Obviously it's what Woody Guthrie would have wanted: a schmaltzy piano version of This Land Is Your Land playing over visuals of Jeff Bezos chatting to Sundar Pichai at Donald Trump's inauguration.

even when republicans lose the press treat them like they represent america’s real majority so it is no surprise that they would talk about a narrow victory like it’s 1964 and democrats just got goldwatered

A reminder that when the cynical and now MAGA-friendly Mark Zuckerberg makes claims about alleged Biden administration pressure on FB over Covid misinformation, and screams 'Censorship!', he's also the guy who admitted his *uncensored* company played a big role in inciting a *literal genocide*:

Weird how Trump is only interested in owning this White-House-adjacent hotel when he has the ability to dole out political favors www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

My last article of 2024: Carceral urbanism doesn't address the anti-city politics embedded in the U.S. that just doesn't exist to the same degree in Europe and Asia. American cities are constantly shit on, starved of funds and sabotaged by our own leaders.
open.substack.com/pub/darrello...

The FTC on Thursday sued Southern Glazer’s Wine and Spirits, accusing the largest alcohol distributor in the U.S. of unjustifiably charging higher prices to small businesses and limiting their ability to compete with big chains.

It’s not hard to grasp that requiring parking sacrifices housing because parking takes up lots of space and its high cost makes homebuilding less feasible.

But wow, this new study shows that parking mandates are much more damaging than I would have guessed.

www.sightline.org/2024/12/10/p...

2034 WORLD CUP AWARDED TO SAUDI ARABIA 🏆

Despite warnings from human-rights groups—and global outcry over migrant deaths at Qatar 2022—Saudi Arabia has been named host of the 2034 FIFA World Cup. Jerryrigged vote followed FIFA’s manufacturing of unprecedented 3-continent, 6-country 2030 World Cup.

Eliminating ALL Federal civilian employment would not be enough to pay for making the expiring tax cuts permanent.

I think it is pretty important for folks to absorb the difference between "we might not be able to stop him from doing this" and "we can't do anything."

You can slow it down, fight it in the courts, shape public opinion and draw attention to raise the political cost and so on.

A problem in post election narratives imho…too many dismiss billions & billions spent on propaganda tapping into fears & prejudices, systematic dismantling of our info ecosystem & years of painstaking voter suppression as having no impact & it’s about the price of eggs or bad policy messaging

"Nazism/white supremacism has been mainstreamed to a degree that many people may not quite realize. This stuff isn’t just buried on obscure message boards. It’s just out there. And the social stigma about interacting with it is shrinking by the day."

www.thebulwark.com/p/doxxing-na...

I have an op-ed in the NYT today about how to reduce crime.

The key idea, based on decades of strong research evidence: focus on increasing the probability of getting caught, not the punishment.

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/o...

WSJ — “Assad remained in Syria on Friday. Last week, his children & his wife traveled to Russia & his brothers-in-law traveled to UAE, Syrian security officials & Arab officials said. Egyptian & Jordanian officials have urged Assad to leave country & form a gov in exile.” www.wsj.com/world/middle...

SYRIA: Have covered Syrian politics then war for decades, there hasn’t been a crisis of such magnitude for regime. South erupting (Daraa & Suwayda), east (Dez), north (Aleppo) and center (Hama) cities falling, regime traditional defenses not working, cracks (Shehabi) showing…

Breaking News: Top leaders at the World Anti-Doping Agency froze out their own investigators after they flagged concerns about doping among Chinese athletes.

The gender dynamic of the South Korea coup will definitely be extremely obvious, Yoon's masculinist political movement will mobilize the strong, manly army to crush their political targets, women, who are "too weak to fight back". I don't think it ends well for him though

Hoo boy. abcnews.go.com/amp/Internat...

So Mexico agrees to do the thing it's already been doing, and Trump claims victory. Sounds about right