Links for August 2025
Friday, August 1st, 2025Republican tariffs now projected to cost US households an average of $2,400 / year. Also, it will increase unemployment. “Consumers face an overall average effective tariff rate of 18.3%, the highest since 1934.”
Dust-Licking Pimps. Mark Twain and Quincy and Immigration by Jess Piper
No Californian gentleman or lady ever abuses or opposes a [Chinese person], under any circumstances, an explanation that seems to be much needed in the East. Only the scum of the population do it – they and their children; they, and, naturally and consistently the policeman and politicians likewise, for these are the dust-licking pimps and slaves of the scum…
“Roughing It”, Mark Twain
“NFL” Shooting Wasn’t Random. Another manifesto gets censored in a case that needs transparency. by Ken Klippenstein
Political books that look interesting:
Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
The Divide: A Brief Guide to Global Inequality and its Solutions by Jason Hickel
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States by Daniel Immerwahr
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy by Stephanie Kelton
The Triumph of Injustice: How the Rich Dodge Taxes and How to Make Them Pay by Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman
Goliath: The 100-Year War Between Monopoly Power and Democracy by Matt Stoller
Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein
Anton Schmid. “He was one of only three Wehrmacht soldiers who were executed for helping Jews.“