“better management” through private partnerships taking over prison services has only passed on higher costs to families, such as predatory companies like GTL and Aventiv being enabled to gouge prison telecom prices.

you may disagree with their tactics, but at least student protestors didn’t forget about Wisconsin

[smacking veins in forearm] just one more up-zoned infill development at market rates. Last time. Prices will go down after this. I swear.

as you can see, Shai Davidai is an accomplished scholar with many degrees on his wall behind him. Please let this man back in his office Columbia University

getting word that a family of adjuncts has moved into Shai Davidai's office while he's out. it's theirs now

now they’re turning all that ‘municipal bond wolf’ bullshit into a campaign vehicle. Remarkable how unserious and “online” a campaign can be but receive some veneer of legitimacy in exchange for wagon circling bad politics.

Google has suspended drone courier flights because of raven attacks. Looks like the Ravens have taken our side against Skynet.

what stands between us and being picked clean by a structural adjustment program is Will Stancil explaining to the IMF that you can buy cheaper apples for 50 cents less elsewhere.

dude you’re just going to a Sandals resort, not trying to help Indiana Jones prevent the Nazis from stealing ancient artifacts.

renewable energy is being gobbled up in places like Texas by bitcoin mining, only offsetting an infinitesimal amount compared to the demand expanded by mining operations.

greedflation

well, they do say we should be learning from other cultures…

because a windfall profits tax was never instituted during the pandemic, corporations continue to gouge at rates well past accounting for any increase in wages. We’re just seeing free reign to turn the screws of greed more and neoliberals will defend it as “trickle down wages”

gas now over $5. Then I remembered, “there’s no inflation. This is rising wages!” So I congratulated the cashier on her new $0.25/hr. She cried she works three jobs. I then drove off in my Prius, beeping the horn so evrryone could see the Coxeist sticker and know I was a good one

the basic modus of capitalism today: prop up an unprofitable, disruptive market until it runs out of money or into the ground (whichever happens first), so the real money is made off the backend through the debt.