This lnk roundup may seem a day late but that’s only because I am so committed to radical time abolition. Really you’re the weird one for pointing it out.
Auckland’s brief flirtation with becoming the socialist city of the future.
How neoliberalism has always relied on massive bailouts for capitalists. Important to understand that the whole neoliberal project really has very little to do with “free markets” - it’s just a way of channeling public money into private hands.
A Marxist take on Critical Race Theory that does what almost nobody does, i.e. actually read some of it. All the culture war bullshit on this topic obscures the fact that it’s possible to take CRT seriously, treat it as a coherent body of thought and politely disagree with it.
The end of the girlboss and the invention of the girl loser. “Some people hold an abiding belief that inside every woman lies a Lisa Simpson, an Elizabeth Warren, someone who lives to organize and problem-solve.”
Regional elections in France set a record for voter abstention. You hear a lot these days about the rise of the far right, but that’s often a mask for a more important story about voters just dropping out altogether.
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