Gas at my favorite “never get gas there” station, arguably one of the most expensive in DTLA, is up to $8.25/gal
Even knowing how much they gouge it, that’s more than a dollar raise in prices in less than a week
Affordability politics in April 1917
Heard from some people at @unitehere.org today miffed that the NYT didn’t mention the union’s role in these NC races—they knocked on 46,000 doors! And this story doesn’t mention sone people quoted are Unite Here members.
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...
February 4, 2026: “The Raytheon deals aim to increase annual production of Tomahawk cruise missiles from the current rate of about 60 per year for the U.S. to eventually 1,000 units annually.”
www.reuters.com/business/aer...
A war that isn't a war, documented with videos that may or may not be real, funded by elected leaders who are neither for nor against it, is the most dystopian thing that's happened in my lifetime
What does it mean for the cabinet to be “goon busted”?
from @bofrenchTX We are all Rhodesians now.
Bo French, the former Tarrant County GOP Chairman who tweeted in January "We Are All Rhodesians," is going to a runoff in the race for Texas Railroad Commissioner (the state's top oil and gas regulator)
Alhamdulillah
Get a pick of the steel plant if you go through town
the germ of American capitalism’s motivating insecurity
they should allocate $100B to the BLS, in my expert opinion
This Day in Labor History: March 1, 1932. The Norris-LaGuardia Act passed the Senate by a 75-5 vote and was signed by President Herbert Hoover a few days later. This outlawing the most loathsome tactics used by employers against workers!!!
It's Amazon's world. Benjamin Y. Fong continues his wonderful journey to reveal how we're just living in it. The latest at Phenomenal World: The Apotheosis of Point of Sale Data www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/the...
"Developing a general framework for regulating finance, holistically and structurally, which could be put to use when reformers have the necessary leverage, is no more utopian than what private markets themselves promise." Excellent piece by @lenorepalladino.bsky.social
This article is a whirlwind everyone should read, our own later-day Oglesby prospect.org/2026/02/26/n...
I used to take my older neighbor to shop here where'd she spend her SSI money. Sad to close!
"When Covid-19 caused oil prices to plummet worldwide, it was Donald Trump himself who called on OPEC to cut oil production and protect prices. This alone confirms the importance of the organization."
Former PVDSA president Rafael Ramirez speaks with PW. www.phenomenalworld.org/interviews/o...
The accounting rules governing public (non-federal) finance - specifically when public employee pensions have to be "pre-funded" - are really up there in terms of relevance to policy and political debate, while being very little known. @jwmason.bsky.social explains: jwmason.org/slackwire/th...
A variation on the full dinner pail, I see
Re: anyone making claims about a "optimal revenue" or "revenue maximizing" level of taxes. As a share of GDP, we've seen it top out with top marginal rates of both 90 percent and 39.6 percent.
Someone should ask Bill and/or Hillary now, given everything that's happened since, to share what they remember about watching Alan Pakula's adaptation of The Pelican Brief in the White House in December 1993.
It is pretty sad how completely Frank P. Walsh has been written out of American history marxistsociology.org/2025/02/forg...
Paging @katearonoff.bsky.social
Is there some explanation for why measured productivity growth in US auto manufacturing has been negative for the past decade?
"what the politics of private finance teaches is the inadequacy of considering only what we can achieve in the short term, given the political constraints"
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...
Excerpt from linked essay, increased presence of private equity in healthcare and housing
Reading @lenorepalladino.bsky.social on unregulated finance in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...
This is definitely worth a read. The New Deal financial regulatory system is mostly holes at this point. Patching it won't help much.
www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/fin...
Teaching Labor's Story - resources from @lawcha.bsky.social
"Written and produced by two garment worker-students at Brookwood Labor College in 1927, Start! tells the story of Sonia, a garment worker and ardent unionist, sent from New York to organize garment workers in New Jersey."
Thanks to the OBBB, Amazon’s tax bill for 2025 is $1.2 billion, down from $9 billion the year before despite a 45% jump in profits.
A DHS slowdown in the works:
