Greg Pak on Instagram: "Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Follow @maydaystrong and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you! t... 16 likes, 1 comments - gregpaknet on April 20, 2026: "Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Follow @maydaystrong and check out maydaystro...

Aaand I threw it up on IG. Please feel free to like and share it if you're over there and help me defeat the algo!

www.instagram.com/p/DXXZDQgkQCQ/

We Will Not Be Silent: May Day Rally & March · AFL-CIO Friday, May 1, 4:00PM: Join the New York City Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO; New York Immigration Coalition; union & community members from across the City to commemorate International Workers Day! ...

Here's info about the big May Day march in NYC! As always with marches like this, you don't have to sign up - you can just show up! #MayDayStrong

www.mobilize.us/aflcio/event...

This is great!

horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…

Book cover: The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy by Gil Duran

Fascists hate to be called out as fascists. Too bad.

Coming soon:

The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War On Democracy.

Yes, they are fascists. Yes, they must be crushed.

Please pre-order here: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Source: Thomas H. Eliot, Recollections of the New Deal, Northeastern University Press, 1992, p92

Not gonna give her the click, but does she claim that unemployment was like 19%? Because, yes, that was the official unemployment rate, but people with WPA and CCC jobs (and there were a lot of them) were counted as "unemployed" back then.

What the New Loan Caps Will Mean for Grad Students This Fall

Some news coverage and info here: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...

It isn't that loans are gone. There are new limits and the Grad Plus loans are eliminated altogether. And yes people can still take private loans if they want but that is a really bad idea.

I keep wondering if I should even bother continuing to cover this stuff because I’m so broke, and then this shit keeps happening. So my reporting definitely has value! Just not for me.

Do you live in Chelsea, West Village, Hell's Kitchen, Hudson Square, Garment District, Flatiron, Greenwich Village, or Times Square?

Today is the first day of Early Voting in the special election for NYC Council District 03. Vote @lindseyboylan.bsky.social.

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If they insist we can throw in the rest of his administration.

Okay just spitballing: if the next administration makes a treaty with Iran that they give up their nuke program, in exchange for us turning Trump and his family over to their justice system, and the treaty is duly ratified, that’s constitutional, correct?

Remarkable.

omfg

Nationwide General Strike Planned for May 1: No Kings Organizer | Common Dreams Indivisible co-founder Ezra Levin announces nationwide general strike on May 1 in next No Kings mass action.

There’s already a date onboard for a general strike

May 1st, National Strike

No work, no school, no shopping

www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

Vance has chihuahua energy. He’s got no rizz, weird eyes, and everyone who meets him treats him with a mixture of pity and disgust. And so his response is to try and fight everyone, shitty little attacks that are impotent and mostly just kinda funny. Chihuahua energy.

"what do you want them to doooooo?"

shit like this. all the time. flood them with it. make them defend it, shoot it down, then float more. drown them in their own shit.

three sparkys -- one says I'm from 2026, it's an endless hellscape of pain and madness

panel from 2020, from a cartoon about time traveling Sparky(s)

"Before we can."

A solution is to look at other numbers that also reflect how well-off we are, like lifespan, deaths of despair, etc. etc. Those tend to show that we're not doing so well. Like, lifespan has stagnated for the last decade-plus even though our medical knowledge has advanced.

Oh man I'm ranting. Sorry.

Point being, you can't just take these numbers as neutral fact, and many economists do.In fact, here's an interesting factoid: the poverty line actually has kept up with inflation. That doesn't mean that the poverty line is okay after all. It means that inflation is way underestimated.

I'm not aware of anyone who says that makes sense today. But, we keep counting poverty the same way, even though we know it's outdated, because who wants to be in charge when the poverty rate suddenly doubles?

A reverse example of this political pressure is the poverty line--3x a bare-bones food budget made sense in the 1960s, but not now when food has stayed more stable than rent or doctor visits (and when the assumption that there's a woman at home to cook and provide childcare no longer works).

So inflation is constantly being pushed, by small amounts, in a downward direction, and by now those small pushes have added up to an inflation rate that is basically fantasy.

But now they're a basic necessity, and so on and so on). And it's not a politically neutral art--lots of stakeholders want inflation to be lower (which means higher tax revenues because brackets don't creep up, higher GDP, lower payouts for cost of living, etc.

Turning those data into one number is an art rather than a science. It has to be constantly adjusted for changes in lifestyles, tastes, and so on (like, in the 1910s the price of horses mattered a lot but now who cares, and in the 1980s cell phone prices didn't matter--they were a luxury. . . .

A lot of the problem I think is that while economists are good at manipulating numbers, many aren't trained to evaluate them. So they look at inflation-adjusted incomes and say, hey, we're better off.
But while the basic data we base the inflation rate on are reliable (or were, who knows now). . . .

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.