False and Misleading, but Legal?
Yesterday, the House Ways and Means Committee’s ranking member tried to pull off a well-worn Republican tactic to hide malfeasance and misdeeds. Rep. Kevin Brady (R-TX) wrapped himself in the … Read More
Category: Employment
a new Fed chair… maybe but probably not.
The usual handicapping for a new Fed Chair is happening, but likely it’s too early. Lael Brainard and William Spriggs would be front-runners. Jay Powell's term is up next February, when … Read More
Biden on top of his game: Snuffs out GOP narrative blaming rescue plan for fewer jobs created.
Joe Biden did not allow the GOP to drive a narrative blaming the rescue plan and lazy workers. He came out swinging. Biden gets ahead of the false employment narrative … Read More
McConnell will destroy the GOP, Why they follow Trump, The birth rate too low, Free the vaccine
Why is McConnell destroying the GOP? Why is Trump popular with his base? What does a low birth rate mean? Is capitalism the epidemic’s Achilles heel? Is McConnell oblivious to … Read More
What is going on with the New York investigations on Trump and when will he be held responsible?
I know investigations take a long time but this man has caused so much damage with his enablers, I want to see some depositions, some results, and some accountability. With … Read More
Minerva at Midnight: better sex under (democratic) socialism
“As in the Times Op-Ed from which the book originated, the title refers to the results of studies conducted in Germany from the mid-nineteen-eighties onward, which reported, among other intriguing … Read More
Stephanie Kelton: Biden can go bigger, but they must understand MMT & inflation.
I read “Biden Can Go Bigger and Not ‘Pay for It’ the Old Way” by Economics Professor and MMT advocate Stephanie Kelton. It is an important read that we need to understand. … Read More
PA-Sen: Lt. Gov. John Fetterman (D) Rakes In $3.9 Million Q1 Fundraising Haul For U.S. Senate Bid
Here’s some big news today out of Pennsylvania: .@JohnFetterman announces he raised $3.9 million in the first quarter for his Pennsylvania U.S. Senate run, through 140,000 contributions. A big haul … Read More
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Are carbon markets like papal indulgences
Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of excesses, the environmental costs of carbon markets far exceed the benefits. Austerity would have … Read More
Minerva @ Midnight: 400,000 Trump deaths
So much dodging bullets these past months, but so many tradeoffs. What remains is that we now have a POTUS who can actually talk about “modern Jim Crow” rather than … Read More
Ex-former guy spokesman allegedly lied about employment status to reduce child support payments
Assuming Jason Miller is a real person and not a failed Soviet-era experiment to cross the human genome with the formula for Axe Body Spray, he appears to be in … Read More
CNN: Tapper & ABC: Raddatz grilled Sen. Joe Manchin with inconvenient questions & got naive
Both Jake Tapper & Martha Raddatz grilled Joe Manchin on why a Senator from a poor state would limit their income and on the filibuster. He gave willfully naive answers. … Read More
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GOP Sen. says COVID relief bill's a Trojan Horse. [LOL] Who always has to clean up their mess again?
Republican Senator Bill Cassidy appeared on a gaslighting mission claiming the COVID Relief bill is a Trojan Horse. He wants Democrats to listen to the ones who’ve crashed the economy … Read More
human trafficking and Comfort Women at Harvard Law – call off your old, tired ethics
Recovering memory and historical revisionism in sex work might be the sad product of many repressive regimes. What becomes worse is the complicity of academic institutions in white-washing crimes against … Read More
Krugman: stagflation as ambitious macroeconomic policies and conservative ideas was wrong?
Let real wages (of $15+/hour) grow faster than labor productivity for some years, undoing the wage repression of the last decades. We have been misled by neoliberal economics for now … Read More
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – comparing Butte Montana and Chuqui Chile
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one … Read More
Biden signs the most extensive and substantive EO on LGBT equality ever by a US President.
From the Human Rights Campaign, “Biden’s Executive Order is the most substantive, wide-ranging executive order concerning sexual orientation and gender identity ever issued by a United States president. Today, millions … Read More
Only the useful idiots will pay the price of sedition.
Impeachment? Trump will be impeached in the House but in the Senate all but a few republicans will vote against him and thus be complicit in an attempted coup. They … Read More
The goal still was to overturn the election. Much more than a sore loser, Trump.
There is a Wall Street Journal report that Trump’s pressure on a top federal prosecutor in Atlanta to resign was part of a broader push by President Trump to overturn the state’s … Read More
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 9
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx Reproduction and accumulation Capital is “self-valorising value”. But for capital to continue to generate … Read More
Health Care Workers flee small towns that need them the most due to GOP masking denial.
The Trump crazies are now, metaphorically speaking, slitting their own throats as uncontrolled Covid infections rage through their communities. These simpletons have turned their very lives over to an incompetent, impotent, … Read More
Revising the invention of tradition(s): more on the Garrett Felber affair at U. of Mississippi.
This continues the diary of two days ago. Nostalgia is a coping mechanism at the place known for its association with William Faulkner. Oxford Mississippi is a place where the nostalgia … Read More
Trump's recession has a greater jobs deficit than at worst point of all previous postwar recessions.
Thankfully the new administration will steer the economy to a place quite unlike the disaster that Trump had pointed the nation. x Long-term unemployment is up 2.32 million since Sept … Read More
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 5
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx “I have joined a family, and like all families, it's full of shit.” – … Read More
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 4
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 15 and 16. Chapter 15 describes more closely the production … Read More
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them? 2
This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers chapters 11-14. Today’s supporting summary is at the very bottom, below the fold. Set against … Read More
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part deux
This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. This covers chapters 11-14. Set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry, Charlotte Brontë’s … Read More
I thought you were Proud…Boys?
Sure, there is something to be afraid of when a group of gun-toting terrorists brandishes weaponry to cover their intellectual deficiencies. Whether they or their ilk, make plans to kidnap … Read More
mixed messaging: “unlikable communist monster” versus the fly on the lying guy
Condescending or patronizing, how we forget until people get talked over. Tupac Shakur didn’t show up last night in Utah for the VP debate, but the truth got busted with … Read More
The Michigan State Supreme Court Just Reminded Us We Need A Second Huge Blue Wave To Hit Michigan
So this bull shit just happened: The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late Friday that ruled against Gov. Gretchen Whitmer in a battle over her power to extend … Read More
Independent economic analysis: A Trump loss would be far better for the economy
I’ll never understand why people think Republican presidents — and Republicans in general — are good for the economy. We have decades of economic data that say otherwise. When it … Read More
Anti-Capitalist MeetUp: Post-COVID's post-capitalism may create an International Green New Deal
“(T)erminating labour and share markets, along with the type of commercial banking taken for granted today, is a prerequisite for a post-capitalist society with functioning markets, authentic democracy and personal … Read More
Trump is Failing His Latest Test: Hurricane Laura
Hurricane Laura is now a strong Cat 4, with winds up to 150 MPH (Cat 5 is 158 MPH, and it may get there). Storm surges are expected to push … Read More
Ali Velshi strikes again with an economic truth seldom told on cable
There are few cable or network news hosts willing to go where Ali Velshi goes economically and politically. He has the skill set necessary to get the point across without excessive offense … Read More
Trump Presser: live from 19th tee at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster (play 'Hail to the Chief')
There’s a presser from the Trump golf club, because optics matter: “Congress needs to stay in Washington and work this out. Now watch this tee shot.” Undoubtedly pimpage of executive orders … Read More
Will a Senate GOP put the US back on the Gold Standard in Trump's 2nd term? #StopShelton
Judy Shelton’s candidacy for a seat on the Fed was approved in a party-line vote in the Senate Banking committee on Tuesday. All 12 Democrats on the Senate Banking Committee opposed Shelton’s nomination, … Read More
Joe Biden & Bernie Sanders Unity Task Force Release 110 Page Progressive Policy Recommendations
Some big news today: Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Wednesday rolled out the policy recommendations reached by its joint task forces with supporters of Sen. Bernie Sanders ahead of the … Read More
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: government deficit is a myth in the eyes of Modern Monetary Theory
Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can (but not will) save the US economy. What with the White House Council of Economic Advisors now reduced to one economist, it’s worth noting that … Read More
Health Care Activist, Ady Barkan, Wants To Know What He Should Ask Joe Biden In Upcoming Interview
Received this e-mail from ALS and health care activist, Ady Barkan, on behalf of the group, Progress America: Last year, I launched a series of interviews with Democratic candidates for … Read More
LMPD Chief: Officer Hankinson Fired Ten Shots Through Breonna Taylor's Patio Door and Window.
Another bit of information has come out about the Louisville police killing of Breonna Taylor. The new LMPD Chief has stated that Officer Hankinson fired ten shots through Taylor’s patio … Read More
NC-Sen: Thom Tillis' (R) Ad Features Restaurant Owner At Center Of A Racial Bias Lawsuit
Wow: x YouTube Video A new TV and digital ad campaign for U.S. Republican Sen. Thom Tillis features one of the owners of Lancaster’s BBQ & Wings in Mooresville, which … Read More
Bolton book: Trump wanted Xi to help him win re-election
There’s juicy stuff in the Bolton book even if his mercenary lust for money came before putting Trump in the vise during the Impeachment. It seems less revelatory as it might … Read More
Trump did another campaign speech that wasn't a press conference because he took no questions
More Trump lies and spin, and again he took no questions because it’s a pageant. It had the usual earmarks of such speeches, including a “sir” remark and the confabulation … Read More
SCOTUS rules that LGBTQ can sue for workplace bias
Title VII protections now includes LGBTQ in a single watershed decision. Happy Pride month. x .@business: The ruling came in one of two LGBT workplace-bias cases the court has been considering. … Read More
It's not about defunding or defending the cops, it's about redefining emergency services
Since the latest media frame “defend/defund the police” is self-limiting, the discourse should move to redefining emergency services much as “first-responders” has expanded to include those on the “front-line”. Trumpists … Read More
#TrumpRecession. It's official. Trump squandered a growing economy that he inherited.
Oh so brand-conscious Trump now has his very own recession. No, it’s not Obama’s. Trump has ended 128 months of economic growth, before COVID-19 hit. Remember the stock market is not … Read More
What’s Fox News implying about black men’s deaths & stock market?
Fox News had an interesting graph along with a report on stock market moves in regards to when certain things happen to black men, police violence & deaths. The matter-of-fact … Read More
Trump “presser”: “we saved millions of lives” (by killing 105,000)
In the Rose Garden, Trump continues his usual nonsense lying about “the greatest economy in the history of the world”. …the president said today is a great day for a … Read More
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday #5Jobs #5Tags
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers of Daily Kos who aren’t throwing pies at one another. … Read More
VA-Sen: Sen. Mark Warner (D) Continues To Mount Pressure On Congress To Save The U.S. Postal Service
Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Mark Warner’s (D. VA) re-election campaign: The U.S. Postal Service is in trouble. This vital service is in dire financial straits, but President … Read More
