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Cool

 

Super cool.

Or “Alexa what’s the most depressing thing ever”

 

I'm doing a mini-unit on the Industrial Revolution and I've been stealing a lot of material from the NY state curriculum and it looks like I get to talk about Adam Smith and Karl Marx...

 

Forget Your Middle-Class Dreams

Although the argument — unions are good, but they’re not for us, and, somehow, us unionizing undermines unions — is unusually explicit, it’s not an unheard-of objection in white-collar organizing drives. During such campaigns, this concern is sometimes voiced by well-meaning people — those earnestly raising it do so because they believe the conditions of life at the bottom of society are unacceptable. But unions, so the thinking goes in this country where caricatures of the working class run rampant, are for those at the lowest rungs of the socioeconomic ladder — they’re for factory workers; for manual laborers; maybe they’re for low-wage service workers. But teachers, engineers, graduate students, journalists? Those are middle-class jobs. Surely, such workers should be grateful not to be down there, in the muck of poverty. In fact, it’d be greedy to want more than they have. Who are they to claim the mantle of working class? Unfortunately, this perspective has one, and only one, practical effect: keeping people from throwing their cards in with the working class, from demanding better lives and a seat at the table.

 

Catholic, Fed Soc member, clerked for Scalia. Checks all the boxes

 

I hate how obvious this is

 

WE STAN TAN

 

WE STAN BRIAN

 

I might have asked this before and forgot, but who are these Krassenstein guys anyway? And why do people pay them any attention?

 

The liberal version of Jacob Wohl and Laura Loomer

 

Can Twitter just be thrown in the garbage as a whole? Ugh

 

These men never cease to amaze me. I need to find the rest of this interview ASAP.

 

it's a video series called over/under by Pitchfork.com, so that's where I'd start looking :)

 

Whistle-Blower Tells Congress of Irregularities in White House Security Clearances

 

Congressional Democrats are Investigating Texas’ Targeting of Naturalized Citizen Voters

Voter Suppression needs to be an issue front and center.

If Beto actually cared about the country or liberals at all he would be running for Senate and helping other democracts down the ballot for 2020...