Trailer Park Residents Take on Venture Capitalists—and
Win: As gentrification sweeps the West, investors are buying up mobile home
parks. Residents of this Colorado park got together and bought it themselves.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/mobile-home-owners-trailers-colorado-durango-cooperative-residents
After Getting Burned By Wall Street, California Fire
Victims Fight To Reclaim Their Power: California utility company PG&E has
settled, but many fire victims are still waiting to see their full payout.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/california-fire-victims-awaiting-payment-from-utility-company
The Amazon Labor Union Victory Shows That Jurisdiction Is
Dead: No more arguing over territory or industries—we need multi-union
coalitions capable of organizing on a national scale.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/amazon-labor-union-jurisdiction-bezos-alu-teamsters
Community Care Over Self-Care: Unlike community care,
self-care consumption rituals are unequally accessible and rarely prevent
burnout
These Are The Workers Who Took on Amazon, and Won:
Against all odds, Amazon workers in New York organized a successful union
against one of the biggest companies in the world. Here’s how.
How the Child Welfare System Is Silently Destroying Black
Families: A single call from an anonymous tipster is all it takes for the
government to take children from their families
Microsoft Is Playing Nice With Unionizing Workers. Can
the Tech Giant Be Trusted? The company
says it won’t interfere with union elections at Activision Blizzard, a video
game company it’s acquiring. But it’s complicated.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166809/microsoft-activision-blizzard-union-agreement
Ask Prof Wolff: Student Debt & Inflation - Jun 15,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbXp2cdOcVw
The US Has Serious Economic Problems Featuring Richard
Wolff - Jun 15, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmRjRsxiiU
Prof. Richard Wolff on How Workers Can Fight Back -
Started Jun 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gm2pA_nLnAw
Ask Prof Wolff: Is Systematic Change Possible? - Jun 17,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOL53wYxEfM
Economic Update: Crosscurrents of US Politics - Jun 20,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFymgJ1e0hg
Ask Prof Wolff: Supply vs Demand-Side Economics - Jun 22,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoYgcCzg6xs
The Cure for Inflation: Price Caps? (w/ Richard Wolff) -
Premiered Jun 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN-Nc6J3ns8
Ask Prof Wolff: Self-Employment in a Socialist Society -
Jun 24, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuGrUoT00r0
Richard Wolff Answers: Is a Recession Incoming? - Jun 24,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dJVrb72X0hs
Richard Wolff: The French Election Is a Revelation for
the Left - Jun 25, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdxF2V4H3jU
Economic Update: Political Divides Deepen - Premiered Jun
27, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qylCO2pabJo
Richard Wolff: This Is the Worst Economic Period in My
Lifetime - Jun 27, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz97wPA2_n4
Ask Prof Wolff: What the NYTimes Gets Wrong about
Inflation - Jun 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7mmFMWAm8c
Richard Wolff: What Socialists Should Know About
Economics - Jun 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V19luX83WBU
Economist Exposes Gold Standard Myth Featuring Richard
Wolff - Jun 29, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=co-Jtct8RY0
Ask Prof Wolff: Carbon Emissions, Consumption, and Wages
- Jul 1, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58vCd6P1C8U
The US consolidates trade barriers with China | DW News -
Jun 15, 2022
Soaring Gas Prices, Falling Markets, Rising Debt: What
Can Americans Do Now To Save? - Jun 15, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDmnv0e77wg
Sanders Responds to Paul Budget Proposal - Jun 15, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4C38LDPAbBw
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles:
Path Dependency, Ukraine, and Nuclear War - Premiered June 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0SzdiwuRpvc
College Inc. (full documentary)
| FRONTLINE - Jun 14, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULUtX4fZKlk
FIGHTING BACK AGAINST CORPORATE
GREED RALLY IN CHICAGO (LIVE AT 8:30PM ET) - Started streaming Jun 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB2AJ9sYcnk
The Fed Is Making a Big Mistake - Jun 16, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xcrdDnDR-c
Biden signs ocean shipping bill in bid to reduce export
backlogs
Philadelphia Nursing Home will close by the end of 2022:
City officials said the financial condition of the facility, which is run by a
private nonprofit, was worsening and that lower occupancy during the pandemic
made it unsustainable.
https://www.inquirer.com/business/health/philly-closing-nursing-home-fairmount-long-term-care-20220614.html
Monkeypox Outbreak Poses ‘Real Risk’ to Public Health,
W.H.O. Official Says: Dr. Hans Kluge, the organization’s director for Europe,
said that the longer the virus circulated, the wider its reach would be.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/15/world/europe/monkeypox-outbreak-europe.html
Russia made nearly $100B from fuel exports in war’s first
100 days, report says
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/06/14/russia-fossil-fuel-revenue-ukraine-war/
The Defense Production Act is helping rebuild the US
industrial base. Let’s keep it that way.
Real estate prices have increased 32.5% over the past
year and half. Those changes were enough
to price a lot of would-be homeowners out of the market, and that was before
mortgage rates began to shift. As of Monday, the average interest rate for a
fixed-rate 30-year mortgage was 6.28%, more than double the rate at the end of
December. The potential bright side: The combination of high sale prices and
high interest rates could cool the housing market.
https://statesnewsroom.salsalabs.org/eveningwrap_copy26
For federal retirees, COLA is not a retirement panacea
for inflation
Should I Get Screened for Prostate Cancer?
https://www.cdc.gov/cancer/prostate/basic_info/get-screened.htm
Joe Biden’s Debt Cancellation Games: Why are Democrats
playing cat and mouse with student debtors?
https://newrepublic.com/article/166764/joe-biden-student-debt-cancellation-games
What President Biden And Democrats Can Do To Stabilize
Gas Prices - Jun 15, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ce2HLR3aaE
Patty Murray Is Not Giving Up on Childcare Relief: The
senator from Washington state hopes to address the urgent needs of working
families—and shift perceptions of a Democratic Party that’s struggled to
fulfill its promises.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166833/patty-murray-child-care-midterms
How First Responders Are Forced To Cut Back On Services
As Gas Prices Rise - Jun 17, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Or930cCMs0
Domination Geopolitics Pushing Ukraine War Too Far -
David Harvey's Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - Jun 18, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKzjsOFKeY
Free school lunches for all set to end, creating ‘perfect
storm’ amid high inflation: Congressional child nutrition waivers that allowed
for free meals in school and other food assistance measures are expiring June
30. Advocates say it couldn’t come at a worse time.
The Hotel Is 642 Feet Tall. Its ‘Architect’ Says He Never
Saw the Plans. An architect lent his
license to a New York City developer to approve buildings he didn’t design,
according to an investigation by The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/13/nyregion/architect-license-high-rise-manhattan.html
The End of the Asset Economy: Rising interest rates are
ending an era in which the rich got much, much richer.
The Fed's big mistake
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-feds-big-mistake
Understanding the Role of Digital Assets in Illicit
Finance
https://www.banking.senate.gov/hearings/understanding-the-role-of-digital-assets-in-illicit-finance
18th-Century Spanish Shipwreck Has $17 Billion Worth of
Coins And Gems Aboard
Forgiving Student Debt Isn’t Giving a Gift - It’s
Righting a Wrong: Student debt is a crime against our nation, weakening our
intellectual infrastructure - Any nation’s single biggest asset is a
well-educated populace and student debt diminishes that
https://hartmannreport.com/p/forgiving-student-debt-isnt-giving
Biden Wrote a Stern Letter to Oil Refiners. His
Government Should Take Over the Industry Instead. A National Refining Company could lower gas
prices without giving up on climate targets.
Thousands Of Flights Delayed, Cancelled Across US Amid
Severe Weather, Staffing Shortages - Jun 20, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT697vK0bPk
Four-day week? These firms say they’ve nailed the new
working model and profits are good
Capitalism Is Killing Our Relationships - All Thing's
Co-op - Jun 21, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyGJEU56RJw
Elizabeth Warren to Fed chair Jerome Powell: Don't 'drive
this economy off a cliff'
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/22/economy/jerome-powell-inflation-senate-hearing/index.html
Raising kids is 'Essential Labor.' It's also lonely,
exhausting and expensive
Americans could be wasting billions each year on
supplements: The U.S. Prevention Services Task Force (USPSTF) published new
recommendations saying Americans may not need to take vitamin, mineral or
multivitamin supplements to prevent cardiovascular disease or cancer.
Fed chair says recession possible
https://www.npr.org/2022/06/22/1106735608/powell-says-recession-a-possibility-but-not-likely
Capitalism Hits Home: US Militarism & Domestic
Terrorism - Premiered Jun 23, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VtkPJ2Poks
It’s Time to Save and Expand Social Security - Jun 22,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=toN12OV8E-Y
Monkeypox Is Not a Gay Disease: But it has arrived in our
community—and our decades of experience dealing with HIV give us the chance to
get things right from the outset.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/monkeypox-hiv-lgbt-pride/
If Men Could Breastfeed: Here’s a solution to the baby
formula crisis.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/baby-formula-crisis/
Intimacy at a Distance: The history of teletherapy.
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/hannah-zeavin-distance-cure/
Office Space: The surreal workplace satire of Severance.
https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/severance-apple-tv/
Biden Taps Anti-Social Security Ideologue To Oversee
Program: Biden nominated Andrew Biggs, a think tank denizen with a history of
slamming Social Security, to oversee government retirement benefits for 66
million Americans.
https://www.levernews.com/biden-taps-anti-social-security-ideologue-to-oversee-program/
Zixin Lin, Advocate for Science, Skepticism, and
Rationality in China
GIF Science: The Crisis of Science Simplification on
Social Media
On Pigeon Chess and Debating
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/05/on-pigeon-chess-and-debating/
Misconceptions about Vitamins
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/05/misconceptions-about-vitamins/
Mass Psychogenic Illness: The Unacceptable Diagnosis
https://skepticalinquirer.org/2022/05/mass-psychogenic-illness-the-unacceptable-diagnosis/
Stewart Brand Saw the Future: In his journey from hippie
sage to global business consultant, the Whole Earth Catalog founder embodied
the shifting spirit of Silicon Valley.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166740/stewart-brand-whole-earth-catalog-saw-future
We May Not Have a Recession: Inflation is up, and so are
interest rates, but cautious Federal Reserve policies and an assist from OPEC
can bring the economy in for a much-desired soft landing.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/23/we-may-not-have-a-recession/
Who’s Going to Save Local Businesses From Amazon And
Other Monopolies? The U.S. Postal Service.
A new, cheap local service gives the USPS and hometown
merchants a fighting chance.
Welcome to the 'Pandemicene': As humans encroach on the
natural world, more deadly pandemics are likely to follow COVID. Why?
https://theweek.com/covid-19/1014609/welcome-to-the-pandemicene
Energy: Oil prices wreak economic havoc worldwide: Is
Russia responsible for current gas prices?
https://theweek.com/economy/1014613/energy-oil-prices-wreak-economic-havoc-worldwide
One Button Could Have ‘Saved More Lives’ in Florida Condo
Collapse: Seven minutes elapsed between the initial rumblings and the collapse
of Champlain Towers South in Surfside. But a security guard didn’t know how to
activate the building’s warning system.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/us/surfside-condo-collapse-alarm.html
Why a Rhodes Scholar’s Ambition Led Her to a Job at
Starbucks: Jaz Brisack became a barista for the same reasons that talented
young people have long chosen their career paths: a mix of idealism and
ambition.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/19/business/starbucks-union-rhodes-scholar.html
You Don’t Need a Microscope to See the Biggest Bacteria
Ever Found: Researchers found bacterial cells so large they are easily visible
to the naked eye, challenging ideas about how large microbes can get.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/science/giant-bacterium.html
The First Item on the G7 Agenda Should Be to Cancel the
Global South’s Debt: The simplest way to fight global warming and injustice at
the same time would be for the world’s richest countries to end the vicious
debt cycle that forces poor countries to exploit natural resources.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166901/g7-2022-summit-agenda-cancel-global-south-debt
Tale of 2 summits: ‘America’s back’ to America’s
backsliding
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/politics-government/national-politics/article262915193.html
Yuval Noah Harari & Serhii Plokhy on Tech, Humanity,
Democracy & Ukraine - Jun 27, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pN_Cean19_k
Viruses survive in fresh water by ‘hitchhiking’ on
plastic, study finds: Intestinal viruses such as rotavirus were found to be
infectious for up to three days by attaching to microplastics, research shows
Ernst & Young pays $100m to settle US charges of
cheating on ethics exams: SEC alleged audit employees cheated on exams required
to obtain and maintain CPA licenses, and then misled investigators
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/jun/28/ernst-and-young-fined-cheating-audit-settlement
U.S. Expands Plan for Monkeypox Vaccines in Effort to
Curb Outbreak: Recommendations include people with presumed exposure and
at-risk men who have sex with men in areas where virus is spreading
The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project brings
together a network of scholars, practitioners, and students working to develop
innovative intellectual, pedagogical, and political interventions to advance
the study of political economy and law.
DSA Labor: We are socialist organizers active in the
labor movement.
NYTWA RAISE FOR ALL CAMPAIGN
https://www.nytwa.org/home/raiseforall
Kate Sykes is a writer, editor, and community organizer
in Portland, Maine. She is co-chair of the Maine DSA Electoral Committee, and
an organizer with People First Portland.
https://pineandroses.org/author/katesykes/
An Act to Eliminate the Sub-Minimum Wage, Increase the
Minimum Wage and Strengthen Protections for Workers
https://livableportland.carrd.co/
The Fight for Student Debt Relief Started a Decade Ago—at
Occupy Wall Street: Biden may cancel billions in student loans. The nation’s
first debtors’ union helped make that possible.
Meet the Muslim Mom Who Has Mobilized Asian American
Parents in the War on Public Schools
“We will win not just for our children, not just for the
state of Virginia, but for America.”
A Simple, Well-Tested Method for Staving Off World
Hunger: Russia’s war has led to skyrocketing food prices. That doesn’t mean
millions of people have to starve.
https://www.motherjones.com/food/2022/06/hunger-russia-ukraine-grain-storage-han-dynasty-roosevelt/
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles: Inequality, Ricardian
Socialism, and Real Solutions - Premiered June 30, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0XCdjigrX0
A Hearing Aid Oligopoly Is Trying to Strangle Cheap
Over-the-Counter Competitors: Your grandmother can’t afford a hearing aid. The
FDA wants to fix that, but Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chuck Grassley say
legacy manufacturers are trying to block the way.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166953/over-counter-hearing-aid-fda-rule-warren-grassley
The Supreme Court's War on the People - Premiered Jun 30,
2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVKV2uML4UA
Community Health Centers - Jul 1, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2rLVRssjFQ
The Increasingly Sad Tweets of Jeff Bezos: The
billionaire union-buster’s quest to ape Elon Musk has been a cringey,
slow-motion train wreck.
https://newrepublic.com/article/166960/jeff-bezos-tweets-musk-unions
What is Ricardian Socialism? - David Harvey's
Anti-Capitalist Chronicles - Jul 1, 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDa0dbGw8GE
7/1/22 Live with Virginia NORML: New Laws Take Effect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QClqVhFHxjw
Virginia: Changes to Marijuana Laws Take Effect July 1
https://norml.org/blog/2022/07/01/virginia-changes-to-marijuana-laws-take-effect-july-1/
How managers of social media platforms could slow the
spread of misinformation
https://phys.org/news/2022-07-social-media-platforms-misinformation.html
Jeff Bezos’s Next Monopoly: The Press. With his vast investment in The Washington
Post’s digital publishing technology, the Amazon founder could soon control the
backbone of most large American newspapers.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/jeff-bezoss-next-monopoly-the-press/
It’s the Monopoly, Stupid: Unchecked corporate power is
fueling inflation.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/its-the-monopoly-stupid/
Sooner the Better: Oklahoma is a model for how states
should provide pre-K.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/universal-prek-oklahoma-model/
The AMA’s Dark Secret: Journalists aren’t allowed inside
the supposedly public meetings where the American Medical Association
effectively decides (and ratchets up) health care prices.
Cognitive Dissonance in America’s Dairy Land: Wisconsin
farmers admire and depend on their undocumented Mexican laborers—and still vote
for Trump.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/milked-review-wisconsin-dairy-immigration/
Wrecking the College Pecking Order: A former college
president takes aim at U.S. News’s elitist rankings and (sort of) praises the
Monthly’s.
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2022/06/20/college-rankings-colin-diver-reed/
Tiny, implantable 'nerve coolers' could offer new hope
tor pain sufferers
The Light Will Come Back On
https://www.populist.com/28.12.ArtCullen.html
New Signs of Apocalypse: War, Famine and Davos Man
https://www.populist.com/28.12.Guebert.html
Low-Wage American Taxpayers Spent Billions Inflating CEO
Pay Through Stock Buybacks: President Biden has the power to crack down on
executive excess by imposing new CEO pay and buyback restrictions on federal
contractors.
https://www.populist.com/28.12.SAnderson.html
Soaring Food and Energy Prices Drive Inflation Higher in
May
https://cepr.net/prices-2022-06/
Bad Doctor vs. Bad Patient. Today on TAP: The race for the Pennsylvania
Senate seat will be the ultimate in fake versus real populism and sheer entertainment.
It will be hard for SNL to parody.
https://prospect.org/blogs-and-newsletters/tap/bad-doctor-vs-bad-patient/
There are Better Ways for Societies to Address Inflation
Than by Hiking Interest Rates: A deafening silence defines “debates” among U.S.
leaders about stopping or slowing today’s inflation. Alternatives to the
Federal Reserve’s raising of interest rates and curtailing money supply growth
are ignored.
https://www.populist.com/28.12.Wolff.html
Robert B. Reich: How to make big banks like JPMorgan
choose whether to be socially responsible
A Nation of the Mentally Ill
https://www.populist.com/28.12.Retsinas.html
We’ll All Need Home Care Someday: And many of us, like my
son, need home care today. Our leaders should close the Medicaid coverage gap
and bolster funds for home and community-based services. What will it take for
Congress to act?
https://inequality.org/research/home-care-someday/
American Oligarchs
https://www.populist.com/28.12.OLeary.html
US Foreign and Trade Policy Must Reflect Reality
https://www.populist.com/28.12.Sibert.html
Which Side Are You On?
https://www.populist.com/28.12.Kalet.html
Ralph Nader: Is Corporate Criminal Law Heading for
Extinction?
https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/27/ralph-nader-is-corporate-criminal-law-heading-for-extinction/
The Farmer’s Lawyer Goes to the Head of the Class Action
https://www.populist.com/28.12.Winkes.html
Cancel Student Loan Debt. Bail Out Regular People. Even writing off every penny of student debt
would cost less than Trump’s tax giveaways for corporations and the rich.
https://scheerpost.com/2022/05/30/cancel-student-loan-debt-bail-out-regular-people/
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