This story was on the TPM morning reading list: The idea of a four-day workweek might sound crazy, especially in America, where the number of hours worked has been climbing and where cellphones and email remind us of our jobs 24/7. But in some places, the four-day concept is taking off like a viral meme. Many employers aren’t …
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Late Night Open Thread: Cosplay Socialist Extinction Burst
Remember how in 2016 all the Alt right guys and Alex Jones conspiracy guys blew up to their highest national profile ever, and the subsequent scrutiny pretty much destroyed them? That’s what rose emoji twitter is about to go through, like a supernova — Canadian Bread Price Fixing (@MenshevikM) February 5, 2020 This is not …
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Popcult Open Thread: *Best* Part of the Superbowl!
Yeah, TaMara posted this last night — but it’s a long Monday, and if this doesn’t pump you up a bit, you might be clinically dead… I think Jennifer Lopez just won the Iowa caucus — Grace Segers (@Grace_Segers) February 3, 2020 Jennifer Lopez and Shakira brought out J Balvin, Bad Bunny and J Lo’s …
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Justice Done? Or Derided?
A verdict came down yesterday for execs at Insys Therapeutics for their roles in a scheme that–the prosecution argued–poured gasoline on the opioid crisis fire: I believe we wildly overincarcerate. I don’t thing the US prison system is effective at pretty much anything but serving as a kind of low-rent industrial policy for deindustrialized rural …
Repub Venality Open Thread: Money Changes Everything Memories
People deny knowing Parnas. Then a they show up in a photo with him.https://t.co/N1kNAiXeSa pic.twitter.com/3zUwQO4I1O — The Fix (@thefix) January 16, 2020 Maybe the way to get McCarthy to stop saying Putin pays Trump was for Putin pay McCarthy https://t.co/RrPhvpnhrn — Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) January 15, 2020 The article itself looks at the entire picture …
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IDA Toxicity
I want to follow up on this post about Amazon announcing that they’re bringing jobs to New York. There were two major critiques of AOC’s victory lap: Amazon promised 25,000 jobs, this announcement is 1,500, so this is not a win. This one is easy for anyone who knows the history of these IDA (Industrial …
Ha Ha Fucking Ha
I guess I’m just going to embed AOC tweets for the duration, but goddam is this sweet. Those fuckers at Amazon tried to hold up NYC for $3 billion in tax breaks, cried like little babies when Mr. Backlash made them feel a little bad about themselves, and then they fucking caved.