A Progressive view on Workers, Economics, Labor, Politics and, now and then, random musings on culture and sports.
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Why You Might Want To Read This: Buckle in for the most bizarre, Orwellian, insane, immoral, unbelievable story chronicling how a billionaire is extorting money from the people, all with the enthusiastic collusion of politicians of both parties, who, while wielding an axe to lay off workers, are down on their knees ready to hand over to a very rich person hundreds of millions of dollars of tax…
Why You Might Want To Read This: there’s a very clear thread connecting the implosions of the Katie Porter and Graham Platner campaigns.
Why You Might Want To Read This: Perfect timing today, with the SpaceX IPO mania reaching its peak, to make a point that is probably obvious to many of my readers but still not spoken enough, explicitly, when we argue for higher income taxes and wealth taxes on the filthy rich—every single fortune in the history of humankind is made by US, not by an Elon Musk low-life.
Why You Might Want To Read This: Can you see my waving hand?
Why You Might Want To Read This: “Capitalism Kills” is an easy rhetorical slogan.
Why You Might Want To Read This: There is a larger lesson from the revelations about Caesar Chavez’s crimes against women and girls—authoritarianism cripples the labor movement, breeding careerism, institutional paralysis and the seeds of a culture that tells us a lot about why labor is failing to meet the current moment [by the way, are you
Why You Might Want To Read This: With Opening Day in view, thankfully, I’ll invoke the great philosopher Yogi Berra, “it feels like deja vu all over again”.
Why You Might Want To Read This: You don’t have to squint too hard to see how the malignant narcissist in the White House dished out, almost daily, moments in 2025 that gave us, in all the madness, a crystal-clear exposure of the real-life consequences of American Exceptionalism stretching back generations.
We Just Have To See The Signs.
Why You Might Want To Read This: ***911 ALERT***!
