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CFPB Staffer Alexis Goldstein Fired for Confronting DOGE Members, Announces Run for Congress The Trump administration has fired Consumer Financial Protection Bureau program manager Alexis Goldstein for documenting a meeting a year ago between the agency and Elon Musk’s Department of Governmen...

Yooooooo!! @alexisgoldstein.bsky.social for Congress!! www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/al...

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EEOC to Trans Workers: “We Won’t Defend You Anymore” The EEOC has deprioritized all transgender cases, effectively ending federal protections. Civil rights are now conditional, and trans workers are the target.

EEOC to Trans Workers: “We Won’t Defend You Anymore”

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

You can totally de-arrest your friends, even in the US.

Screenshot of Billy Long's X profile. His profile name is Congressman Billy Long, CTBA and his bio reads: U.S. Congresman 1/3/11-1/3/23 'Certified Tax & Business Adivsor' DM me to save 40% on your taxes. We have a new traunch of tax credits just out! His profile picture and cover image are of him standing with Donald Trump at campaign events.

Trump's newly confirmed IRS commissioner, Billy Long, brags about being a CTBA — Certified Tax and Business Advisor — on his X profile.

But tax experts told ProPublica they have never heard of CTBA as a credential in the tax profession.

Excess US Deaths Before, During, and After the COVID-19 Pandemic This cohort study examines trends in excess deaths in the US before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic.

For 40 years, Americans have lived shorter lives than people in other rich countries.

For 10 years, that's been rapidly getting worse.

New research: in 2022-2023, there were 1.5 million "missing Americans," who died--but wouldn't have, if America didn't have such uniquely high death rates.

Also, someone needs to convince Dr. Teachout to come to bluesky.

Can't wait to listen. This is so epic.

Organizing the Opposition | Sara Nelson, Astra Taylor, Zephyr Teachout For the third installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole, New York Review contributors Astra Taylor and Zephyr Teachout and

I really enjoyed this conversation with Zephyr Teachout and @flyingwithsara.bsky.social about the future of organizing, moderated by @fotoole.bsky.social.

Thanks to @nybooks.com for hosting/posting the video.

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"There are moments when life seems entirely impossible. All the crazy dreams of rebellion disappear...  One knows that freedom is possible because everybody has experienced freedom: the taste of paradises is in all of our mouths. To forget this is fatal."
—Spontaneous Combustion, anarchist zine 1992

YouTube video by Drop Site News Hamas on the Record: An Exclusive Interview With Senior Hamas Official Osama Hamdan

Real journalism.

BREAKING: U.S. District Court Judge Richard Myers orders the NC State Board of Elections to certify a 734-vote win for Democratic Supreme Court Justice Allison Riggs and rejects all of Griffin's election protests. Judge stays order for one week so Griffin may appeal. #ncpol

YouTube video by The Daily Show Meet the DOGE Layoff Victims That Elon Musk Deemed Wasteful | The Daily Show

@alexisgoldstein.bsky.social, member of NTEU Chapter 335 @nteu335.bsky.social, sat down with The Daily Show to discuss how DOGE’s actions are anything but efficient: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPeb...

Jason Hickel - "We Need A Real Progressive Alternative – A Democratic Ecosocialist Movement" As the global economy crashes yet again, wars and genocides rage, and fascism appears to be on the rise, the exchange of ideas taking place at

I always like what Jason Hickel has to say.

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This is the book. It's a must-read!

#LearnMMT

it has been so lovely to see all of the Keynesians team up

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

Rohan Grey, Assistant Professor of Law at Willamette University, joins Money on the Left to discuss his urgent new paper, “Digitizing the Fisc.”

moneyontheleft.org/2025/04/01/d...

Is the Trump Tariff Financial Crisis A Crisis of the Dollar? It Doesn’t Seem to Be … Yet SubscribeTip! For those just tuning in: I wrote a piece a day for the first three days of this week on what we should probably now term the “Trump Tariff Financial Crisis”. I am coming to you Sunday ...

It's finally out! Drink coffee, drink soda, take whatever stimulate you prefer. This is extremely long, even by my verbose standards. But its the absolute minimum word count I thought I could tell the "foreign exchange liquidity crisis" aspect of this with.

www.crisesnotes.com/is-the-trump...

I appreciate the unions who promised to fight back against Trump’s attack on workers, but we need concrete plans. What does “fighting back” mean here?

Lawsuits don’t work. Protests only go so far. A general strike would require an enormous amount of organizing.

What are we gonna DO to stop this?

This book arose from my concerns that we had failed to learn the lessons of the S&L debacle and that the failure meant that we walked blind into the ongoing wave of control frauds. The de-frauders use companies as both sword and shield. They have shown themselves capable of fooling the most sophisticated market participants and academic experts. They are financial superpred-ators who use accounting fraud as a weapon and a shield against prosecution. Several factors make control frauds uniquely 33 highlight dangerous. The person who controls a company (or country) can defeat all internal and external controls because he is ultimately in charge of those controls. Fraudulent CEOs do not simply defeat controls; they suborn them and turn them into allies. Top law firms, under the pretense of rendering zealous advocacy to the client, have helped fraudulent CEOs loot and destroy the client

A timely note from “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One” by William Black.

“The person who controls a company (or country) can defeat all internal and external controls because he is ultimately in charge of those controls.”

I have read about half of those. Very good picks. I would put Max Weber, Veblen, Polanyi, Kalecki on my list too but they are more difficult slogs.

Notes on the Crises Until Further Notice, Comprehensive coverage of the Trump-Musk Treasury Payments Crisis of 2025

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Gillian Tett, FT, "Donald Trump is running the equivalent of King Henry VIII's Royal Tudor Court.. Any visiting emissaries have to come and kiss the ring"

119тн CONGRESS 1ST SESSION H. RES. 26 Deeming certain conduct of members of Antifa as domestie terrorism and designating Antifa as a domestie terrorist organization. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES JANUARY 9, 2025 Ms. GREENE of Georgia (for herself, Mr. BiGGs of Arizona, Mrs. MileR of Illinois, Mr. HiggINs of Louisiana, and Mr. HUNT) submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary RESOLUTION Deeming certain conduct of members of Antifa as domestic terrorism and designating Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization. Whereas the extremist organization Antifa is motivated by communism, anarchism, socialism, and violence, and has continuously demonstrated their commitment to lawlessness and criminal behavior; Whereas, in 2016, the Department of Homeland Security formally classified Antifa activities as "domestic terrorist vi-olence"; Whereas one chapter, Rose City Antifa, has rejected the civil treatment of perceived enemies, stating, "We can't just argue against them; we have to prevent them from organizing by any means necessary.", and this same chapter

A resolution has been introduced in the House to classify “Antifa” as a “domestic terrorist organization.”

Because of course fascists would want to make antifascism illegal.

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Biden's pardoning of his son, the decades long non-enforcement of Leahy Law (selling arms to Israel despite human rights violations), is making white people like me realize that the US was never an "Empire of Laws, and not of men."

Bernie said Kamala lost because she failed on wealth inequality, healthcare and Palestine. How do we know if this is true, and how much of a difference it would have made?

Rohan Grey on Spending & Inflation Ipse Dixit · Episode

On nationalizing the oil industry:

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www.youtube.com/live/MUTOYxs...

Lord Robert Skidelsky is giving a talk centered on his new book, The Machine Age: An Idea, a History, a Warning.

it's a big club.