Was just looking: In the 177 days since Chesa Boudin was recalled (through the end of last month): Property crime in San Francisco is UP about 14% compared to the 912 days that Chesa was in office.
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The DOJ has officially opened up a lawsuit against Google to break up its Ad Technology Monopoly
Pelosi sold $3 Million dollars worth of Google just four weeks ago
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Toledo is no stranger to sophisticated public-private partnerships and innovative pathways for public investment — public banking is a natural next step. 🏦
Thanks for running this piece by and me!
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Have questions about the debt ceiling and how the trillion-dollar coin would circumvent it? The short answer is brilliantly laid out by below. For a longer, more technical discussion, listen to podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd
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LAPD officers tased and tackled a Black English teacher after a car crash, causing him to suffer fatal cardiac arrest, family say.
#KeenanAnderson, 31, died at the hospital while in police custody.
LAPD killed 170+ people since 2013, Black victims 4.4x more often than white.
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Police killed more people in America in 2022 than any other year on record. At least 1,176 people were killed by police nationwide - 3.2 killings per day. mappingpoliceviolence.us
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Wow, didn't expect it to happen so soon. If that's true, it's basically game over for US semiconductor sanctions...
Also extremely bad news for Dutch company ASML, because that makes them largely irrelevant.
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BREAKING: China's Huawei has issued a new patent in the development of Extreme Ultra Violet (EUV) lithography, a step towards manufacturing semiconductors below 7nm nodes.
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man, so many homeless people are about to die from this weather around the country, and it’s a policy choice.
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Last night, the Senate passed an $858 billion annual military budget. That's $45 billion more than Biden even asked for...
Endless money for war. No money for hungry kids or a burning planet.
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Sad but not surprised that the DOJ today sided with to claim the company's prosecution of me after helping Amazon peoples win a historic $9.5b pollution case was permissible.
Merrick Garland is stating a corporation can act as a government prosecutor. Indefensible.
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Last night, while we were distracted with Elon Musk news, the senate passed an $858,000,000,000 “defense” budget.
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It's actually concerning that the US empire is now escalating the war in Ukraine by crossing many lines it said it would not cross at the beginning of the war, and justifying those escalations by basically just saying "Yeah well we decided that we want to do that after all."
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Monetary policy's *fiscal* channel. Rate hikes increase the deficit and support some private sector spending via the interest income channel. But as the economy slows, the Fed's rate hikes will trigger a *further* increase in the deficit via the automatic stabilizers.
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The monthly federal deficit was a record-setting $249 billion in November, $57 billion wider than the same month last year on.wsj.com/3HwsQo6
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Read this in horror.
This is written by the alleged whistleblower of WikiLeaks Vault7 publication, Joshua Schulte.
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Tragedy unfolding on Keystone Pipeline near the Nebraska/Kansas border. What will not admit is that they cannot “clean” this up. They will scrape the vegetation and topsoil, treat it, and haul to a landfill. Riparian (stream) damage for decade+.
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What happens when anyone who wants a decent job can get one? An experimental guaranteed-employment program in the Austrian town of Gramatneusiedl seeks to find out.
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“The costliest crime in the U.S. is actually being committed by corporations,” says , citing EPI research on wage theft.
“Instead of following Black people around the store, security guards should be hovering over CEOs at their desk.” youtu.be/SmVob1QMdMQ?t=
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This is a disgusting display of the abuse of identity politics. bell hooks spent almost the entirety of her adult life fighting capitalism & to invoke her work, just months after her death when she can no longer command you to stop, in yr efforts to break this strike, is gross.
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UPDATE ON THE NEW SCHOOL STRIKE
The Provost who only 5 days ago wrote the whole university implicitly threatening undergraduates with academic punishment and signaling an intention to hire scab graders is now invoking bell hooks on the paradise of learning.
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A Brief History of Kids Today Are Spoiled
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The place of Leontief’s input-output model in my own thinking. Maybe now, with new research from and her co-authors, we will see some real progress in this direction.
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This is beyond fascinating (and depressing!): the best set of charts you'll ever see on the extent to which US capital now dominates the planet.
I extracted them from this ⬇️ talk by Sean Kenji Starrs, a scholar at King's College London
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"It’s never good when people who spend their entire professional lives studying the subject say you fucked up."
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This whole railroad workers episode further clarifies that the "essential worker" discourse we've been bombarded with for almost 3 yrs is about disciplining workers to labor in perilous conditions, and not about respecting and protecting the people who do vital work.
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You know we live in a dictatorship of capital when every corporate media outlet is framing the rail strike as one of "workers vs. the economy" instead of "workers vs. rail corporations that reaped $27 billion in revenue last year"
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It’s wild that the government can make a law against striking. Kinda undermines the idea that under capitalism we are “free” (subject only to the impersonal domination of the market).
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From a railroad worker in Ohio this morning
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However they still can if Biden just issues an executive order saying that all federal contractors governed by the Railway Labor Act must extend 7 paid sick days, as federal contractors under the FSLA and other laws must.
All organizing should go toward that.
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Manchin just voted no on the rail labor deal that would give rail workers 7 sick days.
From GOP, Graham, Rubio, and Braun voted yes.
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The Democratic Party, which took both chambers and the White House in 2020 promising to pass a law that strengthens collective bargaining, just demolished collective bargaining in one of the few industries that still had it. Quite a legacy.
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Police killed at least 1,054 people through November 27, 2022. Police are killing people at higher rates in 2022 than *any year on record* in the United States.
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Joe Biden is helping railroad barons who paid themselves $200 million crush workers who are asking for the paid sick leave benefits that Joe Biden himself promised in his 2020 campaign and pushed for in his own State of the Union speech this year.
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If you appreciate my book, my interviews, my writings, my counter-recruitment work, etc., please help me in boosting all above—especially the book. (The attention economy requires constant badgering on the part of its lowly contenders, so here I am doing the badgering.) /1
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“I really don’t care that those people got killed. And you say, that sounds hateful, pastor. Well it is hateful. I do hate them.”
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Can't be a USA fan when we play another country, it's too easy to own us. You try to talk trash to a British guy and he says like "Oi go pay your deductible mate" it's over at that point
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He concludes that on Taiwan "we are creating the problem that we think we’re trying to deter. The risk is nuclear war. The common assumption that a Taiwan war would likely be confined to the area around Taiwan is utterly wrong. It would almost certainly be more like a world war."
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To start with, Larry Summers's question that triggered the "D+" answer is very revealing, from someone who's been a key actor in Washington for so many decades.
Summers basically describes the US's China policy as purely a question of power, i.e. "maintaining pre-eminence".
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One of the worst paragraphs I’ve ever read
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