Ben and I did a substack live with @graceblakeley.substack.com, talked about the limits of the Ford comparison, the prospect of robotifying away the worker problem, and whether Muskism has a governmentality. open.substack.com/pub/gracebla...

@maxread.info and I spoke to @quinnslobodian.com and @bentarnoff.com about their terrific new book, Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...

Talking to Ben Tarnoff and Quinn Slobodian about “Muskism”

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Today's guest post is on the hundred year struggle for economic democracy in New York - and how this struggle continues to inspire community organisers (and Zohran!) today graceblakeley.substack.com/p/the-menace...

The Menace of Prosperity

How billionaire wealth hollowed out our cities - and what a democratic alternative could look like

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The 2021 Infrastructure Investment & Jobs Act (Bipartisan Infra Law) devoted hundreds of billions to streets & highways. But impacts are limited: While road quality generally improved, it improved more slowly than previously—and not on all rural road types. More: www.urban.org/research/pub...

Making the switch to Bluesky long after lapsing into silence at x.com/mjjii ...links to a new blog and an upcoming series of writings for the new year will be here soon.