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www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace... This what leadership looks like.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller Caturday, October 18,1947

PLUS … this POS crippled Ukraine’s vital Starshield service with NO warning to Kyiv 🇺🇦

Folks, I know it’s easy to get excited about all the polls showing Democrats ahead and feel like this election is a done deal. But we can’t take anything for granted. That’s why I’m urging you to take part in a No Kings early voting event today where you live. https://www.nokings.org/

Friends — It's time to defund Elon Musk. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/defund-musk

Trump's DHS raiding and trying to strip the citizenship of Ilhan Omar just weeks before the election is fascism, pure and simple If his thugs can do this to a member of Congress, they can do it to you too. I stand with @ilhanmn.bsky.social.

Today is Indigenous Peoples Day. Please remove Columbus Day from your vocabulary.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 11,1948

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller October 1 1,1944

“Where’s James Talarico?” they screamed when he took 12 days off the campaign trail due to the flu. Yet they remained silent when Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ) was absent for four months and Mitch McConnell (R-KY) missed more than three months.

If all goes well in a few weeks (I write these words with a mixture of hope and trepidation), we will have a chance to start anew, to plunge into the work of rebuilding what has been destroyed. But also to go beyond rebuilding. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/sunday-thought-the-beginning-of-the

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The billionaire class is going all-in to keep Trump and the GOP in power because they don't want to pay their fair share in taxes. Here's how we fight back.

From Robin Rouby-Progressive Cartoons

Imagine being Blake Johnson, an Iowa father of 3, discovering your water has 3X the legal nitrate limit. He goes to Washington for answers, and Rep. Ashley Hinson, who takes agribusiness money, reportedly RUNS AWAY and hides behind a locked door. #CostOfTrumpsCorruption

Devastating 💔 Abolish ice www.instagram.com/reel/DePkMcN...

How about NO brylcream boy Hegseth.

British Columbia man uses motion-activated halloween zombie to scare bears away. 🧟‍♂️ Trick or treat?

Why, despite everything that's happening, am I still hopeful about America? Here's what I told Michael Lewis.

Cartoonist: Steve Jones

Republicans hold nearly a two-to-one cash advantage over Democrats going into the midterms. But you know something? American voters are catching on. The big money isn’t working. We need senators like Sherrod Brown, who’s not for sale — to crypto or anyone else.

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller September 24,1943

CEO pay is up 1,316% since 1978, while typical worker pay is up just 28%. CEOs are now paid 325 TIMES as much as the typical worker in their industry, according to @epi.org Why do we always hear "we can't afford to pay our workers more" but never "we can't afford to pay our CEO more"?

The vicious and corrupt cycle of monopolization: 1) Corporations argue that their growth is just part of the free market. 2) Use their monopoly power to price gouge consumers and shaft workers. 3) Use profits to make political donations. 4) Lobby against antitrust enforcement. 5) Repeat.

A recent survey found that 92% of U.S. adults have delayed or avoided medical care due to high costs. Meanwhile, a new study from Yale estimates that Medicare for All would save over 114,000 lives and $1 trillion a year. If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have universal healthcare.

This warning from David Letterman to the media from just a year ago feels sadly too relevant today. He is right: You can't appease a tyrant.

Who does he want to rapidly deploy against? Remember he and his loyalists see US citizens as the enemy.

@anntelnaes.bsky.social

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Just a random reminder that it's a moral outrage we're the only industrialized country without paid family and medical leave.