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🚨🚨ATTENTION EVERYONE🚨🚨 We have here a new essay from @cloudquistador in response to an essay in @jacobin about AI and its relationship to the workforce. Read all about it here! Follow the link below! vdgasjournal.com/2025/07/24/a-c…
whenever anyone gets mad about tipping in the US and tries to defend not tipping they always wax philosophical about “fighting the system” it never seems to occur to these dipshits that you can actually fight for better wages while still tipping so people don’t suffer interim
For those interested, here is the talk: youtu.be/oCdfXBD_z9o?si…
Just published: front page of the Financial Times, UK edition, July 28 on.ft.com/3GYD4jm
I did not realize Ana Kasparian was already at the "go on Tucker Carlson and call him stunning and brave" part of her grifter arc
Something deeply evil about a society that creates a trillionaire before it solves homelessness or hunger
Elon Musk is now officially worth $405.6 billion, projected to become the world’s first trillionaire by 2027.
You shouldn’t be charged more or paid less because of your ZIP code or search history. I just introduced a bill to ban “surveillance pricing” — when corporations use your data to hike up prices or cut your wages. It’s invasive. It’s exploitative. And it needs to end.
Exciting guests on today. Tune in at 4
Tomorrow our stream will be at 4PM Eastern rather than our usual 2PM. We will be joined by @BigMeanInternet to discuss Abundance, his new book "What's Left" and the future of Communism. Watch live on here, Youtube and Twitch. youtube.com/@CosmonautMaga… twitch.tv/cosmonautmagaz…
The romans were fastidious record keepers which is why we know how genocidal they actually were
Gerald Horne interviews @EugenePuryear on Harry Haywood, Lenin, Cyril Briggs, Sen Katayama, M. N. Roy, the Scottsboro Boys, and the Black Belt Thesis for KPFK Los Angeles. Forthcoming in the next few weeks. A truly fantastic interview. Stay tuned!
In a talk given in 2010, John Gray remarked that Obama reminded him of Gorbachev—good rhetoric, lots of plans and initiatives, however meaningless, all to give cover to the decline neither he nor anyone else could really stop. It made one believe things were better than they were
the appeal of Obama was that he created an ideology of vapid optimism that made the liberal global order seem much more stabile than it actually was - so much so, that much of the left came to see this soft social liberalism as the "natural" face of capital.
im sorry but have you actually interacted with americans off twitter? many absolutely judge and mock how immigrants speak.
Americans don’t care about your grammar. we don’t correct your English bc we hear English spoken as a second language so often that mistakes don’t impede comprehension. however, use one wrong article in German and they act like they have no idea what you said.
VPN use has soared in the UK as Brits look to find a way round the UK’s new online safety act that requires an age check on sites offering adult content, as well as social media apps on.ft.com/4l4Esin
Insane story. The cop featured in it is so shockingly stupid that it's unclear if she's fit for any job at all. Many such cases.
Taylor Cadle was 12 years old when she was sexually abused—but cops in Polk County, Florida decided she was the criminal. To vindicate herself, she pulled out her phone and hit record. motherjones.com/criminal-justi…
I remember when you decided to change your mind about the Iraq War, but why do you think this keeps happening to you?
I think it is an unmitigated *good* to have multiple partners. It means you are enjoying life, living it for yourself, and open to experiences. Love doesn’t have to happen once.
Girl has been dating for 20 years. These are rookie numbers. I swear to god it’s like y’all are Mormons or something. I live in a big city and was raised on Carrie Bradshaw and friends - I can’t believe how many of y’all are backwards 1940s-era hicks. Get with the times, man.
Dr. Horne is a fantastic historian
This book is a must read Gerald Horne is an amazing historian.
It's such an admission that men live life on easy mode that their biggest fear is a "bitter" woman might lie to another woman sufficiently that she rejects a man's advances. You aren't going to jail. You aren't having men show up to rape you, as men arrange in their rape chats.
So you think this is only being used entirely honestly and won't be used for nefarious purposes by bitter former lovers? Also I have absolutely no interest in continuing a conversation with somebody who uses words like winnowed and abrogated to try to appear intelligent.
Lol I wrote a whole eulogy for Scruton when he passed away since I've enjoyed reading his work so much...
I promise you he’s never read Scruton.