William Owens
…suppressing your opposition with power; strong regimentation of society and economy, and dictatorial power- Fascism In the...
Trade
The latest rabbit punch thrown by the Republican party in the culture bout was to deny Texas...
Layaway, on-time, and paying-something-down-on-it have been very familiar phrases in black, brown, and poor neighborhoods for generations;...
annieli
Several hundred million pounds of the UK Treasury may get allocated to a new, replacement yacht for...
Former President Trump ordered the Pentagon to release all of its information on “unidentified aerial phenomena” (UAP) within...
RWNJs are workshopping the false dichotomy of 1619/1776 in advance of the mid-term elections.
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These are days fraught with political battles over cultural histories abjuring complexity. Today it’s The Wall Street Journal...
Aldous Pennyfarthing
So today, Giuliani Giunior (aka Andrew) announced he’s running for governor of New York. He’s apparently hoping...
So this happened yesterday: Glenn Youngkin, a wealthy first-time candidate who walked a line between his party’s...
Not surprised by this: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party. But...
There is a capitalist propaganda battle at work, with the Wall Street Journal claiming that “ Biden has sent...
Because of new post-Brexit rules, a marine boundary dispute required the UK to dispatch two naval vessels...
Biden blinks, Progressive’s fight to #FreeTheVaccine may yet save the world and the rest of us.
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President Joe Biden seems to be doing the right thing. Progressive's fight to #FreeTheVaccine may be realized. This could...
McConnell will destroy the GOP, Why they follow Trump, The birth rate too low, Free the vaccine
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Why is McConnell destroying the GOP? Why is Trump popular with his base? What does a low...
'You scrunch-faced fear baboon': John Oliver takes on Tucker Carlson's vaccine disinformation
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Pennyfarthing doth doff his cap to John Oliver, the agreeable British bloke who plies his trade on...
Donald Trump kept saying “we have turned the corner” on Covid so many times one would think we...
News Corpse
Whether it’s soccer teams or sandwich shops, financialization was there before the pandemic, only making some of...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing is a community series for those who wish to share a virtual kitchen table...
One of the more despicable senators in the US Senate now acknowledges that climate change is real...
Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has learned from the death of Bernie Madoff about Ponzi schemes, because QAnon surely...
Beto O'Rourke Shifts Focus On Increasing Voter Turnout In Texas' Lower Voting Territories
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Received this e-mail yesterday from former Presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), on behalf of his...
More attention should be paid to an economy that might be in trouble this summer especially as...
Egberto Willies
I read “Biden Can Go Bigger and Not ‘Pay for It’ the Old Way” by Economics Professor...
Top aide tried to address virus supply shortfalls early last year, but Trump ignored his warnings
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Top Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro didn’t come out of nowhere. The administration found him where most...
Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of...
The stuck ship does tell us something about the fragility of global trade and the flow of...
Apparently John (no relation) Kennedy (R-LA) may endorse those sober drivers who run over demonstrators in Oklahoma,...
He’s not the only one, of course. For instance, I’m convinced Matt Gaetz has the largest head-to-brain-size...
Asian actor/activist Olivia Munn tells an inconvenient truth about who can cover whose stories. She was so...
Okay, it’s wrong to damage other people’s private property, even if displaying said property is basically a...
A worthwhile article in the NYT Some highlights: Amazon has embarked on an advertising blitz this winter,...
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology
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The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate...
No, not by the US but by that jolly benevolent Empire of the British. Of course, it...
Recovering memory and historical revisionism in sex work might be the sad product of many repressive regimes....
Rush Limbaugh was more of a conservative index and perhaps a reactionary icon. He claimed whenever cornered...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Climate Crisis, negative emissions technologies, and financialization
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As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their...
The best explanation of short selling (as it applies to GameStop) that I've read pic.twitter.com/o9ZL5HqsKf — John...
The “grievances fired by false narratives” fueled large short position on GameStop's space laser
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Large hedge funds representative of fictitious capital aka “dumb money” got screwed by swarming reddit collective action. Numerous...
Democracy is an afterthought for Trumpists. Whether it’s the “sense of style” or “good men knowing their...
NY-Sen: Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D), “House will send impeachment article to Senate on Monday”
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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...
Oh, this is beyond delicious. Like a giant tub of Red Vines cascading down my Twizzlers-hole like...
The modern slave trade. Forced Labour : 25,000,000 Sexually exploited: 4,800,000 [99% women] State sponsored: 4,100,000 Forced...
GA-Sen B: Kelly Loeffler (R) Becomes The 12th GOP Traitor In The Senate To Vote Against Democracy
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From The Huffington Post: Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, one day before her closely watched Georgia Senate runoff,...
AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Pascal went to the races, then gets mugged because he kept his carbon credits
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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...
A piece in The Bulwark gives us another political neologism, as if we had enough to deal with in...
Economist Dean Baker on how economic system could screw many in the world out of COVID-19 vaccine
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The worldwide distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines exposes the immorality of our current economic system. Dr. Dean...
Tom Vilsack returns to the position he held during the Obama administration at USDA. Why hasn’t the...
Biden got around 81.3 million votes = 51.4% of the vote give or take Trump got around...
As each day passes, Trump adds to an already impressive body of evidence arguing that he should...
This post in the Anticapitalist Chat supports a group reading of Karl Marx’s Capital Vol 1. #GoodMorningMarx #WeeklyMarx. Not...
Gangsters hoarding vaccines. COVID-19 patients in US hospitals surpasses 100,000 for the first time
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COVID-19 patients in American hospitals has surpassed 100,000 for the first time as supply networks will be...
