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Koffie Verkeerd
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You can totally de-arrest your friends, even in the US.
June 11, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Trump's newly confirmed IRS commissioner, Billy Long, brags about being a CTBA — Certified Tax and Business Advisor — on his X profile.

But tax experts told ProPublica they have never heard of CTBA as a credential in the tax profession.
June 12, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries.

For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.

New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.
Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic
This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I really enjoyed this conversation with Zephyr Teachout and @flyingwithsara.bsky.social about the future of organizing, moderated by @fotoole.bsky.social.

Thanks to @nybooks.com for hosting/posting the video.

www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...
Organizing the Opposition | Sara Nelson, Astra Taylor, Zephyr Teachout
For the third installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole, New York Review contributors Astra Taylor and Zephyr Teachout and
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May 7, 2025 at 3:45 PM
"There are moments when life seems entirely impossible. All the crazy dreams of rebellion disappear...  One knows that freedom is possible because everybody has experienced freedom: the taste of paradises is in all of our mouths. To forget this is fatal."
—Spontaneous Combustion, anarchist zine 1992
May 18, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Real journalism.
Hamas on the Record: An Exclusive Interview With Senior Hamas Official Osama Hamdan
YouTube video by Drop Site News
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May 7, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge Richard Myers orders the NC State Board of Elections to certify a 734-vote win for Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and rejects all of Griffin's election protests. Judge stays order for one week so Griffin may appeal. #ncpol
May 5, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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@alexisgoldstein.bsky.social, member of NTEU Chapter 335 @nteu335.bsky.social, sat down with The Daily Show to discuss how DOGE’s actions are anything but efficient: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPeb...
Meet the DOGE Layoff Victims That Elon Musk Deemed Wasteful | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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April 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM
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This is the book. It's a must-read!

#LearnMMT
April 23, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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it has been so lovely to see all of the Keynesians team up
April 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥
April 13, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Rohan Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University, joins Money on the Left to discuss his urgent new paper, “Digitizing the Fisc.”

moneyontheleft.org/2025/04/01/d...
April 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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It's finally out! Drink coffee, drink soda, take whatever stimulate you prefer. This is extremely long, even by my verbose standards. But its the absolute minimum word count I thought I could tell the "foreign exchange liquidity crisis" aspect of this with.

www.crisesnotes.com/is-the-trump...
Is the Trump Tariff Financial Crisis A Crisis of the Dollar? It Doesn’t Seem to Be … Yet
SubscribeTip! For those just tuning in: I wrote a piece a day for the first three days of this week on what we should probably now term the “Trump Tariff Financial Crisis”. I am coming to you Sunday ...
www.crisesnotes.com
April 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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I appreciate the unions who promised to fight back against Trump’s attack on workers, but we need concrete plans. What does “fighting back” mean here?

Lawsuits don’t work. Protests only go so far. A general strike would require an enormous amount of organizing.

What are we gonna DO to stop this?
March 28, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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A timely note from “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One” by William Black.

“The person who controls a company (or country) can defeat all internal and external controls because he is ultimately in charge of those controls.”
March 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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Take out a paid subscription to support my ongoing coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025. www.crisesnotes.com#/portal/signup
Notes on the Crises
Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025
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February 11, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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Gillian Tett, FT, "Donald Trump is running the equivalent of King Henry VIII's Royal Tudor Court.. Any visiting emissaries have to come and kiss the ring"
February 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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A resolution has been introduced in the House to classify “Antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Because of course fascists would want to make antifascism illegal.

www.congress.gov/119/bills/hr...
January 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Biden's pardoning of his son, the decades long non-enforcement of Leahy Law (selling arms to Israel despite human rights violations), is making white people like me realize that the US was never an "Empire of Laws, and not of men."
December 6, 2024 at 5:44 PM
November 24, 2024 at 4:49 PM
Bernie said Kamala lost because she failed on wealth inequality, healthcare and Palestine. How do we know if this is true, and how much of a difference it would have made?
November 22, 2024 at 5:02 PM
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On nationalizing the oil industry:

open.spotify.com/episode/7gmF...
Rohan Grey on Spending & Inflation
Ipse Dixit · Episode
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November 21, 2024 at 2:13 PM
www.youtube.com/live/MUTOYxs...

Lord Robert Skidelsky is giving a talk centered on his new book, The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning.
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November 20, 2024 at 12:51 PM