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Not rocket science. America's monopolies propagate oligarchs. Period.'Amazon captures abt 40 cents/dollar spent online in the US,...

Not rocket science. America's monopolies propagate oligarchs. Period.

'Amazon captures abt 40 cents/dollar spent online in the US, & is the target of an antitrust lawsuit filed last year by the Federal Trade Commission accusing it of illegally maintaining monopoly power to the detriment of US shoppers-online merchants...who need AN ALTERNATIVE.'

“We’re making more money on
#Temu even tho the price is higher on Amazon.” -Molson Hart/Austin, TX-based Viahart/plush toys business
#Bloomberg

STFU #JoeRogan "Stop repeating a common Kremlin narrative —tht the use of US weapons in Ukraine will lead to WWIII.Putin’s Russia...

STFU #JoeRogan

"Stop repeating a common Kremlin narrative —tht the use of US weapons in Ukraine will lead to WWIII.

Putin’s Russia is in trouble, so they want to scare people like you. You're a puppet using the only weapon that Putin really intends to use: propaganda. And this weapon really weakens our democracies. Putin’s Russia wants to destroy Ukraine quietly, they want America to stay quiet. Not great, but quiet.” -Ukrainian boxer Wladimir Klitschko

'Elon is in trouble.With the SEC. DOJ. NHTSA. OSHA. The FAA. The Delaware Chancery and more.#ElonMusk knows #Trump is corrupt, and will...

'Elon is in trouble.

With the SEC. DOJ. NHTSA. OSHA. The FAA. The Delaware Chancery and more.

#ElonMusk knows #Trump is corrupt, and will weaponize or restrain govt agencies to help himself and his well-heeled friends. What he thinks about Trump’s business skills is irrelevant to this purchase.' -David W. Rudlin

'There is a curtain of darkness falling across the world, a blanket of fake news-lies is smothering the truth & we know where that...

'There is a curtain of darkness falling across the world, a blanket of fake news-lies is smothering the truth & we know where that leads.

The USA is entering a whole new era of state power. The #Trump & #Musk alliance is a type the world has never seen blending-merging state power w/ a global comms platform...a propaganda machine Joseph Goebbels cdn’t even dream of. It will affect #Europe too. Our elections. Our security.'
#CaroleCadwalladr

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/how-to-speak-truth-to-power?utm_source=substack&publication_id=3323794&post_id=152087634&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=42dbf&triedRedirect=true

Now's not the time to give up. If anything, it's an opportunity to fight for the real changes we need. Take a look at these 10 ideas...

Now's not the time to give up. If anything, it's an opportunity to fight for the real changes we need. Take a look at these 10 ideas to fix our broken system. #RobertReich

https://youtu.be/5zNxm4RgSNA?feature=shared

"I feel nothing but dread at the thought tht Donald Trump, a man of unfathomable ignorance, utterly susceptible to manipulation, who...

"I feel nothing but dread at the thought tht Donald Trump, a man of unfathomable ignorance, utterly susceptible to manipulation, who lives in a fantasy world, is surrounded by lunatics, & is wildly impulsive, prone to explosions of narcissistic rage, plus rapidly losing emotional control & cognitive function w/ age --will soon be interpreting all kinds events & deciding how the US should respond, not just once, but over & over again, for the duration of his presidency." #ClaireBerlinski

Agreed

Agreed

Living in #NYC means coming back from your composting drop…in a designated bin along the Hudson River…where you get to take in the...

Living in #NYC means coming back from your composting drop…in a designated bin along the Hudson River…where you get to take in the glorious lowering sun🌞& steely gray waters…you also get to pop into an extraordinary curation of #IrvingPenn photos in Chelsea on your way bk home...& all that is pretty priceless.

over natural resources, & onerous financial commitmts, is embarrassing & counterproductive. As a nonparty to the treaty, the US...

over natural resources, & onerous financial commitmts, is embarrassing & counterproductive.

As a nonparty to the treaty, the US participates only as an observer. Lacking a seat at the table, it cannot formally object to decisions, so reduces the US, which ought to be a leader in the protection of life on Earth, to a mere bit player in the face of a planetary ecological emergency. The election of Donald #Trump as president will only confirm that status." #CEIP #StewartPatrick

"Tho also deeply tied to #climate, this biennial #COP gathers the 196 parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The...

"Tho also deeply tied to #climate, this biennial #COP gathers the 196 parties to the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD). The mtg in Cali, Colombia, was intended to be a milestone in global efforts to slow & reverse the dramatic, human-caused destruction of species& ecosystems worldwide.

Among the main oddities in Cali, was the near-total irrelevance of the US due to its continued inability to ratify the CBD, citing specious concerns abt intellectual property rts, sovereignty...

Tom Homan to lead the...Dept of Rounding Up Undesirables, Bobby Brainworms to head the Dept of Dying of a Preventable Disease, Tulsi Gabbard...

Tom Homan to lead the...Dept of Rounding Up Undesirables, Bobby Brainworms to head the Dept of Dying of a Preventable Disease, Tulsi Gabbard to lead the Dept of Letting Putin Knw What We’re Up To, & the Space Nazi to head the Dept of Giggling Like a Loon While Breaking Shit You Don’t Understand.

so, now that those tasks are out of the way, who gives a fuck who does everything else, really?" #JeffTiedrich

Donny’s Confederacy of Sewer Clowns"Donny Convict has finally gotten bored with this whole ‘let’s pick a cabinet’ thing, &...

Donny’s Confederacy of Sewer Clowns
"Donny Convict has finally gotten bored with this whole ‘let’s pick a cabinet’ thing, & it shows.

think about it: Captain Crazypants famously has the attn span of a coked-up squirrel —so oc it took barely a wk fr him to reach the ‘let’s just get this fucking shit over w as fast as possible’ stage.

& why not? Donny’s already picked the important honchos: Matt Gaetz to lead the Department of Retribution, Pete Hegseth to head the Dept of Abandoning Our Allies,

Don't miss this great series on #LindsayGraham on #Bulwark...as it speaks to the average MAGAt as well. Epilogue: "I set out to...

Don't miss this great series on #LindsayGraham on #Bulwark...as it speaks to the average MAGAt as well.

Epilogue: "I set out to research the story of Graham’s relationship w Trump bc I wanted to understand how authoritarianism arose in the US. I wanted to see how it worked: the corruption, rationalizations, poison, & vulnerabilities in the system. I wanted to learn how democracies cd detect such threats & counteract them."

Here are some of the 20 lessons I learned.
https://specialto.thebulwark.com/archive?sort=new

"Why did #Trump choose #Gabbard ? Her willingness to parrot Trump’s talking points & support his agenda. As DNI, she would be...

"Why did #Trump choose #Gabbard ?

Her willingness to parrot Trump’s talking points & support his agenda. As DNI, she would be expected to provide impartial analysis & offer hard truths when necessary, even if it conflicts w the president’s desires. Based on her history, I have little confidence she would, instead, twist intell to fit Trump’s political narrative, jeopardizing the safety & security of the American people." #AdamKinzinger #Bulwark https://www.thebulwark.com/p/i-served-with-tulsi-gabbard-and-yikes?utm_source=multiple-personal-recommendations-email&utm_medium=email&triedRedirect=true

"Trump has brilliantly done what he always does: used a series of distractions to drown out any coherent discussion of the whole...like...

"Trump has brilliantly done what he always does: used a series of distractions to drown out any coherent discussion of the whole...

like selecting Gaetz as AG or Gabbard as Intell Director.

Assuming Republicans will fail to exhibit the integrity or self-preservation when it most matters we must all, still, maintain focus on the whole rather than the endless series of new outrageous distractions." #EmptyWheel https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/21/yes-trump-plans-to-flush-nato-but-its-part-of-a-larger-whole/

Based on conventional economic models, increases in R&D spending should have led the US to accelerated economic growth rather than the...

Based on conventional economic models, increases in R&D spending should have led the US to accelerated economic growth rather than the slowdown that has actually occurred since 1985.

The evidence suggests that while the US is investing more in R&D, the concentration of resources among large businesses has led to diminishing returns in terms of productivity growth.
https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/fandd/issues/2024/09/the-innovation-paradox-ufuk-akcigit?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

"America possesses a unique culture, but it does not possess a unique people. We’re prone to the same sins and flaws as the people of...

"America possesses a unique culture, but it does not possess a unique people.

We’re prone to the same sins and flaws as the people of any other nation, and protecting the rights and dignity of our opponents is just not something that comes naturally to us.

It’s a learned behavior, modeled by leaders, and when leaders stop modeling tolerance and decency, Americans are prone to backslide to fear and animosity." #DavidFrench #NYT

"MAGA’s problems extend well beyond the campaign. In fact, every dysfunction you’ve seen on the far left has emerged on the far...

"MAGA’s problems extend well beyond the campaign.

In fact, every dysfunction you’ve seen on the far left has emerged on the far right, and the far right hasn’t been repudiated; it’s been empowered.

Dissenting Americans should brace themselves for an assault on free speech, extreme intolerance and a vicious form of cancel culture that includes an avalanche of threats and intimidation." #DavidFrench #NYT

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/opinion/trump-cancel-culture-maga.html?campaign_id=39&emc=edit_ty_20241121&instance_id=140210&nl=opinion-today&regi_id=144968602&segment_id=183760&user_id=f2f4b1162190f8fa76854ac54d8f552e

“Friends don’t let friends debate the future of the Democratic Party w/out being clear on whether they’re debating the 2024 election...

“Friends don’t let friends debate the future of the Democratic Party w/out being clear on whether they’re debating the 2024 election or the 2016-2024 shifts in the electorate.

The former you can explain with inflation. The latter you can’t.” #EzraKlein

A worthy read from #ClaireBerlinski re how Trump did it & where he's taking...

A worthy read from #ClaireBerlinski re how Trump did it & where he's taking U.S.

https://claireberlinski.substack.com/p/the-rules-for-destroying-a-liberal?utm_source=substack&publication_id=16235&post_id=151812951&utm_medium=email&utm_content=share&utm_campaign=email-share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&r=42dbf&triedRedirect=true