Econ prof | author Mastering the Universe, Bit Tyrants, Capitalism vs Freedom | house economist
@curaffairs
| AFT 2196 | steal from the rich & drink to the poor
The world's cursed by war and on fire with climate change, and it's all for the benefit of a tiny rogue's gallery of stinking rich bastards. Announcing my new book on the ruling class, Mastering the Universe from
@haymarketbooks
. Out in Aug, pre-order now!
Meanwhile in the Wall Street Journal, the proprietor of an outsourced health care call center is audibly cackling at how a recession is going to put all you Spoiled Young Workers in your place
1-6 inches of snow predicted tomorrow? Can you imagine if any other profession allowed itself a similar range?
"Your plane will depart tomorrow between 1 and 6."
"We've bought you a dress between size 1 and 6."
"Best to limit your daily wine intake to between 1 glass and 6."
I was conceived in LA. Tomorrow I will move into Eve Fartlow’s living room and master bath and begin documenting history. Yes I was born in Indiana. Yes I live in Washington. Suck it. I am a Serious Thinker
This tweet has attracted a ton of attention because people deny Jewish ancestry and indigenous rights to Israel. Everyone who has attacked this tweet believes that Jews don't deserve a state, and advocate for genocide of Israelis. Yes I was born in Scotland. I live in LA. Israel
Oh sure, this kind of Big Government socialist public housing can eliminate homelessness, but it takes billions of dollars! And we only have trillions of dollars!
Enjoyed learning today that I’m helping pay for a previously-undisclosed US base in the Kingdom of Jordan, as well as one in Syria designated “Conoco mission support site”
Really appreciate this person, whose gross failures caused one of our worst presidencies, still weighing in occasionally with just the worst fucking positions possible. Thank you madam secretary for your rare pro-war voice
Hillary Clinton at the Rice Baker Institute’s gala: "People who are calling for a ceasefire now do not understand Hamas. That is not possible. It would be such a gift to Hamas."
Been trying for years to get people to realize that new housing construction is almost all high-end luxury units for the hyper-rich to use as fourth homes and speculative poker chips
Going to get my bachelor’s from Prager U, master’s from U of Austin, doctorate from Peterson Academy, postdoc at Trump University, then slowly lower my head into a vat of sulfuric acid
BREAKING: Jordan Peterson exacts revenge on woke moralists by creating PETERSON ACADEMY, an “online university” without accreditation. Graduating will help you get “preferential treatment” in the job market because of Peterson’s “rigorous screening work.”
Coming November 2023!
You might think Palestinian statehood was blocked by the occupying foreign government with the NATO-level military explicitly calling for ethnic cleansing, but no it was YOU and your unpleasant campus demonstrations for ending apartheid that are to blame
In fact, many of us have spent years writing detailed rebuttals of conservative writers and ideas, which are then surprisingly difficult to get conservatives to read
People dunking on the “water is wet” stupidity of this tweet, but remember that leftists have zero theory of mind for anyone to the right of Obama, and the claim that conservatives prefer traditional values and hierarchies qualifies as an insightful take for the Jacobin audience
For anyone who thinks the wall-to-wall Western support for Ukraine comes from concern for actual Ukrainians, we are about to irradiate their country for the remaining projected lifespan of the Earth
End the 17-year siege and now ethnic cleansing of Gaza, stop illegal settlement-building and annexations in the West Bank, quit torturing Palestinian prisoners, do its “self-defense” inside its own damn borders
Philanthropy has been the fig leaf of the ruling class since the Gilded Age. But on any inspection it turns out that billionaire involvement even in charity is fucking disastrous, including in the Covid crisis, as
@parismarx
and I discussed on his awesome show:
Today, we launched a NEW tool—the Student Debt Release Tool. For the first time, you can file an individual appeal to the Department of Education requesting your student debt be canceled.
Try here:
BREAKING: Sweden’s Transport Workers’ Union announces that garbage disposal will be blocked at all Tesla facilities starting Christmas Eve.
Ports in Denmark, Norway, and Finland will stop unloading Teslas in a week.
Pressure is mounting as Musk refuses to bargain with unions.
The DoD got a multi-billion dollar budget hike this week, has $3.5 trillion in assets, admits to losing hundreds of billions-worth of equipment and failed five straight audits, UNDERFUNDED
I wrote a little outline of how the rich own the giant majority of traded stocks! Short version, corporate America belongs to the 1%. For your protest sign-making convenience
Stellantis, maker of Jeep, Dodge, and Chrysler, sent private, ex-military security guards with a history of violent altercations to break the UAW strike at five of its plants. That’s these guys. Thread.
What an honor for our re-election campaign
@VoteSawant
to be endorsed by Noam Chomsky! Indeed, our movement to win Seattle's $15/hour minimum wage inspired workers in many cities to win it,
@BernieSanders
campaigned on raising federal minimum wage to $15! Yes, our work is a model
My latest for Jacobin, on Big Tech’s emails getting subpoenaed. It’s going to be juicy, so here are some of Silicon Valley’s grossest emails from past investigations! Grab a Friday beer and prepare to be scandalized
Congress is demanding that Silicon Valley companies release their internal emails. If history is any guide, we know what to expect: revelations of anti-worker scheming, corporate power plays, and all sorts of other malevolent machinations.
The baby formula shortage reveals an amazing secret oligopoly:
- 3 American companies control over 90% of the mkt
- hugely restrictive regulations (thanks to big $ lobbying) prohibit foreign formulas
Name another industry/sector/product like this
Oh look, the fellow whose dreadful libertarian children’s books I reviewed for ���
@curaffairs
had it framed!
If YOU are an author of abysmal godforsaken right-wing nonsense who’d like a suitable-for-framing extremely insulting review, hit me in the DMs
'Mr. Mandela must be turning in his grave to see what has become of the country he saved from the horror of apartheid'
Frmr. IDF intelligence officer Raphaël Jerusalmy gives us an analysis of how this case will impact South Africa's reputation
Announcement: I have resigned as editor in chief of
@curaffairs
effective immediately. Thank you all for years of support. The constricting and oppressive internal culture has forced me to take this extreme step. My letter explaining further:
Sure, the patient may be experiencing escalating heart attacks and strokes, but did you know their diastolic blood pressure per pound of body weight is actually DOWN? Prescribe continued bacon and milkshake-based diet
Bill Gates's foundation was originally cooked up as a feel-good gloss to cover up his shredded reputation during Microsoft’s antitrust trial. Bill Gates and his foundation are the perfect picture of why the model of billionaire philanthropy is so flawed.
I just ran the numbers, and it's really shocking. You can see the democratic decline in a global context. It's hard to explain to non-political scientists how bad this is. I'm having to rewrite the syllabus and think about how to communicate what's happening to my students.
Joe Biden says he "got stuck with" carrying crime bills and had to "put up with" segregationists. That doesn't square with his past actions and rhetoric.
@asteadwesley
& I look at the Joe Biden who warned of "violent thugs" and "predators on our streets."
The American military had a “domain awareness gap” that allowed three other suspected Chinese spy balloons to transit the continental US undetected under the Trump administration, a Pentagon general says
“Very few professors know much at all about the conservative intellectual tradition,” writes Jon A. Shields. “Many assume there is little of value in it.”
@mises
This Professor Hates the Austrian School. But He Clearly Doesn’t Know Much about It. Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdomby Rob LarsonZero Books, 2018, 233 pp.
Rob Larson, who is a professor of economics at Tacoma Community
Fun fact: “Shock treatment,” used as a metaphor for mass privatization, was most prominently used in the fall of the USSR when GDP fell by half and population fell by several million
Folks, I'm consumed with ecstatic joy to say my new book, Bit Tyrants, will be out in February from the great
@haymarketbooks
. As the honeymoon ends for Big Tech, a socialist cool take is just what the doctor ordered!
"A badly needed study." -Noam Chomsky
Recent grads everywhere are enjoying my
@Zer0Books
book! As you free yourselves from the tyranny of course syllabi, celebrate with a tall glass of understanding!
Pretty bold proposal to make in the middle of a spreading financial panic. Seniors losing everything in market crashes is why we have a public pension in the first place, you preposterous goblins, to avoid the phenomenon of Street Grandmas