Monday OT: April 20 is 420 Day
Submitted by enhydra lutris on Mon, 04/20/2020 - 5:00amPlease just share.
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 8:48pmShare.
Insurance profits matter more than people's lives: Democrats propose subsidizing COBRA
Submitted by BayAreaLefty on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 3:03pmJust take a look at the inhuman proposal described here. The proposal is this: subsidize COBRA payments, which is effectively subsidizing insurance companies' profits.
Oh Pleeze
Submitted by EdMass on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 10:08amI check in on ByeDones Twitter feed now and again. I find it a source providing a never ending stream of "insightful" observations and pronouncements. No, for real...
Anyway, topping the feed now is this.
The Weekly Watch
Submitted by Lookout on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 7:49am
Corona Curiosities
It seems there's more that we don't know than we do know about the SARS-CoV-2 and the expression of COVID-19. There's several conspiracy theories floating around driven in part by the quarantine of healthy people and the huge role of the Fed in buying corporate debt and foreign central bank debt and artificial inflation of the stock market, all while throwing working people under the bus. It is suspicious. Let's look at some of the things we do know and speculate about the rest.
"six feet apart"
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6d9XjnV2iKA]
Outside the Asylum
Submitted by Cant Stop the M... on Sun, 04/19/2020 - 5:17amIt's easier to imagine the end of the world --
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sat, 04/18/2020 - 7:45pm-- than it is to imagine the end of the Two-Party System.
Fredric Jameson says in a 2003 text that:
Someone once said that it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism.
Will The Economy Ever Be Normal Again?
Submitted by snoopydawg on Sat, 04/18/2020 - 2:57pmFurthering the conversations gjohnsit has been writing about, Mark Blyth and Jimmy talked about what our economy is going to look like and they go into detail about rents and mortgages.
#DemExit & #GreenEnter
Submitted by wendy davis on Sat, 04/18/2020 - 12:14pm(both by way of Black Agenda Report)
‘The End of Sanders, and Maybe the Beginning of a Mass Independent Left’, Glen Ford, April 16, 2020, blackagndareport.com
“Sander’s early Return of the Prodigal Son to the bosom of the Party allows him to escape the deep critique of capitalist medicine and political-economy that would be required of a “leftish” presidential candidate as this never-in-our-lifetimes crisis unfolds.” [jump]





