Only Jamie Galbraith would give the 25th Annual Milton Friedman Distinguished Lecture and begin by saying, “Truly, I come to bury Milton, not to praise him. But I would like to do so on the terrain that he favored, where he was strong and over which he ruled for many decades.” 1/

Thank you for proving to the world that today’s version of “conservative role model” is a person who mocks other people’s ill grandparents on the internet. I can promise you I will treat your family better than you do mine. And I’ll fight for your constituents more, too. 👋🏽

it’s not “bezos makes this much while an amazon warehouse worker makes this little”, it’s “bezos makes this much BECAUSE an amazon warehouse worker makes this little”. not a question of unfairness but of material exploitation

man it pays to be rich

Must read. #saraheverard h/t Jana Bacevic ([email protected]) Violence against women is systemic - it comes from men and often involves sexual abuse/rape. newstatesman.com/politics/femin…

No immigrant has taken your job. You were laid off by a capitalist who required cheap labor and took advantage of that immigrant to increase his profits, and nothing makes him happier than to hear you blame the immigrant and not him.

Lorena Roque Mehrsa Baradaran kills it on this

The wealth of UK billionaires rocketed by £106,500,000,000 during the pandemic. The super-rich – not the working class – should pay more tax.

But human beings don't behave in purely rational and self-interested ways, and the market doesn't self-regulate efficiently. The good news is that we're largely cooperative and moral creatures. The bad news is that bad actors can manipulate those impulses in very harmful ways.

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." - Frank Wilhoit

500,000 to 3m Indonesians were killed in this counter-revolution against the anti-colonial left: "British officials secretly deployed black propaganda in the 1960s to urge prominent Indonesians to “cut out” the “communist cancer”."

In 1980, the average trucker made $120,000 a year (in 2020 dollars). In 2019 truckers earned $45,000–this is from Christopher Mims 🤌 new book. A 63% decrease. Tell us more about the so-called trucker shortage though…

Here's a fact you won't hear on Fox News today. Exxon, Chevron, and Conoco made $46 billion in profit in 2021. Now they're using 40% of those profits for stock buybacks. Big Oil is raking it in, raising prices, and taking advantage of the war in Ukraine to push for more drilling.

I really think we need replace “people who look like me” politics with “people who are structurally positioned like me”. “Looks like me” alone obscures way too much about class, as well as access to opportunities and resources.

This will never be unseen.

So, it appears the Israeli police have published a doctored video.

Important note on the new The White House #longcovid report! It mentions that ~1M ppl may be out of work due to LC. That is based on a The Brookings Institution report I wrote 8 months ago. I am currently updating the figures — now that we have more data, we know it’s actually 2-4M+

gal.to/jtsj2 Been dreaming collectively about this for 25 years, and now we finally get to tautoko our mate and her whānau to bring it to life. Whai mai