It’s not just the kids anymore Trump is trying to get to DeSantis’ right on the issue of transgender rights and it is very, very ugly. This is by Dave Weigel at Semafor: You’d be forgiven if you missed Donald Trump’s new plan to stop “left-wing gender insanity.” Other Republicans had talked like this for years, and far more media attention went to, say, Ron Desantis getting the College Board to take left-wing voices out of an African American Studies course. But to both LGBT advocates and social conservatives, Trump’s policy rollout was a watershed moment, one that signaled a hard right turn from debates focused on transitioning youth to a broader attack on the very concept of transgender identity itself. Trump had already supported efforts by red states to ban gender-affirming care for minors, discussions of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools, and transgender student athletes.
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In his recent essay for The Monthly, Treasurer Jim Chalmers laid out his blueprint for abandoning the neoliberal era of "supply-side" economics, to a new concept of "values-based" capitalism. The question remains: whose values? read now...
MNE dispatched its roving reporter to the Atlantic coast today to cover the shoot down of the China spy balloon here is the footage:
Our reporter on the scene heard 2 explosions… This may have been an initial miss:
Then this might have been the hit:
Social Security and Medicare cuts are back on the menu Whatever “populist” impulse Donald Trump brought into the party didn’t take among hardcore conservatives: Former Vice President Mike Pence, a possible contender for the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, said Thursday that he wants to “reform” Social Security and institute private savings accounts for recipients. “There are modest reforms in entitlements that can be done without disadvantaging anybody at the point of the need,” Pence told an audience at the National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors summit in Washington, D.C. “I think the day could come when we could replace the New Deal with a better deal. Literally give younger Americans the ability to take a portion of their Social Security withholdings and put that into a private savings account.” Video of the event was obtained by the Democratic tracking group American Bridge 21st Century. The comments mark one of the first policy proposals from Pence as the field for the Republican nomination is fast taking shape.
[Netanyahu's] government is fiercely far-right, although from the standpoint of the Palestinians there is steady continuity in Zionist state policy, whether the government is led by the far-right or by less right-wing sections.
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...this is a war that will yield no victors and will, in guaranteed fashion, make a mockery of victory.
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How they spent their first week of business Following up on the post below, here’s Dana Milbank with a piece on the new House majorities first orders of business. I confess that I had not heard about the important vote to condemn the Russian Revolution, The Great Leap Forward and the Killing Fields. Frankly, I’m surprised any of the Republicans had even heard of these things but I’m sure their leadership told them it would like, totally own the libs so they enthusiastically signed on: A CNN poll last week found that about three-quarters of Americans, including nearly half of Republicans, think House Republican leaders aren’t paying enough attention to the country’s most pressing problems. So this week, GOP leaders set out to rectify the situation. They approved a resolution condemning the Russian Revolution. Of 1917.
By Nolan Higdon / Project Censored The increasing shift to remote work in higher education has threatened the power and influence of the professional managerial class (PMC). In response, the PMC are throwing everything at the wall from baseless claims about work productivity to coercive policies to cement their power over faculty. Coined by John and […]
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Those of you with gray hair certainly remember Dan Burton, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee during the Clinton years who famously conducted a “forensic experiment” in his backyard to prove that Clinton aide Vince Foster had been murdered (presumably by Hillary Clinton…) The experiment consisted of shooting a watermelon to see if it was feasible that Foster had actually committed suicide. Well, get ready for his heir, James Comer, the new Chairman of the House Oversight Committee: The man is giving Marjorie Taylor Greene a run for her money. The last I heard from these guys was that COVID is nothing worse than a cold and that it’s the vaccines that kill people. But whatever …
Following yesterday’s funeral of Cardinal George Pell, I was disturbed to read this from a Sydney Morning Herald letter writer: ‘I went to St Mary’s Cathedral to tie a ribbon on the iron fence for a friend who was raped by a priest when he was seven years old. My ribbons were cut off by Continue reading »
Pandemic stimulus not the cause. Fed runs its accustomed playbook to screw labor and reward capital based on junk economics.
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James Galbraith: The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022 – A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
James K. Galbraith | Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
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James Galbraith: The Quasi-Inflation of 2021-2022 – A Case of Bad Analysis and Worse Response
James K. Galbraith | Lloyd M. Bentsen Jr. Chair in Government/Business Relations and Professor of Government at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, The University of Texas at Austin
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Australia’s oceans, Greenland’s Ice Sheet and Antarctica’s sea ice are all feeling the heat. One million species are on the edge of extinction. No wonder life scientists are taking to the streets. Australia is in hot water Although the global warming that has occurred over the oceans is lower than the warming over land, about Continue reading »
What role is Australia playing in the diplomacy that ultimately will end the Ukraine conflict and prevent war over Taiwan? Even the most hawkish cannot seriously believe such conflicts will end militarily. The roll call of countries where the civilian population endures armed conflict is seemingly endless. When the conflict is primarily about a struggle Continue reading »
Benjamin Netanyahu’s ultra-right government’s reported response to the “terrorism” of the Palestinian who killed seven people at a synagogue in east Jerusalem on 27 January 2023 includes the likely collective punishment of the family of the attacker, such as loss of citizenship, house demolition and deportation. “Fair enough”, some might say. But the reality is Continue reading »
Australia needs a Royal Commission into its heinous, wasteful, privatised immigration detention policy. This is imperative in order to uncover immigration detention’s secrets, racism and appalling costs, to change public attitudes and to explore humane alternatives. Australian immigration detention’s 30-year anniversary largely passed last year without comment. Successive Governments have denied responsibility, facts and wrongdoing, Continue reading »
The difference that money makes: sovereignty, indecision and the politics of liquidity
Just a short glance indicated to me that this would be worth recording, and I was right. With a flair unexpected in a PhD thesis, Drumm draws on English and classical history, much of it presented through Shakespeare, to show how history has been defined by the politics of liquidity, and how this politics is really the management of an unresolved dilemma at the heart of the monetary theory.
Modern Monetary Theory comes off the worst as Drumm shows it has tautological underpinnings and a selective view of history which cannot explain the Middle Ages.
Many well meaning participants genuinely opposed to religious oppression at the International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit this week in Washington will not realise that they are pawns in a US State Department geopolitical game. The International Religious Freedom (IRF) Summit this week in Washington, appears to be a great idea. Everyone in the world is Continue reading »
Bob Bowker’s recently published memoir enriches our understanding of the Middle East and reminds us that the corpse of the two-state solution in Israel-Palestine has been lying in the sun for years, though many countries, including Australia, determinedly hold their noses and avert their gaze. Diplomatic memoirs come in all shapes and sizes. Some offer Continue reading »
Same old, same old. The push for repeal began with the passage of the New Deal and the push won't end until it is repealed or effectively neutered by privatization. The push for austerity of which this is just a part risks another depression, and some would argue that it guarantees it.
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Danger Ahead: Mike Pence Would Pick Up Where Paul Ryan Left Off
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
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Danger Ahead: Mike Pence Would Pick Up Where Paul Ryan Left Off
Stephanie Kelton | Professor of Public Policy and Economics at Stony Brook University, formerly Democrats' chief economist on the staff of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee, and an economic adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Bernie Sanders
Milburn’s ‘Mozart Group’ said to have disbanded shortly after interview that discussed Ukrainian war crimes Retired US Marine Colonel Andy Milburn has reportedly claimed that a video in which he chatted about the ‘sick’, ‘fucked up’ acts he had seen in Ukraine while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces, including the murder of prisoners of war. Milburn’s […]
As long as we play along with the "solvency" game, Social Security is vulnerable to privatization.
Emma Vigeland and Sam Seder look at the recent House vote to denounce socialism and what that means for the future of socialist policies like M4A, with 109 Democrats joining the Right on the vote.
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From backroom deals between Hillary Clinton and Goldman Sachs to US covert operations in Haiti, Tunisia, Italy and beyond, WikiLeaks revealed the dark underbelly of US power.
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