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David Stein

4 years

I'm honored to collaborate with @AyannaPressley on this op-ed. We need the Fed--among the most powerful economic institutions on the planet--to take racism seriously.

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

2 years

Biden is out here ending his texts to Manchin like: “no worries if not!”

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Toni Morrison: "[fascist politics] changes citizens into taxpayers—so individuals become angry at even the notion of the public good."

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David Stein

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USC did indeed build a pool for 1984 Olympics that was supposed to be open to the community for subsequent generations… you’ll never guess what happened next.

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It’s as if USC decided to drain the pool during the summer rather than comply with desegregation.

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“We ask cops to be everything, including psychologists and social workers.” 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩

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@Mediaite

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. @POTUS to U.S. Conference of Mayors: "We shouldn't be cutting funding for police departments. I propose increasing funding."

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David Stein

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4 years

It’s so funny, NYT wasn’t interested in this archivally-based story I wrote a few months ago. 🧐🤔 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Joe Biden Pushed Ronald Reagan to Ramp Up Incarceration

Joe Biden argues that the focus on his 1994 crime bill as a driver of mass incarceration is misplaced. He’s right: his earlier push is what was responsible.

theintercept.com

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

1 year

The absolute unhinged disdain of the LA political class toward their constituents is breathtaking.

Unrig LA

@UnrigLA

1 year

"Lastly, to the disruptors and protesters...in their own words, I yield the rest of my time and fuck you." -Paul Koretz

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@DavidpStein

4 years

Narrator: they were the same cops

L.A. Times Opinion

@latimesopinion

4 years

Editorial: Defund warrior cops and give the money to guardian cops

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

5 months

Horrifying to see my rep, @AdamSchiff claim that I—a Jewish person—am anti-Semitic.

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@stephensemler

5 months

The antisemitic resolution equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism just passed the House. Here are the votes:

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David Stein

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5 years

“calls for a Green New Deal help tie solutions to the climate crisis to the promise of a stronger and more equitable economy, upending the false "jobs versus environment" dichotomy that conservatives and the fossil fuel industry have worked so hard to cultivate.” - @KateAronoff

Kate Aronoff

@KateAronoff

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Shockingly, I wrote about a Green New Deal

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

4 years

One of Obama’s first acts was $100 million in community policing grants. The same stuff was pushed by Clinton. It strengthens and grows policing. It is the problem. #8ToAbolition

Shane Goldmacher

@ShaneGoldmacher

4 years

A Joe Biden op-ed: "I’m proposing an additional $300 million to reinvigorate community policing in our country. Every single police department should have the money they need to institute real reforms"

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David Stein

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2 years

This Mike Davis essay changed my life. RIP. “Some young activists might…dust off a copy of FDR’s 1944 campaign platform: an Economic Bill of Rights…It was a clarion call to social citizenship [enumerating] rights to employment, housing, healthcare…”

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5 years

@TheAVClub Yo, @netflix , cancel this show. It’s callous and cruel to unemployed people.

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“Accepting unemployment to control inflation amounts to choosing the people at the very bottom of the economic pyramid to bear the entire economic burden. In the so-called war against inflation, America’s…unemployed have been the…conscript army.” - Coretta Scott King.

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2 years

A man self-immolated on live TV to protest unemployment during the Volcker recession.

Bloomberg TV

@BloombergTV

2 years

“I'm aware of no major example in which the Central Bank reacted with excessive speed to inflation and a large cost was paid,” says @LHSummers . Summers looks back at history and believes the Fed should stay the course #WallSteetWeek

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David Stein

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3 months

Netanyahu has already said the only things he needs from the U.S. are “munitions, munitions, and munitions.” So long as Biden keeps that up, his feelings toward Netanyahu are less than meaningless.

Jonathan Allen

@jonallendc

3 months

SCOOP: In private, Biden often describes Netanyahu as obstinate — calling Israel’s PM an ‘asshole’ in at least 3 instances — and the main obstacle to US efforts to promote de-escalation. via ⁦ @carolelee ⁩ ⁦ @Petereporter ⁩ ⁦ @ckubeNBC ⁩ & me

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

2 years

@miriamkp Still think a relatively under-acknowledged dynamic in the labor shortage/ great resignation analysis is that probably about one million people have died in the U.S.

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@DavidpStein

4 years

marxists are like, “I know a spot, but actually, it’s a relation.”

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

2 years

Another thing in this audio is the anti-Indigenous and anti-Oaxacan racism.

Knock LA

@KnockDotLA

2 years

“Fuck that guy… He’s with the Blacks.” LA City Councilmembers Nury Martinez, Gil Cedillo, Kevin de León and LA Labor Federation President Ron Herrera making racist comments and discuss redistricting. Listen to the audio:

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@DavidpStein

2 years

“If we understand Jim Crow as a system of labor suppression as well as racial oppression, we can see more clearly how key elements of the Jim Crow order survived the end of formal segregation and racist disenfranchisement.” - @jbouie

Opinion | Let’s Talk About the Economic Roots of White Supremacy (Published 2022)

It’s not just about racism.

www.nytimes.com

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@DavidpStein

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Howard Zinn got so much right.

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@DavidpStein

11 months

"Du Bois ...was trying to understand the roots of fascism in Europe and in his native land. He saw the battle over the interpretation of history play out in the streets, statehouses, courts, and newspapers for decades—often with deadly consequences."

The Long War on Black Studies | Robin D. G. Kelley

We fell under the leadership of those who would compromise with truth in the past in order to make peace in the present and guide policy in the future.

www.nybooks.com

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

11 months

Summers attending Kissinger’s birthday recalls his infamous line to Elizabeth Warren (and Yanis Varoufakis, and probably many others): “insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders.”

Jonathan Guyer

@mideastXmidwest

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Larry Summers is here. He did not want to chat!!

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

15 days

From *A People's Guide to Los Angeles*

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

5 years

I wrote for the @theintercept about how Biden pushed Reagan to expand policing and prisons in the early 80s. Historians bring receipts.

The Intercept

@theintercept

5 years

Joe Biden has argued that the focus on his 1994 Crime Bill as a driver of mass incarceration is misplaced. He's right -- it was his earlier push that was responsible. by @davidpstein

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

4 years

Can a broken clock always be wrong?

CNBC

@CNBC

4 years

Alan Greenspan lists inflation and the budget deficit as his biggest concerns

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

3 years

It’s the 58th anniversary of the #MarchOnWashington for Jobs and Freedom. Here is some of what the organizers wanted: - #jobguarantee - decent housing for all - voting rights - end police brutality - desegregate schools - fair employment - $17.79 minimum wage

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

2 years

Still can’t believe the ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ took hold as a talking point. Really grotesque social murder rhetoric.

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

2 years

Reposting one of the Mike Davis pieces that is closest to my heart--his advice to Occupy. "Ten immodest commandments: What, indeed, have I learned from my fumbling-and-bungling lifetime of activism?"

Ten Immodest Commandments: Lessons From a Fumbling-and-Bungling Lifetime of Activism

Occupy Wall Street, October 10. (Photo: DoctorTongs) A friend in Canada recently asked me if the Sixties’ protests had any important lessons to pass on to the Occupy movement. I told her that one of…

truthout.org

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

2 years

This Adolph Reed comment about Coretta Scott King is disquieting and historically inaccurate. Scott King spent the years after her husband’s assassination fighting for many of the goals that Reed has supported as well, especially an expanded social welfare state.

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David Stein

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1 year

Had the red wave actually manifested, can you imagine how much crowing Larry et al would be doing about the American Rescue Plan and student debt relief?! Now he just resorts to metaphors about fevers etc.

Lawrence H. Summers

@LHSummers

1 year

It is now confirmed that the American political center has held. There is a real chance that the terrifying anti-democratic fever is breaking. Now is a time when the country can move forward to create more prosperity and security for all.

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@DavidpStein

2 years

It is sometimes breathtaking to behold how much LA's elected representatives absolutely loathe their constituents.

Services Not Sweeps

@NoSweepsLA

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Riot cops have flooded LA City Hall chambers ahead of a vote to criminalize homelessness.

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It’s true. Your Jewish friends are not okay. We’re seeing family breaking fascist, cheering on a genocide. We’re contesting the annihilation of our history as a proudly diasporic people, and the attempt to shrink Judaism into an adjunct of an apartheid ethnonationalist state.

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David Stein

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1 year

While UC grad students were on strike demanding relief from high housing costs, the chief investment officer was forming a partnership with Blackstone's Real Estate Investment Trust. An absolute insult to the public service mission of the UC.

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Just in awe of the Columbia students. 💜🔥

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

2 years

HISTORY PROVIDES TOO MANY INSTANCES WHERE OUR HUBRISTIC EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT IS POSSIBLE IN A GIVEN TEMPORAL HORIZON ARE CHASTENED. MOST ABOLITIONS WOULD SUBSCRIBE TO NELSON’S MANDELA’S ADAGE THAT “IT ONLY SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE UNTIL IT IS DONE.” @prisonculture @dnbrgr

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@DavidpStein

2 months

Intimacy and connection does not necessarily breed political solidarity. But as the parent of a 5yo who hangs out with a lot of joyous, rambunctious 5 year-olds, I don’t know how anyone can see this and not demand immediate ceasefire. Oh, rascal children of Gaza, come back.

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Doctors Without Borders says children as young as 5 in Gaza have told them they want to die

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7 months

@joshualeifer @DissentMag I’m begging you to utilize a power analysis and understand how your voice is being mobilized. The ‘humane left’ described here is one that favors an orderly or polite execution—the death penalty of lethal injections, not firing squads.

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2 years

These are some of the things Coretta Scott King—widowed at the age of 40 with four children—did in the days and then years after her husband’s assassination. In her words: “I am not a ceremonial symbol—I am an activist.”

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4 years

@gabrielwinant Um. Putting a Pete yard sign in sans permission is so on brand.

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3 years

The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom called for “An End to Police Brutality.”

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@DavidpStein

11 months

10 months before the 2010 midterm election, with the unemployment rate at 10%—15 million people actively searching for work--President Obama told a Democratic Congress that he would veto new discretionary spending.

David Axelrod

@davidaxelrod

11 months

On #AxeFiles , @BarackObama talks about how rapid economic change helped ignite right-wing populism: "The speed with which wealth got concentrated...with which lives were disrupted, made people worried & scared," boosting the power of demagogic appeals.

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4 years

Holy crap. @AyannaPressley just cited my research on #CorettaScottKing . 🔥🔥🔥

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@rohangrey

4 years

YES! @AyannaPressley 's questions Chairman Powell on the Job Guarantee! A thread: (1/n)

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David Stein

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2 years

“Mike [Davis] taught us never to take capitalism for granted. And never to forget that the future of capitalism was precisely dependent on our imbibing the ideology of capitalism’s ahistoricity.” - Angela Davis

Fight Like Hell: A Tribute to Mike Davis

¡Mike Davis, presente! Three longtime allies of Mike Davis (1946–2022) will discuss the life and legacy of the author, geologist, historian, and organizer—an...

www.youtube.com

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David Stein

@DavidpStein

5 years

Can’t wait to join the workers who saved my 11 month old daughter’s life on the picket line. We’ll be strolling with you!

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It’s happening folks

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2 years

It’s the 59th anniversary of the #MarchOnWashington for Jobs and Freedom. Here is some of what the organizers wanted: - #jobguarantee - decent housing for all - voting rights - end police brutality - desegregate schools - fair employment - $19.30 minimum wage (in 2022 $)

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2 years

I know this is all just vibes, but what does "moving to the center on...race, gender" mean?

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1 year

Do you ever stare out the window and contemplate how much damage Larry Summers and the Obama team's deficit hawks have done.

‘Lost Decade’ Casts a Post-Recession Shadow on State Finances

Nearly 10 years after the end of the Great Recession, state governments have put the worst behind them. But the deepest downturn since World War II also has lived up to early predictions that states...

www.pewtrusts.org

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2 years

“It is long overdue to end the Court’s undemocratic role in U.S. society.” - @KeeangaYamahtta

The Case for Ending the Supreme Court as We Know It

For most of its history, the Supreme Court, the branch of government least accountable to the public, has tended toward a fundamental conservatism, siding with tradition over more expansive visions...

www.newyorker.com

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4 years

Now that he’s the front runner (again), I hope this time @JoeBiden will answer questions about his record. I’d love to know what he thinks about this for example—regret? pride? ambivalence?

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4 years

. @prisonculture : People who use community-based responses to violence are the majority. Most people reject the criminal punishment system. The actual dividing line is the one that is *funded* and *unfunded.*

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3 years

How it started /// How it's going "The resolution, which builds on the legacy and work of generations of Black women in the Civil Rights Movement, will help the United States achieve the promise of full employment." - @AyannaPressley

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5 years

In the debates the other day, @JoeBiden stressed his ability to “get things done.” Here is my piece in @theintercept on what that has looked like. “these laws [Biden pushed] increased the likelihood that more people would end up in cages and for longer.”

Joe Biden Pushed Ronald Reagan to Ramp Up Incarceration

Joe Biden argues that the focus on his 1994 crime bill as a driver of mass incarceration is misplaced. He’s right: his earlier push is what was responsible.

theintercept.com

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@DavidpStein

2 years

The role of government isn’t to pick winners and losers in the economy. It’s to maintain the winners in their approximate position as when the Nixon administration picked them.

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2 years

I mean, as the the old saying goes, if you try something for 40 years and it doesn’t work, keep trying!

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4 years

Two things that should be national scandals: 1. Democratic Governors with Dem legislatures refusing to release people from prison and turning them into COVID hot spots. 2. The federal reserve tanking the municipal lending program authorized by the CARES Act. Simply murderous.

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David Stein

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1 year

*Schooling in Capitalist America* absolutely blew my mind as a 19yo. RIP.

Schooling In Capitalist America

No book since Schooling in Capitalist America has taken on the systemic forces hard at work undermining our education system. This classic reprint is an invaluable resource for radical educators.

www.haymarketbooks.org

Isabella M. Weber

@IsabellaMWeber

1 year

Sadly, Herb Gintis, a founding member of political economy at @UMassAmherst passed away today. He pioneered radical economics and has made major contributions to Marxian economics, evolutionary social science, behavioral & mathematical economics. The loss of a giant. RIP.

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5 years

I’ve literally studied the last 90 years of unemployment politics and there is not one single second when a job guarantee wouldn’t have been needed and necessary.

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2 years

@dnbrgr @jrpsaki I will never understand the closing of stores and restaurants when there is barely an inch of Covid in the peasants yet.

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2 years

“Because landlords have price-setting power…they can engage in what the New Deal-era economist Gardiner Means called “profit-push inflation”—widening profit margins well beyond cost increases without losing (much) market share.”

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My landlord had told me he planned to increase my rent 11% but has decided instead to increase it 25%. Has anyone considered passing some kind of law about this

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"The fight of the progressive forces for full employment is at the same time a way of *preventing* the recurrence of fascism." - Kalecki

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2 years

@bigblackjacobin @ayyuhhh I never want to hear about efficient allocation of capital ever again

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2 years

"Without Mike Davis there would be no *Golden Gulag*. He shared ideas, research, and resources, pointed me toward Mothers ROC and Corcoran...and also showed me the practical connections between analytical, political, and pedagogical creativity." - @rwgilmoregirls .

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@DavidpStein

1 year

I’m so excited to be working with @rooseveltinst as a fellow. I’ve learned so much over the years from @SuzMKahn , @Regmi_Ira , @KateAronoff , @JWMason1 , @rakeen_mabud , @owenslindsay1 , @DarrickHamilton @toddntucker , @mtkonczal , & other current & former members of the Roosevelt team

Roosevelt Institute

@rooseveltinst

1 year

➡️ @DavidpStein will research about economic policy, the civil rights movement, full employment, and inflation management.

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"This has to be put within the context. And the context is not just occupation. The context is settler colonialism and apartheid." - Rashid Khalidi

Historian: Palestinians “Living Under Incredible Oppression, … It Had to Explode”

In New York, we speak with Rashid Khalidi, author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine, who lays out how this weekend’s extreme violence between Hamas and Israel will force “a paradigm shift.”...

www.democracynow.org

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1 year

What a book. 🔥🔥🔥

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2 years

"in an era of declining wages and rising debt, Americans are not aging out of their student loans—they are aging into them." Just an absolutely amazing and crushing article by @EleniSchirmer . Cancel every last cent of this odious debt.

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Treason to Zionism is loyalty to humanity, to Judaism.

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2 years

“A new paper from the World Bank finds that the global economy is in the midst of the ‘most intentionally synchronous episodes of monetary and fiscal policy tightening of the past five decades.’”

Neil Irwin

@Neil_Irwin

2 years

The World Bank is warning that simultaneous aggressive tightening by the world's central banks, each focused on quashing domestic inflation, could drive the global economy into a recession.

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4 years

My daughter turned two yesterday and I just asked her how old she is and she replied: “cake!” 😂 🎂

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4 years

I’m not sure how I came across Race Traitor, but it might have been in the stacks of the library in college or via Roediger. But Noel Ignatiev’s ideas and politics have shaped me in indelible ways. “Treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.” Rest in power.

Ill Will

@illwilleditions

4 years

R.I.P. Noel Ignatiev, longtime member of Sojourner Truth, founder of Race Traitor magazine, and author of the landmark study of US racial construction, “How the Irish Became White”. A lifelong revolutionary who even in his last days was in conversation with militants. Love & rage

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“[ @AyannaPressley ] particularly highlighted the role Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King played in fighting for policies that ensure full employment for all Americans who are able to work...This was a dope ass moment, can’t even lie."

Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley Drops Some Black History on the Fed Chairman

Does Rep. Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.) stay winning? That’s what it certainly feels like, y’all.

www.theroot.com

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2 years

🎵It's a crime panic/ it's an inflation scare/ it's a combination crime panic-inflation scare! 🎶

David Menschel

@davidminpdx

2 years

According to the FBI, in 2020 the property crime rate was BY FAR THE LOWEST IT HAS BEEN IN DECADES –and the lowest it has been in the entire life of most living Americans.

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This convo between @KeeangaYamahtta and #RobinKelley is the best thing you’ll listen to today. Absolute 🔥🔥🔥

Freedom Dreams Episode 2 with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor & Robin D.G. Kelley

Listen to this episode from Haymarket Books Live on Spotify. Join Robin D.G. Kelley for the Freedom Dreams discussion series. The second discussion features Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. Freedom Dreams is...

open.spotify.com

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“The fact that Biden is passing far more ambitious proposals with 50 votes than President Obama did with 59 shows how far the party has come.” - ⁦ @zachdcarter ⁩

Democrats Discover Winning Feels Good

Accomplishment is better than endless dithering—who knew?

prospect.org

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2 years

What is happening in LA today is a result of the failure to stabilize the cost of living at the national level in the ways that @MegJacobs100 and @IsabellaMWeber foreground.

Perspective | The way to fight inflation without rising interest rates and a recession

History shows that targeted price caps work when accompanied by a public campaign.

www.washingtonpost.com

Services Not Sweeps

@NoSweepsLA

2 years

Riot cops have flooded LA City Hall chambers ahead of a vote to criminalize homelessness.

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Bayard Rustin on Joe Biden (1986): "Well, I would hope that the Democrats are able to find somebody who has more charisma and more spirit..."

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2 years

We really need a word for when journalists or other more prominent scholars do a soft pilfer of your scholarship/ research without citations. It’s not exactly plagiarism. But esp when you’re an NTT scholar, it sucks.

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"You know, many other people with whom I spoke said they’re considering resigning. But again, it is challenging for someone to — you know, it’s not easy to not have a job in this country." Powerful comments from @AnnelleSheline on Aaron Bushnell and her resignation from State

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Legitimately the worst lessons to take from the 1970s are being pushed by ex-Carter officials in the NYT.

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2 years

“abolition-democracy was an anticipation of social democratic ideology, although few of its proponents, in Du Bois’s view, grasped the full significance of their analysis of the relationship between political freedom, civil rights & econ security.”- @jbouie

Opinion | Why I Keep Coming Back to Reconstruction (Published 2022)

Du Bois helps us look past the ephemera of our politics to focus on what matters most.

www.nytimes.com

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1 year

Starting now—Freedom is a Place: Celebrating the Scholarship, Writing, and Organizing of Ruth Wilson Gilmore. 🔥🔥🔥 @demonicground

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The piece I’ve been waiting for for months—the incomparable ⁦ @zachdcarter ⁩ on the incomparable ⁦ @IsabellaMWeber ⁩. What if We’re Thinking About Inflation All Wrong? | The New Yorker

What if We’re Thinking About Inflation All Wrong?

Isabella Weber’s heterodox ideas about government price controls are transforming policy in the United States and across Europe.

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Robin Kelley: "for me, [C.L.R.] James, [Walter] Rodney, the history of colonialism, the African liberation movement, and growing up Black and poor in Harlem proved that 'race and class constituted a single site of struggle'."

Racial capitalism: an unfinished history

This afterword considers Cedric J. Robinson’s theory of racial capitalism in relation to the South African tradition as advanced in this special issue. Both formulations of racial capitalism develo...

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5 years

Here, it’s a meme.

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@thrasherxy James Baldwin: “The will of the people, in America, has always been at the mercy of an ignorance not merely phenomenal, but sacred, and sacredly cultivated: the better to be used by a carnivorous economy which democratically slaughters and victimizes whites and Blacks alike.”

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Joan Robinson just straightup dedicating a book to her haters.

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11 months

I read the Noah Smith response to Zach Carter’s article on Isabella Weber … and wow. Really a bunch of thin mischaracterizations of what Zach and Isabella wrote. All in the name of saying that the policies were more “nuanced” and ‘triumphalism is premature.’ Cmon.

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That’s the sound of sub 4% unemployment. You love to see it.

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This had me crying. 😂

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Columbia: turning off access to company scrip and an eviction from company housing while espousing freedom of speech.

maryam مريم🇵🇸🍁

@bluepashminas

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Giving us 15 minutes to pack up and leave from our housing is seriously twisted. I am not surprised at all — I am glad administration is finally showing their face to the general student body, because student organizers have known from the start how evil these administrators are.

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@miriamkp And their families as well! Death or severe illness one this scale can mess with a labor market. Seems like an absurdly basic fact, but here we are.

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. @BernieSanders call trainings are here. #NotMeUs

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I know we all say keep saying this, but what a damning indictment of the current system of economic governance that unemployment is the key means to manage inflation.

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Black unemployment rate was 4.7% in April 2023 -- the lowest ever recorded. (And an incredible comeback from 16.8% in May 2020). A strong jobs market gives a lot of opportunities to everyone. This is very encouraging. #jobs

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"you have designed a narrow, punitive lending program that has delivered aid to almost none of the state and local governments struggling with losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic." - @AyannaPressley and @BharatRamamurti 🔥

Pressley urges Fed, Treasury to ensure racial equity in emergency lending

They pointed to layoffs in state and local governments facing large budget shortfalls.

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If you read one thing today, let it be this urgent piece from @ndbconnolly

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If only the Federal Reserve had the ability to lend to municipalities at super low rates and could roll those loans over and over and over for maybe 40-50 years. If they had that ability by the CARES Act, they could call it a Municipal Liquidity Facility. IDK 😐

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"it is unconscionable that a public university dedicated to the mission of public education would work to strengthen the hand of corporate landlords." @CharmaineSChua , @FieldsDesiree , and I wrote about University of California's investment in Blackstone.

When the Public University Is the Corporate Landlord

This past month, the University of California announced a $4.5 billion investment in the Blackstone Real Estate Investment Trust. By partnering with one of the largest private landlords in the US…

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The Volcker Shock pushed Black youth unemployment above 50% and catalyzed the third world debt crisis. But Larry Summers says this was not a "large cost."