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David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊

#trump #economics A succunct demolition jon. The same of course applies to #RachelReeves ("I'm from accounts"). Why are the #political #elite #class so appallingly bad at #economics . Asking for a friend.🤔
kolektiva.social/@bifouba/1142

kolektiva.socialBilal Barakat 🍉 (@bifouba@kolektiva.social)❞The administration claims that these numbers represent tariff rates and non-tariff barriers. They don’t. Internet sleuths soon worked it out. Trump’s team appears to have taken the US’ trade deficit with the country and divided it by the country’s exports. The US has a $17.9 billion trade deficit with Indonesia and Indonesian exports to the US are $28 billion. They divided 17.9 by 28, got 0.64 and presented it as a 64 per cent tariff. It’s hard to state just how nonsensical that actually is. You might as well divide the numbers of apples in your kitchen by the number of bagels and use it to calculate your mortgage rate. To criticise it on political or economic grounds is too generous. It operates below the level of rational thought.❝ https://inews.co.uk/opinion/trumps-downfall-begins-now-paranoia-baseless-rage-3621228
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James Akers

Wrapped up all my commercial projects and final mirror world class, along with working on a new hanging chandelier sculpture with @alifeeney . The stick sculpture runs a #webcam server with GPIO controls so that anyone can view and interact with the sculpture from anywhere in the world.

It's website is down currently, as it's the sculpture is my minivan with me as I drive cross country. I visited some old friends in Corning last night, and am staying with an exceptional neon bender who bent a lot of work for Bruce Nauman in Chicago tonight.

My show, "Embracing Fallibility" opens along with my "Mind Benders" class at FOCI, in Minneapolis in a few days. Until then, I will be driving a bunch listening to radio drama's and chatting with students as a visiting artist at UW Madison.

Oh it's hectic, but it's nice to be on the road again - the voice an stories of Joe Frank keeping me company

Stick sculpture with neon inside the pyramid of sticks
A student (Juyon) with a wobbly piece of formerly flat glass with imagery and mirror on it
My stick and neon chandelier sculpture mid packing. This one- packed last minute before we leave- is packed in a form fitting cardboard box with the "bend over" method
Another Juyon piece of glass she mirrored. The bubble was heated, and sucked in- leaving 5 trails of glass leading to the upper square ring, and membranes of solid glass left behind. Lots of other silvered glass on the cart in the background
#roadtrip#mirror#class
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈

“My childhood was full of it and being able to represent where I’m from is integral to me. Too often I’ll watch stuff and think they’re treating the working class like an art project. It’s very condescending. ‘Ooh, look at the poor!’ But I’m proud to be this mixed-race working-class kid from a block of flats.”

theguardian.com/film/2025/mar/

The Guardian · Stephen Graham: the ‘working-class, mixed-race kid’ who cares deeply about the workBy Lanre Bakare
#StephenGraham#Class#UK
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James Akers

I made my Mirror World class some bling out of 6mm glass tubulation. We can all laugh and be shiny together now. I actually didn't make myself one though. I guess I can make it tomorrow. I bent it to my handwriting in cursive with a 6mm sharpie :) . lol happened to be an easy an fun 3 letter phrase that flows nicely.

I sure do love mirroring a bunch of little tubes simultaneously :)

I gotta get a few feet of bright colored silicone or latex tubing. They are meant to be necklaces. They may be fragile during hugs.

Its been nice to teach these classes with Kacie Lees in the evenings and decompress from the hectic week finishing up neon work things ahead of an upcoming midwest road trip! Class and show in Minneapolis and visiting artist 2 day at UW, Madison.

We mirrored so much. Its so fun seeing people get it- and run wild with it.

me, wearing red and pink kitchen gloves, with a funnel, and all the fire polished lols attached end to end with latex tubing hanging down. bottles of chemicals and messy dryer pan are on the table.
shiny blinged out lols drying off on the new york times. Other shiny blobby glass objects and plastic things in the background.
six lols against a black painted table, with their ends fire polished
The long tube with all six lols in it... actually I think there was another tube of lols. Box of tissues and red stabilo 8008 pencil and white block on the non metallic table. Student in the background.
#glass#flameworking#silver
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JesseLex

Interesting stats showing why increasing taxes on higher income/wealthy people & possibly even better results state/locally doesn't occur through elections.

Wealthy white homeowners vote more on property tax hike proposals - Chicago Tribune
chicagotribune.com/2025/03/26/

If you're a Chicago Public Library cardholder, you can access this article without paywall via chipublib.org/

#Politics#Taxes#DemocraticSocialism
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JuneSim63

"The new sentencing guidelines are the latest demonstration of distorted thinking about social disadvantage, and of the invisibility of class in many discussions. The treatment of working-class people is an expression of “two-tier” justice so deeply embedded in our history and institutions that it is barely noticed"
Kenan Malik

#Justice #Law #UKLaw #Class #Discrimination
theguardian.com/commentisfree/

The Guardian · Amid all the noise about the UK’s ‘two-tier’ justice system, there is silence on classBy Kenan Malik
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