tanyatussing

thepoliticalcat, 5 days ago to random

Renters, rejoice. Good ol' Uncle President Joe is cracking down on landlords colluding to raise rent using software.

https://mastodon.social/@LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt/112559317048971637

This is a criminal investigation.

Good. Some people need to learn that greed and profiteering are no damn way to love your community.

tanyatussing, 14 days ago to random

What a wonderful North Star. May we find a way to that reality, @janhoglund

"technology operated by and for the people who use it."
— @pluralistic

https://mastodon.nu/@janhoglund/112505686320693585

QasimRashid, 21 days ago (edited 21 days ago) to random

I’m so glad public libraries already exist. Could you I magine trying to sell the idea of libraries to politicians in 2024?

“You want to build a large public complex on prime real estate that gives away free books & education & community events—paid for by our tax dollars? Are you crazy??”

tanyatussing, 1 month ago to workersrights

In 1994, Robert Reich -- @rbreich -- looks into the future, and today we live in that future.

Reich Mpost :

https://masto.ai/@rbreich/112342159689296939

Reich's Coffee Klatch video on: four decades of the middle class squeeze that resulted in today's divisive cultural, political moment:

https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-do-so-many-americans-support?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

#PoliEcon #Jobs #Wages

tanyatussing, 1 month ago to random

I finally got a copy of #TheBezzle . I'm so looking forward to reading an assembly language thriller? Do I have that right, @pluralistic . The Bezel is an assembly language thriller?

tanyatussing, 2 months ago to random

BigPharma doesn’t want a “free market”. “The industry wants very strong government intervention so that it can make big profits.”

“We will spend well over $600 billion this year on drugs. These drugs would likely cost less than $100 billion in a free market.” — @DeanBaker13

https://econtwitter.net/@DeanBaker13/112077096472239509

So Biden wants to find some middle ground?

#BigPharma #Biden #PoliEcon

tanyatussing, 3 months ago to random

" It turns out that, if you appoint a bunch of Republican political operatives to lifetime positions on the Supreme Court, they will go ahead and act like Republican political operatives." & other observations shaping the campaign for the November election.

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/the-state-of-the-union-and-the-shape?r=eeyg&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

#Election2024 #SOTU

tanyatussing, 3 months ago to random

Four years of great blog posts @ pluralistic.net . Congratulations, @pluralistic !

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/20/fore/#synthesis

During the next four years, may our non-enshittified open internet community, facilitated by iSpaces like the fediverse, grow and flourish.

Using the @mnutty coined term:

#iSpaces without the #Garch

mikeolson, 3 months ago to random

"The Bezzle," @pluralistic's new book, is out today. My local independent bookseller will get a visit this afternoon.

By coincidence, yesterday was the 4th anniversary of his self-hosted, self-published blog. He's written an interesting retrospective on that project. This is the open web many of us thought we were building in the 1990s:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/20/fore/#synthesis

tanyatussing, 3 months ago to workersrights

4 "the first time in almost 60 years, a state has formally overturned a so-called “right to work” law, clearing the way for workers to organize new union locals, collectively bargain, and [be] heard at election time."

Michigan AFL-CIO President Ron Bieber.: “By standing up and taking their power back, at the ballot box and in the workplace, workers have made it clear Michigan is and always will be the beating heart of the modern American labor movement.”

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/michigan-right-to-work-law/

#jobs #wages

tanyatussing, 3 months ago to random

“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered.”

This looks like a good @mariapopova Mpost about poet mountaineer Nan Shepherd.

“Place and a mind may interpenetrate till the nature of both is altered.”

Photo source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Denver-Colorado-The_Mountains.jpg

#SundayContemplation

tanyatussing, 4 months ago to random

May we all come together to "disrupt" enshittification!

https://mastodon.social/@tanyatussing/111899334731020218

@pluralistic , we need laws that require all walled gardens to build easy access doors, so it's easier for people to leave enshittified iSpaces.

#antitrust #BigTech #BeautifyIspaces

tanyatussing, 4 months ago to random

Cory Doctorow has an opinion piece in the Financial Times? The Financial Times is ready to consider the scourge of enshittification? 🤩 Well done, @pluralistic !

This brings me hope for a de-enshittified future. May we all come together to "disrupt" enshittification!

https://indieweb.social/@jodsclass/111898468663966553

#antitrust #PoliEcon

rvawonk, 4 months ago to Russia

NEW: #Russia has jumped into the #Texas border controversy and is now cheering on civil war in the US and promoting the right-wing border convoy. Even more interestingly, I found evidence that disinformation accounts associated with the notorious Internet Research Agency (Russia’s “troll factory”) may be being “reactivated” to promote a secessionist movement in Texas.

My latest:
https://weaponizedspaces.substack.com/p/russia-amplifies-calls-for-civil

tanyatussing, 4 months ago to journalism

Tax credits for US journalism!

“Instead of having lavish subsidies for the tastes of the rich, we could have credits that allow ordinary people to decide which news outlets they want to support. For example, we can give every adult citizen $100 a year to support the journalistic outlet of their choosing.”

@DeanBaker13 - some good ideas to support public interest journalism:
https://cepr.net/tax-subsidies-for-journalism-are-only-for-rich-people-perry-bacon-edition/

Image source: https://www.pngall.com/newspaper-png/

#Journalism

tanyatussing, 4 months ago to random

Texan secessionist movement is getting more attention than I've seen in decades. 😳

"longtime leader of Texas’...secessionist movement" -- "Daniel Miller felt encouraged last week, as fears of a new civil war trended online and a coalition of powerful Republicans coalesced behind Gov. Greg Abbott’s standoff with the Biden administration."

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/30/texas-border-eagle-pass-standoff-secession/

Photo: https://www.texastribune.org/2024/01/22/texas-border-supreme-court-immigration/

#TexasBorder #USimmigration

tanyatussing, 4 months ago to Economics

“One of the biggest stories of 2023 is that the U.S. economy grew faster than any other economy in the Group of 7 nations, made up of democratic countries with the world’s largest advanced economies. By a lot.”

From #HeatherCoxRichardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-1-2024

#HCR #Bidenomics #Economics #Election24

tanyatussing, 5 months ago to random

"There are no moderate Republicans in the US House. There are proud MAGA and scared MAGA." -- @marcelias

https://mas.to/@marcelias/111575675173371104

It's time to choose:
#ProDemocracy ? or #proudMAGA , #scaredMAGA ?

tanyatussing, 6 months ago to Economics

Interesting new North Dakota Senate candidate:

https://www.katrinaforussenate.com

Really engaging ad:

https://www.katrinaforussenate.com/wolves

...about #PredatoryCapitalism and how it affected her family.

Does anyone know more about her?

#economics #antitrust #Election2024

tanyatussing, 6 months ago to random

"Today, at long last, after generations of deadly corporate power-grabs, we are living through an ecology moment where all kind of fights are coalescing into one big fight: the fight to save democracy from oligarchy."

Excellent blog post, @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/24/coalescence/#solidarnosc

#ProtectDemocracy #antitrust

pluralistic, 6 months ago to random

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Thankful for class consciousness; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/24/coalescence/

#Pluralistic

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