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“It’s a heist”: Senator calls out Texas for trying to steal shuttle from Smithsonian

arstechnica.com/space/2025/07/

"I think we're dealing with something called waste. Eighty-five million dollars worth of waste.“

A political effort to confiscate space shuttle Discovery from the Smithsonian and place it on display in Texas encountered some pushback.

"#Neoliberals had always been concerned with the extra-economic conditions for capitalism’s survival, but they had usually focused on law, religion, and morality. The growing influence of Friedrich #Hayek’s ideas of cultural evolution and the mainstream popularity of neuroscience and evolutionary psychology led many to turn to the harder sciences. Changing demographics—an aging white population matched by an expanding nonwhite population—made some right-wing neoliberals and libertarians rethink the conditions necessary for #capitalism. Perhaps some cultures, and even some races, might be predisposed to market success while others were not? Perhaps #culturalhomogeneity was a precondition for social stability, and thus the peaceful conduct of market exchange and enjoyment of #privateproperty?"
#QuinnSlobodian
@zeithistoriker
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Today In Labor History March 26, 1850: Edward Bellamy was born. Bellamy was an American author and socialist political activist, most well-known for his utopian novel, “Looking Backward,” one of the most commercially successful books published in the 19th century. It particularly appealed to the intellectuals who were alienated by the Gilded Age greed, corruption and violence. His book inspired many to form so-called “nationalist clubs” to implement his ideas of a society free of private property, social classes, war, poverty, crime, lawyers, politicians, prostitution, merchants, soldiers, and taxes. Plus, everyone could retire by the age of 45. He died at the age of 48 from tuberculosis.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #utopia #edwardbellamy #poverty #prostitution #PrivateProperty #socialism #tuberculosis #war #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon

Published as "varia" article (2025):
"The Relationality of #CollectiveProperty. #Commons and Convivial Conservation in #Umbria, Italy"

> The analysis of the case studies, that are the Umbrian #ComunanzeAgrarie of #MassaMartana and #Colpetrazzo, confirms the positive relationality of #CollectiveProperty, counterposed to the socialisation of people and spaces linked to the territorialisation of individual #PrivateProperty, as it allows the maintenance of #CommonGoods and spaces which guarantee a direct and democratic territorial governance able to contrast the present socio-environmental challenges.

journals.openedition.org/rga/1

Did #Kentucky Legalize #Shooting #HomelessPeople?

youtube.com/watch?v=uGDPuXZr36

Kentucky’s crazy #SaferKentuckyAct decriminalizes #deadlyforce against #homeless people.

The bill which goes into effect in July, allows #privateproperty owners to #shoot first and questions later if they believe that a trespasser or homeless person is going to commit a #felony or is attempting to “deposses” them.
The set of #toughoncrime laws also #criminalizes being homeless.

Today In Labor History March 26, 1850: Edward Bellamy was born. Bellamy was an American author and socialist political activist, most well-known for his utopian novel, “Looking Backward,” one of the most commercially successful books published in the 19th century. It particularly appealed to the intellectuals who were alienated by the Gilded Age greed, corruption and violence. His book inspired many to form so-called “nationalist clubs” to implement his ideas of a society free of private property, social classes, war, poverty, crime, lawyers, politicians, prostitution, merchants, soldiers, and taxes. Plus, everyone could retire by the age of 45. He died at the age of 48 from tuberculosis.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #utopia #edwardbellamy #poverty #prostitution #PrivateProperty #socialism #tuberculosis #war #books #author #writer #fiction @bookstadon