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The usual handicapping for a new Fed Chair is happening, but likely it’s too early….
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I know investigations take a long time but this man has caused so much damage…
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“As in the Times Op-Ed from which the book originated, the title refers to the…
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I read “Biden Can Go Bigger and Not ‘Pay for It’ the Old Way” by…
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Here’s some big news today out of Pennsylvania: .@JohnFetterman announces he raised $3.9 million in…
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Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a…
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So much dodging bullets these past months, but so many tradeoffs. What remains is that…
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Assuming Jason Miller is a real person and not a failed Soviet-era experiment to cross…
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Both Jake Tapper & Martha Raddatz grilled Joe Manchin on why a Senator from a…
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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…
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Recovering memory and historical revisionism in sex work might be the sad product of many…
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Let real wages (of $15+/hour) grow faster than labor productivity for some years, undoing the…
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From the Human Rights Campaign, “Biden’s Executive Order is the most substantive, wide-ranging executive order…
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This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx…
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The Trump crazies are now, metaphorically speaking, slitting their own throats as uncontrolled Covid infections…
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This continues the diary of two days ago. Nostalgia is a coping mechanism at the…
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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…
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx…
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This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol…
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This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx This covers…
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This story supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. This covers chapters 11-14….
Sure, there is something to be afraid of when a group of gun-toting terrorists brandishes…
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Condescending or patronizing, how we forget until people get talked over. Tupac Shakur didn’t show…
So this bull shit just happened: The Michigan Supreme Court issued a split decision late…
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“(T)erminating labour and share markets, along with the type of commercial banking taken for granted…
Hurricane Laura is now a strong Cat 4, with winds up to 150 MPH (Cat…
There are few cable or network news hosts willing to go where Ali Velshi goes economically and…
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There’s a presser from the Trump golf club, because optics matter: “Congress needs to stay in…
Judy Shelton’s candidacy for a seat on the Fed was approved in a party-line vote in…
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Some big news today: Joe Biden’s presidential campaign on Wednesday rolled out the policy recommendations…
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Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) can (but not will) save the US economy. What with the…
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Received this e-mail from ALS and health care activist, Ady Barkan, on behalf of the…
Another bit of information has come out about the Louisville police killing of Breonna Taylor. …
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Wow: x YouTube Video A new TV and digital ad campaign for U.S. Republican Sen….
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There’s juicy stuff in the Bolton book even if his mercenary lust for money came…
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More Trump lies and spin, and again he took no questions because it’s a pageant….
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Title VII protections now includes LGBTQ in a single watershed decision. Happy Pride month. x .@business:…
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Since the latest media frame “defend/defund the police” is self-limiting, the discourse should move to…
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Oh so brand-conscious Trump now has his very own recession. No, it’s not Obama’s. Trump…
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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….
