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1 month ago | 
joewrote.com | Joe Mayall |Matthew Yglesias
The second election of Donald Trump shook the Democratic Universe to its core. As the manifestation of Very Serious American centrism, liberal pundits expected the Biden Presidency, followed by the Kamala Harris campaign, to defeat the racist game show host, prove once and for all his 2016 election was a fluke, and put the adults back in charge.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
jacobin.com | Joe Mayall
Of all the emotions I thought Alan Dershowitz’s The Ten Big Anti-Israel Lies would generate, the last I expected was sympathy for Donald Trump. Not once have I pitied the two-time president. But after reading Dershowitz’s convoluted and self-contradictory defense of Zionist Israel, I understood what it felt like to stand on the debate stage across from the senile Joe Biden.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
flipboard.com | Joe Mayall
15 hours agoFormer Miss California Tried to Save Her House with a Hose as L.A. Fires 'Exploded,' Then Help Arrived (Exclusive)A 79-year-old woman who survived the Pacific Palisades fire described what she saw as a “holocaust” and “Armageddon” — quite different from the 1993 California wildfires she previously witnessed. “This was not the one I experienced,” Sherrie Crumpler tells PEOPLE in an interview at Los Angeles’ West …13 hours agoIs 'The Brutalist' based on a true story?
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
joewrote.com | Joe Mayall
Of all America’s mainstream publications, none fulfills a more pervasive space than The Atlantic. Originally founded as an abolitionist magazine in pre-Civil War Boston, the outlet has long abandoned its commitment to social justice in favor of a more lucrative content strategy.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
joewrote.com | Joe Mayall |Matt Taibbi |Noah Smith |Matthew Yglesias
The past decade of American politics has given rise to a peculiar phenomenon. The people in the political establishment, by which I mean those that either have institutional power or share the politics favored by those with power, are obsessed with painting themselves as scrappy underdogs.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
medium.com | Joe Mayall
Joe Mayall·Follow11 min read·--I was not radicalized by the left. My socialist tendencies didn’t arise from reading Karl Marx or hearing the campaign speeches of Bernie Sanders. The pinnacle event that evolved my outlook on American healthcare, and eventually the entire capitalist system, was not a revolution, campaign, or charismatic leader decrying the bourgeoise beneath a flurry of red flags.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
joewrote.com | Joe Mayall |Ken Klippenstein |J. P. Hill |Noah Smith
I was not radicalized by the left. My socialist tendencies didn’t arise from reading Karl Marx or hearing the campaign speeches of Bernie Sanders. The pinnacle event that evolved my outlook on American healthcare, and eventually the entire capitalist system, was not a revolution, campaign, or charismatic leader decrying the bourgeoise beneath a flurry of red flags.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
medium.com | Joe Mayall
Joe Mayall·Follow7 min read·--Earlier this year, I published my first policy white paper. It was a top-to-bottom argument outlining why and how the United States government should nationalize an airline and run it as a public good. The premise is simple. Americans agree that commercial air travel sucks.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
medium.com | Joe Mayall
Joe Mayall·Follow8 min read·--Growing up in America, we hear a lot about how citizens of other nations are subjected to the absurd propaganda of their autocratic rulers. When I was a kid, the President told me 9/11 happened because “Muslims hate our freedom,” and my English teacher assigned me Animal Farm to educate me on the brutalities of communism. For some odd reason, she forgot to mention that the Central Intelligence Agency had bought Orwell’s story and removed its anticapitalist message.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
medium.com | Joe Mayall
Joe Mayall·Follow6 min read·--Amongst the half-baked platitudes used to defend modern capitalism (“free market,” “personal responsibility,” “innovation,” etc., etc.), we’ll commonly hear the justification of capitalists’ “risk-taking.” Whenever someone says workers should receive more of a business’s profits, you can trust a capitalist or one of their lackeys to pop their head up and object. “But the capitalist is taking all the risks!” they say. “The owner funds this business.
