Six supposed patient advocacy groups are closely linked to drugmakers and pushing industry-aligned agendas, according to a new report.
www.levernews.com/the-pharma-p...
Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day.
Allies are a luxury only the elites can afford - we need people facing the same struggle, united by lack of any other choice but to fight. We're getting closer and closer.
🚨 We need to talk about DOGE & the IRS
This article covers actions that could be more damaging than the tariffs.
This hackathon has the very real potential to deliver the personal and financial information of everyone to the dark web. 🧵
www.wired.com/story/doge-h...
These are frightening times. Your courage and tenacity are desperately needed. They will be needed for the rest of this year and next, and the years thereafter. Which is why you must also take care of yourself. robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-tho...
Wisconsin State Supreme Court PROJECTED WINNER Susan Crawford Decision Desk HQ
We deserved some good news!
The message is, has been, the right message.
We need real leaders, coast-to-coast, now that Bernie has charted a course, who takes the helm?
youtu.be/D3-ykW9JKQM?...
$79 TRILLION from workers to the 1%
The Rand Corporations research detailing back to the mid-70s shows the vast growth in the pool of wealth due to our high productivity and technology
It also shows that overwhelmingly that money has gone to the richest.
www.rand.org/pubs/working...
A picture is worth a thousand words.
The administration says they're cutting a trillion in government spending. So far, 2025 spending is $1.89 trillion. It was $1.76 trillion at the same time last year. Spending is on pace to increase by 7.4% from last year.
www.marketwatch.com/story/despit...
In this week's monopoly round-up, I laid out the real reason America can't build stuff. The answer is that it's our national strategy. In the 1980s we decided building was bad and finance was good. www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Apparently those muscles are needed to punch out bears
Musk rivaling Jay Gould for the New Tammany
My newest video is premiering on YouTube now. youtu.be/AT7x31Jm9go?...
Sure - let's go ahead and score each other on leisure - isn't that golf?
It isn't just @sanders.senate.gov who knows the ways our parties have failed the people - so do the consultants and donors who engineered this betrayal
youtube.com/shorts/FSuax...
A group that focuses on electing Democratic women who support abortion rights has announced it will target 46 U.S. House seats held by Republicans in the midterms. In Ohio, it includes incumbent GOP Congressmen Max Miller, Michael Turner and Mike Carey
Florida adds more horrors on top of deporting immigrants: legalizing child labor to replace lost immigrants. Solves the labor problem; keeps wages low. Brave new world.
www.tallahassee.com/story/news/l...
A ProPublica analysis revealed a stark pattern across the Deep South, where about 200 majority-Black public school districts educate 1.3 million students. Alongside those districts are private academies filled almost entirely with white students.
(Published Dec. 2024)
Health insurance companies are under increasing scrutiny for allegedly using AI bots and algorithms to swiftly deny patients routine or lifesaving care, without a human actually reviewing the claims. States trying to rein them in are seeing mixed results
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Current Affairs editor-in-chief @nathanjrobinson.bsky.social is doing a mini book tour for The Myth of American Idealism!
🦩London, April 1, 6:30pm, Bookmarks Bookshop
🦩Oxford, April 4, 10:00am, Oxford Literary Festival
🦩Manchester, April 7, 6:45pm, Blackwell's Bookshop
Secretary Lutnick: You are a billionaire.
Maybe your mother-in-law wouldn't complain if she didn't get her Social Security check, but tens of millions of seniors struggling to survive would.
They're not fraudsters. They earned it.
How out of touch are you not to realize that?
Where we're at
an economy utterly dominated by dry powder - the PE term for excess money - when all investments are riskless to the richest all systems are gamed.
youtu.be/AlreD5vn9nA?...
Where we're at
an economy utterly dominated by dry powder - the PE term for excess money - when all investments are riskless to the richest all systems are gamed.
youtu.be/AlreD5vn9nA?...
That crypto is broadly held is a lie.
That crypto is currency is a lie
That crypto is egalitarian is a lie
That crypto is transparent is a lie
It is worse for Bitcoin where 90% of bitcoin is held in just 4% of wallets. This is a system designed for fraud
www.stlouisfed.org/on-the-econo...
