Lee Morgueing

Whenever I see a poll about voter’s top issues and it’s immigration and inequality as top two
Like, you’ve all been bamboozled
You’re sheep
Age old scapegoating of the former by the causers of the later

Epstein’s War

oswalt has never been the most subtle writer

its actually not hypocrisy
because conservatives see any amount of femininity as sexual; any amount femininity is a license to sexualize
so developing secondary characteristics is license to them
and drag is hyperfeminine, which they read as hypersexual, and thus strange to them to have at brunch

Nice argument, but I’ve already depicted you as that culotte clad butcher of Champ de Mars Lafayette and myself as the towering champion of liberty Danton

Capitalism is older than calculus and yet we still have a recession that causes mass death every ten years, and I learned integrals at sixteen. No other field is taking the kind of Ls that capitalist economists are. It's like if physicists were still looking for a perpetual motion machine.

Men rape. Poor men more often. A poor man is incapable of taking part in epsteins globalist cabal of sex traffickers. Ask a poor man his opinion on Epstein in 2006 and he’d say “who?” Ask a rich woman, and she’d say “I recommended him read lolita, thought he’d like it”

a heinous news cycle in every sense of the word

I think we have to burn down Harvard. We can rebuild, but place is rotted out.
Feel free to burn down Yale too to make it fair.

53 NYT articles by Maggie Haberman about Hillary’s emails, 48 about Benghazi, not one about Trump’s mafia ties or Epstein.

Tells you everything you need to know.

www.citjourno.org/maggie3

breathless headlines about US Army recruiting surge

military has the country wide economic despair its always wanted

Coercion and Monopsony in Modern American Manufacturing: Evidence from Alabama Prison Labor Susan Helper Suresh Naidu Akseli Palomaki Adam Reich Aaron Sojourner We study coercion and monopsony in contemporary U.S. manufacturing labor markets. We combine administrative data from the Alabama Department of Corrections work release program with a unique survey of workers in the Alabama auto supply chain where workers report their work-release status. We first present descriptive patterns of work-release labor, finding that the use of incarcerated (i.e., work-release) labor is concentrated in the auto supply industry, especially in the Montgomery area, where Hyundai’s assembly plant is located. In the survey, the share of plant-level workers who are incarcerated is negatively correlated with non-incarcerated wages. The survey also enables estimation of hypothetical quit elasticities separately among incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers. Incarcerated workers are estimated to have quit elasticities less than half that of non-incarcerated workers. Because Alabama law requires employers to pay the same wage to incarcerated and non-incarcerated workers in the same jobs, the additional monopsony power introduced by employer access to incarcerated workers creates an incentive and ability for employers to reduce plant-level wages to, and employment of, non-incarcerated workers. We build a quantitative model of firm-specific labor supply that, for incarcerated workers, distinguishes the roles of coercion (the risk of physical harm in prison from not working), wage garnishment that blunts the consumption effect of higher wages, and monopsony (limited mobility across employers). Using it, we estimate effects on free and incarcerated workers’ welfare from i) reforming prison conditions to eliminate violence, ii) eliminating prison labor wage garnishment, iii) imposing a $15 minimum wage, &iv) abolishing prison labor. Free worker welfare goes up in all scenarios...

How does employer access to prisoners’ labor through work release impact the well-being of those workers & of free workers?

New working paper by Sue Helper, Suresh Naidu, Akseli Palomaki, Adam Reich, + me provides evidence, focus on auto manufacturing in AL
#EconSky
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

What a strange thing to say

www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

If i was paying someone 1,000,000,000,000, I would expect them not to be rage-baited on the website they own

"go into private law, kids. people in power see anyone not from sullivan as cowardly rubes who will get steamrolled by us rich folk"
talk about career funneling

listening to CT state attorney general who thinks it quaint they can go pheasant hunting with republican AGs

as if its not psychotic that the only thing you have in common is the desire to kill something

democrats can't conceive of a change that doesn't occur once a year in november
they have no idea what to do with mass disapproval of trump
they have no idea what to do with mass politics, with people in the streets, with biopolitics
they would gladly trade a popular movement for a senate vote

"gave him more power"
that's YOUR fault
if you let him do illegal things that's YOUR fault
musk took the fight to payment processing, so could you
democrats refuse to act like its constitutional crisis RIGHT NOW

what is paul atreides if not the monster leto and the gesserit created?

second paragraph in contest with the first
democrats ARE willing to see people lose health insurance, so long as it benefits them electorally
democrats are just as willing to see people be hurt, so long as its the people their million dollar consultants say are the right ones

hate to see your enemies' priors confirmed

almost like it should be government single payer

i have no one to send this to....

The Case for the Forever Shutdown Senate Democrats actually allowing the GOP to stop funding the government is only the first step. Now they have to make the case that Trump’s government is illegitimate.

Bridging my current life in Chicago and my past life in D.C., I argue today at @newrepublic.com that Democrats should ~never~ vote to fund this government. Make John Thune blow up Senate rules and Republicans wholly own the U.S. extra-military military doing war crimes against us, funded by us.

Shutting down the government is a big deal. People have been hurt in big ways as a result of the decision. To have that suffering be for nothing—to re-open the government without actually having protected people’s health insurance and economic well-being—is unconscionable.

Schumer thinks politics is the visibility of rhetoric
He thinks getting republicans on the record of voting against ACA is a victory
Cause he doesn’t care about the actual provisioning of healthcare
Cause he’s both stupid and vile
The worst combination

if it turns out Democrats “negotiated” a “deal” that allows DONALD TRUMP to SEND OUT CHECKS WITH HIS NAME ON THEM I think we would have to seriously investigate the possibility that chuck schumer is a GOP manchurian candidate and the code word that activates him is “ballroom”