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Several hundred million pounds of the UK Treasury may get allocated to a new, replacement yacht for the Queen, likely...
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Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on "unidentified aerial phenomena" (UAP) within 18 days in...
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These are days fraught with political battles over cultural histories abjuring complexity. Today it’s The Wall Street Journal and the reactionary...
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So today, Giuliani Giunior (aka Andrew) announced he’s running for governor of New York. He’s apparently hoping to trade on...
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So this happened yesterday: Glenn Youngkin, a wealthy first-time candidate who walked a line between his party’s Trump-centric base and...
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Not surprised by this: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party. But many of his...
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There is a capitalist propaganda battle at work, with the Wall Street Journal claiming that “ Biden has sent a signal around...
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Because of new post-Brexit rules, a marine boundary dispute required the UK to dispatch two naval vessels to deal with...
President Joe Biden seems to be doing the right thing. Progressive's fight to #FreeTheVaccine may be realized. This could mitigate COVID-19 worldwide....
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Why is McConnell destroying the GOP? Why is Trump popular with his base? What does a low birth rate mean?...
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Pennyfarthing doth doff his cap to John Oliver, the agreeable British bloke who plies his trade on this side of...
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Donald Trump kept saying “we have turned the corner” on Covid so many times one would think we were in an...
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Whether it’s soccer teams or sandwich shops, financialization was there before the pandemic, only making some of its supply-chain hijacking yet...
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Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table with other readers...
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One of the more despicable senators in the US Senate now acknowledges that climate change is real after four years...
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Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has learned from the death of Bernie Madoff about Ponzi schemes, because QAnon surely couldn’t be a...
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Received this e-mail yesterday from former Presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), on behalf of his organization, Powered by...
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More attention should be paid to an economy that might be in trouble this summer especially as there will be...
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I read "Biden Can Go Bigger and Not 'Pay for It' the Old Way" by Economics Professor and MMT advocate Stephanie Kelton....
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Top Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro didn’t come out of nowhere. The administration found him where most high-level government aides...
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Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of excesses, the environmental...
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The stuck ship does tell us something about the fragility of global trade and the flow of capital. Fungible Space...
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Apparently John (no relation) Kennedy (R-LA) may endorse those sober drivers who run over demonstrators in Oklahoma, because a guy...
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He’s not the only one, of course. For instance, I’m convinced Matt Gaetz has the largest head-to-brain-size ratio in the...
Asian actor/activist Olivia Munn tells an inconvenient truth about who can cover whose stories. She was so eloquent in the...
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Okay, it’s wrong to damage other people’s private property, even if displaying said property is basically a hate crime at...
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A worthwhile article in the NYT Some highlights: Amazon has embarked on an advertising blitz this winter, urging Congress to...
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The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to...
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No, not by the US but by that jolly benevolent Empire of the British. Of course, it was started by...
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Recovering memory and historical revisionism in sex work might be the sad product of many repressive regimes. What becomes worse...
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Rush Limbaugh was more of a conservative index and perhaps a reactionary icon. He claimed whenever cornered with a political...
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As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by...
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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...
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Large hedge funds representative of fictitious capital aka “dumb money” got screwed by swarming reddit collective action. Numerous “redditors” caused a...
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Democracy is an afterthought for Trumpists. Whether it’s the “sense of style” or “good men knowing their limitations” the movie...
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NY-Sen: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D), “House will send impeachment article to Senate on Monday”
From CNN: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said that the House's article of impeachment will be delivered to the Senate...
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Oh, this is beyond delicious. Like a giant tub of Red Vines cascading down my Twizzlers-hole like a … this simile...
The modern slave trade. Forced Labour : 25,000,000 Sexually exploited: 4,800,000 State sponsored: 4,100,000 Forced marriages: 15,400,000 Total: 49,300,000 Women...
From The Huffington Post: Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, one day before her closely watched Georgia Senate runoff, announced Monday she’s...
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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
The neoliberals’ “free market” is not going to sequester enough carbon to save the environment. Even Warren Buffett isn’t willing...
A piece in The Bulwark gives us another political neologism, as if we had enough to deal with in designated “more conservative”,...
The worldwide distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines exposes the immorality of our current economic system. Dr. Dean Baker sheds important...
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Tom Vilsack returns to the position he held during the Obama administration at USDA. Why hasn’t the pandemic compelled a...
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Biden got around 81.3 million votes = 51.4% of the vote give or take Trump got around 74.2 million votes=...
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As each day passes, Trump adds to an already impressive body of evidence arguing that he should be considered the...
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This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx. Not quite this type...
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COVID-19 patients in American hospitals has surpassed 100,000 for the first time as supply networks will be attacked by gangsters...
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“Until now, Donald Trump served as a support for the Brazilian president to act irresponsibly. Now with the U.S. adding...
At 10:28 am on September 11, 2001, the first of the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center tumbled to...
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Nearly anyone would be better than the Dominionist nutlog, Mike Pompeo. Robert Wright (New Republic) and Connor Echols wrote an article...
