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Lochnertastic

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On April 28, 2020
When I said the Republican Party was dedicated to killing workers, I wasn't kidding. And of course, it's when people's access to endless meat is threatened that Republicans act to force people to work, rather than, say, massive mask or ventilator production efforts. BREAKING NEWS:...
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Life in the New Gilded Age

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On November 17, 2019
Until this nation gets over its belief that corporations are fundamentally good, we will never solve our national problems. At this point, the corporations aren't even trying to hide their insatiable greed and contempt for the rest of us losers, defined by the fact that...
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Of course the vultures are ready to profit big-time off our national program of ethnic cleansing. Six high-ranking employees at a nonprofit organization housing thousands of migrant children for the federal government made at least $1 million for their work in 2017, according to tax...
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More on the False Economy

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On May 22, 2019
Building on yesterday's post about how despite the low unemployment numbers, people's lived economy is basically terrible, Jacob Hacker has a very useful op-ed in the Times on the same issue. Even with unemployment at a 50-year low, the job market is failing to reach...
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