής για Τεττέη – Καρέτσα: “Άραγε, πίσω από αυτό το γκολ πόσες ιστορίες ανθρώπων να κρύβονται;”

‘No! Not Larry Summers!’ Wails Devastated Nation

The statute banning "unconscionable" business practices in NYC is really powerful, I was told about it a couple weeks ago www.semafor.com/article/11/1...

A last minute reminder: we are hiring in health economics this year (JOE ad linked below). Review of applications begins November 15!

Tax the rich. Billionaire tears not pictured.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

If guaranteeing essentials sounds radical, it speaks to how far we have drifted from democracy‘s core promises. Markets will not beat back the far right. An antifascist economics might. Mamdani provides a playbook for democrats around the world. My latest

:D prospect.org/2025/11/04/a...

It’s quite impressive how Mamdani has pulled almost every Dem into his coalition, not him into theirs. He keeps the door open for everyone but true enemies (Adams, Cuomo) & rather than try to extort a Hochul into a promise, he just puts her onstage & lets the popular will confront her. Amazing.

A federal prosecutor who resisted President Trump’s demands to bring charges against Letitia James, the New York state attorney general, was fired along with her deputy on Friday evening, according to three people familiar with the matter.

"We have an economy where a handful of modern-day robber barons wield extraordinary power. They hold enormous control over our paychecks, our bills, our time, and our futures. ...But the good news is that nothing about any of this is inevitable." - Lina Khan

ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...

This is pretty embarrassing. @schumer.senate.gov and @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, what do you think?

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

Zohran Mamdani thinks access to healthy food should be a public good. RFK JR.'s MAHA coalition thinks it’s a matter of personal responsibility. @rajpatel.org on our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness:

Fed governor Lisa Cook listed contested home as vacation property on.ft.com/46hiIu7

Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.

I’m a proud UC Berkeley graduate and I am appalled and angered by this McCarthyism. Judith Butler—just to cite one example— is not an antisemite but a principled philosopher devoted to justice for all, not just particular populations.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

The tech oligarchs at this event are the weak men in the “weak men create hard times…” meme

There’s power in unity — and in a union. A morning of solidarity and celebration at the NYC Labor Day Parade. #UnionStrong

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents. In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

NEW PIECE: Powell and the Federal Reserve System has already failed to meet the moment and not defending Lisa Cook will seal both Powell's and the Fed's fate. www.crisesnotes.com/powell-will-...

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook: "President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

This is the make or break moment for Powell's @federalreserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece. www.crisesnotes.com/trump-vs-pow...

Vouchers, budget cuts, and federal attacks on the US Dept. of Education are starving our schools. A new @epi.org report shows that these attacks threaten our children’s futures. Imagine how bright our future would be if we fully funded every child’s education. www.epi.org/publication/...

Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read

we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.