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The Price of Everything and the Value of Nothing

by Tom Levenson|  May 22, 201711:05 am| 149 Comments

This post is in: Climate Change, Election 2018, Free Markets Solve Everything, Kochsuckers, Republican Venality, Assholes, Sociopaths

While we focus on the various obvious bathetic catastrophes (from blowing secrets to the Russians to the big man’s collapsing in a heap after a mere one day on the road) committed by the shitgibbon and his band of merry (but never gay — oh no! not that) men, it’s important to keep at least …

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The Common Inheritance, The Common Defense

by Tom Levenson|  March 5, 20174:24 pm| 119 Comments

This post is in: Environmental Rights Are Human Rights, Free Markets Solve Everything, Glibertarianism, Kochsuckers

A bit of self promotion here, but I’ve got a piece in today’s Boston Globe that might be of interest to some here. It’s a look at what the idea of the commons — not just the abstract, model commons of Garrett Hardin’s famous essay, but the historical commons as actually lived and used — can …

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Government, Meet Bathtub

by Tom Levenson|  January 19, 20171:02 pm| 188 Comments

This post is in: Austerity Bombing, Don't Mourn, Organize, Free Markets Solve Everything, Fuck The Middle-Class, Fuck The Poor, Kochsuckers, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome, Assholes, Bitter Despair is the New Black, Nobody could have predicted, Peak Wingnut Was a Lie!, Sociopaths

It’s easy to run a government that does (next to) nothing. Here’s where Trumpism — or really Pence-ism, or really, exactly what the GOP has been promising (threatening) will have its most immediate, and quite possibly its most damaging impact: Staffers for the Trump transition team have been meeting with career staff at the White …

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Open Thread: Welfare Ranchers Get No Respect

by Anne Laurie|  May 23, 20169:44 pm| 151 Comments

This post is in: An Unexamined Scandal, domestic terrorists, Kochsuckers, Open Threads, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell

Missed this: Cliven Bundy's lawyer asked the Koch Bros. to pay his client's legal fees, via @ryanjhaas. pic.twitter.com/lKVt9I3ZE2 — Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) May 23, 2016 There’s never a FREEDUMB-loving billionaire around when you really need one… @RalstonReports @ryanjhaas Is that even ethical? Many states lawyers cannot solicit others to pay their client's fees. — Nola …

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Late Night Creepshow Open Thread: Nothing Says FREEDUMB Like Locking People Up

by Anne Laurie|  May 20, 201612:02 am| 43 Comments

This post is in: Kochsuckers, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Assholes, Fools! Overton Window!

United States Senator upset that more Americans aren't in jail https://t.co/yvqElsQbP1 pic.twitter.com/rFflNDVrxv — Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 19, 2016 (via Oliver Willis) Would-be seditionist and “GOP manly man” (note new Lincoln-esque beard) Senator Tom Cotton is outraged, outraged! … He described efforts to restore voting rights to felons as a partisan tactic to drive up …

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Late Night Open Thread: No Thanks, Mr. Koch

by Anne Laurie|  April 25, 20161:58 am| 92 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2016, Kochsuckers, Open Threads, Repubs in Disarray!, Assholes, I Read These Morons So You Don't Have To, Our Failed Media Experiment

Not interested in endorsements from people who deny climate science and try to make it harder for people to vote. https://t.co/TWN4zYhMBh — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) April 24, 2016 Koch praising Hillary may be trying to screw w Dem primary. But maybe it’s not a statement about Hillary as much a statement about Trump — Dana …

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Late Night Open Thread: Have the Kochs Chickened Out?

by Anne Laurie|  March 5, 201612:22 am| 60 Comments

This post is in: C.R.E.A.M., Election 2016, Hail to the Hairpiece, Kochsuckers, Republican Venality

Kochs won't fight Trump https://t.co/aV00HyvZe0 — Farhad Manjoo (@fmanjoo) March 3, 2016 Or — parsimonious businessmen that they are — do they just figure Trump’s doing their job this election cycle? From the Reuters article: … The decision by the billionaire industrialists is another setback to Republican establishment efforts to derail the New York real …

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