JW Mason

This is a nice way of putting it.

me too

*new reason

A colleague of mine was complaining last night that I wasn't on twitter anymore. Said I should come back, that you have to be there to debate, that it's where the people are. But, no. Every day there's a no reason to not.

No matter what's happening in the world, we have to keep doing the work. And if you want to study economics in order to help build socialism in New York City, I can safely say that John Jay is the place where it's getting done.

Mayor Mamdani Announces Six Appointees to the Rent Guidelines Board

A big if belated congratulations to the two, count 'em, TWO recent graduates of the John Jay MA program in economics who Zohran Mamdani just appointed to the New York Rent Guidelines Board. Well done, Lauren Melodia and Sina Sinai!

www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

The deliberate, premeditated destruction of an entire society? Versus indiscriminate murder for its own sake, as a kind of macho entertainment? I don't know. Both are horrible.

Pure evil. And they're not even trying to hide it.

This guy deserves a place in the history books.

Many people are saying.

Absolutely.

Interacting with multiple trans and nonbinary kids and their parents over the past few days, in the course of living my life, I think of the progress we’ve made in the past few years. Our side are the culturally normal ones; soon enough, Gavin Newsom will be recalled as the weird sex freak he is.

Hegseth says this is the opposite of nation building. I guess that much at least is true. substack.com/app-link/pos...

we’re tearing down the international system all so a rogue apartheid state can commit a genocide and bomb any country that won’t go along with it

I will be speaking this Thursday evening at the Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies at the New School on my forthcoming book with Arjun Jayadev, Against Money. The event is free, but you need to register in advance. event.newschool.edu/againstmoney

It is a very strange thing for him to say.

For him it did.

His grandfather was an accomplished architect and his mother a restaurateur who is his oyster farm’s only customer but sure if a white man has a job suddenly he’s working class.

After the Rent Freeze | JW Mason The cost of affordable housing in New York City

This is focused on NY, but is broadly applicable. Best analysis of housing costs I have ever seen. Let’s make housing affordable. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/aft...

Wirth paying attention to which elected officials talk about the deaths of Iranians, and which ones do not.

If it wasn't patently obvious before: the US and Israel have wildly different aims, and Israel's approach (decapitate anything that looks like a potential political power base) is currently winning. Their target "regime" is anarchy.

*NETANYAHU: AIM IS ALSO TO CREATE CONDITIONS FOR REGIME CHANGE

bibi is just descriptively correct and the next dem needs to just sever all ties with israel. defense, trade, all of it. even thinking on utterly cynical grounds: israeli political leadership and overall politics is overtly opposed to the american left-of-center project

I've gotten several messages recently from students asking to join my (nonexistent) "research team."

Either way the interesting thing is how the correct but vague memory of a single Dem vote against Empire gets misattributed to Sanders.

Possibly confused with the vote on the AUMF for Afghanistan, which there was indeed only one vote against. That no vote was however Barbara Lee, not Bernie.

Establishment Democrats aren't against Iran bombing, they're just pouting about not being asked.

Society is getting smarter, and dumbness is fighting back harder in response.

If the Israeli strikes are precise enough to track the locations of top leaders of the Iranian government, they certainly know when they are targeting a school.

A, and I am sorry to say that that person is not me.

It’s organized mass murder, that all. Not much nuance there.