oh look at that, the worst people you know are the ones obsessed with "curbing wasteful spending" and running the government like a business wow, what a coincidence, wonder if there's any connections to draw from that nytimes.com/2024/09/06/tec…

Naomi Klein: "Zionism was an antisemitic idea from the start", reminding that the only British official opposing the Balfour declaration was the only Jew, Edwin Montagu, because he saw it as antisemitic.

Swiggity swine, I’m 29 🎂

As Harris outraises Trump nearly 3-1, the former president has become increasingly reliant on billionaires funding Super PACs — and he’s promising wealthy donors whatever they want. Catch me and Asawin Suebsaeng in the next issue of Rolling Stone rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

No bs: just an unsentimental, coldly practical leftist politician, constructing a coalition while operating within a two party system. Dirty hands are better than filthy hands.

choose your fighter

Seems pretty clear that the main reason Kamala's campaign is more moderate than Biden '20 (or even Hillary '16) — on immigration, fracking, etc. — is that the Left didn't have a credible primary challenger this time around 🧵

[2016]

JD Vance’s attacks on Haitians, and the white wing glee at piling on, continues a long white American tradition of hating Haitians because we are free. My latest in The Nation thenation.com/article/societ…

A week or so ago, I decided to try and figure out how many colleges and universities changed their protest policies over the summer. The answer: 50+ campuses across the country.

Really cannot overstate how scary it is that a sitting U.S. Senator is stirring up a pogrom against 20,000 black people he is supposed to represent in a bid to be VP

These are his own constituents. who are here legally, who are working, who are revitalizing a post-Industrial town, who are minding their own business — and he’s siccing fascists on them because they’re Haitian. This asshole will never see heaven

Very good thinkpiece from Constance Grady. "It’s the compulsion that is the point. If raunch is not compulsory, then it is not degrading, and part of the point of raunch is to humiliate." vox.com/culture/371632…

It used to be so well understood. ~Marriner S. Eccles, Chairman, Board of Governors, Federal Reserve System

Back in the day, pretty much everyone agreed that you need a whole suite of tools to manage inflationary pressures (not just during war) and that *fiscal policy* belongs atop the policy mountain. The Federal Reserve building is named after a leading advocate of this view.

Has it occurred to anyone that these Republicans are deluding themselves and Reagan actually would have adored Trump?

“Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon” is a neat, tidy story which demands nothing of politics and requires no hard questions. It means you don’t have to think about hard things. You even get to be smug toward who say you do! Problem is it’s not true.