Rob Larson

In line with long historical practice, capitalist markets are already punishing the people of Brazil with capital flight, yanking assets from the country and making it far harder for the government to meet the public’s demands

Dear god, yeah so the New Deal was a social contract because it was institutionalized through Social Security and Medicare and paid for collectively. “I give you dimes when I feel like it” is not a social contract, you degraded bootlicking toadies

US evacuates Mideast outposts due to suspected war going on

No work getting done thanks to a certain fool who will fully lay on my arm for uncomfortably long periods. Happy weekend to those who celebrate

Another lovely day in history

Yes, drive up their costs to kingdom come with tariffs and Mideast wars we start, then just bail out your most blindly loyal constituents with billions we cut from schools and AIDS victims. Good stuff

Quick reminder that in 2017 Macron abolished the French “solidarity tax” on wealth, and since then has tried instead to tax working class commuters, kicking off the yellow vest protests, and now austerity which has triggered massive demonstrations and riots

Ha, for 20 years students have come in the door of my classroom quite aware of their declining prospects and our dying planet, but sure you joyless intellectually sterilized Bush-era op-ed writers, blame it all on English profs who made the kids read Angela Davis

Hahaha use your precious AI on THIS, students HAHAHAHAHA

Cowardly business press celebrating Friedman while ignoring his greatest critic

How about you go fight then, Editorial Board?

Fucking fascists

The patient is recovering well

Because he’s like most of the country

At last I may again breathe freely with Mamdani’s grip loosened from my neck. Idiots

This little princess had $700 of medical tests this week and she has early kidney disease. Common for a lady of her stately age of 16. Appreciating your prayers at this difficult time. And happy weekend to those who celebrate

Scambots not even trying anymore

They always steal our shit

So much going on, but I just want to point out how frequently even the business press is now using the phrase class war

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I know I say this all the time, but the context for these numbers is wall to wall media opposition to unrealistic socialism. People pick socialism despite never hearing arguments for it

Man if there’s one thing tech billionaires taking over media hate, it’s beloved brand names with generations of name equity

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Not a conservative media-sanctioned opinion headline: Trump’s economy is failing the American people

Right-wing media abandoning the sinking ship

Headline: International criminal hates the international criminal court

To celebrate our new agreement with Greenland, let’s fondly recall that time we spilled four nukes all over it

lol we lost it already

Seen a lot of pompous Wall Street assholes cycle through the Treasury secretary job, but I really think Bessent is the smuggest dick to serve in the role, and I include Paulson in that

Wow, we will tear down every world institution before we let them force our client state to quit ethnic cleansing

Sure hope we arranged an economic safeword

This O’Hare airport bar invites you to imagine dining in the original Iron Age airport that once occupied the site

Great Socialism Conference panel on the deteriorating hegemony with Chenjerai Kumanyika and Hasan Piker, the guy everyone’s angry about #SocCon

Yes but commercial AI is a lying machine poisoning the world, whereas food allows you to continue to live

Enormous book fair at the Socialism Conference! Come by and browse, day passes available. #SocCon

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Holy tomatoes, I wonder why. Maybe it’s our non-stop unjustifiable foreign asset seizures

Amazing! Just so everyone’s clear, Google has been legally ruled a monopolist TWICE in three years and has faced zero breakup orders AND this time the penalty’s a SECRET SHHHHHH

Kind of a “vendor financing”arrangement, one might say

Allow me, a former hedge fund executive working a billionaire’s newspaper in an air-conditioned office, to tell you

More good times ahead, people! And if it’s not your impression that they’ve been so good, you should really get in the ruling class