Mastodawn

This looks interesting. $79 Trillion is a lot of money.

"The $79 Trillion Heist: We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past." -- #HaroldMeyerson

https://prospect.org/2025/12/03/79-trillion-heist-worker-pay/

The $79 Trillion Heist

We’re in an affordability crisis because workers aren’t being paid at the same levels they earned in the past.

The American Prospect

bsmall2 Apr 16, 2025

> Lincoln famously wrote, "Are all the laws but one to go unexecuted, and the government itself go to pieces, lest that one be violated?"
> Today, all the laws that have protected the nation from the arbitrary rule of a lawless president are increasingly going unexecuted. It’s time for state and local governments to invoke their own laws to preserve American democracy. And it’s time for their constituents to demand this of them.
https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=2ecd2bd94734e5dd392d8678bc64cdab.3235&s=bd057772ed478db78b6bd52e87fea26b
#HaroldMeyerson #LocalGovernments #uspol

How States and Cities Might Repel Trump’s Police State Crimes

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bsmall2 Apr 16, 2025

Arrest ICE for kidnapping... Sounds like a plan: how about citizen's arrests? Is that a real thing? A citizen's arrest, where citizens can arrest people??
> Suspicion of kidnapping? Suspicion of the child abuse inherent in putting a first grader under lock and key? Is that too much of a stretch?
> I’d argue that when the federal government stretches to violate constitutional rights, state and local governments must stretch to defend them.
https://americanprospect.bluelena.io/index.php?action=social&chash=2ecd2bd94734e5dd392d8678bc64cdab.3235&s=bd057772ed478db78b6bd52e87fea26b
#ArrestICE #HaroldMeyerson #CitizensArrest

How States and Cities Might Repel Trump’s Police State Crimes

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bsmall2 Feb 13, 2025

> This coming April 19 will mark the 250th anniversary of the battles of Lexington and Concord, which began the American Revolution and our war against monarchical power... Harold Meyerson suggests that on April 19 we stage massive peaceful protests in every city and town — crowds of Americans celebrating the anti-monarchical uprising of 1775...
Sounds like a good idea to me. You?
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-petty-tyrants
#AntiMonarchical #AntiOligarchical #April19th #uspol #RobertReich #HaroldMeyerson

Flooding Trump and Musk’s zone

How to deal with their tyranny

Robert Reich

Steve Randy Waldman Aug 13, 2024

#HaroldMeyerson on #JonathanChait https://prospect.org/politics/2024-08-12-why-joe-biden-moved-center-economic-progressivism/ ht @ddayen

There Are Some Damned Good Reasons Why Joe Biden Moved to the Left

Contra Jon Chait, Biden’s economic progressivism has been both historic and (had he only been able to explain it) good politics.

The American Prospect

Steve Randy Waldman Jul 18, 2024

"For of all the reasons Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance to be his running mate, the one that stands out the clearest is this: Vance came complete with the biggest dowry in human history." #HaroldMeyerson https://prospect.org/politics/2024-07-18-would-jd-vance-join-uaw-picket-line-tesla/

Would J.D. Vance Join a UAW Picket Line Outside a Tesla Factory?

If you believe that, I got this bridge I need to unload.

The American Prospect

Steve Randy Waldman Jun 1, 2024

This sentence kind of breaks my heart:

"Now, at least symbolically, Trump joins America’s greatest democratic socialist, Eugene V. Debs, as a candidate seeking the presidency from a jail cell"

https://prospect.org/politics/2024-05-31-martyr-of-mar-a-lago-trump-trial/

#HaroldMeyerson

The Martyr of Mar-a-Lago

Trump can never be wrong; he can only be wronged.

The American Prospect

Steve Randy Waldman May 13, 2024

"The ideology that threatens rule by capitalists isn’t communism, or at least, not the communism of communists in power. It’s social democracy… When it comes to organized worker power, Lenin, Mao, and Xi are indistinguishable from Musk, Howard Schultz, and Samuel Alito: They all hate and fear unions." #HaroldMeyerson https://prospect.org/economy/2024-05-13-why-elon-loves-china-hates-sweden/

Why Elon Loves China and Hates Sweden

Capitalism and communism suppress workers; social democracy empowers them.

The American Prospect

Steve Randy Waldman May 7, 2024

The weird thing is that, under contemporary moral pathologies, open borders offered as refuge from vicious discrimination in a source country might be characterized as complicit accommodation of ethnic cleansing. Refusing refuge might, as Egypt's Sisi put it, be characterized as necessary to prevent "liquidation" of their cause, assertion of their rights at home.

#HaroldMeyerson on why US choices a century ago sit at the roots of the Israel/Palestine conflict. https://prospect.org/world/2024-05-06-who-created-israel-palestine-conflict/