Shannon Starks
@shianomom.bsky.social
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
December 8, 2025 at 3:50 PM
BREAKING: Bernie Sanders just now:
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Yes. We must extend the ACA tax credits so that over 20 million Americans don't see a doubling in their health premiums, on average. But we must do more. We cannot remain the only major country not to guarantee health care for all as a human right.
We must pass Medicare for All.
We must pass Medicare for All.
December 8, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Yes. We must extend the ACA tax credits so that over 20 million Americans don't see a doubling in their health premiums, on average. But we must do more. We cannot remain the only major country not to guarantee health care for all as a human right.
We must pass Medicare for All.
We must pass Medicare for All.
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Paramount does not have an easier path to approval of swallowing Warner Bros. than Netflix because state AGs can, will, and should challenge both of them, because they are definitely illegal.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
Jared Kushner is part of Paramount's hostile bid for Warner Bros. Discovery
Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it has a smoother path to regulatory approval than does Netflix.
www.axios.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Paramount does not have an easier path to approval of swallowing Warner Bros. than Netflix because state AGs can, will, and should challenge both of them, because they are definitely illegal.
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
www.axios.com/2025/12/08/j...
Really bad idea!
There's a second front in the conservative war on the Department of Veterans Affairs. In addition to privatizing health care, Trump is now taking aim at veterans’ disability benefits, which serves 7 million Americans. Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon report.
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Trump Is Coming for Veterans’ Disability Benefits - The American Prospect
The veterans disability system has traditionally been a sacred cow for politicians of all stripes. Now, as part of the conservative war on the Department of Veterans Affairs, the administration is fal...
prospect.org
December 8, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Really bad idea!
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“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
December 6, 2025 at 4:20 PM
“The point of modern propaganda isn't only to misinform or push an agenda.
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
It is to exhaust your critical thinking, to annihilate truth.”
- Garry Kasparov
I signed up! Monday streaming only once.
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The Last Class Film
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December 7, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I signed up! Monday streaming only once.
www.thelastclassfilm.com
www.thelastclassfilm.com
Admittedly the potential for return is vast. Will the “market correction” involve lots of death and destruction? Only our broligarchs know. 😏
Investment in AI is exploding
By Mayank Munjal and Vineet Sachdev
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
Investment in AI is exploding
By Mayank Munjal and Vineet Sachdev
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
Just how big is the AI investment wave?
More money has been invested in AI than it took to land on the moon.
www.reuters.com
December 6, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Admittedly the potential for return is vast. Will the “market correction” involve lots of death and destruction? Only our broligarchs know. 😏
Investment in AI is exploding
By Mayank Munjal and Vineet Sachdev
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
Investment in AI is exploding
By Mayank Munjal and Vineet Sachdev
www.reuters.com/graphics/USA...
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This is what the Trump administration stands for. My Iowa representatives in DC all support it.
My constituent, Wilmer, was mauled by an ICE attack dog despite the fact that, as he has consistently explained, he was not resisting arrest or trying to flee—his wife and young children, all U.S. citizens, were forced to watch helplessly as Wilmer was violently attacked and dragged away.
December 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
This is what the Trump administration stands for. My Iowa representatives in DC all support it.
😂😂😂
December 6, 2025 at 4:18 PM
😂😂😂
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The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The US government is summarily executing people on a weekly basis without telling the American people any of their names or presenting any proof of their guilt, for alleged crimes that do not carry the death penalty in the US.
Could this be Iowa’s biggest export?
littlevillagemag.com/factory-farm...
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Factory farms in Iowa generate 110 billion pounds of manure per year. No one tracks where it’s going. - Little Village
More than a thousand hogs grow fat in the enclosed shed-like structures on Gene Tinker’s farm in northeast Iowa, while a few hundred cattle pace in open feedlots. His farm […]
littlevillagemag.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Could this be Iowa’s biggest export?
littlevillagemag.com/factory-farm...
littlevillagemag.com/factory-farm...
If ever there was a time to stand together in solidarity as people who use their power to make the world better, it is now.
December 6, 2025 at 2:21 AM
If ever there was a time to stand together in solidarity as people who use their power to make the world better, it is now.
How many calls does it take to get four more? 40 million? Then let’s do it!
Since we can’t ever expect Mike Johnson to do the right thing, we’re forcing a vote on extending ACA tax credits. And we only need four more members to sign the petition to make it happen.
Help us move the needle!
Help us move the needle!
Tell Congress: Support discharge petition to force vote on ACA tax credits
Contact Congress today!
actionnetwork.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:19 AM
How many calls does it take to get four more? 40 million? Then let’s do it!
Why is Iowa number 1 (in cancer)? Here’s a big clue.
Why do we live in a 'shithole'? A new docuseries on Iowa's 50-year decline #iowa
Why do we live in a 'shithole'? A new docuseries on Iowa's 50-year decline seeks answers - Little Village
“I keep asking, why is it we’re living in a shithole?” Art Cullen says in What’s Eating Iowa?, his new documentary series launched Tuesday. The first episode, “Water,” is now […]
littlevillagemag.com
December 6, 2025 at 2:17 AM
Why is Iowa number 1 (in cancer)? Here’s a big clue.
Meet the shadowy arbiters of death. Maybe yours or your loved ones’.
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Meet the Connectors - The American Prospect
Middlemen, our economy’s most shadowy characters, sit in between buyers and sellers and get rich in the process. It can even be a matter of life or death.
prospect.org
December 6, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Meet the shadowy arbiters of death. Maybe yours or your loved ones’.
prospect.org/2025/12/05/m...
prospect.org/2025/12/05/m...
The American Prospect points out that Larry Summers has been banned from the American Economic Association. Makes sense to me.
www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
Statement from the American Economic Association
www.aeaweb.org
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 AM
The American Prospect points out that Larry Summers has been banned from the American Economic Association. Makes sense to me.
www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
www.aeaweb.org/news/aea-sta...
I grew up on and worked on a farm, which was indeed dangerous, but this is an altogether different level of danger. Capitalism clearly needs more fetters to be sustainable.
Today I want to tell you about farmworkers.
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
Specifically, the child farmworkers of California's Central Valley.
As young as 12 years old.
In a blue state that is failing to ensure their health and safety.
Amazing investigation in 2 parts from our friends at @capitalandmain.bsky.social. Part I:
California’s Child Farmworkers: Exhausted, Underpaid, and Toiling in Toxic Fields - The American Prospect
State officials are failing to protect the health and safety of thousands of young field laborers, an investigation has found.
prospect.org
November 28, 2025 at 5:45 PM
I grew up on and worked on a farm, which was indeed dangerous, but this is an altogether different level of danger. Capitalism clearly needs more fetters to be sustainable.
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” —Leonard Bernstein
November 28, 2025 at 5:42 PM
“This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” —Leonard Bernstein
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Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
November 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Utterly ludicrous framing from @nytimes.com here, treating Pete Hegseth's arguments as if they're legitimate. The casual reader will be left with no inkling whatsoever of how unusual and corrupt an abuse of the process this truly is:
If this is the business model for you, then MAGA will suit you just fine.
Tyson is closing a Nebraska plant that employs 3,200 workers in order to “right-size” its business.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
The meatpacking giant paid its CEO $22.7M last year, 525x its median employee's pay.
It also spent $196M in stock buybacks to reward shareholders.
Textbook corporate greed.
November 25, 2025 at 2:42 AM
If this is the business model for you, then MAGA will suit you just fine.