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Economic journalist and utility pundit. http://lbo-news.com.
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How will the broader tech broligarch community take this schism? Will Sacks be forced to choose sides?

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When I woke up this morning I had no idea it would turn into such a glorious day. I doubt the feeling will last, but still. "Bannon told Trump to investigate Musk as 'illegal alien'" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/u...

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fresh audio product: • Laleh Khalili on the long relationship between the US military and industry • Kyle Chan on how China is surpassing the US www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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Larry Bartels argues that, around the world, anti-immigrant feelings do not originate in the broad population but are stoked and manipulated by political elites. www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

submitted 8 hours ago • 5 comments

Trump keeps using Mafia-like threats to get firms "not to publicly attribute price hikes to tariffs." When Mattel's CEO talked of this, he responded: “We’ll put a 100% tariff on his toys, and he won’t sell one toy in the United States... I wouldn’t want to have him as an executive too long.”

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There is absolutely a non-zero chance that Trump responds to Elon betraying him by cancelling all of Elon’s contracts (starlink, spaceX, etc) and this is the only time I have ever rooted for Trump to Be Trump.

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Haha www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Economist @joshbivens-econ.bsky.social on why proposed Medicaid guts are an economic as well as a humanitarian disaster. www.epi.org/blog/house-b...

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‘Next time, we’ll tattoo a Star of David on your face’ - https://www.972mag.com/itamar-greenberg-israeli-prison-service/

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Dire

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This is what Chucky is bothered by?

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Haven't they heard about the falling rate of profit? "Fortune 500 profits hit a record $1.87 trillion last year." fortune.com/2025/06/02/f...

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Fifty years ago today, June 2, 1975, sex workers in Paris launched an action that would later be marked as the modern sex workers movement. A salute to them and their cause!

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The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

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Syrian president under fire for saying 'We share common enemies' with Israel www.haaretz.com/middle-east-...

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Never thought I’d see this www.ft.com/content/8a82...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

Pure xenophobia in other words. The guys hanging out in front of my local Home Depot are a threat to no one.

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This technofeudalism thing is expensive! Why don't these guys just sit back and enjoy their tribute instead of squandering all this money and wrecking the climate?

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The house organ of the (former) American empire publishes its obituary. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

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What a disaster. Jeffries, my rep, is a disgrace.

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Trump, the isolationist, the peace candidate, etc. etc. From @kenklippenstein.bsky.social

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Our president reposted this piece of lunacy

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Guy represents the poorest congressional district in the country nypost.com/2025/05/31/u...

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Party of death

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This site is growing but still lags that which cannot be named www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

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“[H]is well-documented narcissism and grandiosity has metastasized into notions of omnipotence, invincibility and infallibility.”

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Department of Homeland Security officers invading a congressman's offices and arresting a staffer who tried to stop them is very, very bad. gothamist.com/news/homelan...

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Politico NY: Zohran doing better than anyone, including him, expected, and NYC DSA membership up by 40%.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting analysis from the @CFR_org "The World This Week" newsletter. Trade court's decision (temporarily) overruling Trump's tariffs excited bond market worries about deficits, and dollar weakness suggests continued shunning of US assets generally.

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The US ratings downgrade, the eroding status of Treasury credit, and the story of Trump's acceleration of American decline. Me in Jacobin: jacobin.com/2025/05/us-c...

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Why are all these third way types just apologists for reaction?

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Delusional raving with dreams of absolute power.

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fresh audio product: • John Cassidy, author of Capitalism and Its Critics, on just that • Sandeep Vaheesan on abundance—neoliberal vs. genuine www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html#S...

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These people would be hilarious if they weren't so destructive.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment