Let’s start the long weekend with an article about the battle shaping up in reconciliation between adding to Medicare and shoring up the ACA. Have a great long weekend.

‘Whenever a group is truly effective it starts facing surveillance and criminalisation’

Author and activist Naomi Klein tells Lowkey about the hurdles facing climate protesters, drawing on examples of indigenous people protecting their land against pipelines in Northern America, farmer strikes in India and Extinction Rebellion each facing unprecedented state monitoring and legal challenges.

Our Oligarchic Empire Is Actually Easy to Understand Caitlin has an article about understanding and speaking out about our oligarchic empire, and here’s some of it. The first part explains how twitter “politicos” are telling us that we don’t know enough to tweet about Afghanistan, and a bit more about how easy it is to understand that “invading a nation and murdering a bunch of people for decades” is wrong. The systems of capitalism are very complex by design, and a tremendous amount of thievery happens in those mysterious knowledge gaps on financial and economic matters where only the cleverest … Continue reading →