The world is in the grip a highly profitable addiction operation by both legal and illegal cartels. And when addicts reach bottom, they go do "rehab" which just continues the problem.
When politicians hand the gun industry a liability shield, they’re not “protecting freedom,” they’re protecting a business model built profits over body counts.
In 11 months, we’ll have an opportunity to retrieve our democracy from the clutches of the morbidly rich, the ideologues who deify them (and have for millennia), & their bought-&-paid-for politicians.
Our elections, our media, even our justice system, are all owned by the few. The Powell Memo lit the match; Citizens United poured on the gasoline. The fire of corruption is now a national inferno.
When this bubble bursts, the collapse won’t hit Google’s coders — it’ll hit the electricians, nurses, teachers, retirees, renters, and low-income families who never got a penny from the boom.
Billionaire JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon will reportedly attend the White House dinner, held as nutrition assistance for millions of Americans remains in chaos.
Behind the rhetoric about ‘lazy freeloaders’ lies a stunning truth: America’s largest corporations depend on food stamps to prop up their low-wage empires.
Memphis’s dealings with Elon Musk provide a textbook example of how the people who contribute the least to environmental harm often suffer the most from it.
Perhaps the most revealing part of Trump's bill is how it turns ideas for helping low-income families on their head. They are touted as helping the poor—but they help the wealthy instead.
We must call Trump's actions what they are: a full-scale assault on our economy, our democracy, and the peaceful world order that’s prevented a third world war for nearly 80 years.
Trump and his Republicans want us all to be good little citizens and imitate our MAGA brethren in the act of being suckers, while they rob us with Trump's bill and the tariff "income" grift.