Subway is owned by a private equity firm that raised the prices on their $5 footlongs up to $14. Now the price back down to $6.99. It was never about “inflation.” It was a private equity firm using inflation as an excuse to price gouge customers. Always expose corporate greed.
I also discuss: Why the critique of Harris’ ascendancy as “undemocratic” is concern-trolling nonsense; how “electability” talk dresses up subjective biases and preferences; and why a Black woman rising represents such a fundamental threat to the Right’s project.
Weekend reading: I wrote about the meaning of Kamala Harris in this particular moment in American history. Her story as VP reflects the post-George Floyd racial reckoning that never came as well as the racial and social retrenchment since 2020. Kamala Harris May Force a Reckoning: 🧵1/
Harris emerged as VP in the summer of 2020 when it seemed the country might finally deal with its defining demons. But as the reactionary counter-mobilization triumphed, she was sidelined. Until now.
MC 900 ft Jesus released the eternal “Truth is Out of Style” in 1990.
God, I loved MC 900ft Jesus.
Two things can be true simultaneously: Voting for Democrats is necessary and Voting for Democrats is insufficient It’s the desire to pit these concepts against each other that creates friction where there would otherwise be consensus.
The Times's story about thirteen year old undocumented children working and dying and the Post's ongoing coverage of elderly people paying ungodly amounts of money to die deaths of horrid neglect are just truly breathtaking examples of how fucked America is
Abortion ban "exceptions" don't exist. They never existed. Not for rape. Not for incest. Not for the life of the mother. The only people they're designed to protect is the politicians who tout them as a fraudulent defense of an inhumane policy. Exceptions are a talking point and nothing else.
