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"America is crying out for a coherent national water policy, and states would be an obstacle to this no matter how their boundaries were drawn." prospect.org/2025/12/12/c...
‘Cadillac Desert’ Reconsidered - The American Prospect
Marc Reisner’s 1986 book demonstrates how a hypertrophic judiciary combines with America’s deadlocked legislature to make vast swaths of Western water policy dependent on 19th-century legal norms.
prospect.org
December 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
"America is crying out for a coherent national water policy, and states would be an obstacle to this no matter how their boundaries were drawn." prospect.org/2025/12/12/c...
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As David Hume says, the linkage of wealth to moral and social superiority is a perversion of reason with no basis in fact. Lutnick himself is proof that you can be an idiot, a moral midget, and very wealthy. Indeed, this is a Wall Street commonplace.
Lutnick: "We should be bringing in the best and brightest, and that's what Donald Trump is changing about our immigration system. Let's expedite the best and brightest who are gonna give a million dollars to the US to prove they're at the top of the list."
December 11, 2025 at 2:55 PM
As David Hume says, the linkage of wealth to moral and social superiority is a perversion of reason with no basis in fact. Lutnick himself is proof that you can be an idiot, a moral midget, and very wealthy. Indeed, this is a Wall Street commonplace.
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Trump wants your kids to ration pencils & dolls while he gets massive ballrooms, luxury jumbo jets, & taxpayer-funded golf trips.
What a greedy grinch.
What a greedy grinch.
Trump: "You can give up certain products. You could give up pencils. Because under the China policy, every child can get 37 pencils. They only need 1 or 2. They don't need that many. You always need steel. You don't need 37 dolls for your daughter. 2 or 3 is nice. So we're doing things right."
December 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Trump wants your kids to ration pencils & dolls while he gets massive ballrooms, luxury jumbo jets, & taxpayer-funded golf trips.
What a greedy grinch.
What a greedy grinch.
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The concentration of wealth is at a historical extreme. In 100s of years of history bad things always happen at this point. The working class must urgently organise. Stop letting them divide people on migrants and other stuff. Its the same fascist playbook to distract from extreme wealth inequality.
Its everything FDR warned of. Private power was allowed to become more powerful than the democratic state itself. People distracted with meaningless bread and circuses tolerated it. Its now up to the people to fix it or be enslaved.
Further consolidation of fascist billionaire control over the sphere of influence. Wealth inequality went too far.
October 2, 2025 at 7:27 PM
The concentration of wealth is at a historical extreme. In 100s of years of history bad things always happen at this point. The working class must urgently organise. Stop letting them divide people on migrants and other stuff. Its the same fascist playbook to distract from extreme wealth inequality.
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Healthcare is not a consumer product.
People's lives are not a consumer good.
America needs Universal Healthcare.
People's lives are not a consumer good.
America needs Universal Healthcare.
December 11, 2025 at 12:33 AM
Healthcare is not a consumer product.
People's lives are not a consumer good.
America needs Universal Healthcare.
People's lives are not a consumer good.
America needs Universal Healthcare.
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Please press 1 to be frustrated by a phone tree.
Please press 2 to hear several clicks and then be disconnected.
Please press 3 to record a voice mail that we claim will be listened to by a supervisor, but they'll just press "delete after one second".
I'm sorry I didn't understand your selection.
Please press 2 to hear several clicks and then be disconnected.
Please press 3 to record a voice mail that we claim will be listened to by a supervisor, but they'll just press "delete after one second".
I'm sorry I didn't understand your selection.
December 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Please press 1 to be frustrated by a phone tree.
Please press 2 to hear several clicks and then be disconnected.
Please press 3 to record a voice mail that we claim will be listened to by a supervisor, but they'll just press "delete after one second".
I'm sorry I didn't understand your selection.
Please press 2 to hear several clicks and then be disconnected.
Please press 3 to record a voice mail that we claim will be listened to by a supervisor, but they'll just press "delete after one second".
I'm sorry I didn't understand your selection.
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tRump is out of his lying mind AND he’s been promising to ‘keep the oil’ since his 2016 Campaign.
We’ve got to get him out of office. This is really dangerous. smh
#DemVoice1
#Pinks 🌸
apple.news/AwnWdI5ZGSMC...
We’ve got to get him out of office. This is really dangerous. smh
#DemVoice1
#Pinks 🌸
apple.news/AwnWdI5ZGSMC...
US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Trump says — Reuters
The U.S. has seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, President Donald Trump said on Wednesday, ratcheting up tensions with Caracas in a move that also raised oil prices.
apple.news
December 10, 2025 at 10:08 PM
tRump is out of his lying mind AND he’s been promising to ‘keep the oil’ since his 2016 Campaign.
We’ve got to get him out of office. This is really dangerous. smh
#DemVoice1
#Pinks 🌸
apple.news/AwnWdI5ZGSMC...
We’ve got to get him out of office. This is really dangerous. smh
#DemVoice1
#Pinks 🌸
apple.news/AwnWdI5ZGSMC...
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Alex Karp is a Nazi. He wants the working class to fight imperialist wars so Palantir stock will continue to rise.
asiatimes.com/2025/05/the-...
asiatimes.com/2025/05/the-...
The most dangerous man in America isn’t Trump—it’s Alex Karp - Asia Times
Alex Karp doesn’t look like a warmonger. The Palantir CEO is often photographed in quirky glasses and wild hair, quoting St Augustine or Nietzsche as if
asiatimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 2:23 AM
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Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days.
The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...
www.propublica.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
They’ve had their necks kneeled on.
They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.
At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.
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The Mamdani - Trump meeting showed just how weak Democratic leadership is.
Both Representative Jeffries and Senator Schumer need to be replaced.
Both Representative Jeffries and Senator Schumer need to be replaced.
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
The Mamdani - Trump meeting showed just how weak Democratic leadership is.
Both Representative Jeffries and Senator Schumer need to be replaced.
Both Representative Jeffries and Senator Schumer need to be replaced.
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Someone at the Economist badly needs to be fired www.economist.com/united-state... Biden might have been tone-deaf in saying true things about the economy, Trump is outright lying. Anyone who can't tell the difference has no business working for a serious publication.
How Donald Trump is turning into Joe Biden
It’s about more than denying inflation
www.economist.com
November 22, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Someone at the Economist badly needs to be fired www.economist.com/united-state... Biden might have been tone-deaf in saying true things about the economy, Trump is outright lying. Anyone who can't tell the difference has no business working for a serious publication.
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The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.
Texas' top voucher vendor taps Abbott allies in contract bid, program rollout
The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.
www.sacurrent.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
The New York firm Odyssey is now running the state’s lucrative voucher scheme with a little help from the governor’s friends.
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That's true, reporters at the NYT, NPR, and Vox did the same thing. It really is outrageous -- the media made the call that Biden was tone-deaf because they decided he shouldn't tout the genuinely good things about the economy. They then equate this with outright lies from Trump. THEY gave us Trump.
I've heard this from more than just the Economist magazine. @markwarner.bsky.social referred to Trump "pulling a Biden" in the same context. The truth is the exact opposite. Biden/Harris were shouted down from simply stating the facts because, you know, vibecession. Trump just tells lies.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
That's true, reporters at the NYT, NPR, and Vox did the same thing. It really is outrageous -- the media made the call that Biden was tone-deaf because they decided he shouldn't tout the genuinely good things about the economy. They then equate this with outright lies from Trump. THEY gave us Trump.
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sorry, correct link for Stiglitz interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5c...
November 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
sorry, correct link for Stiglitz interview www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5c...
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Mamdani meeting with Trump is simply good governance on behalf of the people of NYC.
When you believe in your ideas, you tell everyone and you go everywhere.
There’s a difference between campaigning and governing and “Trump bad” isn’t a viable governance plan.
When you believe in your ideas, you tell everyone and you go everywhere.
There’s a difference between campaigning and governing and “Trump bad” isn’t a viable governance plan.
November 22, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Mamdani meeting with Trump is simply good governance on behalf of the people of NYC.
When you believe in your ideas, you tell everyone and you go everywhere.
There’s a difference between campaigning and governing and “Trump bad” isn’t a viable governance plan.
When you believe in your ideas, you tell everyone and you go everywhere.
There’s a difference between campaigning and governing and “Trump bad” isn’t a viable governance plan.
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So a lot of people will need to lose their jobs for the companies to recoup their AI investments?
November 22, 2025 at 8:49 PM
So a lot of people will need to lose their jobs for the companies to recoup their AI investments?
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Imagine if private equity partners were held liable for all the debts of the portfolio companies they put into bankruptcy. They would be much poorer. That is not the result of the marker, it is how we chose to write bankruptcy laws to favor private equity.
November 22, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Imagine if private equity partners were held liable for all the debts of the portfolio companies they put into bankruptcy. They would be much poorer. That is not the result of the marker, it is how we chose to write bankruptcy laws to favor private equity.
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My interview with Joe Stiglitz in which we talk about, among other things, how bankruptcy and intellectual property laws were structured to make billionaires richer (correct link) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5c...
November 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
My interview with Joe Stiglitz in which we talk about, among other things, how bankruptcy and intellectual property laws were structured to make billionaires richer (correct link) www.youtube.com/watch?v=nW5c...
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Trump made $5 billion on corrupt crypto schemes while kicking 17 million Americans off their health care.
Corruption.
Corruption.
November 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Trump made $5 billion on corrupt crypto schemes while kicking 17 million Americans off their health care.
Corruption.
Corruption.
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“The invention of money was the single biggest fraud ever committed against nature”
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
November 22, 2025 at 9:40 PM
“The invention of money was the single biggest fraud ever committed against nature”
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
From my book IN THE GRIP OF NECROCAPITALISM
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My first ICE cartoon
This is what they should be doing. But, nah, it’s much easier to gang tackle cleaning women and nannies
This is what they should be doing. But, nah, it’s much easier to gang tackle cleaning women and nannies
November 22, 2025 at 9:43 PM
My first ICE cartoon
This is what they should be doing. But, nah, it’s much easier to gang tackle cleaning women and nannies
This is what they should be doing. But, nah, it’s much easier to gang tackle cleaning women and nannies
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Different issue. This is where you have a PE company that effectively controls another company and puts it into bankruptcy. The issue is control.
Wait but don’t we want to protect shareholders from personal liability in case a company goes bust so that they can take risks in starting companies?
November 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Different issue. This is where you have a PE company that effectively controls another company and puts it into bankruptcy. The issue is control.
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In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
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Remember when Joe Biden was president and U.S. citizens didn't have to worry about being kidnapped by federal police agents?
In Portland, Oregon, masked ICE GOONS abducted and vanished US citizen Gonzalo Catalan last week. Tragically, his family remains unaware of his whereabouts and has not received any communication from him as of today.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Remember when Joe Biden was president and U.S. citizens didn't have to worry about being kidnapped by federal police agents?
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The "peace president" threatens to execute people who object to his war crimes.
The correct answer to MAGA outrage over the Dem video is this: Are you effing kidding me? Of course it's reasonable to warn that Trump might be giving illegal orders.
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
The evidence is strong that he actually is giving illegal orders! I went through that evidence here:
newrepublic.com/article/2035...
Is Trump Giving Illegal Orders? Dems Just Blew That Question Wide Open
From the boat bombings to deportations to prosecutions, the evidence mounts. And the speaker of the House could get to the bottom of it if he wanted to. Yeah, right.
newrepublic.com
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
The "peace president" threatens to execute people who object to his war crimes.