This morning, students at Columbia University picketed outside the homes of three trustees.

At two of the three locations, random harassers suckerpunched student picketers. At one, a car drove into a student. NYPD arrested the student, who’s now with EMS.

Staggeringly prejudicial framing by BBC News (UK)

'Not actually shrinking' is not a measure of success. 2% annual growth would be a measure of success.

Provide legal routes by which one citizen may murder another without consequence.

Yes folks, thinking Anne Hathaway - yes, that Anne Hathaway - is pretty makes you special...

What is particularly lovely about this is imagining how many times the reporter wanted to interrupt her, and just failed. Masterclass in getting your point across.

“The students don’t know what they’re talking about”

The students:

One of the things so often eluded in debates about 'capitalism' is how artificial a construction 'capitalism' is.

Limited liability companies, for example: why? They are not a law of nature, they were literally legislated-for in the mid-19th century.

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Wherever you stand on the debates around 'green growth' and 'degrowth' and ecological economics and climate politics, you should read this Andrew Ahern piece. It well clarifies the terms of these debates with a perspective too often lost or dismissed.

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Reality continues to conspire to make the Tories look like fucking idiots.
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2,000 small boat crossings since new Rwanda laws 👇
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Sometimes you get a hint of the complete lack of impression you've made on a historiography that people STILL insist on going back to the 1950s, or beyond, to exemplify, and it's just fucking lovely, thanks.

It's funny watching Musk try to control his children who he let run amok on this app now he realises that he has to keep in line with certain regulations. 'try not to be too racist' - 'shut up J. K. Rowling you're causing me a headache' lol