For no reason, I'm lifting up my column on how a government shutdown works. Every shutdown looks different because of different funding streams, contingency funds, different bodies administering them, etc. I did my best to explain here to be thorough without being too dense.

Sharing this excerpt from my foreword to Alaa Abd el-Fattah's extraordinary collection of prison writings, "You Have Not Yet Been Defeated." Stay tuned... lithub.com/naomi-klein-...

Workers are striking across Italy today against Israel's genocide 🔥🔥🔥

"Italy’s grassroots unions, which represent hundreds of thousands of people ranging from schoolteachers to metalworkers, called for a 24-hour general strike...long delays for national trains and limited public transport in major cities, including Rome." apnews.com/article/ital...

Press warned to back up as DHS police take lawmakers were taken away in zip ties, among them Comptroller Brad Lander and 10 other state reps including Bobby Carol, Marcela Mitayanes, Julia Salazar, Emily Gallagher, Jabari Brisport, Jessica Gonzalez Rojas,... story TK

private credit is being lent to publicly traded companies to fund billions of dollars in stock buybacks another sound of the barrier between regulated and unregulated finance utterly collapsing and everyone wonders *why the stock market is still so crazy high*

he's consistent. at least we have that.

Offering Compromise, RFK Jr. Announces Kids Will be Injected with Hepatitis

These are MUCH rosier forecasts to be clear We have lower inflation, faster gdp growth and essentially the same GDP growth in 2026 than in June. I guess this is the waller view in dot form

New FOMC projections: Higher GDP Growth Lower Unemployment Higher Inflation Lower Interest Rates

Well at least the guy leading the effort has an impressive resume of presidential campaign success…. oh wait.

Congrats to our editorial board members Aziz Rana and Luke Herrine on being named 2025 Freedom Scholars 🥳🥳

groups like Movement Voter Project, Solidare, Way to win have been on this for a loonnggggg time: channel dem donor $ *away* from consultant class & towards real grassroots organizing to win elections yet they never make it into the story

An absolute clown car and wouldn’t be operating w reference to Reid if he were around.

Real cult leader stuff over at Tesla, which is paying Musk a record breaking $1 trillion in stock. Obama should have taken a board seat for the US government when he had the chance. www.ft.com/content/a2b6...

I wrote about how economic democracy is necessary for political democracy feels very fraught right now but in this moment of structural transformation, we need structural solutions & to build political will towards them

This has been coming from the beginning. All major democracy-supporting NGOs and foundations have their legal complaints already drafted. And in time, perhaps not even much time, they will win their cases. What is needed most in the meantime is courage. Keep saying what you think, doing what you do.

jesus christ

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I think we should take them at their word. "We're going to use every resource we have at the DOJ, Homeland Security & throughout this govt to dismantle & destroy these networks" "We're going after NGOs" "Terrorist sympathizers...Soros' OSF & the Ford Foundation" www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

ha ha ha pierced by private equity

In a world riven by inequality and devastated by climate + ecological crisis, what would it take for "green industrial policy" to empower the working class in Global North + South, and be truly green? New @cplusc.bsky.social report by me and Isabel Estevez (1/3) t.co/78sQQe4d1g

Truly wild stuff going on tonight in DC White House pushing congress to get an unprecedented Fed Nominee confirmed late tonight (around 8PM per @vtg2.bsky.social / @politico.com ) 1/

Blockchain fixes this.

Today - 15th - is the day to submit ALPE conference proposals!!

oh well I guess ok *that dinging sound is me downloading all of WRDS right now*

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

great piece by @leeharris.ft.com about FABN, an acronym you have never heard of this intertwining of insurance & unregulated finance is so much larger than ppl (who aren't obsessed w/ such things) realize also it makes me happy to see a former Maroon editor in chief & Prospect writer @ FT!

that sound you hear is the collapsing of the wall that separated 'public' and 'private' (unregulated) financial markets & ofc it's robinhood that move fastest

Trumponomics offers gestures like equity stakes without a plan: interventions without coordination & spending without strategy. The problem isn’t the use of industrial policy but how it’s deployed – not to build productive capacity & gains for workers but to dismantle the entrepreneurial state.

this one hits hard because @garlingilchrist.bsky.social is a friend and former colleague from moveon days & I'm going to go insane thinking about what he is going to have to deal with as his political star keeps rising as it will b/c he's the kind of political leader we so desperately need

"Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee in the New York City mayoral race, has been accused of supporting a "pro-terrorist" rap group known as The Diplomats in an apparent hit piece"." A Dipset related scandal seems like what we all need right now www.complex.com/music/a/jose...

I was on @marketplace.org talking about whether workers should have their retirement funds placed into unregulated finance Answer: No www.marketplace.org/story/2025/0...

This is class solidarity. In case you’re at all confused.

speaking of political assassinations, today we denounce again the dark beginning of neoliberalism, the assassination of Salvador Allende in Chile, a military coup backed by United States. 'The U.S. spent $8 million on covert actions between 1970 and the 1973 coup'. www.npr.org/2023/09/10/1...

this is not a place that can spare water also: "In exchange for not having to pay property taxes, the company said it would provide about $300 million in payments to the county over the term of the deal. After 30 years, the company’s shareholders – not the county – would take ownership"

New nationwide Child Care Gap analysis tool gives information about local child care supply and child population, from U Nebraska, the Bipartisan Policy Center, & Child Care Aware. childcaregap.org

pre-order @briancallaci.bsky.social's book! I am jealous of how good this cover is bookshop.org/p/books/chai...

re "when the president takes the extreme step of intervening in particular companies, he should articulate a strategy, as Mr. Obama did with the auto industry — " ummmm the strategy was basically we really don't want to do this & will exit as soon as possible

two of the best orgs .. this is great

I've written a post Seville piece on the Wall Street Consensus and the investible development paradigm for @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/09/08/d...

omg this gave me the laugh I needed this morning

“The government sometimes makes brief, investigative stops to check the immigration status of those who gather in locations where people are hired for day jobs such as construction, landscaping, agriculture or car washes…and who do not speak much if any English.” -Justice Kavanaugh

we live in an unregulated financial system, and our regulatory and mental models from the New Deal can't be our template going forward

Donald Trump has increased his net worth by $3 billion over the last year, mostly thanks to crypto. www.forbes.com/sites/danale...

this is why we need strong faculty unions we're so fortunate at @umassamherst.bsky.social to be @massteacher.bsky.social members who have our backs all the time