Is this real life? Thanks to everyone who helped get this book into the world including the inimitable @aylazeef, the fighters at @econhardship, and everyone at One Signal especially editor extraordinaire, @alessandra115

Werner Herzog on the writing process

The rise of surveillance capitalism must be stopped. Charging obscene airfare because the algorithm knows you're going to a funeral should be illegal. Using our data to price gouge us should be illegal.

Netanyahu, fauteur de guerre, fait des provocations pour empêcher la conclusion d'un accord entre les USA et l'Iran. Au Liban et à Gaza, les atrocités israéliennes se multiplient. Il est temps que cesse l'impuissance face aux fauteurs de guerre.

After leaving graduate school with no prospects for a teaching job, I worked at a grocery store. What I saw was a working class struggling to survive. bit.ly/4uAF6ce

Look what happens when NYC gets a taste of socialism.

Jalen Brunson, espousing Gramsci’s “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will”, brings a championship to socialist New York City

What Working in a Grocery Store Taught Me About American Inequality | @AnnLLarson time.com/article/2026/06/11/…

shut it down

The DOJ just approved Paramount’s bid to buy Warner Brothers Discovery. This is not the end, not by a long shot: The European authorities, the UK authorities, and most importantly 10 American state attorney generals (both Democrats and Republicans) are all actively looking at the deal right now. I still think it will be blocked. But in the meantime, some thoughts on the DOJ’s analysis: (1) The merger would combine the second and fifth largest film studios in the country. They will load the combined company down with $79 billion in debt, which they will need to service while they are trying to cut $6 billion in “synergies.” Mind you, Paramount/Skydance just laid off 2400 people last year when Skydance bought Paramount. It is painfully obvious that the combined Paramount/WBD will struggle to keep up its pace of high quality theatrical releases. (Indeed, what's most likely is that the merged firm starts releasing AI slop, re-releasing old movies, or re-releasing old movies with new AI slop.) The DOJ just doesn’t see it. (2) The DOJ also appears to be unaware of the market for documentaries, which has three major buyers: CNN, HBO, and Netflix -- and Netflix mostly buys crime, celebrity, and cult docs. Gone is Showtime and gone is MTV films; PBS/CPB have had their budgets existentially slashed. When it comes to documentary, this is a three-to-two merger to duopoly. That's on the buying side. On the inputs side, there are four key TV news archives in the United States: ABC, NBC, CBS, and the crown jewel, CNN. This merger will make it three. And if public reporting is correct, it will result in two of the four archives being under the control of one person, Bari Weiss. The DOJ sees none of this either. (3) President Trump’s closest ally in organized labor is Teamsters General President Sean O’Brien. He warned that this merger “threatens the livelihoods of the very workers who built these studios into industry giants.” The Teamsters’ Motion Picture Division director, Lindsay Dougherty, called the merger yet another example of “greed-fueled consolidation of corporate power [that] is a direct threat to good union jobs.” The DOJ didn’t see this problem either. They relegated their analysis of labor markets to four sentences at the end of the statement. According to them, they see no impact on output and hence no impact on labor. (4) Paramount’s leaders have lavished the President with gifts, censorship of his critics, and with promises of future censorship of his critics. They gutted CBS News and 60 Minutes. According to the Wall Street Journal, they also promised to gut CNN. They canceled Stephen Colbert. They held a strange, lavish banquet in honor of the White House and “the First Amendment” at a federal building — and the President and the Acting Attorney General joined them. The President even said he “would be involved” in the decision of merger approval. And so he was. Do not look away from this corruption. Do not act like it's normal. Because this is how we got to this result today.

Capitalism guarantees class war—the only solution to this revolting level of wealth hoarding is to wrest and redistribute it to the working class majority that created it in the first place.

.@grok what percentage of children in the United States live in poverty:

Galaxy brain meme: A job in journalism. A job in progressive journalism. A job at THE NATION. A JOB TWEETING FOR A LIVING!* thenation.com/jobs/ *And also other stuff.

Extraordinary essay by @maryturfah in @thebafflermag

~NEW EPISODE~ "One of the fastest growing demographics of grocery workers is older people. Boomers lost homes in the 2008 financial crisis." - @AnnLLarson 🎙️: bit.ly/3QDbAEy 🧵1/3

[guy reading Karl Marx]: "whoa—this is woke"

Crazy to think that the mortgage on this garbage shack is about the same as the mortgage on my first, real, 1400 square foot house I bought in 2010.

Joe Murphy of the @NBA photography crew was the one who captured this image. A life changing moment for Joe. 📸 I will be in heavy pursuit of this image signed by Joe. The photographers are artists. The image will be on the walls of thousands of fans. The photographers work is what creates a lasting impact in our head. Congratulations to Joe. 👏

so cool that we went from forgiving medical debt to surper-charging medical debt