Happy Holidays?
The latest rabbit punch thrown by the Republican party in the culture bout was to deny Texas children the truth about women’s suffrage and that...
Installment Plan
Layaway, on-time, and paying-something-down-on-it have been very familiar phrases in black, brown, and poor neighborhoods for generations; credit was for the people who did not...
Does the UK need a new Royal Yacht, as though that would really spur more shipbuilding
Several hundred million pounds of the UK Treasury may get allocated to a new, replacement yacht for the Queen, likely to be used more by...
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...
RWNJs are workshopping the false dichotomy of 1619/1776 in advance of the mid-term elections.
These are days fraught with political battles over cultural histories abjuring complexity. Today it’s The Wall Street Journal and the reactionary path to critical race theory,...
Rudy Giuliani's son is running for New York governor, and he already seems confused
So today, Giuliani Giunior (aka Andrew) announced he’s running for governor of New York. He’s apparently hoping to trade on the Giuliani name, which, unfortunately,...
VA-Gov: Virginia GOP Picks Their Nominee, Trump Gives Him The Kiss Of Death
So this happened yesterday: Glenn Youngkin, a wealthy first-time candidate who walked a line between his party’s Trump-centric base and appeals to business interests, won...
FL-Gov: “It's him and Casey. But everyone else is like a disposable piece of garbage.”
Not surprised by this: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party. But many of his former staffers told Politico they...
disarming the predators: Intellectual property regimes cannot be overthrown
There is a capitalist propaganda battle at work, with the Wall Street Journal claiming that “ Biden has sent a signal around the world that nobody’s intellectual...
French fishermen blockade Jersey. Boris Johnson is not Lord Nelson.
Because of new post-Brexit rules, a marine boundary dispute required the UK to dispatch two naval vessels to deal with a blockade of French fishing...
Biden blinks, Progressive’s fight to #FreeTheVaccine may yet save the world and the rest of us.
President Joe Biden seems to be doing the right thing. Progressive's fight to #FreeTheVaccine may be realized. This could mitigate COVID-19 worldwide. #FreeTheVaccine may be realized x...
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...
'You scrunch-faced fear baboon': John Oliver takes on Tucker Carlson's vaccine disinformation
Pennyfarthing doth doff his cap to John Oliver, the agreeable British bloke who plies his trade on this side of the pond to our immense...
Biden Oversaw 223 Million Vaccinations in His First 100 Days
Donald Trump kept saying “we have turned the corner” on Covid so many times one would think we were in an endless maze. Joe Biden saw...
Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: financialization and sandwich shop capitalism
Whether it’s soccer teams or sandwich shops, financialization was there before the pandemic, only making some of its supply-chain hijacking yet another example of an impending...
Kitchen Table Kibitzing Friday: prison break art and flat-earth theory
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...
Lindsey Graham fesses up that the climate crisis is real after all.
One of the more despicable senators in the US Senate now acknowledges that climate change is real after four years of kissing Trump’s ass as...
Who knew? Previous Guy follows the path of Zeppo or Gummo
Lauren Boebert (R-CO) has learned from the death of Bernie Madoff about Ponzi schemes, because QAnon surely couldn’t be a cult of personality or a...
Beto O'Rourke Shifts Focus On Increasing Voter Turnout In Texas' Lower Voting Territories
Received this e-mail yesterday from former Presidential candidate, Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D. TX), on behalf of his organization, Powered by People: https://twitter.com/BetoORourke/status/1381435344755691520?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw United States voter...
Minerva @ Midnight: Economy Deficit Disorder
More attention should be paid to an economy that might be in trouble this summer especially as there will be something, something military that will...
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...
Top aide tried to address virus supply shortfalls early last year, but Trump ignored his warnings
Top Trump trade adviser Peter Navarro didn’t come out of nowhere. The administration found him where most high-level government aides are found … i.e., the same...
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...
Can we at least get rid of some sober drivers, Senator Kennedy?
Apparently John (no relation) Kennedy (R-LA) may endorse those sober drivers who run over demonstrators in Oklahoma, because a guy who “went to Oxford” should...
Just one more reason Ron Johnson is too stupid to be in Congress
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 animal kingdom and that Louie Gohmert...
Asian Actor /Activist Olivia Munn explains the forced invisibility of people of color
Asian actor/activist Olivia Munn tells an inconvenient truth about who can cover whose stories. She was so eloquent in the manner that she made it...
Texas wax museum removes statue of former guy because people couldn't stop punching it
Okay, it’s wrong to damage other people’s private property, even if displaying said property is basically a hate crime at this point. So I don’t...
Myth Busting that the $15h minimum wage would cause job losses.
A worthwhile article in the NYT Some highlights: Amazon has embarked on an advertising blitz this winter, urging Congress to follow the company’s lead and...
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...
Possibly the greatest theft in history $45 trillion.
No, not by the US but by that jolly benevolent Empire of the British. Of course, it was started by a corporation. But something changed...
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 guy who called a 12 year old Chelsea Clinton a dog is dead: Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh was more of a conservative index and perhaps a reactionary icon. He claimed whenever cornered with a political lie that he was an...
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...
The “grievances fired by false narratives” fueled large short position on GameStop's space laser
Large hedge funds representative of fictitious capital aka “dumb money” got screwed by swarming reddit collective action. Numerous “redditors” caused a small scale version of (short)...
virtue/vice signaling: 1/6/2021 as the GOP LARP of the Trump era
Democracy is an afterthought for Trumpists. Whether it’s the “sense of style” or “good men knowing their limitations” the movie character of Dirty Harry played...
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 on Monday, triggering the start...
Conservative 'National Review' on Trump: 'Well, that sucked'
Oh, this is beyond delicious. Like a giant tub of Red Vines cascading down my Twizzlers-hole like a … this simile has gotten away from me....
Modern Slavery: The real fight QAnon are polluting with their insanity.
The modern slave trade. Forced Labour : 25,000,000 Sexually exploited: 4,800,000 [99% women] State sponsored: 4,100,000 Forced marriages: 15,400,000 [71% women] Total: 49,300,000 Women represent...
GA-Sen B: Kelly Loeffler (R) Becomes The 12th GOP Traitor In The Senate To Vote Against Democracy
From The Huffington Post: Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, one day before her closely watched Georgia Senate runoff, announced Monday she’s joining the coalition of GOP...
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 to take a bet on...
should we distinguish between Blue Dog Democrats and Red Dog Democrats
A piece in The Bulwark gives us another political neologism, as if we had enough to deal with in designated “more conservative”, “more moderate”, “less liberal”, and...
Economist Dean Baker on how economic system could screw many in the world out of COVID-19 vaccine
The worldwide distribution of the COVID-19 vaccines exposes the immorality of our current economic system. Dr. Dean Baker sheds important light. Dr. Dean Baker exposes...
Tom Vilsack led USDA for both terms of the Obama administration. He's back.
Tom Vilsack returns to the position he held during the Obama administration at USDA. Why hasn’t the pandemic compelled a rethinking of factory farming. Changing...
The size of the crazy base
Biden got around 81.3 million votes = 51.4% of the vote give or take Trump got around 74.2 million votes= 46.9% of the vote Turnout...
Will Trump go down as the worst President ever? (He has some sadly strong competition)
As each day passes, Trump adds to an already impressive body of evidence arguing that he should be considered the worst president in U.S. history. But,...
“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...
Gangsters hoarding vaccines. COVID-19 patients in US hospitals surpasses 100,000 for the first time
COVID-19 patients in American hospitals has surpassed 100,000 for the first time as supply networks will be attacked by gangsters hijacking supplies, and there will...
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...
