Five great, action-oriented questions by Hamilton Nolan. The entire piece is excellent, highly recommended—especially when read in conjunction with the two most recent pieces in Jacobin by @chactivist.bsky.social (linked below).
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Payrolls at US companies fall by most since 2023, ADP says
U.S. companies cut 32,000 jobs in November, the largest decline since early 2023, raising concerns about the labor market. Small businesses were hit hardest, losing 120,000 jobs. Despite some ga…
I’m grateful to Supervisor Montgomery Steppe for putting this forward and for all the county’s moves toward publicly-administered healthcare. We need to get with it.
I think this could be very helpful given the challenges with federal government these days. Important context: 51 of 58 California counties ALREADY have a publicly delivered healthcare system (for Medi-Cal). San Diego is late to the party on HC delivery.
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/11/04/w...
City Council struggling with unapproved contract changes feels all too familiar.
Transparency in public spending shouldn’t come after the fact. Integrity matters — even when it costs something.
voiceofsandiego.org/2025/10/31/c...
it happened again www.burnsnotice.com/democrats-mu...
The "Biden economy great" folks were very selective about what data they would look at.
Food insecurity, housing insecurity, savings rates, debt/income ratios, labor demographics, child poverty... None of the Main Street numbers counted as relevant. Only inflation, employment, GDP and equities.
New, from me:
America is no longer a functioning democracy. It is a competitive authoritarian system, hurtling rapidly toward authoritarianism.
This was a hard piece to write but we can't move forward if we don’t acknowledge where we are.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-author...
the thing to take from Cuomo—a politician who was supposedly invulnerable and had control of every aspect of Albany—having a flailing campaign is that all of these assholes are really paper tigers who only thrive when their opponents are also cowards.
Kamala Harris campaigned on making home care part of Medicare, which would’ve greatly eased the issue of caring for our parents.
But Trump won so we not only didn’t get that, we’re getting devastation of nursing homes as well.
This is going to ruin a lot of families.
i've been screaming about getting § 1983 equivalent at the state level for state constitutional violations for a long time, but this is interesting. maybe it doesn't need to be a one-way ratchet.
Dense, walkable, cottagecore.
Dolores Huerta, a 95 year old labor organizer with deep roots going back even before the Delano Grape Strike in 1965, here in Boyle Heights speaking at a protest. She called the past several days of detainments throughout Los Angeles a “horrible assault.”
On this day one hundred years ago in Dayton Tennessee, John Scopes, a high school science teacher/coach was indicted for breaking the state's Butler Act by teaching evolution...
In that hundred years things haven't gotten better, they got better, then have become significantly worse...
Tax dollars belong to the people, not buildings, bank accounts, and ineffective contracts. You have a rainy day fund. Well, it’s raining.
voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/28/d...
Hundreds of us gathered yesterday to show our power, and how important it is that we invest in public services and invest in the people of San Diego County, not buildings and ineffective contractors.
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$138.5 million is only 1.6% of the county budget, and 12.6% of it’s payroll. Balancing the budget is important, but not on the backs of county workers. Hard times are when we need to invest in services. Just ask FDR who once visited our county building.
the main effect of firing 800,000 people — in addition to debilitating the federal government — would be to plunge the US economy into a recessionary spiral that rivaled the Great Recession
If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.
If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.
If your boss or company tells you to do something unethical: don't say yes. Make them write it down.
Do we agree that we’re in a second gilded age?
So an Arizona Congressman introduced a resolution to allow "AI" to act a prescribing entity. Energy and Commerce committee still has to vote on, and then the full house (if it makes it that far), but the fact that it's even being floated makes me so fucking sad & tired.
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To everyone's surprise, it turns out that attaching a money-sucking machine to a hospital system makes it worse.
@markets: A US dockworkers union reached a tentative deal on a new labor contract with a group of ocean carriers and terminal operators that, if ratified would avoid a shutdown of East and Gulf coast ports next week
“Though there is no way to know how often coverage gets cut off mid-treatment, ProPublica has found scores of lawsuits over the past decade in which judges have sharply criticized insurance companies for citing a patient’s improvement to deny mental health coverage.”
