RCaddy27
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Worthwhile read. "...I’m going return to the fascism analogy. Foreign adventures in the wake of domestic failure is a recognizable pattern...." I prefer Dotard Doctrine to Donroe Doctrine
I'm sorry I missed this because it seems to confirm what I suspected about Big Oil
January 4, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Worthwhile read. "...I’m going return to the fascism analogy. Foreign adventures in the wake of domestic failure is a recognizable pattern...." I prefer Dotard Doctrine to Donroe Doctrine
Morning jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwL4...
Sunny Murray,Elvin Jones&Art Blakey 1968
YouTube video by soolivette
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January 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Morning jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwL4...
Good read. "Instead, we were trained, systematically and effectively, to see littering as a personal failure rather than the predictable outcome of an economy built on disposability. " www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
How Corporations Convinced America that Litter is Our Fault
The "Keep America Beautiful" campaign urged Americans to pick up their trash—so that companies could keep producing it.
www.currentaffairs.org
January 3, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Good read. "Instead, we were trained, systematically and effectively, to see littering as a personal failure rather than the predictable outcome of an economy built on disposability. " www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-sin...
"We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools, or create the means for the average person to accumulate wealth. "
My final newsletter of 2025: We're in The Enshittifinancial Crisis, the fourth stage of enshittification, where companies turn on their shareholders. Unprofitable, unsustainable AI threatens future of venture capital, private equity and the markets themselves.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird
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www.wheresyoured.at
January 1, 2026 at 1:39 PM
"We are watching one of the greatest wastes of money in history, all as people are told that there “just isn’t the money” to build things like housing, or provide Americans with universal healthcare, or better schools, or create the means for the average person to accumulate wealth. "
Treating this book like a post Christmas advent calendar. Listening to one record per day. So good!!
December 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Treating this book like a post Christmas advent calendar. Listening to one record per day. So good!!
This is an amazing and overwhelming archive of talk. Incredible. www.92ny.org/archives/fea...
www.92ny.org
December 21, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This is an amazing and overwhelming archive of talk. Incredible. www.92ny.org/archives/fea...
By the Book is something I look forward to each week, really enjoyed this one. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
John Darnielle: ‘Polish Literature Is a Whole Wondrous World!’
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:56 PM
By the Book is something I look forward to each week, really enjoyed this one. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/b...
Evening jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXuu...
circus lupus - pop man
YouTube video by OldManDarrell
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December 19, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Evening jam www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXuu...
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world inequality report 2025 update- www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Just 0.001% hold three times the wealth of poorest half of humanity, report finds
Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%
www.theguardian.com
December 13, 2025 at 1:24 PM
world inequality report 2025 update- www.theguardian.com/inequality/2...
Good conversation rhodes-center-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/the-...
The story of capitalism, as told by its critics - The Rhodes Center Podcast with Mark Blyth
For as long as this thing we call “capitalism” has existed, it has had its fair share of critics. (You’ve heard more than a few of them on this ve...
rhodes-center-podcast.captivate.fm
December 13, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Good conversation rhodes-center-podcast.captivate.fm/episode/the-...
"What they mean is rural communities absorb the damage so others don’t have to think about it. The volunteers running wood banks aren’t performing resilience. They’re plugging holes in a sinking ship and doing the work the state stopped doing." Worthwhile read
Collapse isn’t a single moment. It’s what happens when the systems people rely on keep existing on paper but stop functioning in practice. trib.al/UtqzfcJ
Firewood Banks Aren’t Inspiring. They’re a Sign of Collapse.
Rural communities are banding together to chop firewood so that people in need can heat their homes. This shouldn’t be necessary.
trib.al
December 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM
"What they mean is rural communities absorb the damage so others don’t have to think about it. The volunteers running wood banks aren’t performing resilience. They’re plugging holes in a sinking ship and doing the work the state stopped doing." Worthwhile read
"Others call it a plutonomy, a portmanteau of “plutocrat” and “economy,” signaling the disproportional power of the ultra-wealthy over our entire financial system."
Gotta love dropping a portmanteau first thing on a Saturday morning. prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
Gotta love dropping a portmanteau first thing on a Saturday morning. prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
Selling the Poor on Spending Like They’re Rich - The American Prospect
How plutonomy, premiumization, and social media squeeze the middle class.
prospect.org
December 6, 2025 at 1:19 PM
"Others call it a plutonomy, a portmanteau of “plutocrat” and “economy,” signaling the disproportional power of the ultra-wealthy over our entire financial system."
Gotta love dropping a portmanteau first thing on a Saturday morning. prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
Gotta love dropping a portmanteau first thing on a Saturday morning. prospect.org/2025/12/01/p...
1.Here is a triple shot of "Do you ever feel like you've been cheated"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
How the dollar-store industry overcharges cash-strapped customers while promising low prices
A Guardian investigation reveals Dollar General and Family Dollar stores often fail to honor their shelf prices – charging more at checkout for everything from frying pans to Frosted Flakes
www.theguardian.com
December 6, 2025 at 1:15 PM
1.Here is a triple shot of "Do you ever feel like you've been cheated"
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Once again, one of the most consistently replicated findings in the history of experiments is that giving people cash with zero strings attached has massive social benefits for those receiving the cash as well as the community around them
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Once again, one of the most consistently replicated findings in the history of experiments is that giving people cash with zero strings attached has massive social benefits for those receiving the cash as well as the community around them
Arrival of the OA music issue is always a good mail day.
November 28, 2025 at 10:04 PM
Arrival of the OA music issue is always a good mail day.
Thoughts and prayers to all those in the retail trenches today.
November 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Thoughts and prayers to all those in the retail trenches today.
“We only charged for success,” Mr. Lerner said. Great read. Rest Easy
aw. right to repair hero.
David Lerner, a true mensch, dies at 72. One of the founders of Tekserve, Manhattan Repair/Sales for Macs.
Reading thru the comments, what an incredible soul. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
Reading thru the comments, what an incredible soul. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/t...
November 28, 2025 at 1:43 PM
“We only charged for success,” Mr. Lerner said. Great read. Rest Easy
Enjoy your pie. "The Pilgrims and Puritans were high-control radical Protestant doomsday groups." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
The Pilgrims Were Doomsday Cultists
The settlers who arrived in Plymouth were not escaping religious persecution. They left on the Mayflower to establish a theocracy in the Americas.
www.thenation.com
November 27, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Enjoy your pie. "The Pilgrims and Puritans were high-control radical Protestant doomsday groups." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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The problem isn’t just historic inequality and how it creates imbalanced systems or destroys capitalism through contradictions. It’s also what intentional precarity as a weapon does to people mentally and emotionally.
November 25, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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SF smooth brains are too rich to fail.
Dude who just got the SV Bank bailout two years ago is back banging the cup. It’s a tell.
November 24, 2025 at 11:20 PM
SF smooth brains are too rich to fail.
What a legacy of songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjU8...
Jimmy Cliff Sitting In Limbo
YouTube video by Jackiron King
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November 24, 2025 at 11:16 PM
What a legacy of songs www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjU8...
Rest easy
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81
Star of The Harder They Come had hits including You Can Get It If You Really Want and I Can See Clearly Now
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Rest easy
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seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte
November 23, 2025 at 3:35 AM
seen on WT Harris in E Charlotte