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🏛️ Pleased to launch our new Capitol Hill Series.

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And, relatedly, the importance of a public policy of full employment for academics/researchers of all fields of human importance.

"using tariff money"

Apparently they think they've found foreign issuers of the US currency...

This passage nearly broke me.

I wrote this during Occupy, a few years after separation from my Army service. While the conditions are different now, this feels relevant still. Share this with friends and family in the military, because we need them to choose which side they are on. Time is precious folks.

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9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive.

Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her:

www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

from cyberselfish by paulina borsook: It's an inability to reconcile the demands of being individual with the demands of participating in society, which coincides beautifully with a preference for, and glorification of, being the solo comman- der of one's computer in lieu of any other economically viable be- havior. Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint.

She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

"...so many continue to bow before private money’s veto even as it is unmasked as blackmail and collusion. The task is to cultivate and extend the democratic reflex wherever it appears, multiplying its legibility, and provisioning the health of our democracy..."

Q&A: What does the ‘High Seas Treaty’ mean for climate change and biodiversity? - Carbon Brief Nations around the world have agreed to a new global treaty for governing the sustainable...

Wooop! With the last ratifications in last night 🇲🇦🇸🇱, a landmark treaty to protect nature in 2/3rds of the world’s oceans can now enter into force.

If you need a refresh on what it means and took to get here, @giulianaviglione.bsky.social and I have you covered. www.carbonbrief.org/qa-what-does...

Opinion | Charlie Kirk Didn’t Shy Away From Who He Was. We Shouldn’t Either.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...

An international call for action just got louder:

Today, 7 Nobel Laureates have issued a powerful call for a minimum tax on the ultra-wealthy in Le Monde

Here’s a quick breakdown of the debate—and where things stand globally

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www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

Tax on ultra-rich: 'France has the opportunity to lead the way,' say Nobel Prize-winning economists OP-ED. As public deficits balloon and extreme wealth explode, creating a minimum tax on the assets of billionaires should be a priority, argue seven Nobel Prize-winning economists in an op-ed for Le M...

Think how much you pay in taxes. Now think about this: The ultra-wealthy pay between 0% and 0.6% of their wealth in individual income tax – around 0.6% in a country like the United States and 0.1% in a country like France.
We wrote about it in @lemonde.fr www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/a...

"JPMorgan’s anti-money-laundering specialists subsequently acknowledged that such {large cash} withdrawals should have alerted the bank to the possibility that Epstein was committing crimes." FUCKERS

Stellar work by Nathan Tankus again

"The debt, the debt, the debt!"

Truly a chicken little moment in French politics, but a lot of damage has been done by how strongly they have pushed this narrative.

In the Fourth Republic, we're going to resurrect the Postal Service with postal banking, public email accounts, and neighborhood post offices that provide constituency services and free legal advice. It's going to be so good.

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

It's the cultivated misinformation systems, not the vaccines, that create the questioning.

JOINT STATEMENT CALLING FOR SECRETARY KENNEDY RESIGNATION Infectious Diseases Society of America  American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology American Academy of HIV Medicine  American Association of Immunologists American Public Health Association American Society for Microbiology American Society for Virology Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC)  AVAC   Camenzind Solutions LLC  Fast-Track Cities Institute  ID Care International Association of Providers of AIDS Care  NTM Info & Research  Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society   Peggy Lillis Foundation Seattle Children’s Research Institute Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Society of Infectious Diseases Pharmacists (SIDP) Stop TB USA  Treatment Action Group 

New statement: IDSA, APHA and partners call for RFK Jr. to resign: "Our country needs leadership that will promote open, honest dialogue — not disregard decades of lifesaving science, spread misinformation, reverse medical progress and decimate programs that keep us safe." bit.ly/3JOgDya

The crisis is political, not economic. There is nothing unsustainable about France's fiscal position per se. The EU needs more fiscal space to tackle the real crises.

France does NOT have a "massive debt crisis", but it does face many crises, as with the EU as a whole.

The EU needs an enlightened fiscal/monetary approach in order to pursue the industrial policies, climate investments and social provisioning needed to address the current set of poly-crises.

Of course, the Eurozone requires additional reforms to provide the flexibility needed for public provisioning/climate action/industrial policy etc to restructure the self-defeating punitive austerity-reflex of the Maastricht rules.

The language/framing of debt/borrowing is too powerful & required neutralizing to provide a new platform for political discourse. End the practice of treasury-issued securities & let CBs issue short-term securities as needed. No more so-called "debt" to cry wolf about.

Here's a better response to RFK's destruction of our public health system than what Senator Schatz is offering here, from JB Pritzker (with some additional ideas thrown in from me and public health experts):

newrepublic.com/article/1998...

Wow this is really good.

The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

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-...

Oh for a political party willing to fight for the value of public goods and services.

y’all know what one of the first nazi book burnings was right?

y’all know why they did it

y’all know trans people were one of their first targets and even the ALLIES left us in the camps when liberating everyone else

y’all see what’s right in front of you, right?