Wetmachine friend Matthew Saroff has had a string of great (if depressing) blog posts recently. This one on the truly horrifying statistics on (non) job creation over the last decade & how they relate to monopolization and the nature of the corporation is particularly compelling.
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So we're not allowed to say defund the police because it upsets people, right?
But since George Floyd was murdered in 2020, police have killed 3,530 people and those victims have been disproportionately Black.
Now THAT'S upsetting.Republican secretary of state’s first act in office: withdrawing Alabama from voter-registration organization https://www.yahoo.com/finance/m/3978dfc6-fb83-37fe-bd57-cb359ad4956e/republican-secretary-of.html
I just subscribed to Thinking about... https://snyder.substack.com/subscribe?r=38b5x&utm_medium=web&utm_campaign=pss
Dog Shirt Daily: Even the Donors Are Fake https://www.dogshirtdaily.com/p/even-the-donors-are-fake?utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=auto_share&r=22ul4
New: We've identified more than a dozen top donors to Santos' 2020 campaign who do not seem to exist.
I also spoke to a friend of Santos' who says he did not give the $2,800 donation attributed to him.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/we-tried-to-call-the-top-donors-to-george-santos-2020-campaign-many-dont-seem-to-exist/
If I wrote better, they would not be quite so depressing. 😉
Au contraire, Matthew. You write well, thereby making quite clear just how messed up everything is.