Two centuries of #bankfailures in a single chart... and the extraordinary period of stability between 1950 & 1970.

Whatever #bankers may claim about the 'problem' of regulation & the hand of the state, as @RichardJMurphy pointed out this morning - this is the period where Kenynsianism shaped public policy & delivered financial stability...

If you wanted an illustration of why #capitalism works best when it is regulated carefully, this would be it.

Ads from major brands are running alongside hateful content and dangerous conspiracy theories from far right Twitter influencers https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/09/twitter-ads-revenue-suspended-account/

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/uk-cyber-experts-warn-of-targeted-phishing-attacks-from-actors-based-in-russia-and-iran

People who jump at the chance to say "An AR-15 isn't an assault rifle" are the gun version of people that tell you "His name isn't Frankenstein, it's Frankenstein's monster".

You are technically correct. You are missing the point. Nobody likes you.

I literally just finished writing about yesterday’s mass shooting, and today there’s another mass shooting, again in my home state, again in the Asian-American community.

When will this end? I can’t keep writing about this forever. We deserve to feel safe in our communities. We need national policy change.

https://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/peninsula/deadly-shootings-half-moon-bay/3137085/

Never forget this: The GOP’s nonsensical culture war is meant to distract you from corporate corruption, worker oppression, and staggering wealth inequality.

Folks are treating the recent tech layoffs as something spontaneous. They were not. Apparently the current layoffs were orchestrated by hedge funds.

This hedge fund demanded that the big tech companies lay people off because they were being paid too much. Let that one sink in: a hedge fund manager saying that you're being paid too much.

Note that TCI is demanding that Google lay off more people.

If Elon Musk can afford to lose $200 billion in a single year, he can afford a wealth tax.

Question/Guesses:
How soon before Kevin McCarthy takes us all down with him?
I say late February, Liz Taylor’s Birthday.
(please pick by celebrity)

Three multibillionaires now own more wealth than the bottom half of America – 160 million Americans.

Don’t tell us we can’t afford a wealth tax on the super-rich.

Every year at Christmas now I think about Christmas 8 years ago when I nearly died with my wife, child and in-laws.

I share this every year over on the Bird Site and will share it here now.

It was Christmas Eve. 9 year old was just 1. We were staying at my in-laws who had an acreage just outside Red Deer at the time. We went to bed a bit late but the night was good. 1 year old wasn’t up too much.

Ho ho ho. I’m here to remind the the family members who most need the irritation: Santa is a Black man. He’s generous, loving, kind. He’s everting those sour faced, mean racists aren’t
Power up on fruit cake, level up on egg nog. Make the Yuletide GAY

Chemist and educator St. Elmo Brady was born #OTD in 1884. He was the first Black American to receive a PhD in Chemistry (University of Illinois, 1916).

Brady worked on organic acids, IR spectroscopy, and halogen compounds, and significantly expanded chem programs at four HBCUs.

22 December 1938 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Margaretha de Groot, was born in Amsterdam.

In July 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection.

She was 3.

#Auschwitz #Birkenau #Holocaust #Shoah #Jews #history #histodons #Nazis #Germany #NeverForget #ww2 #Memorial #Remember #memory #otd #facts #Amsterdam #Netherlands #girl #children

Periodic reminder: free snacks, beer kegs, and ping pong tables are not real perks.

Do you know what is?

Being part of a union that will defend you.

Oh great, just what we need.

#snow #MeanwhileInCanada

All jokes aside, remember what Christmas is really about, people.

Rich people being terrorized by spectres until they agree to pay their employees a living wage.

The family menorah of Rabbi Akiva Posner and Rachel Posner in Kiel, Germany, on #Hanukkah 1931, across the street from Nazi headquarters. Never forget, #resist!