In case you missed it, my latest. nytimes.com/2021/04/07/opi…

We interrupt the coverage of the shooting of a 13-yr-old boy that interrupted coverage of traffic stop shooting of a 20–yr-old man that interrupted coverage of Derek Chauvin trial for the killing of George Floyd for news of 8 ppl killed at Fedex facility in Indianapolis America

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Why Americans Can't Have Nice Things. bit.ly/3ghLcuA

Asian nations have been intermittently masking for many years and now, only now, do we understand the famously poor academic performance of their children.

Thread! The US Government (the Federal Government) pays for EVERYTHING, both those 'things' you approve of and those things you disapprove of, whether it uses accounting schemes and vehicles like "Trust Funds" or not, **exactly** the same way. (1/9)

when my aunt says religious freedom what she really means is an open license to discriminate. freedom of religion is not freedom to hate anyone outside your religion.

To US Americans: your welfare is not threatened by a balloon. It is threatened by a ruling class that denies you access to healthcare, affordable housing, modern transit, living wages, proper voting rights, a stable climate, and a decent chance of living past 77. Know your enemy.

Did you think I’d show up to the hearing on Supreme Court ethics without receipts?

On a visit to the oldest US military post west of the Mississippi River and its contaminated lands: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/wandering-th…

Many of you know my mom’s house was destroyed in the 2021 Texas freeze, just 6 months after my dad died. We just learned AT&T has been billing internet at this house for nearly 3 yrs and she owes ~$5000 for a house that was ripped down to the studs. AT&T won’t help.

Do a search on “national debt” and read the replies of virtually everyone: it’s a crisis and government spending *must* be cut. This is the depressing and destructive result of one of the worst *lies* in mainstream macroeconomics: that the U.S. government borrows to spend.

I was stopped in my tracks when I read this quote. “'The unborn' are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or

Denying the idea of market failure is about as coherent as denying the idea of government failure.

The insane lengths to which anti-Biden propagandists will go: Now it’s the universally discredited bullshit that criminality is an inheritable trait! Jonathan Turley has dug up an attempted murder conviction of Biden’s great-great-grandfather, Moses and — I kid you not — used it

PSA Selling bonds to match deficit spending is not “borrowing” from the private sector: Buyers gladly swap dollars for highly liquid, interest-bearing assets. Give up NOTHING. It’s an unnecessary GIFT — to bond buyers, that is. Potentially MORE inflationary than not doing so!

This needs to be watched and shared. Understand what this man is saying and understand what this means for you and our future. This is not a game.

I'm reading this excellent thread/essay from Cory @Doctorow and thinking to myself, "this sounds a whole lot like #MMT..." ...and then he name-drops Stephanie Kelton at the end, and I'm like "and there it is!"

The European Commission has just made it clear that the rigid constraints they had placed on public finance were totally artificial. They have now lifted them to enable massive military production. The EC could have done the same thing to achieve rapid decarbonization and

Hey MAGA. You laugh because you think you're safe from all of this racism, and death, and destruction. But you're wrong. Trump will come for you too. It's both predictable and inevitable. Know how I know? Because I currently live in Normandy, not far from the D-Day beaches. 1/x