Are liberals really aware of how much of a wedge issue the public land sale is? Even deeply consevative westerners are furious. Seems like something dems should be putting more of a spotlight on.
Chris England
@chrisengland.bsky.social
Historian. Author of "Land and Liberty: Henry George and the Crafting of Modern Liberalism."
England is not a modern country. The graphic below by @guyshrubsole.bsky.social in today's Observer underlines this fact.
This is how you know he didn't tweet the "He who saves his country breaks no laws" post
dying
The Georgist Louis Post became a focal point for the first red scare when he dismissed charges against immigrants slated for deportation because of their radical politics. His observations about shallow "pagan patriots" wrapping themselves in the flag remain sadly relevant today.
DOGE is a criminal conspiracy to defraud the people of the United States
Oh dear you’re going to want to read this. Looks like DOGErs were caught exfiltrating NLRB data, likely on unions, for private (seemingly Elony) use. This is must read. What we’ve all suspected. But now details. www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...
Oh hey, I found some waste, fraud and abuse
The U.S. has spent $40 million to jail about 400 migrants at Guantanamo Bay Early costs of the enterprise emerged over the weekend along with a statement from five senators who toured the base Friday and urged the Trump administration to “immediately cease this misguided mission.”
If Biden had forgotten he had signed an EO the NYTimes and Fox News would be running leading stories ok Bidens declined cognitive capacity
wait is he confessing that he doesn't even sign these EOs himself
This is worthy of Kafka
A Hmong American woman who has lived in the Milwaukee area since she was 8 months old was deported last week to Laos, a country she has never visited, and says she is stranded in a rooming house surrounded by military guards. www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
The two blue states that saw the least Trumpward shift are Washington and Colorado. Guess who produced the most housing per capita of blue states last year. Colorado and Washington www.newsweek.com/kamala-harri...
America's red shift: Map shows how much each state moved toward Trump
All but two of the 46 states declared so far have shifted toward Donald Trump since 2020.
newsweek.com
"Our new nationalist world order would look all too familiar to the left-wing free traders" of the late 19th and 20th centuries. Something I wrote for @lpeblog.bsky.social @lpeproject.bsky.social coalition.https://lpeproject.org/blog/recovering-the-left-wing-free-trade-tradition/
Recovering the Left-Wing Free Trade Tradition
Since the late 20th century, free trade has been defended primarily by neoliberals who cared little about social justice or democracy. However, a longer examination of free trade'
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