Sam Mace

Another huge issue, and I don't think people even know this is a thing, is that just about everything is done with smart phones now. And many (most?) seniors literally cannot work their phones. Signing things, texting, dealing with spam and fraud or even using the basic functions? They're often lost

reading Hunger by Knut Hamsun was a revelatory experience

this story isn’t going away

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Why tradwives aren’t trad The housewife is a Victorian invention. History shows us women’s true economic power

Re "trad wives" "In ancient Rome, the proportn of plumbers that were women was 4x in the UK today.
British Museum is home to a collection of historic biz cards...of lady shoemakers, toy, fan, cabinet makers, tea sellers, silver smiths.. women.. with pride."
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society/hist...

Labour bearing down on immigration will fix this any day now.

A classic case of so many people reading the cover and not the book imo

one thing not in the Caro book about LBJ (perhaps the only thing) is that apparently he was a big fan of Huey Long as a congressional aide. Made some of his politics make a lot more sense when I found this out

The American Conscience Charles Sumner’s fight for equality.

"In the antebellum years, he fought ferociously against the evils of slavery and frequently provoked Southern scorn on the Senate floor. After the Civil War, when race ‘science’ was emerging from the embers of Reconstruction, Sumner continued his fight against prejudice and discrimination."

how is this real

As soon as I watched the podcast I knew he was talking about MMT and couldn't stop laughing

Buy a book.

Any book, it doesn't matter which. The one you've been looking forward to, the one with the title that made you laugh, the weighty award-winner you've been meaning to get to. Whatever.

Treat yourself. Step away from it all. In this time of gross ignorance & madness, read something.

The crazy right will never be satisfied about migration Keir Starmer slashed net migration as the Mail and Farage demanded - and still got hammered for it

“Put bluntly, net migration fell because 400,000 fewer foreigners arrived, and 200,000 more foreigners left the UK. This is precisely what Reform, the Mail, and the new, nastier Tory Party have claimed – again and again – they wanted to happen. And now that it has, they have ignored it entirely.”

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It really is. Sometimes it is hard to keep up with the lies that come from that podium and the Oval Office.

Jeffries on the WH's explanation of Hegseth's reported double tap strike: "The White House is lying, but that's no surprise, because they lie for a living and the American people know it."

Amazingly, Your Party used first past the post in its vote on which name to use permanently, meaning the winner – Your Party, shocker – only got 37% of the vote on 30% turnout.

I am re-writing a paper on coup-proofing and friendship via a Schmittian lens. I have yet to find a paper on friendship and coup-proofing- is there anything I am missing? #academia #middleeast #coupproofing #friendship

Seeing all my friends and colleagues surpass me professionally is the most depressing thing in the world.

There are two distinct but related stories behind the book. The first began with the rise of Blue Labour and its search for a new political economy following the Brown Gov defeat in 2010. What started as a left discourse with Cruddas, Rutherford, Pabst and Glasman, quickly turned right under Glasman

I think this is where the Greens could genuinely turn out to be a challenger. But YP is such a bin fire, it's hard not to laugh.

Why PhDs aren't easy At least from my experience....

theorymatters.substack.com/p/why-phds-a...

"When the lecturers went out on strike, I could not join them. I simply could not afford to miss out on my pay at the end of the month for Christmas. I still remember a student angrily waiting for me after one class, demanding to know why I was ‘scabbing'

Why PhDs aren't easy At least from my experience....

theorymatters.substack.com/p/why-phds-a...

"When the lecturers went out on strike, I could not join them. I simply could not afford to miss out on my pay at the end of the month for Christmas. I still remember a student angrily waiting for me after one class, demanding to know why I was ‘scabbing'

Muscular Christianity.

“Wear some headphones, kid. And put your shoes back on”

Why PhDs aren't easy At least from my experience....

theorymatters.substack.com/p/why-phds-a...

My latest responding to the latest discourse on why PhDs are not in fact 'easy' as some are claiming...

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Given how much rubbish in my own field that I know AI produces, I'm happy to take the word of my friend who is a senior coder at a major firm

my best mate, who is an excellent coder, says AI code is only good code to those who don't know the first thing about coding.

a short walk to the shop and I end up sweating, coughing, and needing a puff on my inhaler...

well we aren't going to do better than this

I shall nip up to my local shop and get some!

Building Opposition Media with Adam Gurri How the centrist media has enabled fascism & what must be done differntly.

endless "both sides" takes from NYTs, CNN, WashPo, Etc are part of the problem

i talked with @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com about building an aggressively liberal alternative

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