@robertwpa.bsky.social
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Today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg Trials. In 2018, I spent an afternoon with Ben Ferencz who, at the age of 99, was the last living prosecutor of the Nazis. Here’s what he had to say in “Fahrenheit 11/9” about the dark turn the world was taking.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Today marks the 80th anniversary of the start of the Nuremberg Trials. In 2018, I spent an afternoon with Ben Ferencz who, at the age of 99, was the last living prosecutor of the Nazis. Here’s what he had to say in “Fahrenheit 11/9” about the dark turn the world was taking.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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“What I worked very hard on was not running, but on standing, on making your life choices, and then standing with and for them.”
Read Bruce's new TIME cover story now: time.com/7319963/bruc...
Read Bruce's new TIME cover story now: time.com/7319963/bruc...
September 25, 2025 at 8:43 PM
“What I worked very hard on was not running, but on standing, on making your life choices, and then standing with and for them.”
Read Bruce's new TIME cover story now: time.com/7319963/bruc...
Read Bruce's new TIME cover story now: time.com/7319963/bruc...
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The High-Level Panel on Public Interest Media calls on governments to invest in new models to support and safeguard free and independent media and shape the media ecosystem through new information industrial policies to better regulate the market and reduce the informational divide. buff.ly/RYO8imy
September 22, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The High-Level Panel on Public Interest Media calls on governments to invest in new models to support and safeguard free and independent media and shape the media ecosystem through new information industrial policies to better regulate the market and reduce the informational divide. buff.ly/RYO8imy
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Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
August 29, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Like a deadly virus, created in the lab of bad public policy at the Heritage Foundation, Project 2025 has been let loose on our nation with impacts we are all just beginning to comprehend. My latest on Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...
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All seven albums are great! Is there Grushecky cover album anywhere in the vault? I would pay $ to hear that.
July 3, 2025 at 6:37 PM
All seven albums are great! Is there Grushecky cover album anywhere in the vault? I would pay $ to hear that.
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"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet." https://trib.al/ZTn3IyO
July 25, 2025 at 1:34 AM
"Epstein clearly had access to enormous financing to operate his sex trafficking network, and the details on how he got the cash to pay for it are sitting in a Treasury Department filing cabinet." https://trib.al/ZTn3IyO
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Tell Me I’m Wrong 😑. NOPE!! 👎🏽
July 27, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Tell Me I’m Wrong 😑. NOPE!! 👎🏽
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One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The landlord gutting America’s hospitals
Medical Properties Trust buys up hospitals and then leases them back to health care systems. Dozens of its hospitals have gone belly up.
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July 27, 2025 at 11:20 PM
One reason so many American hospitals are struggling? Investors buy them up, then suck them dry, charging such high rents that services are gutted.
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Reveal explores what happened to one Louisiana hospital when Medical Properties Trust came to town. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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July 14, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Revolutions podcast host @mikeduncan.bsky.social gets into how stupidity leads to revolutions.
July 14, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Revolutions podcast host @mikeduncan.bsky.social gets into how stupidity leads to revolutions.
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My interview with reporter @jkbjournalist.bsky.social about the Epstein case feels more like a true crime podcast than anything I’ve ever done before. Lots of really interesting insights into the case and Epstein’s relationship with Trump. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
Investigative Journalist Julie Brown and Olivia Troye on the Epstein Files
Podcast Episode · The Jim Acosta Show · 07/10/2025 · 1h
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July 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
My interview with reporter @jkbjournalist.bsky.social about the Epstein case feels more like a true crime podcast than anything I’ve ever done before. Lots of really interesting insights into the case and Epstein’s relationship with Trump. Listen: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
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Why wouldn't we want multinational corporations to pay their share of taxes? It's mind-boggling. #FfD4
“In one day, in one hour, the #G7 destroyed 14 years of global governance and made a mockery of the #G20/#OECD Inclusive Framework by destroying the global minimum tax on multinationals” @josephestiglitz.bsky.social at #FfD4
#TaxThePower
#TaxThePower
July 3, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Why wouldn't we want multinational corporations to pay their share of taxes? It's mind-boggling. #FfD4
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Thank you to @aaronjbastani.bsky.social of @novaramedia.com for a really good conversation. It's not often I get to talk about history and current affairs AND Adam Smith in the same interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPxj...
American Democracy Is Collapsing, And This Man Predicted It | Aaron Bastani Meets Joseph Stiglitz
YouTube video by Novara Media
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June 17, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Thank you to @aaronjbastani.bsky.social of @novaramedia.com for a really good conversation. It's not often I get to talk about history and current affairs AND Adam Smith in the same interview. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPxj...
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unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about
June 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
unlike Vietnam or Afghanistan at least the Marines coming to.L.A. know exactly what this fight is all about
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Medicare for All means Medicare for ALL — not some, or a few, or most.
Health care is a human right.
Every other major country recognizes that.
It's long past time the United States does as well.
Health care is a human right.
Every other major country recognizes that.
It's long past time the United States does as well.
May 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Medicare for All means Medicare for ALL — not some, or a few, or most.
Health care is a human right.
Every other major country recognizes that.
It's long past time the United States does as well.
Health care is a human right.
Every other major country recognizes that.
It's long past time the United States does as well.
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THE most important political issue facing us now is our corrupt campaign finance system & Citizens United.
As long as Musk, AIPAC & crypto money can buy politicians, we’re not living in a democracy.
We must end billionaire control of our politics and publicly fund elections.
As long as Musk, AIPAC & crypto money can buy politicians, we’re not living in a democracy.
We must end billionaire control of our politics and publicly fund elections.
May 6, 2025 at 9:15 PM
THE most important political issue facing us now is our corrupt campaign finance system & Citizens United.
As long as Musk, AIPAC & crypto money can buy politicians, we’re not living in a democracy.
We must end billionaire control of our politics and publicly fund elections.
As long as Musk, AIPAC & crypto money can buy politicians, we’re not living in a democracy.
We must end billionaire control of our politics and publicly fund elections.
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Walter Cronkite, who was described as the most trusted man in America, once said:
“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”
Paramount: Stand up for a free press and our democracy. Do not capitulate to Trump's dangerous move to authoritarianism.
“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”
Paramount: Stand up for a free press and our democracy. Do not capitulate to Trump's dangerous move to authoritarianism.
May 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Walter Cronkite, who was described as the most trusted man in America, once said:
“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”
Paramount: Stand up for a free press and our democracy. Do not capitulate to Trump's dangerous move to authoritarianism.
“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”
Paramount: Stand up for a free press and our democracy. Do not capitulate to Trump's dangerous move to authoritarianism.
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And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
April 28, 2025 at 12:38 AM
And now, a note on Bill Owens who, until this past week, was the executive producer of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
We’ll be back next week with another edition of 60 Minutes.
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Another one for @senschumer and his fellow brave letter writers
April 29, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Another one for @senschumer and his fellow brave letter writers
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Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death.
Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
April 6, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Being able to heat your home in the winter is not a luxury. It is a matter of life and death.
Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
Trump and Musk’s decision to arbitrarily fire every worker in the office that helps working class and low income people heat their homes is outrageous.
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USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you
www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
Deep fear in coal country: DOGE cuts put region's miners and families on edge
For federal safety inspectors, the urgent call to their sprawling mining office near Pittsburgh was bleak: Man crushed in the rubble of an aging mine in...
www.post-gazette.com
March 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
USA to coal miners - Drop Dead. Literally. And take your towns with you
www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
www.post-gazette.com/business/pow...
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The US spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. Yet 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and 68,000 die each year because they can’t afford a doctor.
Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
March 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
The US spends almost twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. Yet 85 million Americans are uninsured or under-insured and 68,000 die each year because they can’t afford a doctor.
Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.
Health care must be a human right, not a privilege. We need Medicare for All.