Harry Konstantinidis

Just noting that this reporting is from the correspondent for that radical rag...The Economist

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2

When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline.

109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

MAHA v. Mamdani - Boston Review Our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness.

Zohran Mamdani thinks access to healthy food should be a public good. RFK JR.'s MAHA coalition thinks it’s a matter of personal responsibility.

@rajpatel.org on our broken food system and the real roots of American unwellness:

Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook listed contested home as vacation property Documents appear to contradict White House allegation that she committed mortgage fraud

Fed governor Lisa Cook listed contested home as vacation property on.ft.com/46hiIu7

Incredible. Trump drags the reputation of a highly regarded economist, first Black woman to be a Fed gov, thru the mud claiming she committed mortgage fraud. But the documents his appointee to run Fannie & Freddie got for him & that he said showed fraud don’t actually say that.

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

I’m a proud UC Berkeley graduate and I am appalled and angered by this McCarthyism. Judith Butler—just to cite one example— is not an antisemite but a principled philosopher devoted to justice for all, not just particular populations.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?"

A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons.

Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

The tech oligarchs at this event are the weak men in the “weak men create hard times…” meme

Zohran and Bernie smiling at the front of the parade.

Zohran with members of PSC-CUNY.

Zohran, Bernie and Tish James with their arms around each other.

Zohran with members of UFT.

There’s power in unity — and in a union.

A morning of solidarity and celebration at the NYC Labor Day Parade. #UnionStrong

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.

The president of the United States just declared war, actual military war, not a metaphorical one, on a major American city, and one governed by his political opponents.

In any other period, this would be impeachment-worthy.

NEW PIECE: Powell and the Federal Reserve System has already failed to meet the moment and not defending Lisa Cook will seal both Powell's and the Fed's fate.

www.crisesnotes.com/powell-will-...

Just received this statement from Lisa Cook:
"President Trump purported to fire me 'for cause' when no cause exists under the law, and he has no authority to do so. I will not resign. I will continue to carry out my duties to help the American economy as I have been doing since 2022."

This is the make or break moment for Powell's @federalreserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece.

www.crisesnotes.com/trump-vs-pow...

U.S. investment in public education is at risk: Vouchers, state budget austerity, and federal attacks on the Department of Education threaten children’s futures Weak public K–12 education spending in the U.S. and the rising trend of Republican attacks on public schools threaten our children’s futures. The last decade has seen a flurry of high-quality studies ...

Vouchers, budget cuts, and federal attacks on the US Dept. of Education are starving our schools. A new @epi.org report shows that these attacks threaten our children’s futures.

Imagine how bright our future would be if we fully funded every child’s education.

www.epi.org/publication/...

Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read Culture Minister Jakob Engel-Schmidt said that the measure was aimed at fixing Denmark's 'reading crisis.' The Scandinavian country's 25% sales tax on books is currently the highest in Europe.

Denmark to end book tax to encourage people to read

we all know that the proof for the administration that an institution is not implementing affirmative action will be the percentage of nonwhite admits. the lower the better. any more than a smattering of black and Hispanic students will be evidence of illegal discrimination (against whites)

@DHSgov on X: We’re taking father/son bonding to a whole new level. JOIN.ICE.GOV 06 Aug 25 [Young man and old man in ICE gear]

Wehrschiessen des Deutschen Volkes 1944 [Young man and old man sharing a rifle]

Oh look, ICE is copying literal Nazi recruiting propaganda again. The poster on the right is for the Volkssturm, the Nazi militia of older men and boys established during the final months of World War II.

this is the way rich people think about health insurance

'I don't care about Direct File': IRS chief says agency plans to end free filing program Internal Revenue Service Commissioner Bill Long said the agency will end its Direct File program.

The IRS's free Direct File tool is now "gone," according to Trump's IRS chief.

This comes after tax prep companies like Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, lobbied the for years to block it.

Intuit donated $1M to Trump’s inauguration.

See how this works?

"'You’re in a port of entry. There’s no rights here,' he [CBP agent] reportedly said."

“'You mean a U.S. citizen with constitutional rights loses his rights in this place?' Chavarria asked."

“'Yes, you have no rights here,' the man repeated, according to Chavarria."

That ⬆️ is a flat-out LIE.

The government of Israel is exterminating every man, woman and child in Gaza. And our governments, and most leaders of liberal institutions in "the West" - parties both left and right, the press, universities - are doing all they can to support this. This is the central political fact of our time.

🧵 The data you have all been waiting for!

The NYC mayoral primary WITHOUT batch elimination (and some early analysis)

1) Zohran's first round (469,642) would have been enough to win against Cuomo's final round (443,229)

Pete Aguilar (CA-33) Shomari Figures (AL-02) Ro Khanna (CA-17) Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) Greg Stanton (AZ-04) Gabe Amo (RI-01) Lois Frankel (FL-22) Raj Krishnamoorthi (IL-08) Seth Moulton (MA-06) Haley Stevens (MI-11) Wesley Bell (MO-01) Robert Garcia (CA-42) Greg Landsman (OH-01) Johnny Olszewski (MD-02) Marilyn Strickland (WA-10) Ami Bera (CA-06) Laura Gillen (NY-04) Rick Larsen (WA-02) Jimmy Panetta (CA-19) Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10) Brendan Boyle (PA-02) Jared Golden (ME-02) George Latimer (NY-16) Chris Pappas (NH-01) Tom Suozzi (NY-03) Julia Brownley (CA-26) Dan Goldman (NY-10) Susie Lee (NV-03) Nancy Pelosi (CA-11) Eric Swalwell (CA-14) Nikki Budzinski (IL-13) Jimmy Gomez (CA-34) Mike Levin (CA-49) Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (WA-03) Emilia Sykes (OH-13) Janelle Bynum (OR-05) Vicente Gonzalez (TX-34) Sam Liccardo (CA-16) Scott Peters (CA-50) Shri Thanedar (MI-13) Salud Carbajal (CA-24) Maggie Goodlander (NH-02) Ted Lieu (CA-36) Brittany Pettersen (CO-07) Mike Thompson (CA-04) Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (FL-20) Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) Nellie Pou (NJ-09) Dina Titus (NV-01) Katherine Clark (MA-05) Adam Gray (CA-13) Seth Magaziner (RI-02) Mike Quigley (IL-05) Ritchie Torres (NY-15) Herb Conaway (NJ-03) Josh Harder (CA-09) John Mannion (NY-22) Josh Riley (NY-19) Lori Trahan (MA-03) Lou Correa (CA-21) Jim Himes (CT-04) Doris Matsui (CA-07) Raul Ruiz (CA-25) Derek Tran (CA-45) Jim Costa (CA-21) Steven Horsford (NV-04) Lucy McBath (GA-06) Pat Ryan (NY-18) Gabe Vasquez (NM-02) Angie Craig (MN-02) Chrissy Houlahan (PA-06) April McClain Delaney (MD-06) Brad Schneider (IL-10) Marc Veasey (TX-33) Jasmine Crockett (TX-30) Jonathan Jackson (IL-01) Kristen McDonald Rivet (MI-08) Hilary Scholten (MI-03) Eugene Vindman (VA-07) Henry Cuellar (TX-28) Hakeem Jeffries (NY-08) Morgan McGarvey (KY-03) Kim Schrier (WA-08) Debbie Wasserman Schultz (FL-25) Don Davis (NC-01) Julie Johnson (TX-3…

The House voted 308 to 122 for the GENIUS Act, the corrupt crypto industry bill to set the stage for the next financial crisis, encourage money laundering, and bless Trump's corruption.

102 Democrats voted yes, including 4 out of the 5 memberships of House Dems's Leadership Team.

Thanks to @edwardnh.bsky.social for covering my presentation on the growing share of financially fragile US corporations at June's @levyecon.bsky.social Conference. By 2024 more than 1/3 of US listed firms fall into Minsky’s category of Ponzi–unable to cover their obligations with current cash flows

How it started

A heterodox economist & her PhD student argue for buffer stocks in essentials for inflation preparedness in an age of overlapping emergencies.

How it’s going

New EU Stockpile Strategy suggests stockpiles in essentials like food for inflation prevention.

Knives, bullets and thieves: the quest for food in Gaza NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

By Anas Baba

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this:

Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

It must be so embarrassing working at the NYT today

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.