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NEW: Compact launched promising class war against the so-called "professional managerial class." Their new article, however, reveals their real mission: they just want a PMC with more white men. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-compac...
NEW: Rich people waste much more money than poor people, and it's not even close www.peoplesline.org/p/rich-peopl...
Rich people waste much more money than poor people
Another round of glazing the rich online is completely detached from reality.
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NEW: Why are so many right-wing accounts based outside the United States? Simple: Republican oligarchs are outsourcing their media campaigns. www.peoplesline.org/p/blowback-a...
Blowback and the international troll industry
Why are so many Twitter reactionaries from outside of the United States?
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NEW: It looks increasingly like Trump is hoping to "freeze" the conflict in Ukraine - a non-resolution that will only guarantee more war in the future. www.peoplesline.org/p/trumps-pla...
Trump's plan for Ukraine won't bring peace
It kicks the can down the road with "freezes" and probably concedes too much for an opening bid.
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Capitalists argue that private charity can replace welfare programs like SNAP. Food bank failures over just the last few days prove otherwise. www.peoplesline.org/p/snap-lapse...
SNAP lapse proving that charity can't replace the welfare state
Families are already going hungry.
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NEW: I regret to inform you once again that Matt Yglesias is lying about data www.peoplesline.org/p/matt-ygles...
Matt Yglesias is still lying about Democratic donors
Another swing at the Shor / Yglesias "rich people have made Democrats too progressive" schtick.
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NEW: Trump is using the IRS to target liberal-left organizations. If you think Democrats will intervene to save them, it's time to remember what happened to ACORN. www.peoplesline.org/p/acorn-is-t...
ACORN is the future of the Democratic Party
Don't count on Congressional Democrats to save themselves.
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NEW: Democrats are abandoning the liberal critique of federalism and resorting to Dixiecrat "states rights" arguments against Trump. It's gotten so bad that Gov. Pritzker is now approvingly quoting Kristi Noem's warning of "war" against Biden. www.peoplesline.org/p/the-federa...
The federalist case against Trump is a terrible cop-out
Instead of fighting the political fight, liberals are abandoning their commitment to federal power.
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NEW: Pritzker's grandstanding didn't do a thing to stop ICE from swarming Chicago. Do Democrats have a strategy to win besides vague calls to "fight"? www.peoplesline.org/p/pritzker-a...
Pritzker and resistance theater
Do you want epic press conferences, or do you want to win?
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NEW: Trump is funding libertarians and defunding socialists; if socialists are going to win, we'll have to go global. www.peoplesline.org/p/local-soci...
Local socialism can't defeat global capitalism
If socialists want to win, they'll have to go international.
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NEW: Introducing our recommended readings page - a list of books, articles, and other texts and media that we think our readers would benefit from! And we've provided free links to *everything*. www.peoplesline.org/p/new-readin...
NEW: Reading recommendations
By popular demand...
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NEW: Cass Sunstein says that racists like Hayek and Reagan are liberals. He's right! www.peoplesline.org/p/sunstein-i...
Sunstein is right: there are indeed racist liberals
Another look at the inbox.
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NEW: Americans should meet evidence the government provides of left-wing violence with extraordinary skepticism. www.peoplesline.org/p/is-trump-g...
Is Trump going to false-flag the left?
If the administration can't find a pretext to crack down on us, they may invent one.
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NEW: Class analysis gives us a much clearer understanding of Trump's immigration policy than vague talk about "authoritarianism". www.peoplesline.org/p/class-anal...
Class analysis and "authoritarianism"
Two ways of explaining Trump's recent H1-B visa fee yield vastly different insights.
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NEW: Rand Paul reminds everyone that you don't actually have rights under capitalism. www.peoplesline.org/p/rand-paul-...
Rand Paul brings back antiwoke capitalism
See how this works?
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NEW: In 2008, attempts to trivialize Obama as an "articulate" and "charming" smooth-talker were widely regarded as racist. In 2025, liberals constantly say the same things about Mamdani - because they don't want to talk about socialism. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-capita...
How capital wields race against Mandami's socialism
Beset on all sides by the woke and anti-woke, Mandami's campaign maintains its lead
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NEW: The second of a multipart series on materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-do-mat...
NEW: The first of a multipart series of materialism and the psychology of mass persuasion. www.peoplesline.org/p/how-do-mat...
Young liberals have plenty of career paths. That's not why liberalism is losing! www.peoplesline.org/p/the-market...
The marketplace of ideas takes another L
Liberals are losing the argument, so Zack Beauchamp thinks they need to win with financing.
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PROJECT 2029 UPDATE: We have added H.R.51 "To provide for the admission of the State of Washington, D.C. into the Union" to Project 2029. www.peoplesline.org/p/the-people...
NEW: Americans and Ukrainians have very different opinions about the war against Russia. www.peoplesline.org/p/ukraines-c...
Ukraine's crisis of confidence
Ukrainians are losing trust in its government to end the war.
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NEW: Mamdani's campaign is exposing a significant rift in the party between black voters and liberals. www.peoplesline.org/p/mamdani-is...
Mamdani is winning the Democratic base
And no, the base of Democrats is not black voters.
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NEW: The sixth and final installment of Carl Beijer's six part series on the past and future of capitalism. PART VI: Capitalism's long future. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...
Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part VI: The long future of capitalism.
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NEW: Part V of Carl Beijer's continuing series on the past and future of capitalism. What would late capitalism actually look like? The answer isn't in the present - it's in the past. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...
Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part V: What would late capitalism actually look like?
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NEW from Carl Beijer: Conservatives and liberals love inventing leftists to get mad at. www.peoplesline.org/p/everyone-c...
Everyone cherry-picks the left
The right's Sydney Sweeney escort mission plays the same game that liberals play constantly!
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The grotesque irony of Trump's victory is that elite Democrats would have never spoken out against the genocide in Gaza under President Harris. www.peoplesline.org/p/would-ygle...
Would Yglesias have opposed genocide under Harris?
Democratic loyalists are happy to join the antiwar movement when their leaders aren't in power.
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NEW - Wealth inequality: the past, and the future, Part IV Hasn't history proven Marx wrong? Nope - turns out there's still a lot of history left. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...
Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part IV: "But history has proven Marx wrong!" Nope.
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NEW - Wealth inequality: the past, and the future, Part III Marx predicts that wealth inequality will inevitably grow under capitalism. Here's the standard liberal objection to this, and why it doesn't work. www.peoplesline.org/p/wealth-ine...
Wealth inequality: the past, and the future
Part III: Liberal objections to Marx's law of capital accumulation, debunked.
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