Source: Law & Liberty
by Aidan Grogan

“In his 1804 poem ‘Jerusalem,’ Romantic poet William Blake lamented the ‘dark Satanic Mills’ of the Industrial Revolution blotting out the green pastures and natural beauty of England. Blake’s critique of industrialization and its economic and social disruptions reflected the growing pains of a society in transition — from an economic order of rural, impoverished subsistence to one of urban, technological affluence. Two centuries later, a new transition is underway as developed economies shift from manufacturing to services. But among economic populists, a new Blakean nostalgia has manifested for the days of yore, except this generation of romantics dreams of a return to the ‘dark Satanic mills’ that Blake despised.” (05/26/25)

https://lawliberty.org/the-nostalgia-for-dark-satanic-mills/

Source: exile in happy valley
by Nicky Reid

“If you are undocumented, Muslim, or just happen to possess a functioning uterus in this country you’re probably feeling the heat of MAGA’s newly besotted marriage with technofascism right now and you’re probably feeling it in a very personal way. And like me, you are probably overwhelmed, and you have every fucking right to be but there are two things that you should know about your totally justified psychosis, two things that I frequently have to remind myself when I become tempted to swallow my own tongue. The first is that you are not alone. A bit cliche I know, but still totally valid. The second is that you are not crazy. In fact, you are actually being overwhelmed by design. The state and its various institutions have long conspired to cripple all of us with a pervasive sense of learned helplessness.” (05/25/25)

https://exileinhappyvalley.blogspot.com/2025/05/we-need-thousand-tiny-revolutions-to.html

Source: spiked
by Phil Mullan

“The US government borrows money by selling bonds called ‘treasuries,’ mainly to banks, pension funds and foreign governments. In return, it pays them interest – called the ‘yield.’ If investors start selling off existing bonds, their prices drop and yields go up. To attract new buyers, the government then has to raise the interest rate on newly issued bonds. When the first of Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ import tariffs kicked in on 5 April, holders of American government bonds began to dump them. Trump’s subsequent threats to remove Jerome Powell as the Federal Reserve chair only added to foreigners’ concerns. … It would be neat to point to Trump’s tariffs as the starting point for the demise of the dollar, but its dominance has been eroding for decades.” (05/26/25)

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/05/26/could-this-be-the-death-of-the-dollar/

Source: Yascha Mounk
by Yascha Mounk

“The best way to understand Donald Trump’s administration, Ivan Krastev told me a month ago, is as a ‘revolutionary government in the form of an imperial court.’ And the most important thing about revolutionary governments is that they quickly develop an unstoppable dynamic of their own, one in which the logic of events pushes its originators to ever more radical actions which they themselves might not have anticipated taking a few months or weeks ago. ‘You’re not running the revolution,’ Krastev remarked with his inimitable lucidity, ‘the revolution is running you.’ In no field of public policy is this insight more applicable than in the administration’s attacks on some of the country’s — and the world’s — most eminent universities.” (05/23/25)

https://yaschamounk.substack.com/p/trumps-assault-on-harvard-is-an-astonishing

Source: Common Dreams
by Abba Solomon

“On November 7, 1938, Polish Jew Herschel Feibel Grynszpan shot diplomat Ernst vom Rath in the German embassy in Paris. Grynszpan’s family had been made stateless by German and Polish governments, and were stranded in miserable conditions along with thousands of Jewish refugees at the Polish-German border. The shooting of vom Rath provided the trigger for the Nazi pogrom across Germany of Kristallnacht, the ‘Night of Broken Glass’ — attacks of Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues. This date is thought to mark the progression from German persecution of Jews to the beginning of the Holocaust. Today’s moment, the murder of two Israeli embassy employees in Washington, D.C. at an event sponsored by the American Jewish Committee (AJC), has all the elements to enable increased persecution of U.S. citizens and residents who advocate for the safety and rights of 2 millions residents of Gaza, and the rest of occupied Palestine.” (05/24/25)

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/israeli-embassy-murder

Source: Big Head Press
by Scott Bieser

Cartoon. (05/26/25)

https://www.quantumvibe.com/strip?page=2537