“It’s unfortunate, but you can’t really tell the voters they’re idiots.” politico.com/news/magazine/…

16 million views on YouTube. According to YT's list of the most-viewed videos, #5, "The Wheels on the Bus," a ditty every parent got overfamiliar with, has 6.4 billion views, 400 times as many. And that's only #5.

Biden didn’t supply enough bombs?

The police commissioner and two deputy mayors. When will Adams don and orange jumpsuit? nypost.com/2024/09/05/us-…

He speaks with more force than Biden, but it's hard to argue that he speaks with more coherence.

Trump talks like he can fund everything with tariffs. Total US government spending is around $6.7 trillion. Total US goods imports, just under $3 trillion. He's going to have to have a 220% rate.

fresh audio product: • Robert Pausch <Robert Pausch> of Die Zeit on the far right’s strong showing in German regional elections • Rob Larson <Rob Larson> looks at the superrich leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S24…

I have copies of Left Business Observer from the nineties, so I get a real kick out of going on Doug’s show. It was a really fun talk, give a listen

What is wrong with you?

This chart would have been better if it had included weights of various representative car models. A Toyota Camry, for instance, weighs about 3,500 pounds, so when you are in a medium sized sedan you have already realized most of the safety “gains” of larger car size. (1/3)

The 1999 WTO protests were, as Doug Henwood puts it, “glorious and exhilarating.” They were also loosely structured, without a fully articulated agenda. A new oral history of the Battle of Seattle puts this into relief. thebaffler.com/latest/week-of…

Poor Jesus deserves better than being used as a cover.

Coming up! NYC DSA welcomes Prof. Rashid Khalidi. RSVP here: actionnetwork.org/events/nyc-dsa…

"Which is a provocative thing to say for sure," that thing being saying Churchill was the real villain in WW2, not Hitler. Churchill was a recidivist villain, for sure, just not on this. TC's cackles are creepy.

This is actually quite bizarre and scary.

Do I need an intervention? I'm starting to think the liberals have a point when they take the capitalist hyena press (my term, not theirs) to task for cleaning up Trump's mangled, senseless quotes. The child care/tariff ramble was one for the books.

Thanks to ⁦Doug Henwood⁩ for this thoughtful reading of my book. thebaffler.com/latest/week-of…

Putting the salty in Saline, the county in Arkansas that contains Walmart HQ town Benton.