It would surprise nobody to hear Donald Trump or even a Republican member of Congress make a remark like this one:
» Read more[W]hereas the liberal idea presupposes that nothing needs to be done [about migration, we are taking action]. The migrants can kill, plunder and rape with impunity because their …
Matt Bruenig at People's Policy Project posted a pretty staggering chart illustrating the difference in changes to net wealth between the top 1% of Americans and the bottom 50% over the interval 1989-2018. I grabbed the same data and plotted each category, starting with the above, "Net worth".
The rich are getting a lot richer, and the bottom half of the country is treading water (at best).
More charts below. The Fed also provides its own interactive visualizations.
» Read moreIn 1992 Jorge Durand, a social anthropologist and geographer at Mexico’s University of Guadalajara, coordinated a series of in-depth interviews with Mexican migrants who had experienced the hard journey to the United States. One of these migrants, a man named Aurelio, crossed the US border dozens of times, only …» Read more
Generated programmatically using moviepy. Sample code below.
#!/usr/bin/env python
from collections import Counter
import random
import time
from moviepy.editor import VideoFileClip, concatenate, vfx
if __name__ == '__main__':
srtfile = 'sotu.en.vtt'
# converts subtitle file timestamps to seconds.
def str2secs(s):
hh = int(s[0:2])
mm = int …David Dayden writes in the New Republic:
» Read morePrivate equity firms borrow massively to buy companies, and use corporate cash reserves to pay themselves back. Workers who supply the value to the business see nothing; in fact, to service the debt, companies usually cut staff. When the retailer collapses under the …
The Boomers in one video.
» PermalinkBryce Covert writes in the New York Times:
» Read moreBecause of lax security at Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting companies, the private financial and personal details of as many as 143 million Americans have been exposed to hackers. We still don’t know what the full ramifications will …
The American Moderate, like the American Conservative, has always been a tolerant and forgiving fellow when it comes to violence. He'll forgive the Indian killer and the slaver, the murdering cop and the armed invader, the groper and feeler-up, the thieving capitalists' bought lawmen and their night-time raids, the soul-stealing …
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“The Last Strike” http://quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lbc2ic/x-sclp1336/sclp_1336. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed: August 24, 2017.
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