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I would like to see Pritzker and Newsom declare a state tax receivership fund whereby citizens pay their federal tax liabilities into a state-run escrow account rather than directly to the IRS.

The state can hold these funds in trust for the federal government until Trump obeys the Impoundment Act.

Trump's speech was under two hours, which bolsters the thesis that the leaks about it being more than two hours were meant to work the prediction markets

What stands out to me is treating productive capacity as a political variable(!)

Moving from 500 to 1,400 shovelers at $30/hr is a real foray into capacity expansion organized around a clear public standard, instead of letting the “how do we pay for it?” frame set the ceiling in advance.

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cant.stop.laughing

I did, like five times, and it was even cooler than you can imagine

*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*

We should try electing some kind of deliberative body that makes decisions about levying taxes.

As a reader of Marx, as Krugman is not, I would put some things a bit differently than he does. But he is right on the fundamental thing: equality in the political sphere is not compatible with an arbitrarily large degree of inequality in the private sphere.

I know the endless sports gambling promotion was already bad enough but for some reason this stuff (also Giannis and Kalshi, substack polymarket embeds, etc) gives me End Times vibes. Just dark as hell, all of it.

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Wow

“Fixed price” stores— with labeled prices that were the same for all—were one of the great wonders of commercial life in the democratizing 19C. We will miss them when they’re gone!

(2/11) You know dynamic pricing—think Uber rides, flights, or concert tickets that surge based on supply and demand. “Surveillance Pricing” takes this to the next level: using your data to set a “price for you” based on your predicted breaking point. This is, increasingly, everywhere.

Newsom proudly leading the Democratic Party realignment (the side that’s turning the dems into the conservative party)

Thinking about how the Luddites correctly perceived that power looms created a much poorer quality fabric than artisan weavers… and yet

No son, they are not "magically delicious." The workers made them delicious. This is a slogan meant to mystify the social conditions of labor

Then again… not normal times for left candidates 🤔

In 2024 she was censured by the chapter but her endorsement was not revoked (by a hair), and she won outright in the primary. Her district will be extremely challenging for DSA in a special election tho

In a Democratic club meeting, LA Mayor Karen Bass pronounced herself "flabbergasted" by Nithya Raman's entry into the mayor's race. "I’ve worked closely with Nithya, helped her gain the Democratic endorsement, helped her clear an encampment in her district," she said. "I am going to fight."

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Few things more indicative of the liberal coalition’s learned helplessness

I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.

reactionaries learning they serve capital

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Oh you could be right about that

No idea. If I had to put money on it I would guess PSL

No objection to DSA alliance with vanguardist socialists, in fact I think it’s important in several respects, but let’s be real about how power functions, huh?