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Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk NEW YORK—Insisting your fate was sealed the moment you clicked the link, a report released Tuesday found that you will be fired for reading this headline about Charlie Kirk. “Shortly after you navigat...

Report: You To Be Fired For Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Heather Cox Richardson today - on the lies and hatred being spread by our current government. Scary stuff, we must resist. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-...

The Great Robert Jay Lifton, Friend and Mentor, Has Passed Away One of the giants of our time and author of books on (to name just a few) Nazi doctors, Hiroshima survivors and nuclearism in America, Vietnam veterans and the war on terror, and the death penalty.

The Great Robert Jay Lifton, Friend and Mentor, Has Passed Away
One of the giants of our time, author of books on (to name just a few) Nazi doctors, Hiroshima survivors and nuclearism in America, Vietnam veterans and the war on terror, and the death penalty. gregmitchell.substack.com/p/the-great-...

Oy!

I often think about this letter to the New Statesman.

It's from a 1960s Tory, and neatly summarises how British politics has shifted massively to the right, and taken Starmer's Labour party with it.

#PoliticsLive

Trump’s Dangerous Game: Protection, Provocation, and the Politics of Manufactured Crisis jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/trumps-dan...

An apt story for our times, written by Rebecca Solnit in the wake of Katrina in New Orleans www.meditationsinanemergency.com/we-were-made...

Resisting Rule by Fear - James B Greenberg jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/resisting-...

Forgetting Authoritarianism. Today James Greenberg is talking about the return of dictatorship and fascism as we forget the past horrors jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/forgetting...

It's not just killing our dream--it's literally killing US!

jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-res...

I asked ChatGPT for help in articulating what we're working toward--so we can say what we're for as well as what we're against. Here's the result:

James B. Greenberg on the shock doctrine and authoritarian takeover jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-shock-...

Living in the Shadow of the American Dream: Robert Reich shares a letter from a working family in the heartland robertreich.substack.com/p/life-in-th...

Movement Conservatism: a brief history. (Heather Cox Richardson) heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/august-23-...

Today is the anniversary of the worst memo in history Friends,

The Powell Memo is at the root of our current crisis in America. If you don't know of it, its history, and its continuing effects, read this overview by RR. If you want a deeper dive, check out "The Master Plan" podcast at levernews.com robertreich.substack.com/p/today-is-t...

Scene on Radio rocks! Love John Biewen.

Resisting the Authoritarian City, Block by Block www.patreon.com/posts/resist...

Shame. Utter cruelty.

On Not Surrendering in Advance (Or At Any Point Thereafter) There's a reason why sports teams don't chant "I believe that we will lose" before a game, a reason so obvious that I'm pretty sure it needs no explanation in that context. Words have power. They not ...

Rebecca Solnit's on fire today. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/on-not-surre...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

The argument against regulation is always the same: “It stifles growth and jobs.”

But just as tax cuts for corporations have not trickled down, regulatory cuts have not benefited most people.

Big companies enjoy bigger profits. Working people bear the costs.

When I was in college they taught me that capitalism means that there are capitalists, who own productive resources, like say factories, and they hire people to make stuff and then sell it. They can’t pay their workers so much that they don’t make a profit, but they have to pay them at least enough that they can afford to buy the stuff the factory produces. Feudalism, in contrast, is when you just take your profits directly by charging rent, fees and dues, turning people into debt peons, or otherwise shaking them down. Nowadays the vast majority of corporate profits don’t come from making or selling things but from “finance,” which is a euphemism for other peoples’ debts—charging rents, fees, interest and whatnot. It’s feudalism in the classic definition: “direct juro-political extraction” as they sometimes put it. - David Graeber

So much of this economic system now resembles Feudalism.

Is this AI generated?

The Big Lie: Fossil Fuels, Climate Denial, and the Politics of Delay jamesbgreenberg.substack.com/p/the-big-li...

'Corporate Crime Pays' Under Trump as His Agencies Drop Enforcement Against 165 Companies | Common Dreams "The Trump administration is protecting lawbreaking corporate insiders from accountability instead of protecting America

Since taking office, Trump has halted or ended 1/3 of investigations and enforcement actions against Big Tech giants — including Meta, Tesla, and Google.

These same tech companies have spent over $1.2B to influence Trump during and since the 2024 election.

Everything is for sale.