I Have a (Olympic) Dream
Women and people of color had a unique experience that ended yesterday in Tokyo, Japan. The controversial Summer Olympics closed with America at the top...
In the post-insurrection US, air travel remains safe if no one storms the flight deck
One incident occurred just hours ago as a flight gets diverted to OKC because a passenger wanted to step outside. https://twitter.com/StanleyRoberts/status/1403577042088513540?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw An earlier flight wound...
The Threats to American Democracy
I don’t know if this statement has been diarized, my apologies, but it bears repeating often, so if anyone missed it. The Threats to American...
Previous guy's an alien, “…because when you're a star they let you do it”
Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) within 18 days in his last coronavirus relief bill...
Adults in the US Are 60% Vaccinated, In Seven States Over 70% Have Received a Dose
The US and the world continue with efforts to contain Covid. While the rate of vaccinations in the US has been slowing, the CDC reports...
What are the odds of Facebook Oversight Board letting previous guy back on Wednesday
Likely Trump will continue to be banned from Facebook, but just in case, it is worth speculating what would happen if he returns. His general laying-low...
What are the odds of Facebook Oversight Board letting previous guy back on Wednesday
Likely Trump will continue to be banned from Facebook, but just in case, it is worth speculating what would happen if he returns. His general laying-low...
Minerva @ Midnight: people like Giuliani's records, they're not thinking about the first impeachment
Remember when Trump said: "I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking about slavery". Maybe we can finally get to that...
Vaccinated American Tourists Will Be Allowed in Europe
Europe will start welcoming American tourists who can show they are fully vaccinated, currently 29% of the US population. The American government has provided at least...
One Half of Adult Americans Are Vaccinated
As of today, 50% of US residents over the age of 18 have been vaccinated with at least one shot for Covid-19. Yesterday’s report by...
One-Half of Adult Americans Are Vaccinated
As of today, 50% of US residents over the age of 18 have been vaccinated with at least one shot for Covid-19. Yesterday’s report by...
Minerva @ Midnight: prosecuting the previous guy, former FedEx employee kills 8, plus Freedom Flies
Do we really have the will to prosecute Trump for anything? Or will he escape yet again because he’ll try to bargain his way out...
Minerva @ Midnight: after previous guy's indictment, a trumpist jail-break in the offing?
Previous guy colluded with Russia, led a Capitol insurrection, and is not rotting in a prison cell. But if it happens, could there be enough secessionist...
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,...
Minerva @ Midnight: April Fools – Baylor U. conservatives think slavery was good
Change as a rising tide seems to be falling short as history’s stream is not as mighty. Apparently slavery is still “ordained by God for ultimate...
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...
Minerva @ Midnight: fungible space and fungible time
The stuck ship does tell us something about the fragility of global trade and the flow of capital. Fungible Space Logistics, that concept popularized by...
the Grand Hotel Abyss defunded and canceled by Trump's GQP culture war on massage spas
The Atlanta spree killings are unfortunately a story with structural similarity to events elsewhere. How do we know that Robert Long wasn’t on his way to...
Vaccinations Are Averaging More Than 2 Million a Day as Many States Widen Eligibility
More than 110 million Covid-19 vaccinations have taken place in the United States, of which about 90 million happened after Joe Biden took office. The...
Vaccinations Are Averaging More Than 2 Million a Day; Trump Finally Supports Vaccines
More than 110 million Covid-19 vaccinations have taken place in the United States, of which about 90 million happened after Joe Biden took office. The...
Vaccinations Kick into 2nd Gear at 2 Million a Day; Biden Gets 70% Approval for Covid Response
Vaccinations for Covid-19 have levelled up to more than 2 million a day likely helped by shipments of the newly approved Johnson and Johnson vaccine...
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology
The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in...
Seriously, WTF Is Wrong with the GQP-Texas?
Sorry but having lived a long time is Pinko Commie Europe this morning I was gobsmacked by this piece of news. Mr. Willoughby is among...
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...
The Christophe de Margerie makes history in the Arctic; Jet stream collapse leads to mass starvation
The “Arctic is already under such threat from so many angles, and while production there is expensive, it is also very, very high risk. It...
no ifs, ands, or buts – Trump must be prosecuted ASAP. Senate Judiciary vote on Garland, March 1
One hopes that after the farce of a Trump impeachment acquittal, that criminal proceedings begin in all of the relevant venues. We have already seen how Trump...
Illiberal Capitalism: In Vogue?: The Present?: The Future?
This is something I have been considering for a long time [10 years or so] and the events of January 6th 2021 are slowly coalescing...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Climate Crisis, negative emissions technologies, and financialization
As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by neoliberal financialization. An earlier...
“uber-capitalism” in a neoliberal market of revenant bears tiptoeing through tulips
https://twitter.com/jmcunning/status/1354805635787853825?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw https://twitter.com/MichaelHeide/status/1354511827607183373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw Bear Raid is not an offensive formation now at Mississippi State, but rather capital formation of a fictitious nature. Killing one bear because...
Trump talked to associates about a new political party as he pardons Steve Bannon
As Steve Bannon is pardoned for scamming border wall money, he’s likely the new operative for a Trump political party to promote neo-fascism. Trump has trial...
The Big Lie is another Lost Cause, but Trump will keep telling it
Even as DC is now better prepared for a “million militia march” on 20 January, the likelihood is that only the most foolhardy will lay...
Multiple GOP Senators Planning Coordinated Objection to EC Count
Moscow Mitch is losing control of his caucus, GOP Senators have long ago lost all respect for democracy, and the country is losing its mind...
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris will become President and Vice President in 19 days.
Don’t listen to any lizard people this year. xGreetings from the White House.Trump appears to be tweeting and watching OANN from the Oval Office this...
GA-Sen B: “Sen. Loeffler’s (R) Husband Bought Stock In Sectors Set To Benefit From Then-Secret Bill”
From The Huffington Post: For weeks, the couple had done almost nothing but sell. Loeffler was one of several senators who faced public outrage for...
Anti-Capitalist MeetUp Open Thread
I recently came across a typical Twitter argument about the CIA promoting modern art as propaganda. The usual distorting tweet-discourse occurred but what remained are somewhat paranoid discussions of...
“One of the many Marx toys, have you all of them?” part 6
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx. Not quite this type of commodity, but more like a...
John Brown's Body lies a-moldering in the grave
Old John Brown's body lies moldering in the grave, While weep the sons of bondage whom he ventured all to save; But tho he lost his life while struggling for the slave, His...
Biden may pull the Amazon back from the tipping point; Hague considers climate crimes at the ICC.
“Until now, Donald Trump served as a support for the Brazilian president to act irresponsibly. Now with the U.S. adding to Europe’s pressure, Brazil is...
Doctor on Trump’s Thanksgiving advice: ‘Absolute abject failure of the leadership’ of Trump.'
The CDC and Dr. Fauci advised on how to prevent Thanksgiving from becoming a super spreader event. Doctor scolds Trump on his. Trump Thanksgiving Fail...
“It’s so sad that we are at the 'Whew! It might only be a coverup” stage…'”
Delaying the transition seems now to be more sinister, even as the eventual discovery of Trumpian crimes could extend into his “second” term. Mike Pompeo is workshopping...
The vindictive disabled canard could tank the economy in the next 11 weeks #TrumpDepression
It moves… there will still be monkey business even as one good sign has been put into place: xGood evening, one and all. Please note that the...
Happy Oxi Day, darn those anti-fascists “Alors, c’est la guerre!” (Then it is war!)
Doubtless strategic locations could be occupied on election day. όχι! xWhen writing my opening today saying we are currently in the midst of a coup,...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday – Living close to the 50%
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...
“Baumexplodiertfest” The European 'forest cities' of which Trump was enamored in the debate
That debate was revelatory, because we were exposed to yet another Trump falsehood about that raking of forest floors, because he’s king Swidden. And we...
Portland Proud Boys day of rage fizzles as promised crowd of 20,000 turns out 500
Much jackboot-quaking as a much-touted demo in Portland had a weak showing north of the anarchist jurisdiction. xtickled by this because I watched 5 seconds...
Trumpian dissonance in Ohio speech: the phantom 2018 middle-class tax cut has returned
Trump went to Ohio today to draw attention away from what will continue to be news as his crimes catch up to him. Remember that...
Trump in ABC town hall, touts 'herd mentality' (or herd immunity) in ignoring pandemic threat
"Let's understand what this is: Donald Trump has confessed, on tape, to the greatest and most deadly lie in all the long history of the...
(dangerous, unfit) Trump lied, (195,000) Americans died, Why did he call it a hoax if he’s not lying
Trump’s flailing and the lies just keep on coming. x“Why did he call it a hoax if he’s not lying?” @PressSec NO ANSWER. pic.twitter.com/jlw7pc421v— Brian...
Europe's largest refugee camp has burned to the ground while under COVID lockdown.
“What is Moria? It is where Europe’s ideals—solidarity, human rights, a safe haven for victims of war and violence—dissolve in a tangle of bureaucracy, indifference,...
Europe's largest refugee camp has burned to the ground amidst COVID lockdown.
“What is Moria? It is where Europe’s ideals—solidarity, human rights, a safe haven for victims of war and violence—dissolve in a tangle of bureaucracy, indifference,...
