Mike Barone

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. Graduate student at Stony Brook University.

[Mike Barone @mbarone189]

@VickieforNYC Absolute trash take from an absolute trash human. The whole world is waiting for you worthless losers to finally go away for good

[Mike Barone @mbarone189]

Liberal, female and minority: America's new gun owners aren't who you'd think | CNN https://t.co/xpmyp8k6B8

[Carey @carey_wedler]

The root of police brutality is the State’s grotesque monopoly on violence and both cops’ and the people’s belief that they have a special “right” to hurt others in the name of the “law” and “authority.”

It won’t end until people stop believing in this murderous myth.

[Mike Barone @mbarone189]

This is top tier material

[Mike Barone @mbarone189]

Funny how these walk-backs always happen quietly after an election, never before…

[CNBC @CNBC]

A top Walgreens executive acknowledged the company may have overblown concerns about thefts in their stores after shrinkage stabilized over the last year.

“Maybe we cried too much last year,” Chief Financial Officer James Kehoe said. https://t.co/17SkA57t8t

[Mike Barone @mbarone189]

Academic institutions, like corporations, are constantly trying to pass off performative BS for the actual work of inclusion. It boggles the mind to think how out of touch one must be to see this and say “hey, great work.”

[Gail Heriot @GailHeriot]

Another perfectly good word is being canceled: The USC School of Social Work is nixing the word “field” as in “field work” & “going into the field.” USC thinks this has something to do with white supremacy. Please stop.

[DailyRadical History @radicaldaily]

Jan 6 1937 – Abraham Lincoln Brigade forms to fight fascism in the Spanish Civil War. Almost 3,000 Americans travel to Spain as part of the International Brigades. https://t.co/vSH4vqmXve

[Aisha A @landlawlahore]

US Defense Budget

2018: $682.48 Billion
2019: $734.34B
2020: $778.23B
2021: $800.67B
2022: $858B

US Federal Minimum Wage

2018: $7.25
2019: $7.25
2020: $7.25
2021: $7.25
2022: $7.25

[cabral @doctor_cabral]

Railroad workers are essential to the economy, and all they’re asking for is meager sick leave in the context of a pandemic. The fact that both parties collaborated to crush them should dispel any notion that either party is representing the working class.

[Mike Barone @mbarone189]

Sharing this today for no particular reason

[Cleveland Review of Books @clereviewbooks]

"Because of the US government’s attempts to tie communism to disloyalty, much of these women’s work went unrecognized in mainstream histories of Black activism." CRB editor @morgan_forde_ in conversation with @blackleftaf and @Jodi7768 in @thenation today.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Still thinking about this story I covered this week. A cancer drug created in 1973 is selling for $38,398 in the US. The same drug goes for $260 in the UK. Stuff like this should be a national scandal but it's not some sexy culture war bullshit so nobody talks about it

[Matt Taibbi @mtaibbi]

The comedy factor of phone-clutching American yuppies suddenly declaring, “I refuse to be consumers of a business owned by a capricious billionaire!” is off the charts.

[sloane (sîpihkopiyesîs) 🇵🇸🇨🇩🇸🇩 @cottoncandaddy]

karl marx's communist manifesto walked so that dolly parton's 9 to 5 could run

[Mike Barone @mbarone189]

Besides the thousands of people that I, Kamala Harris, put in jail for smoking weed

[Insider Paper @TheInsiderPaper]

VP KAMALA HARRIS: "Nobody should have to go to jail for smoking weed."

[PBS News @NewsHour]

A growing movement led by right-wing politicians is increasingly challenging the separation of church and state. @kkdumez joined @lbarronlopez to discuss.
https://t.co/wQCwmB7bBX

[Mike Barone @mbarone189]

As a proud Italian-American I’d like to say…

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

One painting from every year of the 20th century, in chronological order.

1900: Sunbeams by Vilhelm Hammershøi

1/100

[Kenny Keil @kennykeil]

Lizzo plays a flute and one day later everyone's an expert on flutes. They should keep handing her instruments until we accidentally bring back music education