Radhika Balakrishnan

To quote @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

YouTube video by Katherine Franke Protest is Not Rebellion

The gov't doesn't have the exclusive power to (mis)interpret the law, the people can give it meaning too under the principle of popular sovereignty. The law doesn't treat protests ag immigration raids as a "rebellion" & I explain why (and provide signs!). youtu.be/bIEhD2hw2oM

🚨Under 2 weeks to go! Don't forget to register for our flagship panel discussion: the Mary Robinson Speaker Series 2025. It’s online and free to attend. This year we'll be tackling one of the most pressing issues of our time: accountability of Big Tech.

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“The Intern in Charge”: Meet the 22-Year-Old Trump’s Team Picked to Lead Terrorism Prevention One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating v...

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What is autocratic capture? DeSantis's war on Disney, explained DeSantis’s attacks on Disney in Florida use a process called autocratic capture and mimic democratic erosion around the world.

It's small comfort or help to have predicted all this so accurately, but here we were naming "autocratic capture" several years ago and now the WH is assigning companies "loyalty ratings." (that story in the reply) protectdemocracy.org/work/desanti...

Tulsi Gabbard once blasted Trump for being a warmonger and protecting al-Qaeda That was when she was a founding fellow of the Bernie Sanders Institute.

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YouTube video by Laura Flanders & Friends Tulsi Gabbard, in 2019, on Government Corruption and Lies

Tulsi #Gabbard - revisionist? Ask Susan Sarandon. In 2019 Gabbard sounded off against #government #corruption and #lies, at #BernieSanders’ Institute with lefties, Susan #Sarandon, Ben Jealous, Radhika Balakrishnan, Jim Zogby. She’s revised her entire persona since. Her credibility is ZERO.

Maria Farmer is a strong inspiring survivor of Maxwell and Epstein’s abuses. She’s right when she says pedophilia is not a partisan issue but rather a societal problem. We need to give a voice to the victims who want to testify and trust them. We should not rely on an abuser to know what happened.

CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.

America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.

Watch and share his message.

YouTube video by New Economic Thinking What is Work? [Nancy Folbre]

What counts as work & what doesn't?
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Nancy Folbre shows how nearly half of all work done in this country is ignored by economists.
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With ICE's *enormous* new budget and its ability to hire *many* more agents, the United States is about to enter an era of brutal domestic terrorism that we've never seen before.

ILO Live - Special Session: Normative Frameworks for Social Justice Held under the auspices of the Global Coalition for Social Justice, this high-level session will explore how normative frameworks—anchored in international labour standards and rights-based economic p...

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Inequality, Part IV: Oligarchs The rise of mega-fortunes

America's superrich emerged in two phases: predatory finance followed by quasi-monoplies based on network effects paulkrugman.substack.com/p/inequality...

Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos.

Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":

America's Most Regressive Tax Levy: Our Tax on Capital Gains - Inequality.org Our capital gains effective tax rate shrinks as the gains grow in size and duration, inviting the tax dodge that’s driving America’s wealth concentration.

Our capital gains tax system seems complex, but it boils down to this: The more profitable an investment proves to be, the lower the effective tax on the gains that investment generates.

"You could not design a more regressive tax system," writes @azboblord.bsky.social in @inequality.org:

Donald Jr. and Eric Trump Pursue New Deals That Would Enrich President Trump The president’s older sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, spent the past two weeks traveling the world and announcing deals, many of which will financially benefit their father.

Just open, brazen, persistent, shameless grift and corruption and conflict of interests:

This is a thousand times more of a threat than the economic devastation we’re all reasonably enough distraught about out. The constitutional order as we’ve known it is hanging by a fraying thread that trump is holding a straight razor to with no one even reaching to withdraw his hand.

The crowds that AOC & Bernie Sanders are getting are MASSIVE.

Here’s the current scenes in Denver. Thousands.

#FightOligarchy

(🎥: Bastian Brauns)

Manhattan’s Federal Prosecutor Quits After Adams Case Is Ordered Dropped (Gift Article) Danielle R. Sassoon, the interim U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, quit after the Justice Department told her to withdraw corruption charges against Mayor Eric Adams.

Face of integrity

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list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

International migrants are the largest source of international aid. This is an often underappreciated benefit of migration for global poverty reduction.

Opinion | The Old World Is Breaking Down. A New One Is Breaking Through. Four trends are converging to make life much scarier.

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: Now is the time of monsters.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/o...

Not all economists are the same!

Gaza death toll 40% higher than official number, Lancet study finds Analysis estimates death toll by end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65

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Via Adam Tooze adamtooze.substack.com

China is cracking down on economists who say negative things about the economy. Can I say that it's *extremely* easy to imagine the Trump administration following a similar path?

Rest in peace, Jimmy Carter. Thank you for being one of the remarkable people who demonstrated that what's often thought of as time for retirement is when some among us reach their prime. Thank you for your feminism, your advocacy for Palestinians, your hands-on Habitat for Humanity work....

May he rest in power! Let’s keep his legacy alive by working for the issues he cared about!

YouTube video by Focus on the Global South Geopolitics and Globalization: A Feminist Reading and Critique from Southeast Asia

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