This 1 hr film on John Maynard Keynes is well worth watching. His equality-based critique of the standard (neoclassical) economics' and typical political fixation on growth & finance, rather than people & balance, is as relevant now as it was nearly 100 years ago. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPYr...
Keynes: The Secret Architect of the Modern World | FD FinanceYouTube video by FD Financewww.youtube.comAnn PettiforLord Robert Skidrlsky and I comment on Keynes's economic theories and policies in this film.,, open.substack.com/pub/annpetti...
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I’m Jimothy, the Short-Spined Raccoon Who Has Taken the Internet by Storm, and the Collective Weight of Your Adoration Is Breaking My Already-Compromised Back“I’m happy that the absurd proportion of my legs to my body fills you with a dim echo of what you used to call joy. I would be thrilled if your delight at me...www.mcsweeneys.netEverything he contemplates is about destruction and control. www.washingtonpost.com/style/2026/0...
Column | Trump’s plan to paint the Eisenhower is about more than damaging stoneThe administration’s proposal risks harming both the historic building and the system of reviews that protects structures like it.www.washingtonpost.com“requires people to act in ways that affirm the dignity and presence of others, even when difference remains.”
Liberal Currents"After the war, Germany rebuilt some of what had been destroyed. In 1959, Chancellor Konrad Adenauer attended the dedication of a synagogue in Cologne. The moment was described as tense and quiet, less a celebration than a reckoning. Pluralism, in that setting, had to be reconstructed deliberately."
In this fraught moment in America, @hcrichardson.bsky.social quotes the one military expert who was inarguably also an expert on civilian life: Allied Forces leader, Army general and 34th president of the United States Dwight D. Eisenhower. What are we doing? open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
The most surprising thing about this news is that the CDC reported it.
Helen Branswell 🇨🇦#CDC reports that the confirmed #measles count in 2026 has hit 2,318, exceeding the 2025 total. It's the highest annual total — & the year's far from over — in 35 years. To keep measles under control, about 95% of kids need to be vaccinated. Few parts of the country are hitting that target.
The talking head press keeps avoiding the reason WHY so many working Americans are upset. The entire “we are near full employment” nonsense skips the reality of citizens. www.help.senate.gov/dem/newsroom...
NEWS: New GAO Report Finds Taxpayers Continue to Subsidize Poverty Wages at Walmart, Amazon, Other Large Corporations as Corporate Welfare Spikes Since 2020 | The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Educ...WASHINGTON, July 22 – According to a new Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, some of the largest and most profitable American corporations...www.help.senate.gov
“We need a Project 2027: the plan and the will for Congress to assert its power and really stand up for the people and their interests. And we need to start doing this the moment Democrats arrive in Congress next January.” www.liberalcurrents.com/dems-need-a-...
Dems Need a Project 2027The 120th Congress must have a plan to re-assert its power immediately. Here's a start.www.liberalcurrents.com
