• Barack Obama represents the old Democratic party (The Guardian) Money quote, “The former president says he’s worried about ‘purity’ tests in the Democratic party. What he’s really worried about is his surrogates losing control of the party”
• Why does the Left sneer at the traditional working class? (UnHerd) The UK, addressing the all to common trope that addressing issues of the working class is just pandering to white people.
• Buy Yourself a F*^king Latte (The Big Picture) Barry Ritholtz runs the numbers, and Suze Orman’s numbers on this, noting that Orman’s numbers assume a return of 12% AFTER inflation, more than double of the market’s rate of return. Wage increases of 2% a year do a lot more.
• That mental health app might share your data without telling you (The Verge) We don’t just need regulation, we need executives behind bars.
• Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (The Atlantic) The so-called, “Silurian Hypothesis.” The authors of the peer reviewed paper don’t believe it, but present it as a mental exercise on how evidence of such things are fleeting.
• Nancy Pelosi shows no restraint on disparaging young progressive women (The Guardian) Pelosi really needs to go.
• Pete Buttigieg Trivializes the Impact of Trade on US Job Losses (Truthout) As a matter of settled law, we have been subsidizing jobs moving overseas for decades, and automation is an excuse to do nothing to call capital, and the body politic, to account.
• The Kushner Family Passover Haggadah, 2019 Edition (McSweeney’s Internet Tendency) Read this. it is brilliant.

A tour of an old machine shop. I love this sh%$: