It's been disappointing to watch progressives react more forcefully against police brutality than against the corporate looting of this country This is a time when people of all political persuasions need to be united to reverse the Wall … [Read more...]
The Riots Hurt Trump
The chairman of the Minnesota DFL recently clutched his pearls and fretted about losing the two white suburban districts flipped by Democrats in the 2018 midterms. He said “when the voters in Dean Phillips and Angie Craig’s districts see … [Read more...]
It’s Not a Reichstag Moment. It’s the Beginning of a Reichstag Year
The Insurrection Act of 1807 was amended in 2006: Congress amended the Insurrection Act of 1807. The Act enables the President to deploy the military “to suppress, in any State, any insurrection, domestic violence, unlawful combination, … [Read more...]
Viciousness and white spaces
It's been a hell of a weekend. I wish everyone safety -- and if it's too late for that, a fast recovery. I'm still trying to process the events, in Boston and Minneapolis and DC and New York and Louisville ... Let's take a moment to … [Read more...]
America’s Tiananmen Square moment
Chinese tanks in Tiananmen Square On Saturday, May 30, 2020, police in Minneapolis, without warning, shot flash-bang grenades and tear-gas at an MSNBC crew while it was broadcasting a live spot by MSNBC anchor Ali Velshi. Mr. Velshi … [Read more...]
City Agriculture – May 30, 2020
“Tree-like” vertical farms for Brooklyn? https://www.framlab.com/glasir https://www.core77.com/posts/94000/Could-These-Tree-Like-Vertical-Farms-Be-the-Future-of-Urban-Farming Underground parking lot to organic mushroom farm in Paris … [Read more...]
A Possible Detente with the #NeverBiden Left
I do not always agree with Jacobin founder and DSA member Bhaskar Sunkara, but his Op-Ed in today's New York Times does his movement a service: First, he acknowledges that Joe Biden is the Democratic nominee because he won the support of … [Read more...]
Solidarity: How we won the war, at home
My mother had some Life magazines from the World War II years. The stories and photographs are, of course, legendary: In one issue there's a before and after picture of the city of Hiroshima. But I'm always drawn to the ads. Even the … [Read more...]
91 MA economists sign letter to Baker, Spilka, and DeLeo: Raise taxes, don’t cut jobs
Massachusetts suffered dearly in the Great Recession, but not as badly as some places. Realizing that cuts to state funding and services -- ie. jobs -- would exacerbate the economic damage, the Commonwealth raised revenues. That was due to … [Read more...]
Will MA Dems continue to turn over the Congressional delegation?
ProgressiveMass now has endorsed progressive challengers to Richard Neal (MA-1) and Steven Lynch (MA-8). Not really any surprises here, but I wonder if at some point there will be a stampede to the exits for two of the least-progressive or … [Read more...]
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