Critical Reading

World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation theguardian.com/technology/202… #grokipedia #racism

Recent data shows stagflation, stagnant growth and price inflation, is possible as economy shaken by uncertainty theguardian.com/business/2025/… #Trumponomics #USEconomy

Rank and file #teachers and retirees in #NYC are fed up with bargaining concessions, and two reform slates have a chance to unseat the union’s perennial leaders tempestmag.org/2025/05/nyc-te… #labor

The White House has put itself and the country in a bad situation but doesn’t realize it yet. Around April 10th China to USA trade shut down. It takes ~30 days for containers to go from China to LA. 45 to Houston by sea, 45 to Chicago by train. 55 to New York by sea. That means that there are no economic effects of what was done on April 10th until about May 10th. Around that time (it’s already started to happen) trucking work is going to dry up. Warehouses will start doing layoffs because no labor is needed to unload containers and some products will be out of stock, reducing the need for shipping labor. All this will start in the Los Angeles area. After about 2 weeks, it’ll start hitting Chicago and Houston. Let’s say the White House, after 3 weeks, changes its mind, on May 31st. “This isn’t working out like we thought it would. Tariffs back to 0.” Let’s say China says “bygones be bygones, we’ll go back to how things were”. Let’s say every factory in China that got screwed by their orders being cancelled says the same thing “no problem, we’ll make and ship”. The problem is, even under the most favorable conditions of China and the factories restarting economic ties as though nothing happened, it will be at least another 30 days before economic activity is revived. And that’s just in LA. In Chicago/Houston, you’ll need to wait another 45 days. New York, at that point, will still be getting containers from before April 10th, they will then have 50 days (May 31 minus April 10) of zero economic activity at the ports, in trucking of Chinese goods, in warehousing. The whole situation is a bit like lockdowns. Once you shut down, it takes a long time to get economic activity back to where it was, if you ever can. And again, this assumes, that China and its factories, which make things you can’t buy elsewhere, will start right back up again as though nothing happened, which is unlikely. It’s almost like we’re speeding towards a brick wall but the driver of the car doesn’t see it yet. By the time he does, it’ll be too late to hit the brakes.

Trump’s administration is dismantling disability rights and education. History has shown this can be a warning sign for all civil liberties. theguardian.com/global/2025/ma…

Mr. "Free Speech" strikes again nytimes.com/interactive/20…

"To win back what’s being taken from us, and to get ready to go for more, we need to learn to organize together in ways that most people have never experienced—democratically, from the bottom up." tempestmag.org/2025/04/we-nee…

Capitalism produces crises and crises reproduce capitalism. We need an ecosocialist way out. socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed-v…

Trump's "medicine" is the economic equivalent of drinking bleach to cure covid theweek.com/politics/tarif… #tariffs

Join Tempest for a panel discussion on academic freedom, repression, and resistance, Thursday April 10 tempestmag.org/2025/04/target… #highered

"This is a con on a global scale. Trump is not rejecting the corporate trade model. He’s weaponizing it." commondreams.org/opinion/trump-… #tariffs

"As important as #Ukraine’s struggle is for the long-term security of other European countries, the latter could not induce Kyiv to soldier on if Ukrainians themselves didn’t see the value of resisting Russian subjugation." newpol.org/ukraine-not-a-… #UkraineRussiaWar

"Private #MedicareAdvantage plans are killing seniors and bankrupting hospitals. Now the Trump administration is preparing to make them mandatory, ending #Medicare as we know it." truthdig.com/articles/dr-oz…

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"Since their inception in 2003, #MedicareAdvantage plans are estimated to have cost taxpayers more than $600 billion in overpayments. These overpayments are expected to grow to $1 trillion over the next decade." citizen.org/article/fact-s… #healthcare

The US Gestapo strikes dropsitenews.com/p/dhs-detains-… #FreePalestine #FreeMahmoudKhalil

"Far from Trump’s tariff barrage ‘making America great again’, it has every prospect of driving the US economy into a recession and the other major economies with it." thenextrecession.wordpress.com/2025/03/05/tru… #tariffs #TradeWar

Today (Mon Feb 24) 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST tickettailor.com/events/haymark… @haymarketbooks @ukraine_network @UkraineSol @EuropeanWith #UkraineWar

"The top pollster on the president's 2024 campaign issued a dire warning to Republicans in a recent poll, showing swing district voters do not approve of the massive cuts the GOP is weighing in its budget plan." commondreams.org/news/gop-town-…