Walz: The Wall Street Journal… they did another story that said oh, he's actually richer than his statement says because he has a “defined benefit pension plan.” That is my wish for every American to have a defined benefit pension plan.

👀U.K. Suspends Some Arms Sales to Israel Britain’s foreign secretary said there was a “clear risk” some weapons might be used to commit “a serious violation of international humanitarian law.”nytimes.com/2024/09/02/wor…

🐦 👑 🥂Genghis Kellz

How much better could capitalism be? More than a few people are working on it. But is it too little too late? With Ellen B Lab Rick Alexander of The Shareholder Commons John Fullerton of Capital Institute Marjorie Kelly Oren Cass, Jayati Ghosh PRX podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sce…

Here we go again...

Loved the conversation! Thanks, Kate and DW Deutsche Welle.

This part: “If Hitler is no longer widely understood as the negation of our deepest values, America will be softened up for Trump’s most authoritarian plans, including imprisoning masses of undocumented immigrants in vast detention camps.” nytimes.com/2024/09/06/opi… via @NYTOpinion

👀 #capitalism

Scene On Radio Episode 11 Better Capitalism? I spent a career trying to make it better but I've concluded its a system of bias, and a system of bias--in this case in favor of capital--can't be fixed. play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_…

Can we make capitalism better? That's the theme of latest episode of @SceneonRadio. In #WealthSupremacy I make the case that a system of #capitalbias cannot be reformed. Time for a next system: #democraticeconomy

He should smile more

Great piece on (our very own!) Chenjerai Kumanyika and his brilliant new project, by Reggie Ugwu. nytimes.com/2024/09/09/art…

Climate change is the kitchen table issue of our lifetimes, threatening the American dream, driving up inflation, food prices, housing costs, healthcare, immigration, utility bills. That it's still treated like a niche side issue is insane. heated.world/p/everyones-he…

A lot of attention has been rightly paid to the devastating choice not to make permanent the expanded child tax credit: in just one year child poverty more than doubled from historic lows. Also striking: the rate is now higher than it was before the pandemic, and growing.

I just saw an indigenous woman doing the Tarahumara trot in my Harlem park as I get ready to go boxing. I love our immigrant neighbors. If only ppl would see them in their joy. I’ve learned so much from them bc I speak to them bc they are not a threat. Open your eyes. It’s here.

"Almost 70% of residents of 5 swing states told pollsters ... that our political and economic system needs major changes or should be torn down entirely, and about the same % said the economy is rigged to benefit the rich and powerful." gift article nytimes.com/2024/09/12/opi…

The real debate about Haitians we should be having is that the USA and France owe Haiti many billions in reparation.

From the US Holocaust Memorial Museum: perspectives.ushmm.org/item/propagand…

We are desensitized to everything now but this is the world’s richest man yukking it up with the former president of the United States about a blatantly racist conspiracy theory that is currently putting migrant workers in actual danger