Aeon+Psyche
Privatisation is bad economics and worse politics
10 min · · Putting public services in private hands is bad economics. Worse, it undermines our bonds as a political community · Shared by 163, including Christian Surchi, Liv 😷, Rick Powell, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Brad Brooks, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Jochen Burkhard
The Correspondent
What racism really is (hint: it’s not your attitude or belief)
11+ min · · Our obsession with racist attitudes can obscure the fact that racism is a system, devised to justify slavery, with a hierarchy that still defines the value of our lives today – that’s why you can be… · Shared by 132, including Jane, Olori’s Baby, Jochen Burkhard, Rob Wijnberg
POLITICO
It Really Is Different This Time
4 min · · Two dozen experts explain why. · Shared by 146, including Jane, Jochen Burkhard, Liv 😷
WIRED
How Surveillance Has Always Reinforced Racism
3 min · · Sociologist and author Simone Browne connects the dots between modern marketing and the branding of slaves. · Shared by 158, including James Gingerich #B2B #Technology #Influencer, Backchannel, Jochen Burkhard, Naomi Klein, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯
The New Republic
The Government Can Afford Anything It Wants
11+ min · · The idea that programs must be funded by tax dollars is a myth. Stephanie Kelton’s new book explains how money really works. · Shared by 74, including Stefanie O'Connell Rodriguez, Bjorn Larsen, Jochen Burkhard, Tauno
The Atlantic
The Path to Autocracy
8 min · · A second Trump term will leave America’s political system and culture looking even more like Orbán’s Hungary. · Shared by 75, including Brad Brooks, Trey Tweets Into the Void, Jochen Burkhard, Bjorn Larsen
Aeon+Psyche
Carl Schmitt’s legal theory legitimises the rule of the strongman
12+ min · · Demagogues do not rise on popular feeling alone but on the constitutional ideas of Weimar and Nazi legal theorist Carl Schmitt · Shared by 157, including Jochen Burkhard, LoriBeth, 🧠 Larry G. Maguire, Matthias Lampe, Anita Leirfall, ExApologist
The Intercept
A Short History of U.S. Law Enforcement Infiltrating Protests
9 min · · For decades, local police and FBI have sent undercover officials to participate in — and escalate — protests. · Shared by 29, including Shaun King, Cory Doctorow @pluralistic@mamot.fr, Jochen Burkhard
WIRED
Protests Renew Scrutiny of Tech's Ties to Law Enforcement
3 min · · Amazon executives tweeted support for protesters. But the company sells a surveillance tool to police that studies say misidentifies darker skinned people. · Shared by 18, including Jochen Burkhard, Backchannel
The Intercept
Amazon “Stands in Solidarity” While Selling Racist Tech To Police
3 min · · The company’s vocal support for protests is contradicted by its surveillance products like Ring and Rekognition. · Shared by 51, including Jochen Burkhard, Aral Balkan, Lea R. 🦄, Katja Evertz, Naomi Klein
The New Yorker
Racism, Police Violence, and the Climate Are Not Separate Issues
4 min · · People of color tend to be disproportionately exposed to the effects of global warming: working jobs that keep them outdoors, or on the move, on an increasingly hot planet, and living in densely… · Shared by 52, including Jochen Burkhard, Bill McKibben
The New Republic
We’re Not Polarized Enough
15+ min · · Ezra Klein’s flawed diagnosis of the divisions in American politics · Shared by 50, including corey robin, Jochen Burkhard
The Atlantic
How White Backlash Controls American Progress
13+ min · · Backlash dynamics are one of the defining patterns of the country’s history. · Shared by 66, including Emmy van Deurzen☀️🌍 🌻🌹🌳🇪🇺🇫🇷🇳🇱🇬🇧🇺🇸⭐️, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, Jochen Burkhard
Vox
The fake “Obamagate” scandal shows how Trump hacks the media
7 min · · He is "flooding the zone with shit." And it’s working. · Shared by 153, including Ezra Klein, Mark Little, Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (offline, on parental leave), Mathew Ingram, Mario Clemente, Mark Kaigwa, Jochen Burkhard, Merkstatt@troet.cafe 📯, Jay Rosen, Dan Gillmor is at mastodon.social/@dangillmor, Armin Wolf, Ernie Smith is also @ernie@writing.exchange, Avinash Kaushik
The Correspondent
The real story of US American democracy isn’t the drama. It’s the complete unresponsiveness to it
14+ min · · Democracy in the United States has often been declared at risk – if not actually dead, then at least, on life support. But American democracy isn’t dead, it’s in a deep and worrying coma. · Shared by 64, including Eric Holthaus, Rob Wijnberg, Jochen Burkhard, Matthias Lampe
The Atlantic
The Second Phase of Unemployment Will Be Harsher
5 min · · For American workers displaced by recession, widespread public sympathy soon gives way to moralizing anger. · Shared by 117, including Jonathan Kogan, ASA Sociology, Jochen Burkhard, Esther Schindler, Thomas Power, Howard Getson, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer