Dan Miller
@_DanMiller__
Politics | Economics | International Development Formerly: International Affairs @NewSchool_IA
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"Challenging the current power structures propagating systematic oppression begins with identifying the empty words of support and minor symbolic gestures working symbiotically in an attempt to pacify the public." link.medium.com/CLOR0wPqy7
Despite the United States only accounting for approximately 4% of the world's population, Americans own 42% of the total civilian-owned guns in the world.
As the War in Ukraine highlights Facebook's unprecedented power to control and influence political discourse and public opinion, here is a reminder that a cofounder of Facebook wrote an Op-Ed in the NYT in 2019 calling for the breakup of Facebook. nytimes.com/2019/05/09/opi…
nytimes.com
Opinion | It’s Time to Break Up Facebook (Published 2019)
Mark Zuckerberg is a good guy. But the company I helped him build is a threat to our economy and democracy.
Advocates for pooling and open science, who seemed ascendant and even unstoppable early in the Covid-19 crisis, have been outmatched and outmaneuvered by the most powerful man in global public health. bit.ly/3s7lzQk
Imagine a thief breaks into your house, steals your stuff and then comes back and says he is going to give you aid. This is Africa's relationship to the West and I am not sure whose crazier, the "donor" or the recipient.
In the spirit of unity and bonding, Dick Cheney has invited Matt Gaetz to go quail hunting with him.
"King’s slide in popularity coincided with his activism taking a turn from what Americans largely know him for — his campaign for civil rights in the American South — to a much more radical one aimed at the war in Vietnam and poverty." theintercept.com/2018/01/15/mar…
Decided to unplug yesterday and get fully off the grid. Did I miss anything?
Thought this was the “Blue Lives Matter/Back The Blue” crowd
For anyone who considers these protestors Freedom Fighters/Patriots, here is a question for you: If crimefighters fight crime and firefighters fight fire, what are freedom fighters fighting?
A reminder that this is partly a deliberate result of pharmaceutical companies making sure that developing countries are not allowed to violate corporations’ intellectual property rights. Mass murder to preserve profits, aka business as usual.
While official numbers indicate 10 million workers are unemployed, overall 26 million workers have experienced some form of economic loss due to Covid.
"Billionaires in the healthcare space bumped up their wealth by 36.3 percent between April 7 and July 31, from a total of $402.3 billion to $548 billion" newsweek.com/coronavirus-va…
"As bloody as his end was, he left a legacy infinitely more respectable than legions of bootlicking reporters before or since. His example should be exalted as the ideal voice of the voiceless, a model for how to bear witness with your honor intact." currentaffairs.org/2020/12/why-th…
This is a significant disparity👇
Millennials who make up the largest portion of the workforce control only 4.6% of U.S. wealth. When the baby boomer generation was around the same age as millennials today they possessed 21% of U.S. wealth. cnbc.com/2020/10/09/mil…
FACT CHECK: I forgot that a Democrat was about to be President. We don't have kids in cages anymore. The proper term is "unaccompanied juvenile delinquents in state-maintained enclosures." My fault everyone.
Something does not seem right here!
For some additional reading on how tax cuts increase inequality: ips-dc.org/report-corpora…
ips-dc.org
Report: Corporate Tax Cuts Boost CEO Pay, Not Jobs - Institute for Policy Studies
Report: Corporate Tax Cuts Boost CEO Pay, Not Jobs
Global South countries, led by South Africa and India, have requested a suspension of the WTO's patent rules to enable them to manufacture or import affordable generic versions of the COVID-19 vaccine. Shockingly, Britain and other rich countries have refused.
A Real Shocker! businessinsider.com/tax-cuts-rich-…
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A huge study of 50 years of tax cuts for the wealthy suggests 'trickle-down' economics makes...
Cutting taxes boosts incomes for the wealthy "but has little effect on economic performance," the academics David Hope and Julian Limberg said.
"The Great Reset is an attempt to create a plausible impression that the huge winners in this system are on the verge of voluntarily setting greed aside to get serious about solving the raging crises that are radically destabilizing our world." theintercept.com/2020/12/08/gre…
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