As Hyperloop One shuts down, we need to remember that the Hyperloop was never meant to be built.
Elon Musk’s goal was never to transform transportation for the masses, but to stop or delay high-speed rail from reaching North America. Sadly, he succeeded — and we all lost as a result.
Page one of Craig Mokhiber’s resignation.
I’m sorry, the text of this won’t fit, but he’s excoriating the UN for not standing up against Israel.
And as more voices speak out and support Palestine, will there be a shift in US support?
Or will it be too late by then
"I write at a moment for great anguish for the world... [W]e are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it."
Read every word of this resignation letter from Craig Mokhiber, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.
It's absolutely insane to think that one of the things that led to this is the complete inability for our sclerotic gerontocracy to understand that *everyone knows* what is actually happening this time and they can't just go on TV and lie because nobody watches it anymore
A conference I was supposed to keynote sent a message forbidding speakers to discuss Israel and Gaza. While I wasn’t necessarily planning on commenting on it I withdrew from the event on principle and encouraged others I know to do the same. Academic freedom is too important to compromise on.
feels like the entire job of Vox people boils down to “perhaps you’ve heard about a thing that’s prompting you to think - here’s why you shouldn’t”
Good typo from today:
“caninized” 🐶
[slow pan across photo] "My dearest Julie: We are still barricaded here at the Grove, surrounded on all sides by those who would deny us our rightful largesse, and sustained only by the Koch billions. I pray to the owl that I may see you again, but I fear I am to be cancelled. Yours always, Ken"
Yet another story from me and @timmarchman.bsky.social about Operation Underground Railroad. This one is about Janet the Psychic. www.vice.com/en/article/m...
Thrilled to publish this piece on the history of RICO as a tool of suppression against the left, drawing particularly on its usage against a group of revolutionaries in the 1980s, and what that says about the current charges against #StopCopCity activists.
lpeproject.org/blog/rico-an...
first six results for “business” on brainyquote . com
Looking for recommendations for scholars working on the LA Riots, the consolidation of Third Way Neoliberalism, 90s critical theory, the Gulf War, and the counter-globalization movement for an essay anthology edited by Madeline Lane-McKinley and me!
The Cop City RICO indictments allege the date when George Floyd was murdered by the police as the start of the "racketeering enterprise." Let that sink in.
The day a movement to abolish the police took on new life is the day for them a criminal enterprise was born
Ad Reinhardt made this graphic in 1939 to promote the innovative group-practice health care program launched that year by the New York Joint Council of the United Office and Professional Workers of America (UOPWA-CIO). His characters represent the white-collar workers in the various locals in NYC.