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Bonus antidote:
This is Humphrey. He would like to discuss bigger bowl options whenever you get a chance. It’s just that this looks ridiculous. 13/10 pic.twitter.com/QbItzZEPtb
See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here.
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About Lambert Strether
Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are different flavors of neoliberalism (“Because markets”). I don’t much care about the “ism” that delivers the benefits, although whichever one does have to put common humanity first, as opposed to